--------- we're good right so 8:19 I will call the July 2024 C20 business meeting to order Joyce yes can you take attendance please Jo uh sorry can you take attendance Joyce
please yes yes okay we're gonna start for Jun 1024 meeting here John here it isab
here here may here me y yeah thank you how about Maya my is here thank you
Tamala here Kevin yeah Fabiola here thank you Sabrina here thank you we all good to go
Steve for great thanks Joyce we also have interpretation for our business meeting in Arabic Mandarin in Spanish you should see video of these interpreters and you should also see their names in the participants list they will now make their
introductions could our Arabic interpreter please introduce yourself um can you hear me right yes yeah done thank you but our Mandarin interpreter please introduce yourself
hi um my name is Max Max 10 the following was speak about manding okay thank you thank you and could our Spanish interpreter please make your announcement conf thank
you so for the business meeting the only um item on the agenda is a discussion of the budget from the year that just finished and an opening of the budget discussion for next year so mayang can
you go over the the budget do the budget review for us and may is it better just real quick May is it better for her to sit here Kevin what she want the screen either one is fine okay you sh your screen or
no she won't but can you share the sheet you made and council members you all should have a handout there's a handout for those in the room the of the budget put in the chat as well um so okay wherever you want to sit I guess mayang is okay so I be here be
okay so guys I just unmute myself right so here yes I think I think they can hear me okay so we will see the um see the screen we have to do the um like a uh
the is 24 the budget for the District 20 communic uh communicate Comm communicate the education Council the the budget report so right
now we have the U the total the budget report is the 20 22,500 and then we have the baron of the uh 10,122 now that if we that if be uh
total have the B didn't use it so now we go going into the detail and we see the um the green green one and then they have the office office price PE car and equipment so we we have to put the
budget on that one but we use most of money name money will include the some of the for the uh students surprised and then some for the CC us there and then uh the parents I think just have the
Leist uh list 190 only 96 didn't use it I think this is res sucess to use the um we use we create the budget and then uh we see the we see the uh the SEC the
second one the uh the rate red color is the for the parency enement for for the event and then we put down the three 3,900 but we just only use
2,8 53 of this one so Baron is the one 1,47 didn't use it now is only for the two events so we we've been have the two events so and then n on have the E Track um we
because we uh the C found the found the um found the um the the thing is the only used like 525 so before we put the 1,500 right now is the uh the bar have
the 975 so the loss is the the last day is the member reimbursement so we have the uh almost the 8,000 uh money did not take it so so
next is the for the detail for the end the year of the June the June of the 24 so and the budget so we didn't get the budget yet but we we have the think we
have maybe that the member to think about the how to put the budget next years and then um maybe we go into next meeting for the detail about this one and then uh and then I think we maybe um
create more activity more even for the kids or for the parents for the teacher can get getting um getting together like uh some activities so we have the single about that how to put the the budget on
which categ I think that's we report to um last year and then to review so maybe we um talk about the more detail about next next time next meeting we get the funding right okay thank you next is my
report thank you job John you have a question yeah in regards to the budget from last time we all discussed that we all wanted to come together and make sure that we spend the funds so that it wouldn't have to go back to New York City Public Schools I mean that all the
funds that we have there I think was $10,000 that' be a great help for our schools so there has to be a better way this time that we could budget our money and spend it correctly so that we don't have to give it back to New York City Public Schools we could use it for cc
District 20 children yeah U like and did that 2500 uh what able speak so the question that was asked was about the 2500 that we budgeted for a merit
increase for Kevin this is something we did at the beginning of the year um it's something that has been told to C's in the past that they can do it's written in the C guide
book that you can give your administrative assistance a merit increase however Midway through the year we were told no you can't do that um and it's very frustrating to say the least
um and I don't consider the issue closed we just need people who are who want to sort of follow up with it um I've had conversations with a few people and we can I'm happy to share that with anyone who wants to sort of help out with that um
so that's the answer to that question Elizabeth that's where it is now um so it's still I mean they're just going to put the 2500 with a 10,000 and give it back yeah but there's no way
to at this point none of this can be touched because we're we're out of this fiscal year this fiscal year this year ended June 30th like mayang said so yeah and and it it was crazy how come if he
was um the AA fund was unable to get reimbursed for all Ubers and LIF I just put that there was enough money towards the end of the year so I had to pay out of pocket but I talked too and she said at the next meeting when it's actually a budget you guys I can ask to get
reimbursed and you guys can vote on it but um for the next budget I'd ask for an increase just so I can make sure I don't spay out of pocket and wait because I have to wait like two or three months to get the money back so yeah wow but that was just not so that's something that we should keep in mind
yeah so that you on the I have a question go ahead Tamara the 3,000 from for the swag where what did that come out of where in the budget did that money come out of we
didn't spend that that's just for future reference I'm guess okay yeah if we're gonna do it I'm guesstimating around 3,000 based on the last two years that we ordered um swag we and we should have done that since we have like 10,000 and that could have
went to the kids well in the community the big thing about that is a lot of it is from remember reinvestments so and when we sted at the beginning of the year a lot of there was a lot of discussion and feedback that you guys don't want to take money away from the re investements so we loved it so that's
why a lot of people get used so a lot of a lot of members didn't get reimbursed oh they didn't submit in the bottom of the note said seven council members sub only three members submited for every month oh I got my money um okay because we got to do like
I honestly I agree with John we got to do better because there's no way any of this money should be going back to the to the city to the state whatever because that that's $10,000 that's not yeah we need to do better when it comes to spending like if
we even if we budget like you said money for for the swag we need we need to discuss maybe doing like um a cc event you know and um the the parent invent that was both the uh legislative and the
president's Council correct yes the breakfast oh right the welcome back breakfast yeah yeah okay yeah maybe I don't know we might want to think of just Upp in that the budget a
little bit and then actually spending the money more money for that yeah yeah sometimes I I know in the past sometimes we come in under budget on some of these events um it's out of precaution and sometimes it just happens
what we're not going to order excess food right what's the point of you know spending the money for excess food if would have enough CEST right but it's out of caution too maybe it's um we have like 5,000 for example 5,000 for events I'm not sure how it be so like how much
we go to different restaurants so far so I would maybe ask them for how much I get for 4,000 and they give me an estimate and then we can play with the money around I won't ever say how much I get 5,000 because they might ask for more so I always give like an underestimate to make sure we never go over budget because then that requires
us to have a special meeting or wait till next meeting to vote and move move money around yeah that that's one of the things as a PTA that's why we we always kind of like add a little bit extra just in case so that part I get um but I'm
thinking maybe because we have all our full board now this year so we might actually hit that member reimbursement and hopefully when we get the student member we could hit that number a lot better and Y y'all got to be very
diligent um when y'all putting in your reimbursement to remember to put it in cuz Kevin emailed me I Kevin I put my stuff in like had a lot of stuff to put in for me so sorry K but I got my stuff
in at the last minute you know so I understand so you guys have to be more diligent when it comes to making sure you get your reimbursements and because I know number of you drive in so you you literally y'all need to with gas prices the way it
is and traveling some people are coming from Stan Island all of that so you guys need to be more diligent with um doing that because I know Kevin has been sending out the stuff email to everybody and like even the information
to sign it digitally so you guys could submit that for him so yeah we need to be better how we how we what we're going to decide to do next year when it comes to this stuff John you got another
comment I got a comment oh go ahead Joyce you're can go ahead Joyce John we'll come back to you ladies first L first John yeah I think I think we did pretty good this year but I know some member because
well parent I will have job some par have multiple job it's busy but I think next year I can I can step in to help on like if some par that help on the form I can feel out for them then just when they come into the meeting they just
sign and I can pass to the for PR because that money now we need a reimburse we can now after you reimburse we can do many things for our school or you can do you can buy us lunch from the CC it's better to then the money to go
back to the like C but I think we did pretty good on this year because I think mostly we with this man all only beside only the events because events
for 1,000 we cannot control the budgeting for how much is the price for the event but it's one 1,000 is reasonable and uh another thing that if we get a as a Kevin say if we get earlier for the how much is the cost
then we be able to purchase more food or other kind of Stu but I think it's pretty good this year designer M reimbursement but for Steve you mentioned for 20 sorry see we mention on the two 2500 if
we be able to claim back it still give to to heav right money you mean for the you mean for the for the next year Joyce no for this year no we we can't get it yeah for the year that we're starting
today right yes no from the last year you say the case still open no we lost we can't get that money back you want the case still open but I'm arguing no we're still are it's complicated basically I
don't they' I didn't like their response um but there this is the doe it's a I can't remember the person's title but basically they said there's no way we can CC's can give AAS Merit increases anymore partly having to do with the
district because Kevin is now a member of dc37 um but I argued that we had approved that before he became a member but then they said every AA has a two-year probationary period when they cannot receive an increase which
um you know that was new new information I didn't was not aware of that when we did our and we certainly weren't told that we went through our senior grants officer for the process on how to do this and we never heard anything about a two-year probationary period from the
senior grants officer this is another Department telling us that we can't give Kevin a Rays for two years and I think his I think your October is your twoyear Mark um so that was the discussion Joyce those were the issues that came up um
and so I'm still when we have the conversation again when we go back to them we need to argue that I don't know I now it's complicated because he's a dc37 member I still think we should be able to award him a a bonus
out our budget um so anyway it's that's where it is right now Joyce I had the one de of one idea for the m reement so can can the have to do some people this
month we have C like July right some people submit the uh form they will uh do the car she and who did there who did did that maybe yeah I know what you mean yeah because
right some some people didn't know they did or not right yeah like me possible yeah see send it out I have I do have it sh I don't I don't know if it's personal information
everybody maybe I do have like everybody like I have my own I have it I don't share it because it's personal I don't want to say you know someone's think him sending out a general email saying you guys we should know that's your personal thing it's a cool idea but I do agree
with you guys like yeah let's just some people some people you know is a yeah it's a cool idea don't it oh which month I did know I have yours like I have everything written
down everything's recorded because because some sometimes they didn't know exactly like me but I I know one time I I do one time but but others I I didn't do it but which month I forget totally
forget you know so just just just remind you when you receive the check that's uh on the what that what uh past they will remind you which month so when you keep you have it told you which one is
reverse one okay yeah because we want we don't want like uh against job kev's job like you keep keep Kevin bus right now Kevin lose 250 I mean
2500 yeah I the if the we with the B is the 10,000 the 10,000 so if the member refreshment will take a um like totally almost almost exct
almost year next year we make sure everyone is getting ured I will remind you everyone for every month that's good after all the money we're gonna have fun yes let's John go
ahead did you have another comment yeah to my understanding I heard that um school supplies was donated for this year um for our budget so I want to know what schools were donated do you know uh siia we were talking about today
right the donations about schools sorry the donation donating which schools receive donations of CC funded school supplies yeah yeah okay John they haven't distributed it
yet okay no problem all right so next year I believe that we all should sit down as two new members so all nine of us put our heads together and make sure that these funds don't go back to New York City public school not that it's a bad idea but it's for our children and our district so let's sit down next
month and get it together I have a question like how how many schools are we are we did we give supplies to all the schools or just a certain amount of schools it's not enough to get to other schools so that's why it's more I'm not sure we're still logistical
wise not sure how which schools to give it to how to give it to in in in that decision it's always had to be the district's decision ision it's not up it's procedurally it's not up the CC cannot pick and choose it has to we make the donation to The District and then
they decide how to allocate it and they can share that with us at a late when they do ultimately yeah and Sylvia is here and she says it's need based PE card is like things to purchase like our refreshments and stuff uh no
refres hold on a second I think Tamar was still saying something what part of our funding went to the donation for the for the schools that question you can answer the Tara's question she wants to know what part of the funding went to donations for
schools the off off yeah off supplies and equipment equip and did not wait so we we we didn't wait what so we office supplies and equipment so so the
483 and the 446 went to to that was a donation yeah it was a it was a mix because um I purchased the off suppli at the beginning of the year we had a good amount left because all we needed is printer ink and some pens so it's not
really a lot I can't remember how much the printer ink and pens were but it's probably less than 100 so the rest of that it was sitting there until about May April and then we set the we order another SCH supplies but you but you have enough
stuff for for the for cc business in that office yes now I do you were saying something oh no I said what's a p card what does it do again for last minut it's like a debit card and it's only urgencies I don't
know exactly why or the requirements but it's really strict and it's using is a you likely to get audited so we don't use it too much we only use it to purchase um our website but than that I had the physical card but I think it expires soon and I haven't used it for anything
else John I I I see your hand is still up I I was disconnected so um I don't know if you heard me before but there's going to be nine people now that we go all put our heads together and get this straightened out for next year so that we don't have to give back $10,000
to to the New York City Public Schools it's better off if we keep it within our district so I mean for next meeting I think we have to do better anyone else on the budget and like May did you have anything else you
wanted to say about it oh because we didn't get the budget yet so maybe we uh talk about more detail about next meeting and how to put the money for which one and then to see the detail about that one but today is just
report the 24 years and then we didn't get a part in okay hold on so the ealk just a quick question that's the website correct that was so last year we had a we ended it but we had a leftover
payment because um okay we didn't cancel it for the summer and they charges a cancellation fee technically so we had to pay for the couple months we used it because we did use it from I think around late spring to early summer and
they charg us for those months and then we canceled it because I think for the year they're going to charge us I think almost like 15,000 so then we canel it but they charge us that amount Steve did you have a quick comment on no I don't know like in looking at this you
know remember reimbursements you underutilize P involv each the utilize What expenses are reimbursable that the members AR submitting for I'll talk you after about that we'll talk more about that we can talk offline yes I mean that's basically that's what we're
trying to um figure out going forward for next next year um but yeah and next year e or this year eock isn't going to be on the by line so that's another 1500 we can move around
to think about yeah throw a huge parent party now I know we went with Wicks right and that was that um payment for that was for like was it if I remember correctly that was for 3 years
two two yeah two okay would that be added to to to the budget for next year we just paid it's a one time off for okay John I see your hand is still up disregard sorry I'll pull it down
okay great okay I think we are good on this I think everyone understands the the budgets um and again let's everyone sort of think about ideas um hopefully we get the budget by our August meeting we should right last we
got September no okay so it might be September also so um great anything else um for the business meeting anyone oh for the um for the next meeting we we gota make sure that we follow up on the ni funding
yeah so yeah so that should be our priority may want email to us what exactly we get yeah yeah so we just got to remember that does anyone want to take sort of help out on that
one because that's going to involve you know advocacy emailing contacting elected officials in the districts in the districts where the schools are located um I'll be part of that I think it's it's best coming from president but if anyone would like to help out on that please let me know what is it in regards
to the funding John for Nia um okay I'll help out yeah I think You' be great for sure gotcha Joyce yeah does matter the different go to the different SCH right is BCA didn't go to my only go
to my yeah so they only pick one per school one per school right yeah okay so if the I did not they don't have the funding in my school so I can choose different good question that's a good
question I don't know like like get BCA in there you is that what you mean May that's what you mean right yeah I don't either let's find out yeah because but you know actually like it's a it's a different the way they're run is totally
different from BCA sure yeah no I think I I think the if we were to ask David I think the answer would be it's up you know it's a principle and a lot of these principles have longstanding relationships with these so who's you don't know uh I me nonpr I mean they're
nonprofit right so they probably get I mean they're all fundraising in in state or city grants grant money um so who who was giving them the grants it was State money that went away State money but which state money was that yeah that's away Y no that's all good questions I
was told BCA get fun it's all everybody get stat yep here's what I was told I don't know the truth of this I was told there was an administrative error by when Nia filed for the grant which should be an
automatic thing every year but you still have to file some paperwork right I was told there was an administrative error um and so they missed the deadline or something like that I don't know but anyway that all of these are questions that should be answered and most
importantly can the funding get restored restored and if it doesn't get restored $3,000 a kid that's crazy right like like you know how like it's 3,000 then could be like oh if we didn't spend
this budget can't some of that money go towards funding this right I know right how can we move around money like that easily within our the DOE okay um sounds good good meeting everyone um I think that's a wrap for the business meeting is there a motion
to adjourn the business meeting I I have a question what's on the agenda for next month um let's see August um has anyone contacted us for any presentations that we know of no that's yeah I don't think we have anything on the no other than
superintendent and I think he's usually away in August I think it'll be Deputy superintendent giving the report for that month um but other than that I don't believe there's anything on the agenda okay well maybe we should figure out with like you know especially with
some of the budget cuts that that you know were re some of it that was reinstated find out about that what was reinstated what still needs money for um the rest of the year and what you know because those cuts are still you know
there NE you know in general not all the the program that were reinstated are getting all the funding back for those programs so we still don't know what's going on with that is there what about that um that third organiz that third
party that came and talk about the my God what was it in no what's it November just it was like about a budget a budget about the budget cuts yeah like what I think you mean IBO independent bu IO yeah I'm
going to reach out to them to see like what what did they he cuz I know um the budget was was done and some of the programs that were being cut some of them were re reinstated but not all of them got the the all the funding that
they needed they've being funded but not all the way so I know there was still talks about you know um what's the next steps for that and I think we need to know how to prepare for our schools going into next year where whether a lot
of these programs are going to continue to be funded and I feel like one of them had to do with the after school programs and stuff like that which which me might Target like ni what other other cbos that are losing funding or however that comes
about right yeah and we could also get someone from the the doe from the finance office themselves to come and speak to it as well um IBO kind of works on a project by project basis they probably know what's going on um but basically Tamar you're saying
presentation on the budget the state of the budget for schools yeah because that needs we need to know because with especially with um we have no idea if how next year is going to play out for everybody if we're still going to be having um an increase
of like students coming in from um you know from a lot of Migrant students that are going to be coming into our schools how we going to be able to take care of them like especially with the the the the um that thing in effect with they
I'm drawing the blank um where they have to leave the shelters after a certain amount of days and then find another one so like there's the in and out of the schools for the kids how is that going to affect that especially with the enl kids
and everything like that so I think that that's something we we should look into because it's all our our schools are being funded you know and we need to make sure that all the funds that our schools the money that our schools are getting they're all getting the funds that they need or we have to fight for
more funding for our schools by going through our elected official that'll be great to know because if we got a fight then we need to notify our parents and start doing that got it yep that sounds like a pretty good idea any other ideas for the August
meeting and if you if you do you can share them between now and share them in the next few weeks if we you can feel free to um email and and share offline yeah St is it possible to invite all my third party like BCA I think I
have yd or CPT for those third party from the school after school programs before the school start always sh that can we invite them to share so Joyce it would be inviting them to share like what they do
basically yeah and then how many school they they involv and what's the funding problem because like I I reach one school is like uh they want to use certain other like couple of school
programs party some school for example if my my school try to switch to CPC they say okay we will do like doing a third party for your school but we don't have enough funding so because our bu maybe not bu
for 10 school so if one more school we would do it but we don't have funding for your school right so J if I heard you right basically it would be some kind of um speakers from cbos from different cbos
for the CBO can we check now all our District 20 now how much CP [Music] yeah got it that makes sense okay also a good idea I and Joyce I do know that the schools that I know that have CPC are
high schools I don't know if they are part of any junior high schools to be honest because they're part of my kids school and I know at least three different high schools in District 20 as far as I know I'm not sure if um if they're part of any middle school I know
creative connection is another CBO um that's part of McKinley there's there's like a number of them um it dep I guess it depends on on what what burrow you live depending on so maybe we
could get maybe you could ask like um some of our other um our schools what cbos they're using and maybe discuss it with like any of our C CCS or citywides about like what cc's are their schools using like what are the main ones what
are the ones that they hear repeatedly being used and so forth because I I'm going to take a guess that ni our district is not the only one that's going to be affected if they if ni is here because it's it's got to be
Citywide so it might be other cbos that are that are might not be getting funded that we don't know then they might not know us yet you know what I mean so that'll be something to look into yeah I think these are really good
topics and there's a lot of information that are involved with um you know Finance in general and sort of budgets in general and I think I I would encourage um you know all of us to maybe form up a you know let's let's try and
think through the ideas and um you know between now and August and and sort of figure out what we wanna um how we want to approach it how we W to um you know who we want to have in August because I think we can definitely do something along these lines it makes a
lot of sense um yeah s what's all good everyone Joyce Tamara everything good all right we just say thank you motion I know we say last sentence go ahead Joyce
yeah because because I know about mckin CB I black um mckin CBO also lost no money so we lost the program for special specialized high schools after school program
because we lost no funding for got it okay so I think we have a good path forward for next meeting um I will make a motion to adjourn the business meeting
second there there's officially I can't make a motion is there a motion to adjourn the business meeting motion to adjourn is there a second second all in favor yes yes any any opposed no all right have a good night everyone
adjourn business meeting interpreters thank you you're dismissed um we'll see everyone back here August 14th I guess we didn't yeah we can't vote Part: 2
welcome to the July 2024 cc20 calendar and business meetings um Joyce can you take attendance please yes can I hear me we can hear you Joyce okay so um now
we're gonna attend for Jun 10 2024 CC 20 the meeting Steve sto here John here Elizabeth here Joy here
may here V me y Maya alala no Kevin okay Baba
Sabrina here hi everyone okay but um Steve do you see how many in person today because I see a lot of is on mine today you know everyone's to enjoying the everyone's on our vacation yeah um I just want to before
we do that Joyce we got when Ming and Tamara both joined online while you were uh after you called their name so they're both here okay and Fa and Fabiola just joined as well so we not we do not have Quorum in
person so no votes on anything tonight okay now we got Roy all said CH yes Steve Noy is now oh thanks Joyce as always at our meetings we have interpretation available in Arabic
Mandarin and Spanish for anyone wishing to use interpretation you should see video of those interpreters and you should see their names in the participant list I will now have those interpreters make their introductions
and instructions could our Arabic interpreter please introduce yourself hi good afternoon my name is Heidi I'll be the Arabic interpreter for thank you could our Mandarin interpreter
please introduce yourself Mandarin interpreter can you hear me yes good evening I'm the Man interpret tonight if you great thank you you
yeah and could our Spanish interpreter please introduce yourself [Music] t message deliver thank you just a reminder to speakers because we will have
interpretation in three languages please try to speak slowly to allow the interpreters to keep up during tonight's meeting we will have two public speaking sessions one at the beginning of the meeting and one at the end of the
meeting if you wish to sign up to speak in either of those sessions you can do so using the form that has been posted online in the chat and there is also a link at the C website under the meeting
information um and if you are here in the room we can um we will prioritize iners speakers for the first speaking session and we can just go by a show of hands here in the room okay um I think that's it for administrative announcements Kevin can
we just go over the agenda for tonight so for the calendar meeting tonight we will have the first public speaking session then the office of District planning will be here for their annual District 20 overview then we'll have a report from our uh superintendent Dr David
prto report of council president and um we'll we'll have to wait and approve the minutes once we have um Forum at our next meeting hopefully um and then immediately following the calendar meeting is the business meeting and the um only item on
the agenda at the moment is a review of the budget from the past year that just finished and um we will open a discussion about the budget for the next year but we will not be voting on the budget tonight because we don't have the budget yet thanks Kevin
okay um let's get started with the first public speaking session um and I do want to note we have with us in person state
senator Ian Chu um and I'm just looking in our list of other in addition to our District staff Dr uh superintendent Dr uh prto as I mentioned we have Deputy superintendent Dr Joseph O'Brien with us um family support coordinator Sylvia
chinski um and I see with us also um Brenda from Council uh member Susan jang's office um see Serena from assemblyman Lester Chang's office
um and if there are any other elected representatives I encourage you to just identify yourselves in the chat and I will um acknowledge you and certainly if you'd like to speak you can sign up as well so for our public speaking if we have um elected officials present we
will prioritize them and so our first speaker um I'm assuming she wishes to speak we sendat her Chu say that again yeah is that okay Ian great well thank you yeah so evening everybody I'm
stenu uh thank you for letting me using your laptop to speak to of you here uh first at summertime I want to congratulate all the graduates and the parents if you have a great if you have any graduates uh this year uh happy graduation and uh wish everybody a happy
summer uh I uh it was a very busy uh week for me the graduation week I personally was able to attend eight of the school in District 20 so I wish I could go all of them but I try my very best and make sure my schedule worked
out out and also a little recap for my support for our local school here uh last year I was able to secure allocate around a million dollar for District 20 which include 11 schools with 48 uh
water fun uh water feds and this year uh I was able to double the amount uh with the two over $2 million for 17 schools in District 20 uh in my district uh Senate District 17 uh for over Capital
funding Support over $2 million and so that our school when they're providing outstand uh curriculum and school support for our family and students I want to make sure I did everything I can to support our local school to make sure their facilities
updated the a tutorium is cool the chairs are safe if we need to renovate the kitchen or the window they have uh funding support over there so and the little thing about my
legislation update um tomorrow I uh one of my bill well actually two of my bill regarding to E5 safety related for uh uh Street safety uh Governor will sign to law so just a little recap you will see the news tomorrow uh so want to
emphasize how this e e scooter mopath safety impact our school setting because I also her a lot of uh issues when parents are picking up or drop off their students their kids they are sometimes on the sidewalk without helmet and I
really want to emphasize it's about the safety not just pedestrian but also our younger kids so please please use your best judgment that's keep everyone safe don't write on the sidewalk don't right on the sidewalk and make sure you where
you utilize those uh vehicles uh put a helmet on it and if you're writing on those moped it has to be registered with a license and a driver uh and also insured so and that linked to another bill a legislation I'm currently working
on um not sure if you're aware uh few months ago there's a tragedy happened right outside of Fifth Avenue and 60 Street uh a very beloved uh Puerto Rican Community member who got struck by a mop
writer and he lost his life and leave a whole family in very uh sudden set heart however the daughter reached out to me uh Vivian bar um regarding this issue
and how I can actually tighten up through legislation uh basically uh it's uh uh those mop uh writer that person individual was operating a mopat without license with the suspended license no
insurance no no license plate and however with the current situation I also spoke to with DA office they can only charge with the misdemeanor however there this specific individual has a lot of reckless driving
history in the past and for me if killing someone is a crime reckless driving is a crime when you intentionally by choice writing on unlicensed uninsured mopat reckless driving behind wheel that
cannot be a just a misdemeanor so I'm working on legislation to introduce a a serious more stronger uh crime charge to for this kind of situation and I will name after I have already have the honor
um an agreement from the family Vivian uh uh Baro she agree to let me his father's uh name to honor him this bill will be erence bill which was also announced at yesterday on the news uh
once it's Implement I will explain more in detail we're working on the final details on this legislation so that's overall my update for the district here so just one thing I want to wish everybody a real safe and healthy
relaxing summer so that's use our best Common Sense best practice keep everybody safe if you need to write on those Vehicles put a helmet on if you have any issues let me know that my office know how I can be supportive I also work very closely with uh our
superintendent Dr ped to identify our school needs so I'm here to commit to support our school environment thank you have a wonderful summer thank you thank you so much Senator Chu for for being here and taking the time to
update us we really appreciate it um and I think um the work doing for school safety especially with the issues you point out is very much appreciated um the seeming prevalence of scooters everywhere these
days um let me just take a look at the public speaking Kevin do we have anyone signed up for but actually anyone in person to speak are you gonna do you want to speak Steve okay and I think you're the only one other one
here okay on onl all right so in person we have uh speaker Steve Mahoney yeah Steve you want to just sit here what do you think Kevin yeah it's I'm fine thank you Steve sure first and foremost I want to say thanks to Steve
sto for upholding one of our basic freedoms um at our May meeting which is free speech he took some heat last week last month at the J June meeting it may surprise some of uh people even hate speech is protected as long as it isn't calling
for incitement defamation fraud obscenity child pornography fighting words and threats um so just the speech in and of itself and whether we agree or disagree with it that is all of our basic right it's a public forum and
every one's supposed to be able to speak out and raise their voice or concern as long as it's done in a respectful manner even if it's unpopular um I want to bring to the board's attention um what I consider the disparate effect of our district 75 children in some of our
District 20 schools here that they're not being treated uh equally when we come to school it's our home so how come when our district 75 kids are walking into ps12 even ps26 four there's no footprint on that front door identifying their
school in my son's case PS 36k BR the street I'm not sure what the uh District 75 number with one exception well two actually but the big exception is up at Avenue P PS 686 they got a beautiful mural on the floor mat and all the
school designations are are are printed there um PS 371k got a big poster up on the wall so is these children enter that building they feel like they're at home um up at 192 when he first started kindergarten my son even had to use the
P door on the side because it was a separate entrance you know so that's just something in looking at it um the seah all Academy up on 16th Avenue they have an older bulletin board um outside for district 75 some of these
newer schools have the variable message sign so my request to Dr prto maybe they could someone can look into maybe sharing it if District 75 School wants to get up there or and Lea's on somehow um it was explained to me by Steve the
budget and the money well Kevin Lanahan who's the principal of 36 he got the main site down on Lyndon Boulevard he has five additional sites I believe he doesn't have the money to put a a sign in front of every school except perhaps his main one you know um and that's just
basically a concern of mine that all our show when they they should feel that they're at home not when they walk up to the fourth floor but as they enter that building this is their home and and it may not be as elaborate as beautiful as the main school but there should be something there that these children are acknowledged as they walk in as as
they're learning what their numbers and their letters that they says this is my home too and that they're not like uh the stepchild um you're at three minutes so and let's see what what this Hawkens back to is a famous case we all may
remember py versus Ferguson separate but equal but there's nothing uh equal about it and perhaps we need another Brown versus Board of Education to get this done right but I think with the uh the doctor's help and with his uh counterart
perhaps at District 75 this may be something that we can address because all children have to be able to have their sense of uh belonging thank you thank you uh Steve and then online Kevin we
have okay Brenda can you hear me yes I can go ahead you have three minutes okay hi everyone my name is Brenda Duman I'm the new budget and legislative director for council member Susan Zang I like to highlight um the
council memb dedication to education um and for this fiscal year uh she has uh alog together uh allocated uh Capital to 10 schools in the district 43 is 187 PS
101 PS 105 ps28 ps176 ps186 ps25 PS 247 PS 682 and ps97 all together for a grand total of 3
m765 th000 so um the council member one of her top priorities is education and so you know I I think it it's reflected very much in in this year's budget all set Brenda yes all set thank you so much
thanks okay Kevin is that it for speakers the moment okay and um Joyce for attendance I noted uh Maya just entered just joined the meeting as online thank you okay that's it for our
first public speaking session let's move on to the office of District planning Jody are you here or office of District planning I think assumed it was my team's here pleasure to be here nice to see you
guys again feel like it was just yesterday yeah right um so for anyone who missed my opening remarks we have theow okay office of District planning is here with us yeah yes hi
everyone hey tasnim good afternoon good to see you Steve um thank you cc20 for having us here today um we worked very closely last year and uh thank you for all your support as we work together to
bring in all um those new schools into the district um today we are here to um talk about the district data summary that we have uh shared with the CC before uh give me one second so I can
share my screen okay let me can everyone see my screen yes we can tasnim okay great um so thanks again cc20 for the
opportunity to be here and present the district data summary to cc20 and District 20 Community um this District data summaries is something we share and review with each CC every year um the goal here is to
identify ify key planning needs for the district and the priorities for the district for the upcoming school year um this planning meeting uh meetings and these conversations is not like a one onetime thing this is our kind of uh
beginning conversation with the CC and we work with the CC uh throughout the ski um school year and uh anytime there are any questions or concerns uh we are always collaborating with all our uh CCS uh but for today we want to um cover
some of the data highlights that's presented in the district data summary um and because this data um is what we use and what we uh hope uh that the CC and the um families can also uh use to
uh help understand the district landscape better um in this data summary we try to highlight some key points like uh the recent enrollment TR uh how it's looking uh for the
population um for each school um sub uh sub uh sub category like what is the population looking like for ES students Ms students and high school students we also talk about um potential schools or
buildings um that we are seeing where some kind of uh where that needs a little more attention than others uh especially the schools that are overcrowded Ed or schools where there are um where the enrollment is lower
than uh the capacity thankfully that's something uh not a big concern for District 20 uh then we also talk about uh capacity needs uh for in the district um at the beginning of the presentation um we there are slides about like the
overall District uh planning process and how we collaborate with the CC uh since we have worked uh closely with the CC I don't want to to read through all the bullets uh this presentation uh can be available to the CC and uh we can share
with uh Steve and on the CC mailbox so that anybody who is interested um so these are these are like you know some of you're cutting out a little bit no you're mut I got muted for one second I don't know why I don't know happen but I
think I'm unmuted now can you can you guys hear me okay all right I got muted for a second I think by accident but that's okay um so for for for CCS um we we like I
said at the beginning we work very closely with uh the CC to um Implement different kind of um School intervention one of the biggest thing is resoning where we work very closely with the CC last uh last year the other school or
District changes that our office um some of the lever that our uh office uses for um School intervention includes un zoning School mergers um bringing in new schools which is always exciting School reciting grade expansion and
truncation uh this talks about how we engage with the Comm um CC throughout the process uh again I'm not going to talk through this uh to save time for um more save more time for the district data summary um these are some major
terms that we use um in our uh District planning process um this talks about uh Chancellor's a this SL talks about Chancellor's a190 which basically governs the public review process for any proposal uh resulting in uh any kind
of proposal that we are doing and now um we are uh going to talk about District uh 20 data that I know everybody is um um really this is what everybody really wants to hear about um
so I'm going to start uh the district data summary by talking about the enrollment Trend in the district um so before I start with District 20 I just want to say that since the 2018 2019
school year we have seen uh enrollment decline all over the city so the enrollment decline for almost all our district and for for District 20 the total enrollment um has declined by 10% um Over The Last 5 Years enrollment
decrease across all grade levels in District 20 with a 15% decline in elementary school level and then a 8% decline in Middle School enrollment and a 5% decline in high school
enrollment uh enrollment Trend so the what I presented now is the fiveyear enrollment change which might seem uh significant but like you know I just want to remind everyone that that includes the covid years where uh a lot
of people left New York City which um which also affected overall enrollment um for the for all public schools uh for New York City but if you look at the onee change here you will see that the change is kind of stabilizing and the
change is becoming U minim like for example the k25 enrollment change within last one year was uh just 1% uh there was actually a 1% increase at the middle school level and at the high school level there was a 2%
increase so um what we are seeing is uh that overall if we are if we and uh if we look at last year's enrollment uh we may predict that um that uh the enrollment is potentially stabilizing
across all grade level in District 20 um but I also want to um like mention it here that even though the enrollment has declined in the in District 20 by 10% over last five years um even after that 30 of the 54 School building in the
district um are still over utilized meaning they're over 100% uh utilized at this moment for uh residential population in the district uh what we have we see is that over the last five years uh total K22
residential population um in District 20 has re remained stable uh with just about 2% decline uh which means uh even through the covid year the residential population hasn't significantly change
in this District um we see that since 20 20 18 and 2019 school year the number of elementary school age children has declined by 9% the number of middle school student has increased a little bit by 1% and the
number of high school age children has increased by 8% uh again referring back to the one-year change uh we are seeing that the change has um change is kind of similar um for example like you know
when the fiveyear change in k25 that um population was 9% for a five uh year um span there was just 1% decrease over last one year um and then uh there was a 2% increase compared to like um 1%
decrease uh through five years there was a 2% increase just over one year um and and again the high school in uh uh High School population has also increased by 3% and overall the population for k212
has increased by 1% in last one year so overall with this data we we it seems like the total K2 um 12 uh population um has uh remain it seems like it's stabilizing at this moment based on the
data we have um I am uh going to turn it over to my uh teammate here um Brian do you want to take over from the next sure so the next slide is on District 20
elementary school retention uh this is familiar it was in the district data summary last year it's a returning character Elementary School retention tracks K to5 age residents of District 20 we've grouped them here by
where they choose to attend school to the right we have percentage share of residents for both 1819 and 2324 so you could compare what those raw numbers represent for the whole of residents in
es as you can see the Lion Share both in 1819 and in 2324 of District 20 elementary school residents either attend District 20 schools or non-public schools located in District 20 to the tune of about 95% and
then I think 93% or so uh currently I think this is higher than anywhere uh in Brooklyn the graph below corresponds directly with the table above so they're best read together that's why there's no numbers on these lines so you could
track Trends by looking at the lines and seeing what colors the lines represent but then if you want to know the individual numbers behind each of those dots they just correspond to the graph above basically so this is um Middle School retention this mirrors the one above similarly to
at the elementary school level we see large amounts of students and Middle School uh staying within District 20 schools or attending non-pb but the only difference is here we have a a significant portion more significant than previously in es that attend other
district schools you could attribute some of this to the fact that these are older students and they're they could travel basically I would say but for the most part you're seeing not a huge change in percentage share here like a small uh loss 2% in the
share of students attending District 20 schools and a small increase of 3% for the percentage share of students attending um non-p Puffs for the most part so this is this might be new to some folks uh we've had this internally in our office but I think we just put it
in the district data sum this year some of you may have seen it in another form when we had uh CC meetings but some of you may not remember this this is the inout model it's basically like uh a balance sheet for the accounting Majors
here uh working down from residents at the es and the MS level there's two tables stacked next to each other and then counting the total number of outbound students students that are being deducted from residents either going out to other districts d75 d79 out to
Charters or out to non- pubs and then below that we have the inbound students and then we again track years 201819 and 23 24 here something to note is that uh we're
seeing a decrease in the amount of students inbound from other districts if you look at the total outs both at the es and Ms level we're seeing uh a little bit of a decrease in students coming from other districts but please note that surrounding districts are also
losing residents so that could also play a factor there's just less residents to go around even in other districts to maybe choose D20 schools uh Judy do you want to uh talk about from um this uh slide 15 do you
want to take on this slide I know Jody is online I'll give her uh a few more seconds if not I can I can talk about the rest of the yeah that's F and Tas while we're waiting for her just I just want to um ask you guys do you want us to hold
questions for the end that's what I was yes yes please that be that'll be great yeah that'll be great that's fine that's fine yep there's only it'll be brief there's only a few more slides right I think uh okay there she
is hi Jody are you back online I I see her it might just be a mic issue yeah sorry um my internet is a bit unstable and so I was on my phone um and uh it can't access my
microphone from my phone so sorry about that that's okay are you able to talk about the slides yeah okay all right thanks I just had to switch over to my laptop again um so uh here are sort of like the
esms um seat need um as we mentioned you know there is overcrowding in District 20 and we are trying to chip away at that with uh some new capacities and new construction um this year as you you're aware because we worked very closely
with you on it there are four new school buildings opening um and they will add about 1,500 new seats in District 20 um so while there is currently a deficit at the es level um we are adding 854 new es
seats in new capacities this year um and we are not seeing a deficit at the MS level which is great um but we're also adding seats there um there's also you know still some new capacities that will be coming down the pike and we continue
to work with um the sea superintendent and C um on those um next slide um so one of the new capacities that we added was a district 75 school
um there are currently deficits at the es Ms and high school level so as you'll see from the chart um it's about 18 es seats um at the es level and there is um
132 seats at the middle school level and 204 seats at the high school level um so but we will be adding uh District 75 Middle School seats um and 96 Elementary School seats um in an
effort to bridge that sort of Des deficit Gap next slide and that's it I'm just kidding um we're ready for your questions Steve um and I don't know if we mentioned it up top
tasm I'm sorry if I missed it um that we are currently kind of working on the the responses um that were sent and and we'll follow up with that I'm so blurry why am I like what is this why am I so
blurry it's okay we can still hear you and that's that's most important um great thank you Jody I mean let's I I'll go to I think um Sabrina had a question that she posted in the chat do these numbers include d75
students in District 20 and Sabrina if you'd like to ask them your question sort of yourself go go ahead sure hi that that was my only question but I did see that after I asked there was the slide that included the numbers for d75 so I wasn't sure if it was included in the previous slides
that had mentioned all the seating yes I believe d75 will be included in on the ones that are speaking to enrollment as a whole and this just like singles out d75 by itself right okay got it thank
you Kevin go ahead I just noticed that in the middle School the population student population are decreased but the high school student population are increased so does that mean we have more like a new immigrants coming to our
district and if that is a situation do we need more EA I mean inre support and support from the immigrants related support in the school I sorry let me uh let me just
start um uh answering that question please Brian U like you know jump in if I'm missing something uh for the overall enrollment or District demographic we do not um categorize The Immigrant or students in temporary housing but it is
possible that like um that some part of the high school students are uh from from that category but uh we we we do not track that data separately that is correct we do not track them um it could be baked in and anecdotally you
may be able to make assumptions but we don't track them explicitly so we can't say that's exactly what's happening and I will say that District 20 has the highest number of el students I believe at like 10,000 or so it's closer to
8,000 but yeah it's a high number and any students that enter the system as new students as part of the um the English language learner identification process we administer a survey uh to families and to students to identify uh
their language status and if they're identified as English language Learners they're entitled by law to all you know engl uh English language Learners Services uh so that's for any student that would come in thank you I'd like to ask a related question
and and Jody I heard you say you're sort of working on answers to some of the questions we submitted by email and so if some of these are in process please just we can move on you just we can um we can move on but it's related to that because I noticed that the population
decline is not as significant as the um enrollment decline in I'm talk like elementary school middle school and so to me that says there's something else going on there and I think you guys also touched on it a little bit with the change in percentage of students
attending non-public schools ODP do you have any view on what the reasons might be why students students are um leaving District 20 schools and I'd love to hear what David thinks too so um for nonpublic schools Steve uh
like you know is that that's one of your question like you know that the number of students who are attending non Public School you you think they're higher yeah I I mean I guess yeah I guess my question was kind of you know bringing in a couple pieces of data and asking the general question if we are seeing
outflow of students from the schools even if as Brian pointed out it's a small percentage but still um you know it'd be better to see it going the other way I mean I can like as far
as we have the data we don't have any um we don't have any uh hard conclusions around why that data is happening we have some theories around why it may have happened primarily we find that and this was anecdotally across the district
during the pandemic uh one of the reasons why uh we heard that some families left uh New York City public schools during the pandemic was because uh the there were challenges with remote learning hybrid Model 5 days
a week instruction and this is going back all the way to 2020 and 20 21 um so that's one theory that we have why uh that number may have shifted in between those those years um but uh we do we
have noticed some settling of those numbers I know uh the city will issue an audited register every year uh so we'll look to when the audited register is released by the city and you know be able to make the comparison between uh this year's audited register uh and uh
and last years and see if that uh that kind of overall observation of enrollment Trends settling out uh from decline to uh an evening out it brings true but that's what we're kind of see seeing anecdotally and that's one of our like main working theories around why
that that drop happened from uh you know public schools to non-public schools yeah no I understood David and is there us I know when families leave Middle School to go to non-public high schools there's a survey which doesn't apply
necessarily to dist 20 but how about from elementary school to middle school is there a survey if families leave a public elementary and go to a non-public Middle School um of like a formal exit survey for you know families who leave uh at
that time but that's something that we can look into and I know that again the Chancellor's priority number five on the on the DCP is uh you know being making this the the system more responsive to parents and families primarily to support more families choosing New York
City public schools so it's like it's a it's a good idea I know it's something it's not the first time I think that we've heard it so it's definitely something that I'm going to take back as something that the system should consider uh in that in that process okay may I just add speaking of
what you just said about uh District 25th graders attend students that leave the public school do do you still um keep a record of where they go so that like safety issue like what happens if they're not going to a school what if they're going somewhere like they're not
even being T we do uh as a system do uh you know enrollment and discharges so when we discharge students we do discharge them to another school so there is a a method
of finding out where they do go um but as far as the reasons why they went that's not something that we track but you know but we do track that they go and go somewhere and enroll in school so so you have a record of which
uh private schools they're going to not necessarily no not which ones we just know and you see that in the data summary I believe that we we know that they do go to a non-public school not necessarily which school that is or what type of non-public school it is yeah I'm
actually looking at that right now from five to six grade to uh where District district graders go in 10 sixth grade I'm so sorry Brian I had my speaker muted when you were speaking do you mind just repeating cool okay I was just goingon to speak to the data point
that you guys were referring to which is um discharges the articulation discharge data I don't think I can share right now in this larger form but we could definitely go over it in more detail uh later in a smaller grouping with the CC perhaps but for now I was just going to say that I'm looking at the fifth grade um discharges for sixth grade and The
NPS peaked at at uh in the 2021 school year and has since returned to lower levels than it was pre-co in 201819 so that number did go up a little bit and now it's gone back down to lower than it was previously this is the absolute number this is the absolute number right
raw number correct yes but then if the total number of students is lower isn't a percentage still increasing possibly but depends like how much this number compares to the to the total yeah I would love to see that I had a followup I won't I will show it to you
in great yeah I won't ask this to be answered but I'm just curious if you guys have further breakdowns and it's aligned with what Elizabeth was saying Beyond just the the the raw data the high level data are there any other ways you guys can look at stuff whether it's by part of District 20 certain
neighborhoods certain student types cohort certain student cohorts L's special education gifted and talented students again it would just be interesting to see if there's any um any anything that stands out um upon sort of
a more granular look at the data that's an excellent question uh Steve uh but uh some the you you mentioned like you know different categories right gifted and talented special education so the thing is that
not all those data uh data is housed in our office but if you send us like you know exact which parts which subcategories you are interest interested to uh learn more about um we can work with our partner offices to get that information to you at least guide
you to like you know who you can ask or like you if if uh getting that granular level is even possible so we can definitely look into it so let us know correct and there is also a small qualm with when things get too granular eventually um stuff ends up getting
suppressed and it becomes uh it's not as useful as you would think so um we could definitely have some discussions about maybe some hypo es that we could try to help verify or or debunk perhaps and uh we could work together to maybe guide some for the research yeah no that would be awesome and that and that can really
help both the district and the C with sort of our Outreach where we what communities we think more needs to be done in um definitely so that would be great look forward to that um can I ask about um you know tasnim and everyone
knows most of our schools are over utilized there are some that are not and I just want to kind of I don't know if if this is a longer conversation Perhaps it is but sort of an update on the schools that are not over utilized and we've talked a little bit about 93 we talked a lot about 939 last year we
haven't talked as much about 971 I've talked to David a little bit about it um you know these two come to mind but um I guess what's the sort of the latest game plan on each of those two and on any other notable under enrolled schools I
think there's a couple in the Northeast part of the district um is 62 for example um ODP do you guys have any I guess any updates or or David I'm not sure who would be the best one to Pi the first crack at that on on this the under
and old schools that we've talked about looking for ways to improve so for under enroll school like you mentioned at the beginning there are very few and some of the under enroll School they are um either phasing in or uh something is happening or there is
like like when you when you say under enrolled like you know the number for District 20 is very low uh so for us to look at like you know those specific schools uh like you know to be honest that is something we haven't really like
you know this is something we know that which schools are under enroll but when it comes to the strategy to what can be done in the those school that is something maybe um David can talk about a little bit and we are always here to like you know if there is any plan for the school to uh support um the
superintendent and U work with CC on those plans David yeah yeah no thanks tasim I think that again like the idea and I'll mute my okay yeah I think that the it's weird
it's weird I think that the term under enrolled is it's an interesting one in District 20 because as a as an overcrowded District we're so accustomed to buildings being over utilized and the idea that a building isn't at 100%
capacity is a isn't is a a weird feeling in in the district um but I wouldn't necessarily call them under enrolled if they're not at 100% utilization uh what I but I what I will acknowledge for sure is that uh every seat in the district is super precious we want to make sure that
we're maximizing the space that we have uh and we have put some things in place with the intention to support some of that so for example in the middle school I think this speaks directly to 62 and any other middle schools that are uh you
know experiencing like you know need some support with enrollment the superintendent program was something that we really wanted to utilize as a method to attract uh families to all of our middle schools the one of the reasons behind the uh intentional design
behind the program was to ensure that in every single District 20 school that that had the superintendent program parents could expect a level of uh academic rigor and choices of enrichment uh for uh their children in that program uh so that was I mean one of the
strategies that we used to kind of think about how we Ure that uh families are looking at all of our schools as great places to go families you know there's a lot of reasons why people send their kids to school but I think the number one reason is that they know that their child is going to get a great education
and that they're going to be you know prepared for high school and then they're going to get great opportunities for enrichment on top of like strong academics so we want to make sure that that was in place at all of our schools and that the opportunities for advanced students in the superintendent program uh they were going to be working you
know above those grade level standards uh and then in elementary schools yet we definitely mentioned 971 and 939 uh We've one of the factors that contributes to uh some of those buildings um being in the enrollment place is a different place than some
other elementary schools in the district uh there are a lot of new schools built in that area over you know many many years and I think that this is one of the um long-term byproducts of that enrollment shift and some zone line shift uh in in a few schools cases uh
more than once so I think that that's something a byproduct of scene that's happening something that we're going to take a close look at this year uh you know in terms of now having opened in September we'll have a ps413 we'll have PS3 31 uh opening we'll also have Middle
School 407 opening in the fall I think now once we'll be able to see what the impact of those new schools opening on the enrollment and particularly 4113 with with the opening of 971 971 Zone was altered slightly but it was altered
during the rezoning of uh ps413 so once 413 opens uh this year I think we're going to take a look at you know what the overall impact is and uh how we you know want to consider the the programming the state of the community and you know what could be best uh to
help serve uh the enrollment in that school yeah just want to mention that 939 is getting that SD program that is opening this uh fall which is also going to help with like uh enrollment and feeling up
that school more um so this is something um that like you we also um like monitoring and see how that helps with enrollment for 939 did we get full number of students in that program for the fall at 939 the ASD
program we won't have a sorry we'll never have like a a hard firm number until we actually open but we it we're we're excited about opening the program it looks it looks good and um we're excited to be able to serve more uh you know uh ASD students in the
district and and there's more conversations that we can have I'm just going to hit on a couple things that that you touched on that were already questions of mine um the superintendent program David can we you know I would like to see information on number of applicants per school and
number of acceptances per school and again to your point the idea was to try and move beyond the most popular schools and actually see if families chose some of the other ones and so can we see that data at some point can can you hear me through
there we don't have that data now that we won't be able to have um you know registered data or any other kind of information about that until school actually opens um and ODP I don't like in terms of being able to do that type of breakdown I don't know when we'd be
able to do something like that but um that you know that was one of the reasons why one of the many reasons why we opened the program but you should have data from the year just completed this is the first this first this year coming up is the will be the
first year of the districtwide superintendent program so this sixth grade will be the first year that these sixth graders who entered into the program will actually be enrolled in this version of the superintend program last year was uh last year's sixth
graders were just uh in three schools it was just Crystal mcauliff uh McKinley and mine Brenan okay this year will be the the whole District okay all right um and then Ms 407 this question this was brought to my attention online I guess
um principal Lombardo said that they've paused hiring for teaching staff at 407 why is that they're in the middle of the hiring process so there's uh no pausing not pausing it the he said paused he said paused
hiring the the 18d process is what it is so uh they're engaged in that process I'd have to follow up with the principle around what he means I pause okay I mean he wrote it in a in an email Facebook group yeah no Facebook group online someone was asking need any good teachers and he said we've paused hiring
at the moment so okay um and I won't oh let me ask go ahead Elizabeth um some parents are scared that their kids when they don't get into the superintendent program won't have as
great education as the kids that got into the program but they don't want their kids not to be like kind of not be able to get that kind of education that you're going to give to the students that they get to the program so I'm I'm glad you brought that up and you know
one another one of the reasons why I constructed the program in the way that I did was to to address that exact fear that if you don't get into the superintendent program that in some way your child is going to get some lesser
version my expectation for every single classroom in District 20 and this was something that we really kind of I think uh provided examples of through some of the uh hmh into reading and into literature presentations my expectation
is that every single student in the district special education English language learner Advanced students general education classes every student at minimum has access to a grade appropriate standards align education in
the four core content areas so if your child is not in the superintendent program they are still guaranteed to be engaged in a rigorous curriculum in ela math social studies and science that's aligned to the standards that is at the grade level that your child
attends um the superintendent program is a program where students who are uh who are performing above grade level are going to be challenged at levels that are even more advanced than the grade level that your child is at uh I think
that one of the one of the perceptions that families may have had in the past and some experiences that some uh students may have had in the past is that uh you know teachers may have exposed children to
uh content and to standards and to tasks that may have not been at the grade level that they were attending and that's something that we have worked very hard in the district over the last couple of years and I've and I'm really proud of the work that principles and all the teachers in the district uh and
the team the district level have done to ensure that in all four core content areas that every child no matter what program you're in at minimum is getting a great appropriate standard line education in ela social studies science and
math just there's just's two more I want to ask of the ones that we we put forward um class size law ODP or David do we know yet how the law upon implementation will affect our
schools I mean I can sorry Judy you want to take that one go ahead no I was just going to say I mean you know we're we are currently they're they're sort of like phasing it in and anybody jump in right so right now we are I speak I can
speak to it a little bit I can speak a little bit to it as it it's happening in District 20 unmute yours David and so so in District 20 like all districts in the city uh we are all working with a a goal of a 3% uh
increase of classrooms or classes that are that meet the requirements of the class siiz law Citywide the city is at 39.7% like at 40% of the class size law
um of classrooms Citywide at the class size law and that is the target for this upcoming school year uh so the city anticipates already having met the class size law for the 2024 2025 school year this year we'll be working within um you
know what's available at the school level through a variety of strategies that principles have at their at their uh disposal to to meet the um 3% Target excuse me yeah let
me just maybe rephrase do we have number so School a will need X number of new classrooms School B will need y number of new classrooms do we have hard numbers yet ODP or David no not yet okay that's what I'm
after and I'm going to keep asking anyone who I think has the information and I believe it's out there I know some schools have publish publicized this um to their parent communities in some cases the SLT or the PT um and when we
need ask hard numbers you're asking for like exact number of classes that yeah exact number of classrooms that will be needed and then ultimately the impact on enrollment at the school gotcha that's the ultimate thing that parents need to know is how many if there's going to be a change in the number of incoming
kindergarteners or the number of incoming sixth graders in a given year because of the uh the law well the short answer to that is no there will be no change to the number of children that are going to be projected to come into the school those numbers were provided
to schools uh you know at the towards the end of for next year for next year for next but for next year for the 2025 2026 school year that's something that has not been developed yet yeah um great and then my my second question or last question here is just
about the the district 75 seats um this is something we touched on in one of our resolutions from last year um as ODP has pointed out and and David David's worked on we now have a number of seats coming online I think it's around 200 new
District 75 seats coming online in the fall um and that largely addresses the deficit that was showed by office of District planning just a question a little more nuanced on that like in in and I don't know if if we have this answer or not
but um for these seats and obviously with District 75 there's lots of different classro ratios there's different support services that are needed um I guess the short answer to the question is are these seats going to
meet the needs of the parent parents in the district that are now leaving the district to go to other other districts and I think we have something like 140 or 100 this is Middle School only 140 or 150 leaving the district um that's the
question I don't know if you guys have either ODP or David no that's a great question you know one thing that uh that the office of enrollment District 75 and obviously us at District 20 were very aware of the of this issue
we you know the office of enrollment District 75 and District 20 very aware of this issue and big reason why these and we appreciate all the Advocates who like push to get these these seats open District 75 handles the enrollment of
students into District 75 programs so uh that that will be an an answer best given by District 75 I'm happy to and I'm happy to work with District 75 to like to uh to get the answer one thing that we you know made sure that you know the office of enrollment District 75
were aware of this Dynamic that we had many students who were uh traveling outside of the district and that this new opportunity was something that you know we wanted to make sure that uh these families were aware of these seats that these opportunities were there and
that they were prioritizing you know District 20 residents when looking to uh Phil these programs so that's something that was you know definitely made uh you know made a priority when you know making the decisions around how to uh make offers to families but that's
something we can definitely and I can work with you in District 75 to coordinate and you know uh and get some uh get some of those answers because that's been that's been the focus of uh the dialogue around these new seats yeah thank you um take you up on
that and Ju Just a followup and again I recognize you're not District 75 superintendent but what's the general timing like these these classrooms that are preparing to open in the fall when do the final classroom ratios classroom
configurations level of services is that all getting finalized now as we speak that's all done by yeah than you any other questions for the office of District planning oh well they have the question
of how many of our general Ed middle schools kids make it into the specialized high schools do they do they have that information do you that the office and the I think I think that data is I think Tas yeah I think like you know the the
number of students that are getting into special schools uh those are that data is managed by um OC office of student enrollment but like we can we can uh try to gather that information uh and see like you know if it's that readily
available because I know like you know right now they are working on like placing the student so like you know if if you uh put the question in the chat like are you think are you talking about or you interested to know about like the number of student who will be going to
Special School uh come September uh is that something you are interested AB I just want to know if our students have the education to pass the test you know I have a quick question um are you referring to are you referring
to just the number of D20 residents that get into the three science high schools like Bronx Science stent and Brooklyn I just like General ed students I can get you that information I have I could pull that through AR and we could get it to you it might have to be we have to look
it at yeah we have to look it up internally and then we can we can share with you if you U share your email address uh we can share that with the CC and you yeah you could just send that information to the cc20 I I just feel like that should be like parents we want
to know if our kids are Hing like the benchmarks yes we can we can look into it thank you any other questions for office of District planning okay well thank you all uh Jody tasnim Brian for being here
here thank you for having us and St know you you how to find us and uh like Judy share we are working on some of your uh questions and we will be in touch soon great good to see you good to see
everyone have a good night thank you bye bye um John I see you just raised your hand was it something for ODP no it's in regards to 407 so just let me know when I can speak about
that um sure go ahead I asked John I asked a question about pausing the hiring and David said he was going to look into it John can you hear me y so um also I have a question in regards to ps47
go ahead John I believe that we need a designated bus lane or a drop off and pickup for the district 75 children the ASD program and along with um the regular students that are going unfortunately the teachers and the staff don't have a designated parket and the time and time again there's unregistered
and uninspected vehicles with fake plates and commercial trucks and detached trailers and Mobile Homes at that location down the block so it's going be very hard for these teachers to find any parking especially on 86th Street is actually a location where I found the statistics for 2023 there was
a total of 56 accidents 53 of them are involving cars and motorcycles and three were pedestrians over 18 years of age for 2024 there was 25 accidents which was 21 Vehicles motorcycles and four bicyclists so we definitely need to make
sure that the school crossing guards are at the location that's a very busy Corner over there and we really need to be in touch with what's going on with the community board and also to get more safety agents at that location because there's going to be three different schooling in that
location and also the school is directly across from the hotel and who's to say there's no sex traffickers at the location and the hotel windows are facing the school so who's to say that people aren't going to have sex on purpose where the kids could look and see what's going on so there's a lot of
stuff that's going on with that school thanks John David did you want to respond to any the concerns John raised the only thing I think I can respond to is the the concerns around
Transportation busing and parking so Department of Transportation manages uh kind of designations for the street uh definitely designates uh areas on sidewalks that are set aside for you know doe employees to park uh during the
uh the school day uh most if not all of our schools have uh you know set aside areas uh that are marked for uh Dey employees and schools are able to issue teachers with um passes to be able to
park in these designated areas uh the the school is not finalized yet but um it's something that we definitely can follow up with Department of Transportation on and you know where they're at and you know kind of identifying those spaces for teachers and it's but I definitely something to
bring up at the community board I you know I absolutely agree um and the same goes for the the busing uh drop off and pickup areas for district 75 students and any other students that will uh ride buses to the school there are just like
in all of our schools designated areas where schools um you know coordinate drop off and pick up of students safely getting on and off of buses we do bus drills it's a part of the school safety plan uh in all schools and including it
uh ms47 so you know I appreciate the you bringing up it's you know at a new school uh it's you know always a concern want to make sure we're safe but we do have structures in place to to make sure that those components are are are taken care
of thank you superintendent Kevin go ahead you have a question Kevin running I don't know sorry not you kin yeah I just want to bring up I mean
that's similar thing about Transportation um I received the two parents were talking about that on like a on a 70s 72 72 or 70 and 73 Third Street near the PS 1 76 there's no
traffic night and car accident involved students happens couple of times over there so I just want to bring it up in here and one more time one more thing is there was no not about the other one the other one is a different District about it got
it thank you David just to clarify sort of on that particular issue there are the point person for Traffic Safety at ms47 would be in the department of transportation that would be the first
person to go to to understand the what's been put in place and the procedures that will be in place on school drop off and pick up no once this once the school is open the principles of the building make the decisions around the entry and
exit procedures the drop off and pickup uh you know they they will coordinate everything on how that will happen for when students are dropped off and picked up especially you know bus you know the that's part of the safety plan yeah you know uh and that's something that they will share you know with the
schools PTA and SLT uh so that yeah that's as far as the designation for parking spaces that's something that the Department of Transportation does that's not something that the school decides the department of transportation makes those decisions around how much space where it's placed but they take these factors that are
being brought up here into consideration when when making those decisions okay um shift to your report sure superintendent sure so I want to wish everybody a happy new school year so
officially uh July 1 is the for us at least is the beginning of the 2024 2025 school year uh last year ended on June 30th and this year begins on July 1st so you know I want to welcome everybody to the new school year uh and I just want to you know kind of recognize you know
obviously council members uh elected officials and the representatives who are online some of the PRP some of our principles uh District 20 president's Council uh and you know other other leaders that looking forward to another great school year um the first thing I
want to do is just kind of do a a run through of a new structure that we're going to use to communicate this is something that has been a discussion with parent leaders uh for this last year so we have uh drafted
a District 20 newsletter uh and we kind of did one to highlight some of the work that the team has done in the district in uh in pursuit of uh District 20 priorities I'm trying to share my screen but I don't know why it's not
going oh there we go so let me just I'm going to put this up on the so this is the first District 20 newsletter and it's a it's a year in review so we've taken some components of the district team's work in the district
to highlight uh you'll see on page the first page obviously NYC reads was a was a big uh a big initiative in the district uh and the the the newsletter highlights the different uh different layers of work
that we did in the district around NYC reads um including the the work we did with principles and their leadership uh the the district team in terms of supporting implementation the learning Labs which we had a few teachers present
at the at CC meetings uh in the spring uh the different lab sites that we had across the district where teachers were able to uh showcase their best practices uh principal uh professional learning communities where different principles worked in cohorts to visit each other and see how that work was rolling out at
their level um and uh the the end of year uh NYC reads District Symposium where every school in the district uh came together at Dyer Beach Golf Course and showcased the different um highlights that they had at the school level for you know different uh
categories so there's a a link to the video for that on the on the newsletter at the bottom um on the second page we have some uh work around the District 20 steam initiative so we've got a a summary around the District 20 steam
Expo and the second annual science Showdown we've got a clip of some video from the science Showdown as well and some photos of students uh engaging in Steam and science Showdown uh examples the science Showdown I think we talked
about it last meeting uh where we were excited that so many of the students were able to uh you know meet the challenge of building the bridge that held you know the the weight that we next year I think we're G have to increase the weight and I think I'm I'm GNA want to have to stand on the uh the
bridge in order for it to pass I think this year was like 53 pounds I think we're got we're gonna have to we're gonna have to bump that weight up yeah we're gonna have to raise the anti next year uh the the next page has a summary around our our work in uh year two of civics for all uh there's a link here
and some photos of students delivering their uh soapbox speeches as well as uh the you know their showcases around participatory budgeting uh and take action projects that all students in the district engage in one form or another around our are pushed to uh enhance
Civics education uh and Civic engagement of our students to learn how to be uh you know you know full participants in a you know a Democratic Society and on the page there's just a summary of some different opportunities that our teachers across the district
engaged in professional learning uh we did some work uh a lot of work with our social studies coaches and teachers in part to prepare for the work around the US History regions which is uh now going to be a component of the superintendent program uh and ensuring that the the
method around curriculum compacting and the implementation of social studies curriculum across the district is is in there uh obviously professional Lear for math coaches and teachers uh in uh the previous year we did a lot of professional development with our assistant principles around mathematics
and this year we uh were did a lot of work with our math coaches and teachers uh around the the implementation of mathematics instruction and our student services manager and our district social worker also did a lot of work this year with
our social workers and our guidance counselors uh they did a lot of PD around restorative justice uh supporting students in temporary housing supporting students who are seeking Asylum uh students Foster Care Counseling methods uh supporting students with autism
spectrum disorder uh uh developing fbas and uh bips on uh IEPs uh mindfulness and a variety of other things so you know we're really excited about the work that we're able to do with our guidance councils and social workers uh and
then finally uh something that we didn't get to talk a lot about this year but there was a lot of work done in uh physical education uh so one couple highlights that we had this year we're really happy to have uh Anthony corano who's our District 20 uh physical education instructional lead so in
addition to establishing our uh first basketball league so we had uh in last year we had uh elementary basketball scho basketball league started and this year we added the middle school basketball league uh that did culminate in a basketball game uh at the Barkley
Center between the winner of the uh the Middle School B Middle School basketball league which ended up being McKinley Junior High School they beat uh persing in a very close game and persing I have the sense that persing is GNA be coming back strong next year uh but we did play
McKinley at the Barkley Center uh and the the the McKinley basketball team played a a variety of District 20 staff including myself some of our friends at ODP also played in the game as well as several principles uh some assistant
principles some teachers uh and we had way more players than the students so like we I think we won because we had more fresh legs uh and but there's a there's a link here to some video of me and some adults
missing some layups in this game so please enjoy and next year we're going to have to uh edit that video better so we don't we don't we don't look so bad but we're really excited about that work uh in addition to uh every all of our
schools this year were're able to engage in some uh some basketball workshops with the Brooklyn Nets uh as well as some other schoolwide events and uh professional learning uh from Anthony for our PE teachers and uh the implementation of Fitness gram which is uh you know the the the physical fitness
uh you know data system we use in in in uh Department of Education so just really excited about that work that he was able to do and uh you know wanted to be able to share this this will be posted on the website and this will be like a medium that we'll use uh next year and ongoing to further
communicate some of the the great work that's happening in the district this will be posted on the website and we're also really open to feedback this is the first one so really you know interested to you know kind of see how this works doesn't work uh and you know if there's things that folks would like to learn
more about that's something there's another way that we can you know communicate I'm going to stop sharing posted on translated this is we will be working on translating this as well um and and then as a part of the website you know it will be something that can
be translated via Google as well but you know we know that Google isn't the greatest so it's something that we'll also like work hard on making sure that it's translated accurately for families and I know I don't want you don't have to hold to anything how often are you hoping to get something like this we're
the the goal is to do quarterly okay yeah the goal yeah too often yeah I don't yeah I wanna we want to make sure that we can deliver and that it also has like a substantial amount of content right um and then the other thing I just want to speak on is
just around with the new year uh this upcoming year is also the a new DCP or District comprehensive educational plan you know every two years uh every District in New York City develops a DCP which is a two-year plan that outlines the District's goals in line with the
Chancellor's priorities uh the Chancellor's priorities are uh all students will learn to read well uh all students will be physically and emotionally safe uh all students will have a high quality academic experience uh all students will graduate college
and career ready and have a strong plan and Pathway to Economic Security uh and all districts and schools are more inclusive and responsive for parents and families including having more families choose New York City Public Schools uh you know we one priority that will be
definitely focused on uh much more this year will be priority two uh all students will be physically and emotionally safe um and this year we're really we're we'll be building upon the work we did uh this year to ensure that all schools have a strong Foundation of
systems and structures that already exist that ensure that students are safe and that their well-being is maintained but additionally uh the events this year in The District in the city uh and across the globe have called for uh the need to meet the moment uh as the
chancellor has framed uh as uh his and our call to action as a system you know and in District 20 which is an amazing and diverse District you know our plan uh for meeting the moment will you know leverage the strategy of Celebration and education uh to guide the development of
this action plan and we're really looking in this action plan to keep the needs of students staff and parents in mind when crafting this plan uh this year has shown us that there is the need to address all of these stakeholders um in different ways uh so I look forward
to sharing the priority to goals uh and action plans as well as the the complete DCP uh at the beginning of the school year once that the plan is finalized but we really look to you know celebrate and educate when thinking about uh students
staff and families and uh the the the diversity of backgrounds cultures um and membership groups that you know that that our families and our students uh and staff belong to in this District so looking forward to sharing that uh in in
the fall that concludes my report okay anyone have any questions for superintendent people are still asking me about is there any space
or at this point in summarizing it depends on which site yeah I want to say that there is a well I can get somebody I can get somebody asked this question a couple weeks ago we should know by now because the eth is
pass at this point I was want to conf I just want to confirm okay yeah so but there after that date I just want to confirm uh but parents should be able to go straight to the school site and
enroll if their a seats open okay many students are dropped out yeah just we want just want to know what the numbers are like in what schools and it'll be anyway I'll wait for yeah numbers to get here
question about summer does Sean want to speak sit and speak something yeah a question about summarizing and whether you know at what point can families find out about available states that are still there
and being able to you know enroll and some rizing yeah they actually can still suing they just have to email Su summer. nc. dooves
for at 95% capacity at the moment okay we summer if they email summer at school at my C go will they they will direct them to the they direct to what available sites they can also go on my schools and can see where the sites are at but if they go if they want to direct
they can email that to get us direct one to one email contact got it all right all right actually Sean I just quick question you said 95% do you know what the number is the absolute numbers are any idea of the number of empty seats what's the 5% number I'm just curious
well we each school is a different site like throughout six is at, 1215 kids y then you have 971 not 971 u70 so I don't have to that's okay I just thought if you had the
95% numbers that make that up no no it wasn't made up it just that no that that compris that not made up you made it up two numbers that make up get you a percentage what's the actual number I just want the raw number so we know like just to give parents like an idea of how much is out there like if 5% is not a
big number but in a big District it might be like 200 seats for example want the actual inte number they may have I you and that was a good answer I like or yeah but but but parents can email summer
schools.nyc in order to find out uh available seats parents can email summer at schools.nyc.gov yes and you know ask for available summarizing in District 20 District 20 and across the city and
across the city and they can also go on to the my schools website and do the same thing they can actually apply to the my website and see what the drop down says what are the available sites got it so when they apply in my schools that there's an available dropdown and the
drop down will only include sites that have seats okay um okay because um actually saw the one of the parents sent the letter from me and say the program is after after school
the sumar reing program is cannot set for the kids the S so the the summarizing format is the beginning of the school day is the school doing uh academic program and then the the
afternoon component is a CBO uh who does the kind of like what what we think of as after school programs like enrichment field trips activities other and that is those two things together are the
summerizing uh program so like families can't apply directly to just the after school part um summer right uh finish the school school time but the after after school after school during like
September to the June after school uh since like um the the kids after the the school come and then sent the program that is after school right that will finish it like a 5 530 something like
that so one of the parents said that is the they receed the letter is the the after school is during like September to June they don't have the asset or anying offer right
now is that or is depend school or something like that so if I'm hearing you correctly a parent has is getting an offer letter to after school right now for the fall for the fall no no they can't no
not yet not yet not yet the the information for the information for any after school programs that will happen starting September they'll get from the school in September does that answer the question
that feel free to ask Kevin andand because last year I felt like they in the in August late August people were like submitting for applying for the ni the after school programs in the
fall those the recurrent say the message says um for the coming up school year yeah n will not be able to provide yes that's right now ni has um ni programs have lost the funding for
their program so now they'll be doing um pay per student we're trying to see how we can try to overturn that office but right now there's no funding for any of the um ni programs for all the schools right right now we're
currently dealing with like three or more more schools ps15 yes that's one problem ps15 funding is this is this city funding State funding where is this coming from and
funding grants their contract was over July 31st so they appli grant that wasn't granted to them and I heard about this and I think it was due to like an administrative error right that's what I was told I don't know what it was they just got it they got a letter back
saying because I had we sign for them to do the L they can try to apply for the leak Grant however it wasn't granted to the ni a couple no I understand I understand and I what I heard is it was okay and I I know there's people working on it but basically this is state was
Minister what's that hoping that wasn't the case I'm hoping that you know I just hope that this is just a understanding and they'll get that's what I mean by administrative like a a small thing that shouldn't in the end of the day determine funding I'm hoping it can be
fixed five programs got that but this is state so this is state so it's our state senator it's our State Assembly people that we should reach out to yeah to make sure this is fixed I've talked to one of them about it okay I think they brought last meeting maybe yeah perhaps yeah I
think it's been going around ni and one school was so so you're saying all of District 20s ni program was right now I have three or more schools I'm just seeing which other I'm speaking to the director and their um their funding sources who else is UNF to that list
because then we have to make up for that in our district and do we still have BCA yes BCA is still there Cana Sonic they're still there just ni was affected ni is the only n Federation got the letter Italian Federation got the letter
wow and when you say we have to make it up I think you mentioned before be paid by student so parents would have to is right now they only offer the paid or students options question ni Contin well right now I have three
three and a school because ni is is even though ni they're operating differently at each and every school so we're so right now we're saying the new schools their program has been dis continue 185 and it just now we're looking to see what other programs are being non-funded
okay so it's not all n funding yeah I'm hoping not but right now I have three three or four schools that without the funding oh yeah and that's fun is coming from State yeah coming from State Point yeah we should said something when I when
she we should raise up when she was here yeah we'll get we can get in touch with all of them so usually usually we fight up this SCH I think in June almost ended the school day but to right now I think
couple I think this is I think this is the reason why uh parents haven't been able to apply because the programs that they they currently they don't have they they can't provide the program in the upcoming year I think in past years they
were able to have parents apply in June because they knew that they had the funding for the upcoming year so that they were able to like let families know what should parents do we just wait
or we should nooice I mean I I think that I think that any I think that any Outreach to um to our to our local officials is always helpful yeah um and that's and something we we always work
with cbos uh to you know we do the things to ensure that they're partnered up with schools so we work with Nia and the Federation CA BCA uh and other cbos uh to make sure that you know uh that the funding that they receive is able to
be ultimately land in our schools but we don't we we can't help with the actual like we don't do anything in terms of allocating the funding but back to what Shan was saying if we are doing a pay per student model what if a parent says yes I want to pay for my kid to have
after school service where do I who do I pay where can I put down some money out see from the school principales sent them out at the end of June for those ni programs okay and letting parents know when they will fill out the application and when they will
pay so Nia will be present in those schools yeah but parents will have to pay for it to stay till 6 at night and so that parent hopefully that parent we can follow up with that parent did you understand that mayong it's $3,200 yep no I understand but but that's the
answer right now CH that's that's the answer right now that we have to go back to the parent because if that parent finds out then we can get them on board contact they can help us by contacting the more parents know about this the more contact their legislators we have a l i mean up find out we have a this
about how many schools yeah that would be good because right now it's trickling in like school by school by school we're just trying to see how we can reverse that but right now as this stands there's no funding available I'm pretty sure
parents this I receive it I just yeah we have that abolutely yeah and we'll do work before then next week we can 185 185 on hey John go ahead do you have a
comment yeah so can each council member and assembly allocate money for the funds for after school can you say the first part again John is it possible that each representative councilmen
assemblymen Congress can they allocate funds for after school for their District it's a question to ask it's a question to ask yeah we'll come up with a game plan here thank you yep um
David what can you tell me about an update on PS 682 and the situation there have there been any developments since we spoke last St you muted much no we don't have any updates from
our end in terms of PS 682 you know this point it's a a a police and legal matter at this point um the question um I'm I'm interested in what you talked about with um your your priority the DP Etc coming
out September um I you know I want to ask you there's a student Bill of Rights um and there's a a line in the student Bill of Rights about students have a right to do the following and point number six where political or
other types of buttons badges or armbands except where such material is lialis obscene or materially disrupts the school causes substantial disorder or invades the rights of others do you have any Reflections on the 682 situation in this particular clause
about student rights no I don't have any I don't have any comment on it um do you think the school was disrupted materially disrupted as a result of a political symbol no I
mean it's very difficult for me to comment on it again because it is a a a police and legal matter so um I I I want to you know I want to answer the question as much as I can but at the same time that gives me makes it difficult for me to to answer the
question and uh so I we can work on some a better answer for you what you're asking yeah I think you alluded to this in your comments where you talked about things are going on in the world and as I've
said to you and others before I I tend to try to keep the world out of our meetings and keep our meetings focused on District 20 but in this particular case we had a situation in District 20 where a sort of a a global issue came home to our district and um I guess my
question for you is how do you think about these things and it's not easy I'm not saying it is yeah um you know I I heard your comments about um I think you were saying sort of the F the foundation is celebration and education Y and how do you think about those in the context
of students from different nations different ethnic groups that there may be conflicts in other parts of the world that come live in District 20 how do we approach that that's really what I'm getting at yeah and um think we we picked celebration and education uh as
two areas that we feel like are really important to uh to do because you know in a diverse District you have a lot of differences you know we want to make sure that uh differences are not just acknowledged but celebrated there's a
lot of great things about everybody uh in the district and it's really important that kids are able to you know be exposed to and understand you know those around them in their school in the city uh and
through through highlights like through a positive lens like that's something that I think all of us would want you know if we're gonna you know have somebody learn about us I think they would want us to learn about us in the positive light what are you know why do we celebrate in this way like what are
the things that we value why do we find these things important uh I I think that that's I think that that's really important uh and I so I think that that's a reason why we want to use celebration and the chancellor was very clear and I 100% agree with him that education is what we
do like we are Educators our purpose is to support students uh in in learning and in this Frame you know we want to take that same approach we want to you know we want to teach uh and uh and I think that celebrating and educating together I think is a is a really
positive way to go about it so that's that that's why we picked that I also named the key stakeholders that there are students which is our primary responsibility like we are responsible for educating children and keeping them safe we also
work with staff we work with a lot of adults principles teachers guidance councel social workers you know and they're the ones who are directly working with our kids you know they're going to require a different um approach in the celebration education component of the strategy right and then we have
parents and other adults who are not staff right who will also need a different you know approach in order to to support because when I spoke about the things that happened this year we had things
happened with adults that were not our students and uh and we had some incidents with adults that were not our staff you know that you know we had incidents that were uh parents family members you know other folks and that's something that we we definitely
have to consider when we're crafting this plan um and because they're not staff you know that's going to obviously require like a different approach you know of Engagement around how do we use a celebration and education approach to
you know tackling this this this this challenge that we have in the district and we have in the world you know so that education but also like SE key stakeholders and how they're going to like you know factor into the development of this plan yeah and just just kind of one
direct followup um in a situation where you have students and I'm focusing on students I hear what you say about parents I'm setting that aside students specifically education let's say you have students that are have different views on a sensitive political issue
yeah does the educate component come in there will there be a a special effort made to bring those stud stud together yeah and you know what we we' even had some Pilots of students doing exactly that this year and it's been really
successful um we've we you know we've had students we've had students approach us uh and we've also had uh we've done some intentional engagement of students together uh and it's been really successful uh they you know I find that the children are very well equipped
frankly to to engage in this type of uh work and so we're excited to like fold that into the action plan um and so yes students will definitely be part of the uh the celebrate and educate you know components of the plan but but staff and
parents yeah okay uh Tamara go ahead okay um I I I understand you know and I do you know agree to a certain extent with the c ation and education
but there there are certain there's schools that don't necessarily celebrate every child's culture okay and I've been part of schools that doesn't necessarily celebrate my own culture you know what I
mean because unfortunately some of the the material out there that is supposed to tell you or explain to you why this happened why why that happened doesn't necessarily give you the nuts
and bolts of the whole story you know what I mean so as as a and and as a black parent you know I've had to have conversations with my children that other parents don't necessarily have to have with their children you know what I mean so like like it's great that
they're being educated and celebrated in school but you know I just want the district to be aware that not all celebrations are being done equally and I think that needs to be acknowledged as well because there's
some there's some cultures that are being told that they don't exist and I don't think that's fair okay because we're all made up of all different cultures and we're all diverse and the whole point of that diversity and that culture is we all
have something in common in one way or the other I've had friends from other countries where like a certain in like product that I that I use for something they were like oh my God I use I use the same thing too where did you get yours you know and it brings us like together
in a way because you didn't realize okay you you're using this and I'm using it and you know it's like kind of way to bring us together and I just want everybody to be aware that it needs to be done equally and it needs to be done in a positive light and it needs to
be acknowledged because a lot of times when kids are learning stuff in school they go home and they're being taught something else and they're being taught about other people's culture in a negative way and I don't think that's right you know what I mean and then we come back to school and then you get a lot of the Clashing of views because
they're being taught something in home you know so like I just want you guys to be mindful of that because not every culture is being celebrated in the schools but not every culture is being celebrated at home too and I think you have to find like you know a way to to
make it work for everybody without I guess being insensitive to another person's culture you know and I think that's like the the hard thing to do because what I would think of as wanting
to learn about somebody else's culture another person might not really care to and that's unfortunate sometimes you know what I mean but I I do want to thank you for the fact that you're you're you're trying to bring it in a positive light and you're getting
the kids involved because I think kids once the kids are involved you're going to get the parents involved and that's what you really want to do and then then everybody could come together and have a really positive you know relationship that way and so I I'm 100% behind that
and and I really hope that you know it turns out really well because when you do have as somebody that's been part of the PTM and we've done cultural celebrations it's really awesome to see different cultures and different people celebrate something together you know what I mean because we're all part of
the human race and that's really what we should be doing in general so I'm really looking forward to that this year that okay thank you Tamara thanks for that I think you hit upon a couple of things there that uh are are part of the
reason why we have to you know jump back into this and do this plan I'm going to really look to everybody to support report on how we make sure that nobody gets left out like we say all means all in District 20 a lot and all means all with this uh this work around celebration and education and I'm not
and I also expect for adults myself principes teachers parents you know to model model how they want their kids you know to be you know and um I'm not going to pretend in that modeling to know
everything about anybody I'm I have learned so much in my time in New York City in District 20 around about so many different people like I don't and I don't I still probably don't know a tenth of you know where everybody's
coming from and and all of that so I will be the first one to say that I'm expecting to learn a lot myself about you know a lot of kids and families in this district and I'm excited to do it every time I learn about a new culture and a new you know nation of origin a
new family structure it's it's great you know and it's because it's the way that folks are living so that that's the purpose so I'm really gonna you know make you know I really want this plan to make sure that nobody gets left out and I'll look to the to CC to you know to
parent leaders to students to uh School leaders to like make sure that we're making sure that all means all that that when we're celebrating everybody gets celebrated um and uh and I'm going to look for everyone to be open to learning about folks they didn't know about
before uh and and making sure that it truly is a celebration uh because I think that if if we're able to do that we'll accomplish a lot and I think that we'll really get to we'll really get to some of the root of why some of this stuff has happening in the first place uh so that that's my intention so I
appreciate you bringing that up and uh and I I want to make sure that you know we're we're we're doing that for everybody in the district and uh I I look forward to learning I think it I think it'll be great um any other questions for
superintendent prto the the second priority said all students are physically and emotionally safe um just thinking about this last line uh the end of the school year um when I was piing up my nephew I actually
saw a kid in Middle School get beat up and then I also remember hearing before the end of the school year some students were fighting each other in a high school in our district so I'm just wondering what are some of the things are you thinking about of um for the
safety of the children physically at the beginning of uh my uh my presentation I spoke to like the the foundations and structures that exist in schools uh to make sure that everybody's safe uh so you know one thing that we
all that all schools have are a safety plan and a Consolidated plan these are two plans that you kind of like look at staff structures protocols procedures around pretty much everything in a school to make sure that everybody's physically um and emotionally safe so
those like that's definitely part of the plan first thing that happened was it was out of school right after school we saw it happened and luy there was um after school teachers that stopped it like but were not even like it's after
ended and if if nobody saw that physical PL it it probably would have ended different it's just crazy things happening one thing we definitely look at and this is part of the plan is we look at our safety related data so we
look at all the incidents that happened in schools across a year and we come up with we use that data to come up with strategies for how we address them so we look at uh the information from reports find out what you know why kids are fighting what are the places that
they're fighting what are the what are the reasons why they got to that place and how it happened I don't again I don't surprise the high schools but that's something something we was in McKinley what right after the kids got out they were walking walking over
towards the train and then they had a physical occupation where they were actually eating up one kid and luy me and another parent was there and we stopped it so like it's just hard to physically keep uh
students safe I mean and then also besides that I remember reading a news article where like cell phone usage the kids were actually um using it as a tool to um
actually bully this the the US the teacher so it's all these things that we have to think about yep absolutely David I think a year or more ago I requested believe it's level three and
four incidents incident data right is that the scale that that is used level one two three and four when we report yeah when we rep incidents yeah in the discipline code there are five levels of inactions five levels so level four and five being the most serious levels level four and five are the most serious
levels one two and three are still serious but not as serious share can you share that data year by year I will go back and look and see if that is data that I can share do you remember my point from a
year or more ago I've seen it in other districts being shared so just want to put that out there but appreciate you looking into it and totally noted okay um any other questions for superintendent prto good
awes thanks David um I don't think what there's anything I want to touch on um I think we should just the different items that we're going to talk about for our business meeting we will talk about then the
budget calendar for next for this year um we had the event for preschool prek parents um um of few weeks ago that was a success um and I don't think there's anything
else at the moment in this summer that's um worth mentioning right now um let's and I guess we the only other thing on the agenda correct Kevin was the for the calendar meeting is approved the minutes but we don't have a quorum
in person so public session but it's no one oh yeah I figured we didn't anyone in person want to speak I have let's say um I think buing or fighting buing
is out too much can we hire speci agent to you know to St before the fighting happen like say you know we can we have like mail special mail for reporting uh
what's going on with a student who going to be bu r get you know there something happen so we can you know like get to prop thing happen and because we see this a lot like
special High School about couple year like I don't know how many years ago it's home on Spanish and fight with the Chinese I don't know you guys know that they quite a lot a lot of time so my daughter was gu who right now this year
so I I'm so concerned I'm so warable I can tell you that the the plan that we're looking at for developing in priority 2 is definitely going to involve bullying and it will also involve we we did some presentations
this year around Chancellor's regulation um a32 around uh the discrimination and bias-based bullying and then the different categories that uh make it a discrimination or bias-based
uh type of bullying so race you know uh race sexual identity nation of origin there's a lot of categories so that will definitely be a component of our plan that we intend to to put out like I'll share the details of the plan once we
write it but yeah and it definitely and it will directly address kind of like the we again not high school but it will definitely address uh what our our strategy will be around how to tackle this problem like what are we going to do in the district specifically to
support uh anti-bullying uh that is specific to uh the the discrimination and bias-based I got a uh week ago do you want to come up and speak do you want us come up and speak
so speak to the audience because so people can hear you online I'm um nonprofit organization I'm the the one leader in I got a lot of support from the school the student incling other
student like recent St and I know this we never have a the U on time the right time to stop this happen that's why we want to figure it out how we going to work they say we
have a lot of volunteer so we have like 100 volunteer organization so if you need we can so if you saying okay we got got no funding to
K federal agent go follow they tell me I can help you send like two people for AG problem I don't like I'd want to talk more about that but I what I do know and
um what I I think matches back to what I was saying overall in terms of like the strategy in order to like tackle this problem we're definitely going to have to work with kids for sure but we're also have to work but we're also gonna have to work with staff we're also gonna have to work with school staff and we're
also gonna have to work with parents like like all three of those groups are going to have to be engaged in order to figure out like the problem of ultimately like why are kids bullying each other uh and especially for reasons
of race or other like discrimination categories as far as like hiring like we worked only with the NYPD uh in terms of like creating like safety structures in schools like we have school safety agents uh at schools
outside of that is all School staff that we work with during the school day uh for you know keeping but I'm very interested in you know talking with Community organizations and other folks to figure out how can we you know partner and figure out how to like you
know kind of make this situation a little safer I'm I'm you know kid being safy yeah and they got healthy and they got the like good school and they learn more and we don't want they always about
okay I'm give School somebody me and they can have a life and set me or something so so they stting like little gr like like one and one each other and soon they starting you know to B like a
two three or four or 10 you know so we have't stop at the beginning so that's that's my point gotcha great thank you yeah gotcha thank you um Kevin any other speakers online
no and I assume in person we're good okay so um is there a motion to I have oh yeah go ahead but because I've been the this my child
just uh right now is the second grade right now right so I been the um PS tonight I think the school have the some program to help the kids to go up they study but how how about the this make ex
activity some is for the kids can go through the program they can get some more information see outside think uh to to know to know
more know more about know about the stud or know about thearts something something say the last part say the last part again she want to create a special gr to the
kid have a learning Pro or more process test what he did he theity of something some kids can join all together and the kids know each other about and I think you were saying you were
saying there are programs there are programs at the school level but you were saying that's a district to bring together kids from different schools right yeah that's so that's they can commun share some information
some Cog like that because the a school only for the school student and then they can see how out of the school something something like that we are consider like we're considering as part of the the action plan for priority two
we are we what we will definitely do is we will definitely in that plan engage students directly in this um you know in in the plan and the students will meet together how that will look I don't know yet like I'm like the the details I
don't have yet but I definitely know that students will be directly involved in this plan in kind of advising us around how uh you know how what we're doing in the school is working for them or not working for them um but beyond
that I I don't know yet I'm GNA I I'll have to follow up with you later in the fall once we have the plan done actually um went before summer ended uh I mean before the school year ended the violin teacher actually we had a performance in another school and it
was great there was a different a lot of different schools that went and it was a lot of Engagement between different schools so I guess that's what you want to do and that's that should happen in maybe just for District 20 like we should see students from other school
and have a safe space for them to like interact y it does happen on on on some scale that that will be some version of that will definitely be a component of the plan uh not just for the Arts but also for other purposes
around anti buing basically something that no for only like we can like a grate difference the either parents student and the teacher and they can sh all like experience and the all the
information something they have so they can get the for the F Lev not school level and I'll be really open to ideas from the council and from other parent leaders but definitely from the council around ideas that you feel like would be important for us to include and consider
for some of these types of activities and what you feel like would be important for us to engage in we want to like I want to like I want to make sure that everybody is represented and as parent leaders like your voices are really important so I want to make sure that I'm hearing what you feel like is
important and that we consider that uh consider that in the plan okay um I think we are at the end of our calendar meeting agenda so is there a motion to adjourn the calendar meeting motion to adj is there a second
second okay all in favor I so the calendar meeting is adjourned