e good evening everyone welcome to the cc20 March calendar meeting we are very happy to be hosted here at ps170 led by principal Tony woo Steve can you please take the
attendance Steve Stow president um here John ratone first vice president yes here Elizabeth Chan second vice president Elizabeth are you here online uh mayang Chen Treasurer are you
here yes here y when Ming here hey W Ming Yen Ching here um Fabiola Fabiola are you here um
on Sabrina Sabrina mcamera District 75 rep Maya rosenblat Maya are you here Tamara Stern burough president appointee here thank you Alena Lewis Here Kevin Z
is not attending tonight he let me know and um Ryan Lee student rep okay so we have five six seven members in the meeting we do not have an inperson
Quorum but that's okay because we don't have any votes scheduled tonight um so that's the attendance back to you John tonight we will have interpretation in Arabic Mandarin and Spanish you will see
these interpreters in a participant list and they will post their information in the chat our interpreters will now introduce themselves could our Arabic interpreter please introduce yourself good afternoon this announcement will be for the Arabic audience
for mute Arabic announcement has been completed thank you very much thank you Arabic interpreter can our Mandarin interpreter please introduce yourself I I'm the Chinese Mandarin interpreter for tonight
okay thank you thank you Manor interpreter can the Spanish interpreter please introduce yourself hi good evening uh the following announcement will be in Spanish when I for
Spanish announcement thank you thank you Spanish interpreter thank you as a reminder please try to speak slower than usual to allow interpreters to keep up we will now go over the agenda for tonight's meeting Kevin can you please share the
agenda yes number one call to order and roll call two is public speaking session 10 minutes three is a report of superintendent 30 minutes four is report of councilman president five minutes five is second public speaking session
15 minutes six is the approval of February calendar meeting minutes for five minutes meting after would be the business meeting immediately following calendar meeting number one call to order and roll call for 10 minutes two
is the old business approval of February business meeting minutes for five minutes and then new business we will now hold our first public speaking session of the evening you can sign on you can sign up on the online form Kevin will you share the link in the
chat if you are in person you can sign up using a sheet at our table next to Steve speakers will be limited to three minutes we will start with anyone in person the first Speaker would be Katherine burn
[Music] from St over here thank you hello good evening everyone I'm Katherine I'm coming from council member Alexa abil's office this evening and just want to share a couple quick
updates from our office for all of you thank you for your time as you all know budget season is upon us and we're about halfway through that um the the city's budget is over hundred billion dollars and as we all are we trying to really
advocate for priorities within that budget this year there's three priorities that we're really excited in our office that have been recently prioritized by Speaker Adrien Adams one is expanding libraries to be open again for seven days a week another budget priority is expanding
child care for workingclass families and the third one we are really excited about right now is increasing access to the City University of New York commy the council has had several budget hearings already but there are more coming up and we recommends anybody who is able to to attend these hearings
whether in person or online and submit testimony through the NYC Council website for things that are important to you there's a couple I'd like to list that are coming up um that we recommend if you are able to do so would love your attendance at these meetings and your voices be heard the first one is coming
up tomorrow there's an education budget hearing on the 13th at 10: a.m. also there is a general welfare meeting that covers social benefits coming up on March 17th also at 10: a.m. uh 1M on March 17th there's a Parks and
Recreation uh budget hearing and then um on March 25th there's a sanitation and waste management hearing and again anybody is welcome to submit public testimony to these hearings and to testify whether in person or online or just submit written testimony as a reminder our office also
is offering free tax services right now uh through the end of tax season um you can feel free to sign up for an appointment by calling our office in grow Brooklyn is partnering with us to offer free tax filing Services there's a resolution that we're excited to announce Roso 41 council
member a recently pass this resolution that's in P support of the New York State Bill to establish the working fam's tax credit uh this bill would offer tax credits to families with children under 17 regardless of citizenship status and benefits would
range from1 to $1,600 and while that sum might not be um a lot it could really make a lot of of a difference to some folks and we're really thankful to senator gardis for champing that bill in Albany and continuing to work together with all the supporters to reverse childhood
poverty and the last thing I'll say is just happy Ramadan Mubarak and happy women's history month and we're always available um for um office hours and I'm happy to put my email on the chat if anybody would like to follow up with any questions thank you thank
you this was my bad pause and do the introductions and then we'll go back to St K we would like to recognize several attendees at our meeting superintendent Dr David prto Deputy superintendent Dr Joe O'Brien O'Brien executive director
Laura Kaiser family leadership coordinator Bill Chin family support coordinator Sylvia jnis CSA representative J Jane kakis UFC
representative Ariel a Royo and face representative Ena krasnik we also like to recognize Katherine Vern from Community um council member of vill's office Joyce Z from Susan zang's office council
member Tony kpin from Justin Brandon council member office Larry he from William Colton State Assembly office now we're start the first public speaking session again will Luchia Morales please step up and if you could
go over to where Kevin is thank you thank you um hi good evening everyone for tonight my name is Lucia Morales I am the new director of communications and
external Affairs for Mesa Charter High School um I'm here tonight because we are doing our best to try to connect with the community to make them aware that there is this new high school opening up up in the in your District basically um we are called Mesa Charter
High School uh that stands for math engineering and Science Academy we're a stem focused High School um we have a current School in Bushwick Brooklyn and are now opening our second School in
your neighborhood hope well actually this fall so that's really exciting um and I'm here basically trying to connect with the community uh you may see our Flyers around we are connecting with different Community
organizations of different uh cultures and trying to become a part of the community and make sure that we're aware of your needs your your children's needs and letting you know how we can respond to your desires your you know for their
future and their hope um and and that's why I'm here tonight I do have some flyers um I also have some information if you're more than happy you know you can always reach out to me I can provide my information um in the chat or uh you
know connect you connect with someone else from that later um and that is my my pitch for tonight I don't are you taking questions or are we just doing that for now wonderful well it's really nice to meet everyone I would like to call Joyce Zing
from Council Members Susan zang's office she's online she's going to join us hi John hi everyone this is Joyce I think John you say my last name is wrong you turn Min nothing to
Susan okay this is joyy I'm from city council Susan's office it's great it's my privilege onl night tonight uh I just got couple update from night our some expense budgeting or Defense series funding is over but right now is
coming out for Capital funding today is on at 5:00 pm Monday April 14 so we encourage every night principal in our district if the pattern you know your school have need from the capital funding incourage uh principal to cement
application and last year we've been allocate we've been able to allocate like six over six million from the last year so hopefully next year we'll do better but we need everyone being participant because you are the one know
your school better than us so the other thing like I know this couple days we we re other pent concern about a sex offenders moveing in our neighborhood so we're going to host a workshop with the community Affair we already we already
set on the location but we need to confirm the date and time then P keep uh please follow our our uh social media we were we were sending out a fire from the day and time from the next Workshop thank
you Joyce that concludes our first public speaking session now superintendent David Dr David predo will deliver his report good evening uh good evening District 20 good evening C tonight I
have just two agenda items uh one uh is the one of the best presentations of the year every year we conduct a respect for all uh poster essay and multimedia contest across the district uh and tonight uh as part of
the respect for all uh anti-bullying initiative in New York City the win the finalists and the winners will be presented to the CC so I'm excited to have uh several students and their families in the audience and as well as some uh staff members from the
represented schools including principal Shirley Chen from ps105 and principal Rena gelus of ps85 yeah yeah I'm getting there [Music] after the respect for all presentation and the uh delivery of the essay by one
of our contestant and the presentation of the awards I will also be doing a presentation on Chancellor's regulation a418 which is the uh sexual offender notification chancers regulation uh and all the related pieces underneath that
as a request to recent events in the district uh so first the background of the bullying the anti-bullying contest every year as part of the respect for all initiative which is a city-wide initiative in New York City uh related to all the regulations
to support uh uh and promote inclusion diversity and specifically anti-bullying in uh the city and in preparation for respect for all week which just recently passed uh all schools in New York City are invited to uh and encouraged to
participate in the respect for-all essay poster and multimedia contest it's an annual contest and it gives students an opportunity to showcase their efforts to prevent bullying and to raise awareness through writing art and other multimedia Expressions only three submissions are allowed per school so an essay a poster
and a multimedia element this year we have uh essays and posters as the representatives for both the finalists uh and the winners so in District 20 we had a lot of submissions and the team had a hard time kind of deciding ultimately like we have to decide on a
couple of winners uh but we had to recognize uh several students for some really amazing submissions that weren't winners so we've we've called them finalists so I first want to just um celebrate and recognize the finalists for the for the uh for the contest we
had two posters one from uh Amy Lou from 20K 1880 the SE all Academy who submitted an amazing poster and then we also had a group of students from uh PS 939 the sunset school for cultural learning so avalina Ortiz Sarah Benitez
elang London Anderson Abigail Cortez and jazlin urbina we all so at District 20 as a superintendent I want to just celebrate these students and if any of them are in attendance I'd like them to stand up and be recognized okay I don't think anyone's
here so I'm really excited to uh you know celebrate them as fi as finalists and we'll be delivering certificates uh to their principles uh for their for the recognition the winners this year and I'm I'm excited that we have some of these students in the audience so the
winners we have four winners this year uh first from PSIs 180 we have Barina Barina I'm gonna apologize and try not to butcher your name so you know uh correct me if I get it wrong
KOB NOA is it close not even close so I'm really excited so bina's here and she uh she's going to be able to uh uh read us her essay from PS 185 Veronica Gentile I don't know if Veronica is in is in attendance awesome so Veronica's
here as well so congratulations to Veronica and our and we also have the winners of the poster contest so we have Farah uh Elam from PS 105 and we have OT Talkington from ps15 so first I'd like to just display
the posters that both Farah and ellia submitted and were the winners of the contest and then I'm going to invite Barina and Veronica up to here to read their essays uh to uh to the CC and to the community so just give me one second
here sorry I'm taking all the air out of the balloon here so first this is Ellas submission from ps15 this is one of the two poster contest winners for for the respect for all contest so again ellot congratulations and I
had Faris right here and this was the other winning poster from uh from ellia from uh PS from Farah sorry from Farah from ps105 and now I'm going to invite first uh
Barina up to uh to he to read her essay to the community oh I'm gonna get up yes you can you can say right here I'm G to pull up on my computer and you can read it right from here just going to get set for you so you can
[Music] okay in elementary there was once a girl in my class however people saw her as different than others she would get upset easily and perceive things differently due to having autism so she would often get teased and bullied at
school one day the same students during class decided to tease her whenever the teacher the teacher would ask what was going on my classmates would act clueless and not speak up so no one would really believe her and it would always go un address I could not be a
bystander any longer I had to do something I had to find my voice the next time when the teacher I had asked what was going on I mustered up the courage to speak up I spoke up and said that they were teasing her and making
fun of her although I was a bit nervous I believe speaking up was the better option I felt as though this moment had had affected me since I was a little girl like I was always meant to be heard and have a powerful voice since then I have always had the
drive to speak up for someone whether it was bullying insulting or spreading rumors or lies about someone I will not stand for it standing up for somebody is like acting as a lawyer without a courtroom or a degree the girl and I became friends and she knew to also
speak up for herself then on now was the day I I was transformed from a bystander to an ally I believe that supporting each other and standing up for one another can be contagious as we teach others how to cheat us we we will see
others do doing the same like could change reaction it will continue and change will continue to occur by all forers up so I can present you with your certificate you want you want to come guys want to come up on the staging we can get the
CC as you all in gr picture yeah picture come on bunch guys thank you congratulations congratulations and now for the rest hey so so the other topic that I'll be
presenting on this evening is chancellor regulation a418 which is the sex offender notification regulation I'm gonna wait for the kids to to leave so just got pause yeah
a few minutes for some people to leave we're just waiting a few minutes for some people to leave and then we start back up someone asked a question about Theo thank you congratulations congrats so I will now shift the topic to Chancellor regulation a418 and I'm doing
a presentation on this Chancellor regulation uh in response to many schools across the district in District 20 being notified families being notified that um sex offenders are residing within the zip codes uh of the
school and there's been a lot of questions about why this is happening so I just wanted to to provide context around why this is happening and ultimately uh let everybody know that this is a a regulation that uh and requires the principal to do several
things and uh this is a partnership as well between the district obviously families and New York City Police Department and I appreciate the police department being here this evening uh this topic is something that kind of requires all of us as a community to kind of understand our roles uh in being
responsive to it and ultimately that this is an information sharing exercise that's required by state law and to make sure that we all know responsibilities are to keep all of our kids safe so this regulation uh is
and all the information I'm sharing tonight is public information the Chancellor's regulation as well as the locations to locate the uh individual information of sex offenders that reside in all zip codes so this regulation addresses the procedures for sharing information about convicted sex
offenders with schools and with parents and this is pursuant to New York state law Sex Offender Registration act the regulation starts with a safety reminder and I think that this topic is uh a obvious opportunity to remind us all not just for schools but also for
families around you know really Common Sense uh you know uh lessons and tips that we need to provide to our students this is something that we do at schools and something that especially regarding uh this these notifications that are being sent out something I'm really
going to urge parents to to do with their children but to be reminded about uh stranger danger types of conversations never going home with strangers never talking to strangers not taking anything from strangers uh returning to school uh and immediately
notifying staff members if they're approached by a stranger uh that young students should always be escorted to and from school uh and that older children should be encouraged to walk or travel uh in groups whenever possible in addition to these uh Common Sense safety
uh routines uh school officials always provide students with guidance uh and tips for uh being safe outside of school and really urge families especially in light of this information to have those same conversations uh with your children this regulation uh
informs uh the community that principles are required to inform parents about the various means through which information about registered sex vendors may be obtained so again all the information that parents are provided with uh in the notification is all public information uh it can be located at the New York
state division of Criminal Justice Services either by phone or uh on the website uh in the NYPD subdirectory of level three registered sex offenders in the school which maintains a file uh that's designated at the
school and as well as in the parent coordinator's office or area uh and then also via an information letter and and the informational letter is the primary way that all families across the district have been informed about uh the sex offenders who have who do reside in
the zip code that the school is located in so the this information sharing begins with notification from the NYPD so uh New York City the New York City Police Department informs schools um on
a rolling basis notifications about sex offenders who live within the zip code of schools they provide this information directly to the office of safety and Youth Development namely the burough safety director uh and the information in the notification includes the ZIP code into which the offender has moved
or lives the name of the sex offender a description of the crime that the registered sex offender has committed any special terms or conditions placed upon the sex offender as a condition of uh his or her parole and a copy um of the photograph of a registered sex
offender uh the police department has advises New York City public schools that it doesn't disclose any information about sex offenders beyond what is contained in the notification that's communicated to school officials and any information that's provided by the New York City Police Department is public
information certain actions are required to be taken by principles when notified uh by the safety director who has been notified ified by New York City Police Department about sex offenders who reside within the zip code of the school the the primary action that's taken that
principles are required to take that has brought this conversation to light in the district is this one principles of schools that are located within the same zip code as the zip code in which a sex offender resides they're required within two weeks of receiving that notification to provide all parents at the school
with a copy of the notification including a photograph of the sex offender principles requ requ ired to do this notification within two weeks how and that's the notification that a lot of families in many schools across District 20 have received within the last week or
so however there are other requirements that principles have on top of that notification that I just think are are relevant for uh the community to be aware of first the principal is required to alert School staff including the school safety supervisor uh the parent coordinator and
the custodian that they've received this notific ification and they inform staff that they should familiar familiarize themselves with the contents of the notification including the photograph of the registered sex offender if it's included in the notification and it is included in the notification copies of
the notification must uh be provided to the school safety supervisor as well the parent coordinator uh and staff who supervise any outdoor activities so like research PE stuff like that uh as well as the custodian the principal is also required to advise staff that if they see a a sex
offender who's the subject of a notification that they if they engage in suspicious conduct they should immediately notify the principal who shall call 911 or in the event of an emergency the staff member should call 911 directly and then notify the principal and then finally the principal is also compelled to alert the program
director or the site supervisor of any District 75 program or District 79 alternative Academy or program that operates within the confines of the principal school and share with the program director or the site supervisor contents of the notification that those are the the the
big picture pieces of the notification and ultimately the reason why schools were notified about sex offenders residing in the zip code of the school is that they were notified by the burre safety director of these uh of the sex offenders residing in the zip code uh as
the safety director was notified by the New York City Police Department just going to stop sharing I wasn't even I wasn't sharing so I I didn't those slides were I can put the slides back up I thought I was sharing the screen my
apologies but with that I can take any questions so the school Chancellor regulations that was written in August of 2008 correct so myself and numerous parents throughout the district and other districts never received any information about sexual offenders
through email or through text so is this because there's a new burrow safety director or there's a new SK School Chancellor that we're getting all this information now the only thing that I know is that this is when the new when the nyp notified uh the schools of the
of these sex offenders residing in the area okay thank you yeah are you concerned that it wasn't done for many years we have spoken with some principles who were accustomed to receiving the information uh and this was this is the first
notification uh of this kind that has happened from NYPD since I've been superintendent I've been superintendent for four years that's a concern don't you agree I've you know this is something that I've definitely taken back to um you know my bosses around the
concern that the community has raised uh I've also reached out to the um the burrow uh command Patrol chief who's uh notified all the precincts and I appreciate our partners one thing that uh we do have in District 20 is really strong Partnerships with our Precinct
commanders and our uh Yos uh all of our school teams and and the other officers that work in the precincts they've always been super responsive and really supportive whenever we've had concerns so um as far as our relationship in the district you know we have a a great
relationship of partnership with with the precincts as far as this notification it's a from what I understand it's a again a notification that goes directly to the uh director of The Office of safety and Youth Development so it goes to um Mark reran who has presented here earlier and then
is disseminated to burough safety directors who then directly notify principles so it's it's NYPD to Mark's office to burough safety director two principles correct okay so that's four steps in the chain do you
have any sense as to where in that chain the notices might not have been shared over the past few years that I don't know what I do know is that uh our safety director you know once those were shared uh those immediately went to the principles safety director his name is
John grassadonia can our and and and um John gets it from Mark's office rers um I've I mean I I know what the question I've already reached out to find out what you know why has there
been a lapse in these notifications uh so and I know it's something that the community is concerned about yeah um I haven't gotten an answer to why that lapse has happened okay I just know that when uh our team has been uh provided with the information they have disseminated immediately to schools and
and it's been a uh an understandable response now understanding that folks had not been notified it was a shock it was yeah huge shock yeah yeah and and and the NYPD that's that's not coming from our local precincts when you say nip that's coming from Central correct okay okay all right so you have Ines in
with Chief rampersant then at his office yeah okay okay all right so we look forward to hearing back from that get more information on that um is there anything superintendent that like you went through the list of responsibilities schools have yeah um you know I've just heard you know been
chatting with a couple parents it's it's like you know parents want schools to take precautions schools have finite resources schools are everyone's busy all the people you mentioned they get notified but they have a million things to do during the day what are like are
there any best practices that parents working with schools um should be doing should um to sort of um you know best practices to maintain children's safety the presence of registered offenders great
question first like despite any budget this type of thing goes to the top of the list like safety concerns and issues are things that when we're notified this is the thing where we are required to drop everything else and make sure that uh strong practices are in place so principles of schools always have
structures in place to guide students around how to be safe this is the type of action that is going to bring principles and their saf teams guidance counselors assistant principles Deans uh and other staff including teachers at a lot of in a lot of cases especially in
elementary schools to review those stranger danger discussions that you have with with kids uh like the the piece that I opened up with at the beginning is something that an action like this Spurs schools to if uh
especially in a case like this where we've had a lapse in communication is a little bit of a shock this is definitely a time when principles would go back to all their systems for communicating uh in in addition to holding assemblies and other types of activities to kind of remind uh students of the importance of
being safe and uh those ideas around around strangers that I I read off earlier and they're listed in the regulation too um we also make sure that we connect like this something I did immediately was connect with all the precincts just to uh you know let them know that the community is aware of this that this has happened in the community
everybody is going to be asking questions concerns and wants to you know be reassured and they've they've reassured me mediately then of course they're aware that this has happened and uh they're there to support our kids and our families outside of school uh and then you know I really urge again like I
said at the top like I urge families es always but especially in the case where you have something like the notification like this to have those conversations with your kids and they're hard conversations to have uh but they're really necessary conversations to have to to make sure kids are safe and they're they're aware of you know the
realities of uh of of the world that are around them yeah that's a tough issue I agree um are offenders is an offender violating the law if they're within a certain distance of the school that is something that I'm
not aware of I think that that goes on an individual basis but I'd have to look more into that's a good question um anyone have questions for superintendent on on this or or anything else oh wanted to ask you you know how we have safety agents in the morning but
since the weather is getting better how could we have safety agents in the afternoon so when the kids go out and they want to play in the park you know cuz sometimes the parents don't pick them up and they're playing in the park how how hard is it to get more safety agency during those times so they the
safety of our kids when they're playing so a couple things one there's been an ongoing uh you know outcry for more safety agents in schools there's schools without safety agents not in our district thankfully uh but there are also schools that only have one safety agent where they feel like there should
be more safety agents so there's a big outcry for more safety agents that being said how the safety agent is deployed depends on when they're they're always there during the school day and during uh school activities uh having safety agents um do what they call like a tour
going you know kind of like walking around the school in addition to sitting at the safety desk is something that does happen in our schools uh so having safety agents you know kind of you know tour the area walk the perimeter and otherwise look around the school over the course of the day is something that
our school safety agents do do um but it is more challenging for them to do when there is only one on site this schol my kid goes to there's only one yeah so then it's hard for them to really if there's an issue in the
playground people have to run inside to get them so is there a way no do Festival who do they speak to to get the more safety agents there's all schools are constantly requesting more safety agents uh so this has been a
request that's been in this has beg gone to the city level there's been you know John you know did a resolution around you know requesting the addition of another class like there's been a lot of outcry around the need for more safety agents in the uh in the district and across New York City I mean it's a
city-wide issue so I think that this is another example of uh a topic that would have community members asking how can we get more safety agents you think they can hire a to be
in the backyard during those times so so during school day school activities and after school activities that are official there are always adults who are supervising students you know the only I think the only I don't know if this is the case that you're describing but if
this is after school after school hours and the and the and the kids are just playing in the park and it's not and there's kind of playing in the park is if there's no official school activity happening at that time then the school is not responsible for the activities that happen in the park
especially if it's a a city park school partnership where and I believe that your school is one of these where it becomes uh the parks department after school activities are closed we have several schools that have that type of par that have that type of situation with their schoolyard it's a it's a challenge yeah
just to follow up David on what Elizabeth was asking understanding it's a huge request there's a shortage just and if if a parent wanted to make their voice heard who should they contact say we want more safety agents like who's the responsible
party school safety agents work for NYPD so it it is a they're employed by NYPD yeah um you know we always take this feedback back Chief rampersant is constantly working with the police department department and making the request and is monitoring that situation
yeah um so all of those parties including the NYPD but I can get more like direct contacts for places to be able to make these types of request recognizing all the things youve said it's still worthwhile just to get the requests out there yep I would reach out to the mayor and
all the elected officials in regards to that any other council members would like to ask a question I have question I've had my hand up in the stern yeah can you guys hear me can you guys hear me
yes okay all right um um Dr perto what is the timeline oh my my voice sounds really loud from when the um the NYPD get the notice and it goes to uh Grand and it goes to like what's the timeline before
it gets to like the the principles to notify families within two weeks of receiving the notification all the principles and 20 notified their families within a day oh that's really great then
yeah in the regulation is I don't I have to go back and look at the regulation I think it's pretty immediate uh but we were once the once the safety director received the information it was TurnKey immediately I mean this this regulation's all it's from 2008 um we're
able to turn these things around very quickly now thank you thank you tomorrow also Tony Krypton wrote they are welcome to email me and she left an email in the chat that completes the superintendent's
report thank you superintendent Dr David prto do you the president's report for legislative breaks coming on March 28 hopefully many of our electeds can attend or sen a representative
principles PTA presidents Title One reps are also invited the CC elections are coming up the candidate forum for District 20 was held last Tuesday thank you Josephine and president's Council for hosting you
can view the recording here it's in the chat District 20 CC candidate forum for March 4 2025 voting will begin on April 25th we will have more information on how to vote at our April 9th
meeting I'll just I'll share a quick update on the after school funding um we've we've had CC members a few of us have had multiple meetings on this issue that goes back to last fall
um I won't rehash the entire issue here for the sake of time but in the last since the last c meeting we've had meetings with the office of children Family Services which is the state organization that grants the funding we had a meeting with the New York City
Public Schools um with with their office that um oversees after school funding um and we also had further Communications with the two cbos in our district the two organizations that lost funding under the leaps program
um it's a slow process and we're piecing together what happened but this is my my general understanding of the issue has really started to formulate and and sort of come together um and um it I think it's been said before but now
we sort of have the the information and the the data and everything um you know what happened this year was the state granted money to a much smaller number of organizations and there were um in
2019 there were 180 organizations that got after school funding this year under the leaps program I should say last year there were 137 so you know you do the math you're you're down almost 45 organizations that
lost funding compared to the last um and they also gave out much larger grants um per per program um last time the average Grant was 2 about 250,000 this year the average Grant was about 725,000 um on an annual basis
so we got a lot of that information after sort of having these conversations now that being said we're still concerned about the the cuts in District 20 and the two organizations we had um that that lost seats um f IO unfortunately lost all programming at
ps12 ps12 um uh and ps12 was reduced and then of course ni lost um seats at a at a number of schools as well um one thing that concerns me a lot about the
process um um fiao um was informed after they were um disqualified after they did not get funding they were informed that some of their questions were incomplete or didn't provide the necessary information they said they were never notified about that during the RFP
process um it's it's you know really annoying to me that if you get an incomplete application or um someone says that there's an attachment and the attachment isn't there you would do a quick follow-up U with any organization um to to to get the complete in you know
the complete application um and so that was kind of the leg that the state is standing on with with fiao is that some of their their responses were incomplete and information that should have been there wasn't there so we're it's just it's very concerning to me that um you know someone in Albany that's
responsible for overseeing this wouldn't take the time to um to reach out and and get the correct information um it's also concerning that Nia the other organization they scored 91 out of a 100 um and I can tell you that's scores well
above the other organizations that I've seen scores for and I find it really hard to believe that of the U 137 programs who qualified in the state that all of them scored better than 91 out of
a 100 um otherwise if that's the case we have some serious grade inflation on this scoring process so um I'm still pursuing this we're still going to follow up and just try to get more information you know a lot of the Focus right now is on the temp funding that's
expiring at the end of this fiscal year in June um that was 3 million from the state 5 million from the city that's not in the budget anymore um so um we could have additional seat losses in the district so um still working on that but
just wanted to provide an update um and superintendent also is we can either maybe offline chat more about it too because I'm curious what what you've got what you know and whatnot and moving forward okay now we have the second public spe
speaking session we will now hold our second public speaking session of the evening speakers will be limited to three minutes that concludes did anyone sign up Kevin no any speakers inside the room no that concludes our second public
speaking session we now approve we will now approv the minutes from our previous calendar meeting Kevin can you please share the minutes everyone please review the minutes are there any changes all are there any
changes if there are no further changes to the minutes the minutes for the February calendar meeting are approved this concludes the cc20 de all right so what else this concludes the CC 20 March calendar meeting is there a motion to
adjourn the meeting motion to adjourn is there a second oh second all in favor I I