everyone welcome to cc20 August calendar meeting Joyce could you please take attendance here Jo are you in the Mee oh if you close because they can't hear you on you can come to John yeah everyone is in a new so Wi-Fi is
chofe okay is it did anyone see tomato online when me y here Maya Kevin Sabrina okay Fabiola we only have five in person so
far so we haven't got a coin yet so until we reach the we'll be able to vote in for cheers John thank you thank you thank you Joyce tonight we will have an interpretation in Arabic Mandarin and Spanish you will see these interpreters
in the participant list and they will post their information in the chat our interpreters will now introduce themselves can our Arabic interpreter please introduce yourself uh good evening this announcement for Arabic audience
um hold on for I have to get the information for that sorry [Music] Arabic announcement is done thank you thank you very much could our Mandarin interpreter please introduce
yourself hi okay yeah hi my name is Cindy uh I would like to do the announcement uh uh ID uhid anouncement is done thank
you thank you very much can our Spanish interpreter please introduce yourself foress the it was given already thank you thank you very much thank you to all our interpreters as a reminder please try to speak slower
than usual to allow interpreters to keep up the meeting agenda we will now go over the agenda for tonight's meeting Kevin can you please share the agenda public speaking session number one will be 15 minutes report of superintendent 15 minutes report of council president
15 minutes we're going to vote on cc20 representation at the Asian-American traditional Culture Festival Parade from beta Brooklyn Association resolution one we will vote on in regards to after school funding
after the meeting second public session and then we have an approval of June and July meeting minutes and then we have a business meeting to follow Joyce will you make a motion to add resolution one to the meeting agenda add to the agenda
don't can you say because you're you can say oh sorry we don't have enough people okay yeah one I will make a motion to add an agenda we would like to recognize several attendees at our meeting Joyce
will you look through the attendance list and welcome any noted guest [Music] you can okay I like work online first be we have uh seven in person so on the first
one um person I would like welcome to office from council member Alisa a we got the represent uh representative from her office and I saw J for Ian choose
office I also see people from I Ian Ian y from assembly men canoso office and also the person from city council Justin Brandon's office but
Tony yes I think if I Mi any person from any official's office you can type in the chat we also work on you uh spend a Time join our CC's meeting and we also have some uh we need to appreciate the
parents and the some principals from District 20 also spend the time join us see 20 for August 2024 John of Roy J thank you we will now start with the first public speaking session we will now hold
our first public speaking session of the evening speakers will be limited to three minutes if there are any elected officials or representatives in attendance they can speak first so you can move to online online Representatives is there any online
Representatives that would like to speak we have one Ian yand from assembly Michael tusa's office hi good evening everyone uh thank you for having me on this meeting my name is Ian yand Chief of Staff to New York City assemblyman Michael tousis um
in regards uh to some of the funding concerns that have come to our office I want to make sure I can thank uh John for for reaching out and helping us coordinate this effort with Nia to get all the proper information to be able to um draft a letter to be sent to the
governor's office um we made sure that we had drafted that letter and sent that out today uh to request a restoration of funding particularly regarding psis30 I know that there has been an issue with a loss of 100 seats uh for the elementary
after school program uh as I mentioned today we had sent out that letter um asking you know for our partners in government to uh work in a bipartisan fashion and be able to come together to um you know collaborate and find a way to restore this funding particularly for
for psis30 and um it would be you know great for us to be able to come together with our partners in government to be able to to find a way to make this happen because as we know it will be absolute disadvantage to our community um to not have these programs available you know
to our children um and losing 100 seats would be absolutely detrimental we're grateful for the fact that uh funding was able to come together to um you know properly fund uh some other programs that that um
there may have been concerns about previously uh but there's still work to be done so whatever we can do uh we'll make sure that our office is there to do so um and if there's any further questions any additional information that can be given to me to help in in this fight to uh bring this additional
funding we are glad to do so uh I'll gladly put my contact information in the chat and I'm glad to have you know an open line of communication with anyone who wishes to to have so moving forward so thank you very much for giving me time to speak thank you so much
Ian I would like to call Jane Dong from Senator Ean Cho's office to speak thank you John um and thank you so much for um bringing this um to our attention today that this is a important topic that um is being discussed at this
meeting um my name is Jane dang I'm the chief of staff for Senator E True um usually my colleague Francis Brown attend this meeting but she is recovering from a surgery so um I'm here today on behalf of the office um to
piggy bag what um Ian was saying um about the after school funding so this issue has been brought to our attention um in June um and we are May aware of the situation that um ni and F
was being cut um the after school funding by ocfs because of the new um funding structure related to leaves um in this um new uh budget um
so after we um heard about the concern from Ni and fi we have um written two letters um one for Nia and one for fi um to ocfs expressing this um huge concern
from the community um at least um five schools in um Senator ch's district is being cut um this after school funding that is very crucial to a lot of families um um so we had um a conversation with the ocfs
commissioner's office to um ask them to give us um some information about how this review process works um how this decision was made um but they weren't able to give us a lot of the information
um in June and in July um so right now we're in the process of requesting a second um meeting with um the agency ocfs and its commissioner um I think the bigger concern here is that um they are not
taking um Geographic and um financial information um for this family into consideration when they make this family so Southern Brooklyn which has a lot of the tier one school were left out um without the you know after school um
budget so um we wanted to ask them to give us more transparency in terms of this decisionmaking process and take into consideration um you know geographically and also um for lowincome family um basically the information that
they're providing is that whoever wrote the better um application get the funding based on the score that they assigned but we're like this is not a writing contest it shouldn't be whoever wrote the best proposal get this kind of fing it should consider um the
geographic area and also the income of this family being served so um hopefully we're going to get this um meeting soon and um we'll continue to update everybody once we have more information about this um funding process thank you
so much for listening and thank you so much for um you know keep ADV advocating for this very important issue for our family thank you so much Jean and I hope your coworker feels better and has a fast recovery we have three people onine the first
ital okay I'm calling ital please speak unmute yourself I'm calling Angie Santa Maria to please speak I'm calling for Angie Santa Maria please speak unmute yourself hi sorry um so I am PCA president at PS 247
and I just wanted to voice my concern as well um in regards to our school losing 806 80 seats in the after school program we're already a title a title one school and our community really relies on the
resources that ni provides for our students after school so 80 to lose 80 seats on top of the students that aren a to get in because of the limited number to begin with is really a diservice to
our students and to our community as a whole thank you thank you Angie for speaking I'm calling for mayor casual to please unmute yourself and speak that concludes that concludes our first public speaking
session okay if you can come here please the microphone sorry we're all night so dis weard we do have a speaker that would like to [Music] speak yeah right there's a camera microphone right camera sorry I did
my good evening everyone one my name is arsela banilla and I am speaking on behalf of the after school funding that has been um deleted from some of our schools in District 20 District 20 is a
has a plethora of services that could be afforded to our students if we are funded our students deserve to be able to conduct themselves in after school programs and receive services that will
engage them in social emotional and academic growth to eliminate the number of schools both from fial and from Ni and not allow those schools to
receive those Services is more than a disservice it's a travesty our children are important and I'm asking that all of our politicians and
ocfs understand the importance of our children we are in a neighborhood or in neighborhoods that have a large influx of immigrants and our immigrant population
are looking to the schools to provide them with the opp opportunity to help their children in a variety of ways please consider reissuing the money to the
schools that are most in need thank you thank you so much Ma you're welcome thank you John John I think we made a call n now can we make a motion to end a resolution there's two more speakers
I would like kimbery barate to please unmute yourself and speak for us hello hi my name is Kimberly barard I I've been a parent in District 20 for about eight years um I have four
children one is now in the middle school and um right now I'm speaking on behalf of ps12 which is a phenomenal school and we just learned that we're going to be losing our funding for our after school and and for about eight years I have
applied for the after school I have four children and I they never got in and that's how tight the seats are it's by lottery so what happened previously was teachers would have to walk my children
home because I couldn't go out to get them so they will walk them home from school that's how important after school is to this community and that's how this how how much this community has is bounded together as a family we support
each other and for anyone not to see that and support our family and our children I'm sorry that's that's so disappointing I don't know what we have to do as parents or as a community if you want us to come down and and March
or if the letters are not enough the writing is not enough we're willing to do so so whoever is in charge whoever makes that decision whoever writes that pen maybe it's because you know this is bensen Hurst and diyer height so they feel like we don't need it but this is
an overcrowded District this is why new schools opened up in this in this District right that's why F said you know what we this District needs the funding God bless them that they did that and then for someone not to fund
them that's not okay that's not okay thank you thank you so much kimbery I would like to call Susan Lou to speak and unmute yourself hi I would like to Peck it back
on what kimbery um just said I'm also a parent of ps12 and a concerned parent about this um you know the funding being eliminated to our advantage of um after school program for our kids um it's it's
unbelievable like you know when I heard about that that it's not going to be renewed It's Kind quite some upsetting to most parents and um for as for you know working parent like myself we rely on on you know these programs so it's
like a essential resource for our community and it provides a safe and um enriching environment for our children um so like I really really hope that we can get this program back up for District 20 and for ps12 and for all
other schools that relies on this thank you thank you so much Susan we have one more speaker Anna Belfor Del please unmute yourself and speak for us yeah good good evening thanks John um so I'm
also a parent of students who attend ps12 and uh I did log on a little late but I just have a couple questions as far as uh is there any transparency as to where the funds went that they didn't
come to where they are needed you know where where were the funds appropriated because this is a program that obviously has been uh successful parents have been using them have been using this program the past couple years it's been incredibly uh successful parents rely on
this you know the teachers have created a really successful environment the students look forward to it and I know that uh funds are pretty transparent you know they explains every year where the next year's funds are going to be appropriated and I was just wondering
why are the funds not coming to us and where are they going and if we can get some answers on that because um obviously the biggest concern for the city should be taking care of its children and and the students because that's the priority that should be the
priority of the city so as a parent I'm just curious as the as to what the transparency is as where the funding is going thank you so much Anna thank you John yeah uh I want to make a motion and
a uh resolution one about the after school funding to the meeting agenda because like as a lot of speaker public speakers say as a pattern we want a transparency and we reach out a lot of like El official or education Community
but we don't get the exactly answer what we want and uh they didn't explain the detail so we want put our resolution we want as a CC 20 we want our kids is matter so we need a this is a resolution
we want add to the agenda we will discuss this resolution and M but first we need to add to the meaning agenda because we just got that today so it's a isn't near second
okay so I do the low vote from the an resolution one about after school fundings to the meeting agenda Steve sto yes say yes John yes
ele yes okay Joyce yes Mayan yes woming yes what she say yes yes thank you y Maya okay Tamala yes he Kevin
yeah B yes okay SA yes okay we got okay we got 11 years and uh we didn't going to respond from Maya so
this uh we'll be able approve to addon agenda so this motion to add resolution to the agenda is approved yeah okay we also we also have NE chance here you want to do the you want do the
public [Music] speaking okay bide we also we work all the offici principal and parents we also I forgot to welome appreciate our superintendent because last last year August I remember he on on online right
this on vacation yeah last year last yeah so I would really really you being person today and also our our our family NE coordinate bu CH thank you for your guys support and exactly
our our AA Kevin Kev always how working on our meeting thank you now John FL Joyce can you please um retrack on the cc20 representation for the
Asian-American traditional cultural Festival Parade so that we could vote on it we don't have enough we have seven people yeah came in okay we have seven okay good right
okay because not um let me make a let me make an introduction from that because maybe a lot of maybe a lot of people doesn't know what's for festival because NE is me Autumn first so me Autumn first is
another major first beside the Chinese New Year it's by night we say similar night here uh Thanksgiving because the main meaning for the festival is celebrating the har family reunion and
promote interpersonal communication also say District 20 is Diversified School District we welcome everyone to share every culture with us so we believe only by like understanding and knowing we can
better like integrate into the same community so we want to use our Banner to imine the per and I also after tonight meeting I was sending to know on thect 20 school we want invite on the
school to participate and I have fun the culture so it's a do do hey choice this is Steve can you hear me can you share a flyer Joyce yeah let me put the fire on the
CH Kevin's gonna sh Kevin you have fire tell me you want the best yeah this is the frer on the Sun September 8th that's a community event so we want like our District 20 every
Community will be able to like celebrate for every culture it's p FAL PVE does anyone have a question yeah I want to make a motion to vote to use our Banner to R
per I I have a question my hand was actually up so okay hello I have a question you Tamar unmute yourself yeah I unmuted myself because I
have a question tell to go ahead go ahead toar okay um are we walking in the parade as a council with the banner or is just the banner just going I'm I'm that's what I'm trying to figure out
and what can you join you with us now we will all the member like we canite in the Pro now we we're going to holding the banner too all all of us
hello it's not mandatory it's one TI but we just vote on we be able to use our Banner because I will be there so I would like to if I like to some more people and I join with us I holding the banner because we will have school
now last year we do have nice sever School join with ask kids with have fun kids dress off it's different with kids to culture well I was sending out in invitation to Dr September
8th yeah that's Steve also St have questions Steve you can unmute yourself can you guys hear me yes I'm you guys cannot hear
me hello we can hear you we do hear you Steve yes you can okay yeah I was just gonna add it's um you already answered it but this is just to march in the parade it's optional for anyone who wants to
um that was just the was going to make um but it already got answered thank you Tamara and thank you Steve I can make go ahead okay um so I just want to know like can other
can we do other um parades outside of you know like whatever whatever information because like this is I think this is like the third thing
that we voted to to Marchin as a cc I like I want to know like can we get like advanced notice you know for like any upcoming things that's going to be happen happening in our neighborhood in our community where people might want to
have us um represent as a cc you know shared with us ahead of time um so we could all like really add this to our calendar if we want to participate because that will make sure that we as a
cc represent our community better you know what I mean because it's it's like in September it's going to be crazy so I'm I'm hoping many of us could attend this you know as as well as our community but like it would be really you
know proactive of us if we actually have like a list of other events that people might want us to to march in so we can add it to all of our calendas so we get better able to attend to represent everybody like I would like to you know
have that that's something that we you know look forward to for the for the whole year thank you Tamara we could definitely do that we good so is anyone have question or we can make a motion
to wait I make a motion to to vote on use our Banner to match the yeah just from the banner so everyone I if work we work every night everyone to to join our join with the
banner to the so for St sto yes yes he thank you John yes Elizabeth yes Joyce yes Mayon
yes woming yes yes Ying yes Maya Tamala what did you say yes
Mala yes thank you Kevin yes Fabiola yes Sabrina yes thank you we got 11 years one L
respond so we'll be able to use Banner to merge in the per thank you thank you Joyce and thank you everybody for voting now I'd like to introduce the superintendent report Dr David predo
will deliver his report now principles uh families and um and other members of the community uh looking forward to another great school year uh and tonight I plan to give a a brief presentation around uh the district team
who serves uh your schools uh and then an overview of the district's comprehensive educational plan give an overview of what are going to be our priorities in this upcoming year and which will uh you know focus on the the areas that I will provide
reports uh by bringing uh members of the team and principls and teachers to the to meetings to be able to highlight some of the the successes and the progress that we're making within uh different District goals uh first I would like to
uh make a you know a very excited announcement we have been able to identify a student member of C20 I'm really excited to welcome uh and introduce Ryan Lee who is currently a 12th grader at John Dewey High School
and is a former District 20 elementary and middle school student really excited to have Ryan and Ryan I I know I think I saw Ryan come in so if Ryan if you want to just uh come off a mute and just introduce yourself and and say hi to the council hi I'm Ryan Lee um I'm I'm a
rising senior and it's my pleasure to work with CC and be a member so Ryan we're really really excited to have uh Ryan uh joined the council this year uh uh able to uh connect Ryan with CC president uh today and we're going to
you know work to make sure that Ryan is you know integrated into the council and made aware of all of the the different aspects of the council and uh W and just you know on behalf of the district I want to welcome uh Ryan welcome you to uh to District 20 and to CC and thank
you for your service thank you so much superintendent so just I like to do this every year just to kind of give a reminder of what the District 20 team is who's on it what they do and uh some of the things that they do to support uh District goals and priorities uh in all
of our schools so uh in addition to me uh many of you know Dr O'Brien who is the the uh Deputy superintendent uh Laura Kaiser the executive director of School support and operations and Sean mlan uh district manager of operations and special projects along with Michelle
we who's my Administrative Assistant this is constitutes the leadership team uh who coordinate the the work of the district uh we have many instructional coaches on The District team uh the the main function that the district team
serves in terms of number of people is to support improved instruction in classrooms uh so it's led by Dr Lupia pres Med who's a senior achievement manager and leads the literacy team but we have uh Janet Sierra Michael Feldman sylvana Ferrara uh who returned to the
team and then we have two new team members on the instructional Coach side one is ver Tang ver Tang comes to us from the office of periodic assessment but miss Tang is a has a background in bilingual program and specifically bilingual home language assessments so
really excited to have Miss Tang come on and she's going to be supporting our uh bilingual programs and has a particular particular um uh expertise area in Mandarin so she was going to be able to support our many Mandarin programs including the new Mandarin program that we're opening at ps24 as well as our
other Mandarin programs and Lumis contras is our um English language learner Service uh administrator it's a long way of saying she's a uh an instructional coach for English language Learners and she has a background in uh Spanish and in middle school so these two instructional coaches are going to
be able to be uh allocated to key uh priority areas in the district uh continuing uh many of you met Heather Dar beggan and Jamie rasper last year they gave a presentation on the work that we're doing with our assistant principles and Math teachers
um Tracy McCarthy Norris supports our social studies and Civics for all work Dr hect ybe supports our Science and Mathematics uh and you met uh Dr urbe last year when we discussed uh the Science Olympiad and the math games uh
as well as the steam Expo Anthony corano who you'll meet this year I think you we've already brought Anthony on who supports our many physical education initiatives as well as our all of our physical education teachers uh he's the one who started the basketball leagues
uh and we're going to be starting some new sports leagues uh for the children as well as supporting our physical education teachers and Karen Thomas supports our special education teachers in the classroom uh our student services support uh Russell liberman is our student services manager Lauren tone our
social worker uh and they together support uh our work in uh School culture and climate and safety uh you've met uh we've had brussell and Lauren come on in previous years to report and this year they'll be doing some Central work around that area
and Michelle espeo supports our attendance I'm very proud to say we have uh we're in the top two in attendance every year in uh in New York City and Miss ESP pazo supports our attendance teachers as well as all of our attendance teams at our uh at our
schools and I'm really proud of the work that she's doing with our attendance teachers and our principles and their attendance teams and then uh these are some really important folks to our work that kind of work in the background so Joseph aano and Samantha Barrett support our all of
our schools with ensuring that their programs are aligned to academic policy uh and support them in administering assessments and managing data and programming it's really important work it's behind the scenes but it really helps to make sure that everything runs smoothly uh in our now 43 schools and 11
Pre-K centers Valerie Valentine is our administ administrator for special education she she supports all of our principles teachers families and students with ensuring that individualized educational programs are in compliance uh and that students are receiving the services that they are
mandated uh through their IEPs from the state and another new team member is Cynthia Rodriguez who is our new English language learner compliance and policy specialist so Cynthia uh is in charge of ensuring that all of our English language Learners all of the services
that they are mandated to receive by the state are indeed uh being provided to students uh and monitors that year round and all of these folks monitor all these systems year round uh so it's a rather big team and there's uh it's a big District so but
I'm really proud to say that all of the District 20 team members are incredibly dedicated to the district and they do an incredible job um in their particular catchment areas we're really lucky to have really strong team members who are really good at what they do uh and we'll have opportunities over the course of
the year to meet them in the various work that they do uh and what they do is support all the schools in the implementation of the district comprehensive educational plan so we draft this plan every two years this is a new cycle for the
dce and this is where our district goals and action plans live uh all districts uh crafted DCP in partnership with the district leadership team uh the district leadership team is comprised of leaders from all the different stakeholder
groups in the district including cc20 so as President Steve Stow sits on the district leadership team uh but we also have uh president's Council UFT CSA um you know all different stakeholders in the district sit on the uh on the D on the uh DT and support me
and my team in the crafting of goals that are aligned to the Chancellor's priorities every DCP in the city is uh crafted in alignment with these five priorities that are Chancellor Banks's priorities uh and I'll just run through what the work that we're going to be
focusing on in each priority this year uh in alignment with the Chancellor's priorities as they connect to District priorities so priority number one is all students learn to read well and uh last year we're very familiar with NYC reads uh the NYC reads work that we did in the
district is aligned to Chancellor's priority number one we'll continue with that work and ensuring that phonics curriculum and strategies for NYC reads are implemented in all of our early childhood grades we will also be working to promote rigorous and differentiated goal setting to close achievement gaps
uh in literacy in District 20 the subgroup grp the priority student groups are students with disabilities English language Learners and Hispanic and latinx students these are the three main priority groups of students that uh demonstrate uh achievement gaps that require our um uh special attention to
ensure that we're closing those gaps uh priority two is all students are physically and emotionally safe and there are three uh Focus areas that will'll be we have crafted a a draft action plan to address uh first is to to develop safety infrastructure and
systems including training staff and working with their external Partners to ensure Safety and Security best practices this is a continuation of a goal that we've had uh for from uh last year uh and has been a topic of conversation in uh District 20 and cc20 at different points
over the past three years so that's definitely one of our priorities we're going to be working to expand social emotional and mental health supports uh and then also to expand the implementation of physical and mental Wellness supports including uh physical education and other initiatives that are related to health and physical activity
for uh children priority three is that all students have a high quality academic experience uh the three areas that we'll be focusing on this year will be strengthening math instruction as always uh ensuring that students with disabilities are served and are uh
progressing in the least restrictive and most appropriate settings and improving the delivery of mandated services and expanding specialized programs uh and then promoting uh rigorous goal setting for our priority student groups uh inclosing the achievement Gap in
mathematics uh and in District 20 the priority student groups uh are students again with students with disabilities our English language Learners and Hispanic and latinx students priority four is that uh for the chancellor is that all students graduate college and career ready and
have a strong plan and Pathway to Economic Security this is also uh very closely related to New York City Public Schools mission statement uh we will be working in four areas this year we're going to be uh working very closely with our safe for college uh 529 account development program uh for students in
kindergarten through second grade as well as ensuring that uh you guidance counseling individual progress review uh is is closely monitored we'll be working to expand uh access to financial literacy uh classes in our schools uh
for both students and for families we're going to be expanding access to uh Advanced coursework this includes Regents coursework in middle school and this is directly tied to the superintendent program uh which will launch this year with uh the first six
graders having uh gone through the application process for the Su the superintendent program in all but one of our middle schools in District 20 and that is directly tied to our work in a region pathway uh for students both in the superintendent program and outside
of it uh and then finally uh we're continuing to work with our the development of our bilingual programs in the middle school and beginning to partner with our high schools uh in District 20 in increasing access to multilingual program models that provide more opportunities for students to obtain the New York state seal of
biliteracy uh on their on their um on their diploma when they graduate from 12th grade and then finally priority five is that all districts and schools are more inclusive and responsive for parents and families uh including having more families choose New York City public
schools and we're going to be working in three uh areas this year uh over the next two years in alignment with this priority uh first really working uh to develop stronger Partnerships with families through effective engagement uh and as well to build awareness of parent
leadership opportunities including uh you know applying to and serving on CC presidents Council ptas uh and slts in schools work uh we'll have drafted some action plans and goals around uh building Community Trust and bolstering
engagement including uh via improved language access and increased family engagement and participation and this is going to be uh looking at uh highlighting and identifying some of the great practices that are happening in in our schools in District 20 and sharing them through an increased number of
platforms uh including our newsletter and our website but also social media and other uh informational videos that we're going to be uh developing and distributing to uh to the district via a variety of means and then uh deeply
engaging with families to understand needs and plan uh high quality programs that match with those needs and we've done some of that work in the district already uh through the work of the superintendent program and many of our bilingual programs and some of our specialized offerings inside of our school so we're going to be continuing
to do that work in a more intentional way to ensure that you know families who are with us remain with us and remain happy to be with us and that families who are not with us uh look at the great things that we're offering and consider us uh when thinking about where they're going to send their kids to school uh so
I'll be over the course of the year um and one of the challenges with sharing more details of the plan in August is that there are many data metrics that we use to set those goals most namely New York state test scores are a a a a metric that we're required to utilize
and are accountable to Once those are released we will uh finalize some of these goals so you can expect in September that I will share more detailed uh goals and aspects of the action plan that will be connected to those goals uh and you can also expect that in the coming months and over the
course of the Year I'll share progress towards some of these action plans and goals uh and you know we'll be in partnership with you all to discuss what are some of the ones that are you know of you know priority and um you know of interest to the council to highlight uh
as well as things that you know I'll I'll feel like will helpful to to share with the council and the community around some of the great work that's happening in District 20 it's a big District it's an amazing district and it has a lot to celebrate and really excited to uh partner with the the council this year to uh to share that
information and uh and and take your feedback and then finally you know just looking really looking forward to a great year uh uh we have our first day of school it's on September 5th and we're welcoming three new District 20 schools so ps413 the Joan seminara
School law in medicine on uh Senator Street and Third Avenue PS3 31 the detective when johnl school of civics and Entrepreneurship and ms47 the School of Technology arts and research uh really excited to uh have their doors open on September 5th and welcome uh
families uh the teachers and our principles who've been working very hard uh behind the scenes to uh to get ready really excited to welcome our new d75 partner sites we have uh we have many seats d75 for our d75 students opening
in September uh at PS3 31 at ms47 and at our Standalone d75 five site it's known as k46 4 but it is at the um at the site at Our Lady of Guadalupe right in between ps12 and the ps12 annex it's
right there so we're really excited for that Standalone d75 five site and welcoming you know over a 100 plus or 200 uh d75 students and you know have really worked to prioritize District 20
residents uh who are students with d75 classifications to uh to to locate those students uh in these seats so that has been a priority of the office of enrollment the district 75 superintendent and really excited to to welcome these uh these partner sites and
hopefully be able to serve more of our uh D20 residents and 75 where they're mandated uh and we're welcome all of our returning students and families and really excited to welcome uh our new students we have a tremendously large prease program in the district we have
11 sites we have 10 Community Schools with prek and 3K in them and we serve uh in excess of 1500 3K and 4K students uh and they're all brand new every year so really excited for them to come to school uh it's that day is the first day
for them so really excited to welcome them uh you can check out more information at D20 brooklyn.com which is our website and I'll continue over the course of the Year sharing more uh information and connection to uh different ways to find out more information about things that are happening in The District in addition to
the reports that I provide at uh at the uh at cc20 meetings and other public meetings as I uh do the work in the district so I'm looking forward to serving you as superintendent I'm really uh proud to be your superintendent and I'm looking forward to a great year so thank you so much uh that's my
report thank you so much Dr David prto superintendent other any CC members who have questions for superintendent prto U I want to know the cell phone policy for this coming year uh 2024 to 2025 a lot of uh pents and also a lot of
Educators want to know what is our stance for the cell phone usage there's no uh currently the cell phone policy is located in the Chancellor's regulations every school has their own school-based policy however there has been a lot of uh there have been a lot of Articles
written about uh some exploration that uh the chancellor and the New York City public schools are doing around uh around a potential shift to a uh cell phone free uh school I don't have more details at this time because the policy
has not changed at all the policy continues to remain what's located in the Chancellor's regulation uh but once I have more specific information about what that uh would look like if and when it does happen I'll you will be it will be included in my report and I'll
provide an update because a lot of teachers have been telling me that when when they do try to take away or try to stop the students from using cell phones in their class there's no support there of how to what they should do and how
the students keep the cell phone and how they should be able to take the cell phone away from them so they could learn and focus on the class so just um something that some teachers were asking me about that's I mean I appreciate that
I've been in many of our schools in District 20 that have uh every school in the district has a has a cell phone policy and I've been in a few of our middle schools is really uh one of the primary areas where folks have you know big concerns about this and you know a couple of our middle schools have you
know developed really successful policies to really uh limit the presence of cell phones in schools through a variety of means and they found them found them to be uh really involved in developing but once they've been established have really found them to be
effective in schools so uh you know students themselves as well as teachers and principles have uh reported to me uh in addition to me witnessing them uh you know positive feedback around you know developing systems for uh reducing the Pres pres of cell phones in schools but
it does require the development of systems uh and that you know we always look to support schools in uh who are developing policies or things like this any kind of big change you know places where things are successful we always leverage them to support folks who are
or schools that are you know developing new systems and and how would the uh New State LA the they said there's going to be a uniform this is the first year that New York City and stated com C how would they our district uh there
is no new there's no new policy in New York City public schools for uniforms uh that again is managed through Chancellor's regulations uh and that Chancellor regulation is not changed okay thank you no problem I have two questions superintendent the ASD
Nest program for 939 will that be up and running for September thank you very much also in regards to District 75 seats do you know the ratio X prior and um we're trying to get the ratio of 12 to1 to1 or 8 to1 to1 do we
know anything about what students no the the way that District 75 uh seats are uh determined is driven by the IEPs we were able to connect um uh president sto we were able to connect um our d75
representative uh with the d75 superintendent in their office to to discuss uh just how that process happens and the the short answer is is that the students IEPs Drive the ratios in the classrooms uh and one of the the one of the primary components of any IEP is the
ratio of the class that that student is to sit in so one of the CH one of the tasks of developing a special education program is matching up the uh the requirements on the IEP for the students in the classroom so if a student has 6
to1 or 8:1 or 12 to1 on their IEP they're they have to be in a classroom with other students who have that same designation on their IEP so that's the and the district 75 office as well as principles have a process for you know making that happen thank you very much
superintendent oh let me ask you a question in priority five uh you said you wanted to uh keep parents in our district um but if most parents want an after school program so what are you doing to help get more funding for the
after school program and and more like Merit based classes so for after school programming I mean I think that if you're referring to the current challenge that's being discussed today you know what we were just really trying to do with families was provide information that could be
helpful to explain how uh that funding was lost it's not something it's a state allocation it's not um something that parents do asking in the the questions are they supposed to write I mean you had I mean there were several um elected
officials who who came on today and invited families to reach out to them directly uh with concerns your state elected officials are you know Lucky in District 20 like they're very present and you know continue and show up to meetings and you know invite uh families
to be able to you know reach out to them on things that are met related matters like related to the state and this after school uh program funding issue is is related to the state so I would encourage you to reach out to them all right I have a
question you could unmute yourself and speak please all right um with the d75 seats like like how is the Staffing because I know you know we've been having like you know issues with um Staffing for like special education and
even like services and stuff how is that going the district 75 principles who run those the district 75 principles who run those sites are responsible for Staffing them uh I'm not aware of any concerns around Staffing those uh programs
though she was there okay good any other CAC members that would like to ask questions please raise your hand if you're in attendance please speak that complet the superintendent's report thank you superintendent Dr David predo I'm going to start with the
president's report cc20 has been working with many other offices to get answers on the loss of after school funding in District 20 we know of two Community Based organizations cbos that lost after school funding ni and
fiao we have contact State elected officials and the state agencies involved so far we have not been able to get a clear response no one will say why exactly Nia and FIA were not awarded funding under the new leaps
program the state office responsible for awarding this funding has not responded to us yet this put parents at these schools in a different position in some cases they will have to pay, thousands of dollars for a child to receive after school in
other cases the number or after school seats will be reduced we are looking for answers and asking our elected officials to explain exactly why these long-standing cbos have suddenly been deemed not eligible under the leaps program the leaps program has a long
list of program requirements we are parents not policy analyst we are asking our elected officials and their teams to provide the answer to our community we need to know this is a bipartisan issue this is for children
and the parents we need everybody to be on board we would also like Tamara please provide the update on the OS High School application webinar some matter if you're ready okay sorry if I have any issues um
with with my internet I'm actually um traveling at this time all right so we actually had um a meeting I believe last
week and there were it was sent that to all the um CC's the Community Education councils um there were unfortunately only six sorry five councils that were proess
um as long um we were at the meeting um Leanne wri which um was part of the research and analytics team for um the office of school enrollment along with um Alie Jackson H who was part of um Early
Childhood High and high school as well as um summarizing um some of the um what we discussed with um what's happening is there's going to be a new a new tool SL
app that's supposed to be um used for the parents of next year in doing the the um High School Pro process this was mostly based on high school um as far as what was stated um so it
was a way it was a new app that they actually um in partnership with um a research lab from MIT called blueprint lab so they're trying to launch hopefully it's um this coming school year for the application process is
going to be um a new way of how the high school application process will be done and it's it's a honestly a better way that they trying they're trying to make it easier and better for um the high
school process to be facilitated and you know one of the issues that was brought up is the fact that the high school process is is very Broad and it's not really stained a lot to other the parents so that's one of the the things they they need to work
on um especially to um for our students with disabilities and uh uh English language Learners when it comes to how the process is done and the hold on CU I took a lot of
the the basically the application process that that they have um it's it's going to look at the students um and the random number that they given um as a as a student for e8th grade applying for the process they're also going to take into consideration whether the student
has an IP where they live what courses um they're looking into for applying to high school um and what their grades are and whether or not they apply to a screen school um basic is going to use as much information as they can about
the whole overall student and um to help them easy to find schools that will fit each individual student and it's going to show them like you know what schools that should they should be interested in
looking at whether they have like a low um what is it it shows like a low medium or high chance of that student getting into that particular School based on like the little bar graph that's at the side so like if it has like one bar that
means they have a low chance of possibly getting into that school if it's two then it's going to be a medium chance and if it's three they're going to have high chance of getting into the school and the basic goal of this program is to help create a more balanced application
for students and to have the student have a more realistic sense of what schools they can actually get into and um was that um it's going to take all that information and say like your child didn't you know
um apply for like all the schools that they they could possibly can it might just like you know pick a school that they think students the that and it might know send an alert that that says you know here's a school
that fits all your criteria you might be interested in looking into this school and and you'll get that alert and you could click on and you could look to look through the all the information which I thought was was really good because a lot of our kids tend to stay like in their Burrows you know they don't a lot of times they don't like to
go out of burrows so I thought this was a really great way to get them interested in schools that they might have originally thought of and um one of the the part of the tool it actually has like um a Subway portion that shows them like you know
how what's what um whether they're going to take the train the bus um the ferry to wherever the school is based on where they live and the address that's um also part of it and one of the things that um we actually brought up was adding a way
to add travel time because like a lot of our kids end up um sometimes not applying to school and they know it's going to take them like two three hours to get to the school and sometimes you know that might might to be the school that might fit them and what they're
looking for so we asked um theanne and um Ally I believe the and Ali if that's something that they could actually put into the into the I think the algorithms um of the
application um because we we think that'll be really great especially when it comes to um parents knowing how long it's going to take the kid to get to school because it's it's one thing applying to um a school in different B and it's another for the student to
understand how long it's going to take to get there so sometimes that might discourage a student from actually attending that school because they don't want to take like two buses in a train you know what I mean or like they don't want to take like I would have to get to school you know
so um let me see and um they were working on me see they're working basically for for n for non Zone schools um students will be getting a lottery
number um to help I think make it easier for them to appli to the schools and must be get in so each will be assigned a certain L for that when the pro once the program is created and each student will have their own number so they know exactly what it what the number is
because listed in in their um application but basically they want this whole process to be more transparent and I did bring up because I know tamarrow we can't hear you I know I I was
muted can you hear me now yes yes were you were you guys able to hear any of the things that I just said about about at one point we didn't hear you okay what part was I
from did you guys say what I said about the the lottery number the assign each student will be assign a lottery number based on this program yes we did okay okay um
okay and some of the concerns that were brought up was trying to make this process easier for the parents and some of the um the things that were mentioned was like probably starting the whole understanding the
process of high school application for students not waiting till the kids are in like uh middle schoolers are in e8th grade and they start applying for high schools or maybe talking to them in sixth and seventh grade even as well as speaking to the parents be having
workshops and walking through the through the parents through the whole process so we could prepare them better especially for like um uh L families because like a lot of our families you know their English is in their second language a lot of them might not know
the process of of attending and applying for school in in New York you know what I mean because from their country the process wrap it up a little bit okay so like that that was some of the things
that was that was mentioned so I don't know yeah but I think persono is out already you finished speaking Yeah Yeah I said if anybody had any questions to ask about what was like
anything else that was discussed I think we good we thank you for tamas p sharing information so if there's no questions for tamarrow we're going to start the second public speaking session so if anybody has a question please feel free to ask the question what should board up about
Transportation so this is what I forgot to ask uh David PR uh so uh Middle School we're going to no longer do met uh Metro cards now because uh aren't we supposed to get Omni for the New York City students so I forgot to ask about that that's that's what I understand we
just saw the announcement about uh that happening and they are if I remember correctly they work all week so they work on the weekends as well as during the week and so all our middle school students from sixth grade or seventh
grade and onward will be able to get a metro card or I mean an omni card I guess I think it's for every student who who who qualifies for a metro card uh under the the uh the the the cities um it includes middle
school so just clarify it includes it includes all students who qualify that's that's kada 12 okay all right good and they'll get it the first day they go back to school do you know that's the hope that's always the hope with that's
always the hope with Metro cards there's there always are sometimes some uh snafus here and there but in general students receive their Metro cards or Omni cards now they receive or just Omni I believe it's I believe it is switched from a metro card
to this Omni all right hi uh just a quick question on the C on the resolution for the cut off fundings all right thank you we will now hold our second public speaking session of the evening speakers
will be limited to three minutes we have a special guest assemblyman Lester Chang would like to speak hey good evening everyone thank you for participating and and uh your personal time and I'm listening uh to
what what will be effectful for next for next upcoming School season and I'm more alarm about the after school program the loss of funding I'm trying to get a bottom of the it uh what's the responsibility and how nif have not received their funding
plus is this state level or city decision I'm not sure about that state level okay and and at what level it it is so that's uh that I got to find out because that's uh I don't know because I remember that I did pass and voted for
supporting after school program budget itself actually was a small increase and why this was uh not being approved especially the these two organizations have been around and if they were uh got disa through where is the money going
towards is there another agency to to replace and LU off I just don't know so yeah we're trying to find out as well yeah I will try to find out myself on my end and uh and the metro card I think metro card itself uh as a technology is going to be sunset that's a dinosaur
technology in Omni car will be probably more more effective and probably better tracking than than ever and and that's all I have right now if there's any questions uh or concerns my office is always open and uh my office phone number is
718 236 1764 2718 2361 1764 concerns questions ideas I'd love to hear everyone from you but thank you thank you very much thank you so
[Music] much do we have any speakers here present that would like to speak mine is Karen Karen Karen can you please unmute yourself and speak for us and nobody else that concludes our
second public speaking session sorry may I speak up what's his name Mike Kieran Mike Karan go ahead you can speak thank you is there going to be an after school latch key program being
considered as of right now we're trying to find out answers as of right now we're trying to find out answers so we're reaching out to our elected officials in the city council state Senate and assembly to see if they could come together and help out some way or another
so we don't have any programs lined up for all these schools or the fiao and different schools are working on various options you can contact the school if they're affected is there anybody else speaking this concludes the second speaking
session we're going to vote to approve resolution is to restore after school funding in District 20 would anyone like to provide comment on this resolution is there a motion to approve the resolution motion to approve thank you
Elizabeth is there a second thank you Joyce can you take a vote this resolution is calling for rest ation of after school funding for District 20 schools John yes this is Steve can I just make
a comment have we started the voting yet I'm sorry no I'll I'll just make a com whenever we start the the voting I'll just make a comment along with my vote which everyone is allowed to do by the way so just let me I'll just make a comment then able to make a comment com yeah or any
question you can ask the same did Steve say he want to make com okay we're going to vote on resolution one for after school fonding Steve St yeah um I'm gonna vote Yes um to
approve and really as others have said tonight this resolution is about this is something that both parties should agree on everyone in the district should agree on it's simply helping us restore a program that was working successfully
that has been ended in cut back for reasons no one can articulate no one has told anyone ex exactly why the funding was cut back um and the problem is you have a state bureaucracy that um has
done this and we need help from our elected officials to understand what happened understand what formulas were changed um and understand why many of our schools and we're still finding out schools that are impacted every day um
have have lost after school funding for the upcoming year um and so this resolution really just asks for all of our elected officials regardless of your party to work together to get answers to this if we can get funding this
year to do so and to review the funding Pro process that was used to avoid a similar situation happening in the future so I'm voting yes on the resolution thank you Steve John I'm voting yes like Steve said
every day we're finding out different also up to the fiao which was receive their funding that so there's a lot going on and we all need to come together with this like te said our show every child should have after school if
they want it same with every parent people can't give money like 3,300 3,200 a year even though they say $6 a day whatever it is that's not even here or there people can't even afford food anymore people can't even afford pay
payments and they have to rece what they want to pay so there's no reason why these elected officials can't stand up bipartisan speak to each other find a way to to give the money the funds now and then if they get money back then that's fine but we need to stick
together this is for our children this is for our families this is for our community thank you and the vote is yes thank you Elizabeth yes um my uh son was able to get uh ni for two years uh for the summer Rising
program so I have a very good experience with it he really loved the Nia when he went and it really like makes people want to stay in the doe in our District 20 when we have uh these after school programs and the ni program is a little
slightly different from BCA but I really like the ni program and we should continue to fund them because you know these are what our parents want and yes like John said not all of us could afford uh $3,000 you know a year annually thank
you thank you elizabe Joyce I will yes so we've been working together from since we receive parents concern about the out out out school program then we reach out yeah we didn't reach out some
official and uh then when we reach out we didn't get exactly answer and the I was thought like the people from the city council office we were standing out to speak tonight but which which I didn't I I didn't see the people from
the city council's office speak out tonight to explain what's the what's the information detail information they got but they didn't get update to us so as a pattern we exactly we need transparency and the next year is first year for school apply for the n program we need a
to know we need to prepare now this year we don't get a funding what's the B plan it should we have B plan if not the funding if the budgeting is approved money is near why need see now when we reach on the uh from the state uh ocfs
they say we got the same exactly funding from the last year so why not those school now noow School CBO got funding got C so what's the next funding going to we we need to know
like budget is there so why isn't isn't this is first com first serve because every year in the school CB a finer application they should be know why they didn't get a why they didn't they say they explain
us they approve but just no funding so what the mean approve is approve for no funding so we want the update detail for pattern as our kids is matter because our own kids got impact so I will
yes B fun I she and then she was I think we have the funding but I think the funding go so right now lot the the
most fing if I have the three kids I go to the other school I have to each one have the pay for 3,000 something like that so one year and I have the three kids about almost 10,000 yeah it's money
for par the income so we get the funding but right now cannot get the benefit for the kids so thank you we got one me she
online y okay okay I voted yes because I'm not familiar about the after school program my kids never attend after SCH program but whenever I hear all information from you guys so I think about helping for a lot of them and the kids so I vot yes
thank you thank you Maya Tamala Tam's trying to get back in she's having internet yeah I thought she tried yeah she not Okay Kevin
yes thank you any comment from you no thank you FAA thank you Joyce can they hear me yeah okay thank you Joyce again um I just want to speak in behalf of single
parents like myself that we've been waiting for a seat for our kids to join um after school programs we can't afford child care anymore we can't afford food we can even afford to pay a rent so I think this is crucial and this is a also
for our elected officials um we expect more um I'm disappointed that you know um this organizations lose their funding uh this year my son was lucky to join f
for the summarizing um we expect more please help us we need more transparency and we really need to reallocate this fundings thank you and I bought yes F now we got Sabrina I agree with all that was said
and I yes thank you we got nine years and we got three haven't receiv a respon so this resolution is passed so hopefully we going to we want to not update information detail information as soon
as possible because our kids our pent is urgent need information I also want I also want to State something it's not a city issue in regards to city council but they could step in just like
they wrote a letter with Senator ganis and Senator imanu it works all around everybody could sit chiping thank you so I just want to make a quick announcement in regards to the Feast of Santa Rosalia it's on August 15th
Thursday up on until August 25th it's the 18th Avenue feast anybody's welcome and thank you everything for everybody so of right now we're going to approve the June and July meetings the minutes for
St for com wait um they said members share their distat with the class side some I think you should just put some members like uh yeah I see I see yeah because it's going to seem like all of
us so some thank you elizab minutes change yes minutes are approved to [Music] change I can't sorry
what you're right e e minut appr changes the minutes are approved the changes now we have the July calendar minutes e e if there are no changes the minutes are
approved as is the minutes are approved with changes good evening everyone welcome to cc20 is August business meeting to close other can I have a motion to close the calendar meeting please
second that concludes the calendar meeting can I start the business