--------- Good evening. Welcome back to July CC20 business meeting. Recording Secretary Nalin, can you please take roll call attendance? Recording Secretary Nalin, can you please take roll call? Sorry. The President John
Ric here. So, first vice president, uh, Elizabeth Chen here, present. Uh, second vice president, uh, women chen here. Uh, treasure may fun here.
And I'm recording secretary and Kevin Z, Ky, Steven Money here, Tamara Stir here, Fabola, I'm here.
Arena Lewis here. Candy. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Attendance is taken. Tonight we have interpretation in Arabic, Mandarin, and Spanish. You should see these interpreters names in the participant list, and they will post their
information in the chat. They will now share directions for anyone who needs interpretation for the meeting. Could our Arabic interpreter please introduce yourself? forever. The letter
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Thank you so much to the Spanish interpreter. Thank you. As a reminder to speakers, please try to speak slower than usual to allow our interpreters to keep up. Now, we will share the agenda for tonight's business meeting. Kevin, can you please
share the agenda on the screen? Approval of June business meeting minutes. New business would be the budget discussion. the leazison list approval and the meeting dates approval. The first item on the business meeting agenda is approval of the minutes from
last month's meeting. Kevin, can you please share the minutes on the screen? Members, are there any changes to the minutes? Is there a motion for the minutes to be approved? Motion. Second.
Second. All in favor? I I The minutes are approved. The next item on the agenda will be the budget discussion. Everybody was issued a paper if they're here. Kevin, can you
just please share that with the members that are actually online? Yeah, there's some copies. Where is this? You got it. Sorry. John, do you want to explain that over? You can do it. Okay.
So Kevin's gonna explain the budget. Okay. So this year we have 25,000 same as last year. Um the first type chart here is the caref fair for me for to go home after these meetings. That's decreased from 750 to 700 because last
year I didn't use all of it. So I assume I think this year will be the same. Again, this is for me to go home and it's based on the count approval. So, it's up to we can always remove this line. It's up to you guys. The PC card, the major purchase we need to make this upcoming year is our
website license will expire. Um, they only take debit or credit and I'm speaking to our senior grants officers that oversees our expenditure with the PC card. Um, currently she's not sure if we'll be able to use this card to um, renew license, but she's in talks with
higher ups. She said she'll get back to me. But if it is approved, then we can use the PE card. And I think it's best we leave money there, $900. And then in the future, if we don't end up using it, we can always move it back around. Uh, parents involvement events, it's $3,000.
Um, I think last year we had three events and we had a little higher of a budget. I think it was around 4,800 and we ended up using I think almost all of it. We were we're a little short. Um so if we had if we plan to have the same amount of events I think last year we had two or three I think we had three uh
events last year. We may need to put more money again. The reimbursements were 18,000 because we have 12 members. Last year you can see here it's 7,921 went unclaimed and that was sent back to DO DOE. So that's money we never end up
using. Um, and then we have the president's reimbursement, which is 2,400. Last year was not it was not used. I think only about a thousand was used. Um, this is how I have it currently situated. I think the only money we
could really move around is the carefare title right here, chart nine. And then if anyone wants to give up reimbursement, um, what I noticed is that a lot of people don't submit their reimbursements, and if they do, they do it late. I do submit everything I've
been given. Um, so it just depends on how often members submit. But again, it's very it's uh I think a majority last year did not submit. So that's why we still have almost $8,000 that went unclaimed. So does anyone have any comments about what they Okay. the budget.
I do. So we have 10 members that are here, two are not here. We have to do something about this. Like Tamara said, um, we worked together almost four, it'll be it'll be four years for us together once we complete these two years. We said this two years ago. We
don't want to put we don't want to lose this money because it doesn't go to CC20. It goes to DOE. So once again, we're going to have this talk. So we really need to put our heads together and make sure that $7,921 does not go back to DOE. It stays within
CC20. We have 10 people on on board. We got to do this now. We could always change stuff around like Tamara said. So, um, with that being said, I'm giving up my year. I'm not going to take that money. So, you could put that 2,400 to
whatever you want to put it, but that's what I'm saying. I know Tamar wants to speak. So, tomorrow, please speak. Sorry, just sorry, just before we lose track of what he said. So, you're going to give up your 2400. Does everyone want to put it to the parent involvement events? That's where we do the event.
We could do that. So, can we I'm gonna do that and then the end we can vote. But for now, I'm going to put it there. In the end, we can agree. I'll agree for that. Let me just Can I ask a quick clarifying question because I was thinking the same thing. If it goes unclaimed, then but I guess what you guys are saying is you can't
after the fact. It goes unclaimed, but then we can't then it's like we wait for it to go unclaimed and then it goes back. We can't take the unclaimed money and then put it towards events. That's what the issue is, right? The the line unclaimed, it means that
the budget expired and they can't use it anymore. So, and June 26 was the last or June 20th was the last day for reimbursements and and not everybody submitted those were unclaimed that they're just not used. So, they just went back to So, unless people say upfront like John is doing now, I'm not going to claim it,
then we can't move it around. It's more that people aren't saying that, but then they're not claiming it and then it just goes back. That's the issue, right? Okay. I just want to make sure I'm understanding. Thank you. I have this. Sorry. Sam's gonna speak. Oh, you want to speak?
I think we need to have the communication. Sorry. Can you please do me? No, because it's on speaker. Sorry. Makes it complicated. Where do you want me to go? You can sit next to me. That'd be great. Thank you.
I do need to have a clear communication. Um, I just wonder why we almost we have almost $8,000 go back. Um, I remember that last year we had the same conversation and some of us donate
at least for me I said I don't want the reimbursement. We can use this money at le and I said at least for the six first months I would like to donate you know whatever we get every month 125 um dollars. I said let's use that.
No, we did say that. We had the same conversation. What I'm trying to say is that who keep a record of who is donating what. So you don't expect a form every month from from some of us and you keep record okay who is donating
what. I'm not I'm not clear if this $8,000 that we're talking about is because you were expecting our forms every month. But in reality, my in my head I'm like, okay, he's not
expecting any I'm not expecting any money in return. I just want to make sure that the money if we say that we donate a reimbursement we have a record a list of members who donated the money
and how much money is allocated to events. I believe on the minutes last year it was only John who wrote down that donated his reimbursement. You have to say another confirm before he can't just take it
home. No, I said I I I did say when she came I did say that I we had the this annual meeting every year. So last year we had the same meeting. We discuss, you know, we had this
conversation and we were going back and forth about the budget and and how sometimes we don't have enough money for ledge breakfast, we don't have money for, you know, for for other events for people's community. And I I was one of the members who said,
I would love to donate the money. And if you go back to the record, I only um put the reimbursement for two months because I said that I want to donate my $15. So I just want to make sure that
we have a list. I don't know who's going to keep the record. I don't know if it's you or someone else. Shouldn't that be the treasure? The treasurer. So the treasurer got to write down who saved how much money they want to donate. And that's the Right.
Main problem. You have to write down who's who's donating to confirm and confirm again. And then sometimes if some council member know that they're not taking the full amount, they should tell it right like say, "Oh, I I want to donate my
25." You don't have to give the full amount to the donation. You could just put a set aside because if you're not doing child care, you could just put it into the budget. So, just letting you guys know because you know if it's not because it's because people are not saying that they're not going to take
that money and that because he can't just take it out of the budget. You have to confirm and tell him. I know I do remember you saying that. I I did I could say that. I remember John also said I was right after John who said I you know if we have an issue
and we don't have enough funding for community events take my money. Okay. that was that even then we would still have around 6,000 still so we
don't worry because I have plan to use that money for good for student good for parent so don't need to worry I didn't discount the in so well kindly are you saying you're going to donate your yearly reimbursement yeah I'll give it all right so
so you're not going to set uh the reimbursement so you're going to Put all your money or half or what? All your money. All my money. All your money. Thanks. Are we adding it to parent involvement? That's Yeah. Is that right to do that? Cuz we could do another another thing.
Something different. We don't you know a leazison. What is it? The legislative the other breakfast. Yeah, we can do something else. But I think we should plan. That's one of the things we need to plan because I'm going to be honest with you. for the last couple years we have not done as
much as we need to for this community. But I have the I think we do the uh event but I think is some couple uh to uh re take a responsibility maybe one group three people one group three
people to host the event to how to print the event and then maybe uh take out to the meeting to uh to say okay I print to breakfast the event okay I'm take a take a responsibility right I have the three
and then to say, "Oh, how to run that? How what's the or who provide that? What's the how to step by step?" But that's what we did. That's what we did. So, Tamara and Fabella was in charge one time and then uh you were in charge again. And then it was taken away from me.
Yeah. By because I'm going be honest, a lot of there needs to be better communication. But but you say when when you when you do the event I we think we have to let everybody know how is the going and then
what is the what is the food provide uh is how how is the use the budget how many is the spend or something we have the before we have the announcement but it wasn't done like that and and I said that when when I the first year on
the CC when I did that I emailed you guys to let you what was going on and then I was told that I should only be communicating with certain people and you guys were kept out of loop. Okay. So John knows that's going to be different. John knows because he was in part of
that conversation. Okay. And I want to bring that up because for the last two years I was kept out of communication. A lot of stuff that many of you members knew that I did not know. And the only reason I knew was was because of John. So, so that needs to change.
So, we didn't know that. No. No. No. Because No, because the president knew everything. He was the one that kept his foot in everything and he decided for everybody and he decided what to share with you and what to share with you and what to share with you and it shouldn't be like because we're all
part of the council. John, can I ask a question? Yes. Like, I'm new to this. Like, I I remember like I sat in on a business meeting and I heard this and I heard the issue for users. So, I I wrote down to help me better understand.
Um, can the reimbursement be explained what's allowable listening to what's being said? So, if halfway through in December, because it's an annual budget, can I in December when I say all right, can any of us then
say, okay, redirect X amount to this parent involvement or wherever else it would have or does that have to be decided today? It would No. and so with this what is reimbursement what's allowed to be re um
and how do we submit and I guess the treasurer keeps a running track maybe if we we're given reminders there's x amount on an individual there's so it doesn't go to waste so to speak but like me myself I don't know
what's allowable I don't know what I'm allowed to do what I'm not allowed to do I'm not going to make a decision or an informed choice unless I know the nuances involved and the other question can it be redirected in December. So say like I see in December gee I got like more than half of it left so let me give
part of it all of it back. So can you explain to me how this works? So Tamara has a hand raised. So that was one of the issues too. I think we need to have somebody to really sit down with this council and explain exactly how that works because the way I
it was explained to me from another council member that's not part of this council in order for me to understand, right? And I think in order for us to figure out how to use this reimbursement money and if we're not going to use it to put it back into allocated to other
funds, then we need to understand what we could use it for. All right? Because like my kids are older, I don't need child care. You get what I'm saying? So then I'm not going to use that fund. So if I could use some of that and put it back to parent involvement because I'm not going to use it, then it would be
helpful to me to know what is considered child care. You know what I mean? So, Stephen, in regards to that, um, it's like internet. You could claim internet in order to get your money, right? You would claim internet or child care and
then you would fill out a form and then you would give it to Kevin and that's how you would be paid whatever $125. So, that's how you would get that money. It's child care, internet, and I think that's it, right Kevin? Yeah. Okay. I think they they said uh some like if you go to events for the CC you
could charge the transportation transition. So, so now as a liaison, if I travel to schools, you can do that on like say I'm off on a Wednesday and I want to go hit two schools to make a an inerson visit
and is is there a specific mile? Well, I got to start keeping a a mileage log like Yeah. Yes, you have. You have it. And I I guess it'll be from home to the school and back to school to back. Yeah. Okay. Or well, omniard receipt, I guess.
Something like that. something like that. Of course, you fill it up. So, transportation is allowed to official event type things that we're doing to fulfill our office. When you say internet, what does that mean? When you're using your laptop, you're
using your cell phone services for, you know, signing up for internet. Is it prorated? Like, I'm not Kevin. Just so if I got to know first, it's $25. Yeah, just if you guys would like we can set up a
meeting with SGO and then we can you can all discuss these questions receive because right now it's just you know based our experience but next month we can schedule we can reach out to join us and any questions you can answer. I I think so because I I just want to make
sure that the new members get all their questions answered because like Samara said at least for me it was very difficult when I start and try to navigate if it wasn't for John and Samara that I I was always texting and
emailing okay what's the next steps what should I do I think because we have new members we need to have a better communication and understanding of our role and you know like everything
and support. I know I don't know if you attend the orientation but there is an orientation for CDC members. If you miss that for any reason can we have an orientation before our very own first meeting so we
can get all our questions addressed. Well, they said that you could also look at the the videos online for the orientation. This is unfair for the rest of us that did attend the in person to constantly rehash it because I went, she
went, a lot of us went, but again, it it might work for for you. Um there's also some they also said there's some um things that we have to do online and we could also there's like we could go online and see the
orientation sessions that are video online. I just want to make sure that all of us have the tools. Yeah. I'm just you know to be as helpful as we can for for this council. Yeah. Like say we can we can uh make a
group talk like Sam or who who going to be go and meet up with the school or or like student you just post up and say everybody okay with that and then transation fee and whatever cause and
you could get the money back so so easy and the rest of the money like say last year um the money back go back to the whatever building it was like it was like We can use that money to help the kid and the parents. That's important. That's why we here.
Okay. That money we have used to buy school supplies or whatever event for the kid or for the parent help them. That that's why we here. Just want to say the important thing. And and in the orientation they said we could use that money to hire people to
uh classes for us or to families. Yeah. get back to school eventies in need, our immigrant families that that you know lost their job unfortunately for what's going on in this world. Yeah. That they don't have the backpacks, they
don't have book bags. So, stuff like that. With that being said, we have to do the legislative uh graphics, the what is it? The back what is we do the um the piece is it the PTA um title one parent um coordinator.
What is that called? breakfast, welcome back breakfast, a legislative breakfast. And then we could do an event for um book bags, like some kind of event where we could get, you know, rent out a place or school. And then we could actually get our, you know, our neighbors like our local businesses
to donate for like, you know, even even corporations like we we need to do better. You know how many people I see at these food pantries on a daily basis? Lines around the block. Yeah. So, are we good with three events? So
I think supposed to happen. I'm afraid what you say but we need okay all all we are we need like like small card a CC console and also we need the um the ID for CC remember and then we can go to
small business to help our community help our kid and the parent you know that would be easy but if you personally go there you don't show anything they they think you are we don't have a CDC card oh I don't have it you look down and get it.
The face representative would like to speak. It's easy makes more visit for us. The face representative would like to speak, please. I just wanted to let you know the the photo ID instructions and the letters
are going out. Um so you should be getting it soon. Um, so then you can take it and then get your CDC um, IDs made because remember if you served last term that term is over. Yeah, you're starting a new term. So you're going to
need your your new IDs for that as well. So and then you can just go like as this gentleman was saying, you can go to business but as a council, right? Um, you can also bring businesses. When I
was on the CDC, we we brought businesses to us as a as the CEC and we had we hosted an event on how to make businesses DOE vendor. So, you have businesses in your community that might
want to become a DOE vendor and you bring them in and you can get someone you can partner with um the DOE office and bring them that DOE office. They talk about how to become a small business. Face gives you the start building as well.
Like a quart of milk you expired. Yeah. Thank you so much for that. That's what you need, right? To get I have a question for that. So for the car, we can just we go we so we need to make a date appointment. So we walk to
the office. Sorry. So, within the um instructions, it tells you how to go online. It send you the send you a link. You go online, you set the appointment, and then you go down to 65 Court Street to go through
the process of taking your ID and so forth. So, it's it's all in the in an email that you should get shortly. You have to move the paper so you guys don't and every time you visit the school you
so we have the approved later first and then we have the first first thing we have the um approved later to we can use the to do the IP to make
out within the email you have out. No. Right. So, there's within the email that is going to be sent to you with the instructions on how to get your ID, there's a letter with your name and
district that you take down 65 Court Street to then go through the process of getting your ID. Oh, okay. All right. So, we're gonna go past this budget or we're going to just move stuff around and then
wait until next month. That's up to you can ask if anyone wants to make changes or go anybody want want to make changes to this budget or wait until next month and then we could work on it then. We're informed now. So you wanted to put down because you guarant you're saying
that you want to give up your the 2,400. Yeah. Put it just put that in the family. Um yeah, we could have Yeah, we have to vote on it, right? Yes. So then that's better. So, we already finished with him. So, we don't have to worry about recording secretary.
I wrote it. Okay. But does that is that the last change for now? Are you doing a change? Are you donating the donate? Okay. All right. So, you're confirm. Okay. Okay. Anyone else would like to put it out? I'm going to donate the first again first six months.
All right. Put this on record. Not expect treasurer the first six months. Yes. Me the whole amount and Ken the whole amount. can't meet a whole amount. And I have a question for the last last year and she mentioned she donated but
is that still just we can't it's already pass make sure. Yeah. Okay. So I have a question Kevin. Um when is the last day that we could final with the numbers and make sure that no money's left over? I know it was the
allowance wise but all that money was from the allowance almost $8,000. is in March. It's announced early February. March is the last official date. They announce they don't announce a date until late in the year, but we will have it I think at least a month before. But you can bring that to our attention. Yeah. And I can tell you guys it's the
last. So what happens? You can't move. You can move it. After March, you can before March you can. Yeah. Um so that's fine. So you got Fabiola for six months? Yes.
Me and Kenley. So Kevin, what's the amount that would be together between the US three? What amount would that be? That's 2650. 4650. So do we want to put that all in
the family? Everybody's okay with that? I'm going to put 4 4,600 in the family. You can is any money go. So we have to vote on this. Yeah. So their total would be so I have the question see any have the
general price so office price it didn't put the money in there so that you could you could do special events we could uh do something title called special events with that so you could air market for something else one one time just one one question may
what you say it's you don't have the money indeed did not put in the general. Yeah, we don't need anything. I I usually I would I would come to account be like, "Oh, we need pens. We need paper. We need ink." But right now, we're okay. So, there's no need to It's a whole whole year.
Yeah. I could come back later if I want to ink ank or something. Right now, I'm good on ink. I'm good on paper. I'm good on pens. So, I can come back and be like, "Hey, we need we need money for this." Oh, okay. So, you said the 900 is the pre the website is cost the 550, right?
Yeah. So the where's the how just in case just in case me for anything else it might be because I was quoted 550 but maybe we don't we use a different service now because right now we have something called Wix but just in case they we can't use that we go to another service so I just try to leave 900 there so we don't have to change it
again um but then after we pay it we can move I think we'll have maybe $3 400 we can move it around again okay so 700 is enough for your whole year to trans translation the car, right? Yes. Okay.
Um, what is it you're saying? Oh, wait. And also before I think in in some of our terms, we we had refreshment and and food for us in people that coming in person. So, we could do a lot for that because we're expecting more to
come in. So, it's, you know, like you're coming in after work after 6, then we should have refreshment. It used to be common for us to have like food for us. Agreed. But last year I think the principles were
enough money. Okay. But the thing about that is they're taking money out their budget to do that and I don't think they should. They need it for their schools. They shouldn't be paying for us to eat. We got a budget for that. Who going to order? Some of it was originally.
So we could do that to Thank you, Elizabeth. That's good. So why should they have to suffer? Yeah. So if that's the case, then would it be for the 12 months and then each month, let's just say $50 goes to
I think it'll be more more than that. So who who would who would make the call who would make the call each month? Like somebody's going to have to be in charge of that then. That's it's called a purchase order. Yeah. So I don't have to have to do just discuss. We would just I would just
bring up options for you guys and then um to make it easier instead of getting a new place every time. I mean, I'm just suggesting this, but if you guys want a new place every time, I could do it, but it'd be easy just to have one vendor so we can order different things. But one good place. But so how much how much money will go through that?
I've never done that. So I can just look get some quotes and then maybe so if because we didn't know how many person in how many how many people in person in each meeting how can we fix this one and also
this is why it's important to have clear communication and make sure we shape our relationships because remember if we try to order from the same place every time what about we the next meeting is in
Avenue B and Bay Parkway and the vendor is right here. They're going to charge you extra money for, you know, just to deliver. This would this is we'd set up a contract with them and then it' be a fixed price. Okay. And if there something comes up like
that, I will tell the council and then because I will make up the school sites. It's it's a dropped again suggestion. We'll vote on again uh for September to June and present that next month. Um, and then that'll have all the schools and all the meeting dates. If someone wants to change it, we can bring it up.
And then from there, I can also once I get that list finalized, I can choose the vendor that hopefully maybe there's one sensor. If not, I'll see, oh, this one's too far. And then I'll tell you guys, hey, this vendor is really far for two months in it could be like August. I'll be like, hey, in October, by the way, the vendor is really far, so we're going to have to switch and I suggest a
new place. So, it'll be in in advance. Okay. Yeah. Thank you. Does anybody else have anything else? So in regards to the money wise the food line. Did you So do you guys want to make the food line or is that we decided you want to make the food line?
I think we should. I think we should because it's sometimes like I don't like I have granola bars in my bag and I'm eating it through the meat. So we could do that. So how much would you guys like to allocate for food? Should it be like should it be like 25?
Yeah, we could do that. 2500. Okay. And then the rest of it should go into parent involvement. Parent engagement involvement. Yeah, that's fine. And then whatever we don't use, we can always move it. When is the last day around?
Sometime in March. The date is going to be announced closer to you guys. By then we should have an idea how much you spend. Can you just do me a favor? Would you happen to know the parent engagement from last year?
cuz we were almost short. I believe that people had to put in money to get waters and stuff. It's highlighted. Yeah, because I remember you you had got it. Yeah, remember you helped me in with you donate. Yeah, that's um 407. Yeah. Yeah.
So, it's highlighted here. We had 48.25. Okay. And we had $11 left. See? So, all right. And now this year we have over 5,000 already. Okay. So, yeah. So, that seems about right. Yeah, because we we only had $11 left.
So, but we could always change it around when we have a the um the meeting the breakfast whatever. After the cushion. Mhm. So every meeting or monthly meeting
uh is the native fre how how to say that we we going to pick 69 I think went to two or three times. Yes. I'm sorry I couldn't hear you. Last how do we choose last year we went to PS2 uh PS69 twice.
Okay. So how about how about it's different? So different location. I can tell you that we chose P69 last year just because Steve requested it. Anyone can request but since no one came up Steve suggested PS9 never asked us.
Yeah. So we're surprised why we hold like because it was it was it was adjusted but usually we do it every at school different schools every year. It it's the we have to pull out or we have to save before or how do we
you could be this meeting I mean uh August is scheduled for the district office just because it's most schools are closed and it's also inconvenient just to ask the principal agency has to open it just for us especially late into the evening um but for September to June I can make
up a draft again then share it and then if someone sees something maybe they have suggestion okay so I have to so if I say the I go to the my school like for example but when you're talking your school you're talking about your kids school or
the schools you represent no it's my relation school maybe I say what school is I just for example if I go say I okay next month I maybe I go to this location my relation school I pick
a one and then uh I have to talk to the principal no dentist No, no, no. I'm going to No, no, no. Talk talk to and then connect to the school to schedule it. Yeah. Usually I reach out and then I also have
to submit a permit. So if the school did not did not accept how we do we just use but usually the schools usually all schools accept it for the school. Rarely they say no. Usually it's maybe a right. Oh, okay.
So I have a daughter. Everybody's going to be together. What we're gonna do is there's going to be three events. Four people. We got 12 people. Four people. Four people and four people. That's what we're going to do. Everybody has their turn. We're going to do it
like that. So, four people going to be in charge of the legislative prefix. Four people's going to be in charge of the the welcome prefix. And four people be in charge of the book uh the book bag give back and whatever we do. That's what's going to happen. That's what I want to happen. I guess we could vote on
that. Um, so I think that would be best so everybody's involved where you know Y that works. That's good. I'm happy to work at the lunch breakfast.
That's definitely great. That's late April. Usually both dates can be decided either now or later. I suggest later just because we know none of us calendar. Yeah. Sometimes suggestion later if we come back we say hey this is date. I guess the one the one date we should decide because um we are deciding the
budget is the welcome back breakfast. Last year we did a little late. We did it in November because we finalized everything around September if you recall. So if you want to do it earlier like September, October then we can decide this October might be better because September everybody's coming back, right? We have no idea what's going to happen. So but do you want to start date or want
just come back in August? I think it should be October. that since we're here and we have I can set I can set a poll and then you would Yeah, do a poll like last time cuz you have time. Okay, I'll do that. But October would be the sufficient date. Yeah.
All right. Because it's still early enough, but it's later than September. So, the moneywise, is everything good? Anybody have any issues with the money how it's listed? Anybody want to offer anything?
All right. So, we can vote then like Kevin. Okay. Sorry. I'm sorry. Okay. Uh she want to say um so when we meeting in different location, different vacation and we want to order
food around the area. That way uh will be not cause a lot of money. Like say example I can speak I can go out and talk with the um restaurant or whatever and making food I can say I
come from CC council and we we are have meeting and we try to help the kid and parents so would you mind give me the best advice of course they were yes of course right that's easy to talk to the face representative would like to speak
so sorry finish ma'am can I just have your your name please for this part I can do that you know I can do that no sorry I think you're going to say the same thing you need a vend you need a vendor
yeah so it has to be vendor so um Kevin might have to look it up on uh famus to see what vendors are available that there are vendors in Brooklyn that can provide food the type of food you want you guys as a counselor have to figure that
But the vendor pen will locate a vendor. They'll let you know the listing and then you can get the menu and decide what you want to get. You can allocate two most of the time it's like 230 sometimes for like the meal for the entire counter if they come out um for
each month. If you do it early, you can put it in and then create the POS for it and you know start that process. But Kevin knows most of that. Yeah. Yeah. So, it's not you can't just go to any restaurant and be like, "Oh, we work with you." You have to do a vendor, but you could also they could apply for a vendor license, but that's a
whole different thing. If you really want a restaurant, right now there's an approved list of restaurants in Brooklyn. So, I have a question. Yes. So, the students, right, are they listed and receiving money? Because as of right
now, we don't have students on our consider reimbursement. Yeah. For reimbursement, are they listed? Right now it's not right now they're not included. Okay. So they're not included in the reimbursements. Yeah. But if you call I'll just make a point. You can separate it. But just so you know like last year so far we had
one member and it's like it was a long process. We got him through and he never attended a meeting. He came to one a one meeting. No one meeting cuz I remember meeting him at that one meeting. No he I was there online and then he and then he didn't show.
So yeah we And then he his reimbursement went unclaimed. So that's how we lost money too. So So maybe we should just wait until we have a student member and then we'll make a cop. But right now we might not even get one. So there's no I don't see. So I did reach out to all the high schools. I went I sent the email to them
to see if we get members. Um but like you said we could just do that when when the time comes if they do come just make it a different I think a different than us like put it student members instead of Yes. You know because we might mess up and we want we we don't want to lose that money neither because we lost money. I have a
question. Say any high school student. No, it's just a senior be in the a senior and in the district in this district in this district that's part of the student council. That's that's the last me and always talked about how we should
have a more open right but we it never happened. I feel like it it should be voted on who gets into the student council. Not not it just be taken away from us and not just one person instead of just having their
name on it that really appreciates it and will learn from it and benefit from it because that other student last year like he wasn't even part of D20. He went to our school in another district. He lived in D20 and then that didn't make any sense.
That's crazy. I just knew one day we had just showed up at the meeting. So that student wasn't supposed to get on him. If he wasn't uh if he doesn't go to school in district 20, he wasn't supposed to get on. Yeah, he was. Oh, I didn't even know that. Yeah, I looked it up. I was I'm working
on a resolution for this, but we'll talk about that. Okay. So, the 12 members that we have that's including supposedly a student person. No. No. So if that's the case, we would have to change it. If they do come in, we would just change it. But we want to label
them as student uh representatives getting money from the CC. That's what we would do. So I think they're supposed to get 125. So we have we we must have the student member in the by rights. It's a state law that you're
supposed to have two seniors that go to school in this district. It's not supposed to be that they live in this district. if that they go to school in this district. So even if they're going to a specialized high school which covers the whole city, they're basically shut out.
Like they if they're in Styverson, they got to go to that school district as opposed to Newri Fort Hamilton like they're in the neighborhood. So it makes sense. But if so they get penalized for going to a specialized high school that they don't get to come back to the district. Correct.
Neighborhood that they come from state law. Can I say no, they don't get penalized because they don't get penalized because then they could be on their CC from whatever district that No, the point I'm making is they're not going to a local high school. They're going to a specialized high school. That's why I say they're being
penalized. Now, it's their choice to go to a specialized high school, but they're left out of being able because we don't have the fortune to have a specialized high school here like like Brooklyn Tech is down on Decal. So that's where they have to, you know,
because it goes where they locate these specialized high schools as opposed to your neighborhood Fort Hamilton, New Utric. Um I like our schools. So I think our schools So yeah, they can serve absolutely away from their home. So um are we good
enough to go forward and just leave the money where it's at for now? For now. All right. So we're gonna vote on it. Uh Alina? Yep. I can hear you guys. I'm here. Anything you have? I just said yes. Let's vote. Okay. Thank you. So now Lynn, we're
going to take the vote in regards to the budget. Do you want me to do I can do it? Yes. Yes. Can I have the paper I gave you, please? He needs the paper back with the names. Just a note before we start the food budget. We're gonna I don't think we'll
have food for the August meeting because we need to vote on the on the first need to find and we got to vote on it. So I think starting September we'll have food. It's okay. That's fine. Okay. What if to approve the budget for 2026? Sorry. 2025 2026. Kevin Zo.
Oh, Sam. Yes. Approve. May. Yes. Uh Ken Lee. Yes. N approve. Lizard Chan.
Uh Alina Lewis approved. John Katon approved. W Ming Chen approved. Fabola Mandita Guapio approved. Saying that right? Approved. Am I saying your name right?
Fabola. Yes. And then Um, oh, Stephen M. Yeah. Yes. Yes. So, the budget approved to 11 yeses, one absent. Um,
two absent. Two absent. So, it's 10 yeses, two absent. 10 yeses. Okay. I'll submit this and then I'll we're good with the budget. I'm going to share the you actually you can call out the
next topic. All right. So the next topic is going to be liaison list approvals. Um you were sent an email in regards to the liaison list. You have it in front of you. If not we can provide it to you. Is everybody okay with the liaison list
that they received? No. No. as a district 75 representative. I was elected to represent our district 75 children. So in looking at the list, right, and I
do have a son in a district 75 school. I think there's five on the list. And it's been brought to my attention, well some of the other CEC's like they they'll do double duty school of inquiry
up on Avenue P. They got a District 75 presence. So I made a list of, you know, I went on the website. There's 10 locations.
In addition, there's that I know of two preks. When these five schools, what's the census in a in a general education school about uh 300 kids, 400 kids, sometimes a thousand? Okay. So, someone that has five schools,
let's just say they got 300 kids in each school, that's 1,500. How many district 75 kids are in that school? 50, 100, the census is a lot lower. So if there's 10 schools and let's say there's 150 that's uh well 1500 children
parents and also with the from early intervention prek and kindergarten on there there's some of the nuances involved in district 75 whips since my own personal experience
to help and if someone is uh let's just say Tamara is assigned to a school as the CEC rep to work in unison because what I've already spoken um the administrative assistance Kevin I
asked for the email addresses of the principles and the parent coordinator in order you know because I'm saying well what should I do well well let let me introduce myself who am I if there's any families that would like
assistance to provide my contact information which will be by email because how to work and navigate within the system. I have a little bit of experience um to do that
and most importantly to me I was elected to represent these children and their parents and that's my job to do. I don't like not to say undercut someone that may have that school because there's a heck of a lot other kids in that school itself. So, it's kind of like a help
there. And if I was if someone did contact me, it's to work in partnership because I got the list of who belongs to all the all the regular grammar schools, all the regular preks. So, as far as uh Jonas, does anyone have a problem? Yeah, because I should be
representing all our children in CEC20 as a district 75 rep to which I was elected and that's my job and responsibility. So that's just something as far as with that. Um Kevin was nice enough. He he took a a picture of the list and I
explained this to you. So that's just something that I'm bringing forth. So that just you know like so some of you like if you have let's just say the school of inquiry that's the CEC part right the regular general education but they got a PS370 presence in there. And
these are the children that I'm obligated to help serve and contact. Not with notwithstanding that the contact information I was given I I brought to his attention that doesn't have Regina's email, Regina
Shirkin for my son's school or the correct um Oh, got it. information. So that's just like the one and and we're going to get that. That's okay. I met Mr. Teranova today. He's uh up on 72nd Street, although his regular school is a different site. He's a
district 75 assistant principal. And actually something I can bring forth to you is um you know and just to explain like my perspective on what I look at what should be my
responsibility. Face to say something. I think what was originally is supposed to happen is like they they share schools. Pardon me. The D75 schools share schools with the general.
Correct. Right. And I think what is supposed to happen is like whoever has that school I think you and that person is supposed to get together and like service both parts of that school together as a way to you know
to collaborate. I under collaboration I agree. However, as some of you may not know, as a district 75 parent, I'm not allowed to vote in your CEC election because I have no other children other than my son in school. Now, I'm not saying I wouldn't want a partnership,
but the representative of that school, say it's you, that's your resp and I'm not going to walk away. something's to my attention of course to collaborate but as far as who ultimately who's responsible for the general education
portion would be the duly elected people because also how could I represent and I'm not I I'm not going to throw them under the bus but anything like you said collaborate like if I'm in a school and like something else comes to my attention that's not district 75 I'm
ain't my problem of course I'm going to get that information and pass it on because I have the list of who I got to talk to whether it's talk or Alina, Fabiola, Tamara or anybody here, John like 100%. But as far as like I come from a structure, a work environment,
duties and responsibilities, who does this, who does that? Because we are in a parallel universe. That's why we only see Dr. Pto here. Where's our district 75 represented from the DOE? You got to ask because every child deserves to be educated within their community. And that's another issue and hopefully that
can perhaps be properly addressed because accountability and I salute Dr. Predto because he explains and puts forth and makes himself available. Where is our district 75 presence at every meeting? Absent.
Then we need to invite him and make sure he attends. Oh, you know, and I promise you this is the last time I'm going to interject, but I just want to provide a little clarity around it, right? Especially D75. I also was a I I am a parent of two
D75 students. Um, and so how it works is just the like the structuring of how it works. You're going to you have a certain number of schools. I think 43 schools within your district. You guys will select some of you are familiar with
this already. What schools you guys are going to be working with. You select your schools as a D75 representative. you can work with those schools within your district that are co that are colllocated yeah
with the uh within another school right um and then you can work with the principal you can also work with the parent coordinator but before you enter into the building and start speaking with the principal or the parent
coordinator you should have your AA write a email and set up an appointment. It is not a space where you just walk in the building with your ID. You need to have your AA set up appointment so that the principal, the
parent coordinator are aware that you are coming to that building on this day and this time and and you know as you know you can also set up an agenda of what you would like to talk about. We are not as far as uh as elected officials, we are not in relation with
any uh prek that are not within the DOE building or early intervention centers that we are working with. If you as a DOE representative for the council would like to create a committee to support
those families within your entire district 20 community, you can connect with families and bring them together to talk about if they're in a prek center and if they start and think about transitioning into the general ed uh
population, those are conversations that you can start having with them like what school you're going to go to, What is the principle? And talk about really rebranding your your district or your school around how many parents will go to this school, how many parents will leave from prek to go to this elementary
school and and so forth. But you should really be talking to your AA about scheduling appointments um to go and visit school, but you should first have your ID. Well, that's the first thing I said to have the correct contact information. Absolutely. It's an introduction. Those
of you who may not be aware, my son's in PS36K. His parent coordinator is on Linda Boulevard. His PS3K, that's their main site. So, like many of you in general education, have a parent coordinator within your school.
My son's his physical location is elsewhere. Um, that's very true. What's important I believe as a parent of a child from district 75 when it comes to turning five right when you're in that prek there's
no transparency with our district 75 placement as parents of general education students you get to choose I think it was 10 or 12 schools like a dream sheet and what do you do you pick the ones that are close to you as a district 75 parent you wait for the
green envelope to come when the green envelope comes you find out where your son's been assigned. Nobody explains that if you refuse that placement, they put that one on hold. So, I did not immediately refuse because I figure if I refuse Brighton Beach, he goes to
Canasi. And it took um actually someone at his prek center says no. They put that site on hold. And as far as even where are these schools? Well, now I found one location where you can actually find them across the whole city. I found that after being now my
son's in the third grade. That information is not readily available for our district 75 parents. It's not 75 when they're in prek, but you pretty much have an idea when they're three, four years old. Are they going to be going to a district 75 or may they may
they be mainstreamed or perhaps be mainstreamed with some supports where they'll be in the general education school, but they may get PT, they may get speech or some other type of support. so they can work in the general education school. So that's why I think
it's important and once again with the proper contacts letting them know you know that the principal and whoever is there if you have a parent with questions or concerns and it was in the prek that had a teacher PT teacher she
put me on to a off-site swimming coach and my son swims now you know and and that's uh I get reimbursement thanks to OWPDD this is information I'm looking to bring forth to the district's 75 parents there's funds out there that they're
available, but a lot of them don't know. So, it's wholeheartedly, but but just like the lady said and Tamara said, it's working in coordination because we're a village and it takes the teamwork to make it work. And it's just that some of the knowledge I have,
perhaps some of you may have and some may not, but that was a big thing in the transition into the turning five program. Our district 75 parents and children have no choice. And my personal belief is that needs to be changed. They should be able to look at a list, click
on a button like a dream sheet. They may not get it, but it'll tell you 6:1, 8 to 1, 12 to one. These are the census of way and and by the time they're four or five years old as they're turning getting ready for kindergarten, most parents are going to have some knowledge
of that. but wholeheartedly working in teamwork with whoever's the primary at that school because we're a school within a school. Very few stand alone. Um I just want to be respectful of everyone's time. It's past 9. Can we move on?
Yes, it is with the list of schools. That's fine. So, do Lee have list approval? Okay. Nope. Oh, we also with the leasant you can't be have
you can't be a leazison school to your children's school. Just just to let you guys know. I think many of us know that for the newer members. If your kid is in a school, you can't keep their Leah song.
They have to be a different school. I see. Okay. Yeah. So more I guess So PS971 we didn't have principal there's insert can we
does this does this need an amendment or something now because the list I'm speaking on or how will that work close to the one you have PS748 school for double scholars
it's Okay. They're they're close. I think it's the location at the 12th Avenue. The new middle school. The new middle school where it used to be Nathan's. Nathan's remember Nathan's 86th Street, 7th Avenue across the street from the golf
course. It's a PS, right? PS47 on 86th Street where Nathan's was. Yeah. Yeah. It's What number is that one? That's 407, right? Yeah. MS 407.
So, US. Okay. Okay. So, I I'll have PS is 686 and PS is 686
and uh Nine will have MS 407. Okay. And then I was suggesting I think our face rep you can I was going to make suggestion to Steve with your D75 site. So we I think what we could do and you can correct me if I'm wrong is we could
have you be their lay on for just the D75 site and keep and we keep the rep what we have now 100%. I'm not sure. Yeah, I think that's what it's not a D75 site. It's a colllocated site within a
general education education building. I I don't hear it clearly. I'm hearing impaired. I don't hear what she's saying. I'm sorry. He can't He has a hearing issue. Yeah. So, I I want to So, this you're going to You guys are selecting the sites that
you're going to be going to as far as D75 is not a D75 site. You are going to a general ed site to liazison. If it's in a colllocated building, that can work too, but you're
not for the D75. But they got people assigned to these same schools. See what you're saying now. I'm not I'm not stand alone. Every single school I'm assigned to, it has a CDC representative. It's it's all double dipping. The schools I'm on, there's someone else assigned to because you're the D75 rep.
Huh? You're the D75 rep. That's why. Correct. But there's there's more than five D75 schools and I've been elected to represent district 75. Right. So at the end of the day, am I correct or am I incorrect? Have I been elected to
represent our district 75 children and parents in CC20? So is that what a I guess I don't understand this community. Let me see what she's saying about D75.
Maybe District 75 has a citywide council. District 75 city statewide council that you as a representative can communicate with them as well and they can tell you hey we have this site and this site that
you can go to the I don't understand what you're trying to do you understand the point I was making so okay let me stand up because I don't hear too good I got so a district 75 who is allowed to go
all district 75 parents that live in our in CEC. There's no point. Guys, we need to we need to do this real fast. Everybody needs to go home. So,
no, no, no, no, no, no. This is a public this is what my understanding of my response to. So John leaving so now this is five schools. These are the
sites. So these are, you know, these are the people and this I I know they're colllocated and but I've been elected by all the parents from that this area. So now I'm being told I can't represent it because
there's only one representative. You're not being told that. You're being told that you could co-chair like you could be a co-sponsor whatever a co-person where you would like say Tamara has that school and so do you, right? Samar's going to take care of the general education. You would step in if Tamara
has an issue. They say, "Oh, Tamara, there's something going on with D75." She would call you. Hold on a second. So, you're telling me it would be improper for me to reach out to that school and make myself available. No, even though Well, you're the D75 rep, right? You have five
leazison schools, right? We all have five or four liaison schools, right? But, but what's your census? What's the amount of of pupils you represented? That's that's a big case though. It doesn't matter. Some schools have 1,500 kids. Okay. So, and and that's the point I'm
making. So, on the paper, you could only have five liaison schools. You can Where does it So, okay. So, I guess I need to know where does it Okay. No, no, hear me out. Where does it say that? Because in essence, what I'm looking at is the disenfranchisement of people that
elect someone to a position. Because like I said, if I win a co shared school, I understand working a partnership, but in essence, I'm oh well, you're not going to network with this one or this one. The city district 75 is a whole different
a whole different scenario. Like I'm looking at it from the local aspect. This is district 20. And that's why I ran for district 20 because it's to represent the main point is that that our children that live here
deserve to be educated within their community and as far as reaching out to the parents in that school. So I guess I just can't get my head wrapped around well only if she has a problem. But then but what's but that's not what he said. No, I did not.
That's not what he said. as a D75 ref. These are D75 schools in general education. You can call them up on the phone. You can make an appointment. You can sit down with the D75 principal, the D75 parent coordinator, okay? Because you're the D75 rep. I'm not telling you that you can't go to the school.
Pardon me? I'm not telling you that you can't go to the school and deal with general. Before I went there, I definitely reach out first and talk to them. But you're fine. You have five DAs on schools. If you have 10 to 12 district 75 schools, you're the D75 rep. You're in charge of those schools. You call you
call them up. You do whatever you have to do for the D75 children. We're not telling you anything not to go to the school because it's Tamar's school or my school. It's it's your right to go there. You elected as a D75 rep. Okay. So, I thought that So, I
understand what you're saying. I guess I'm misunderstanding what the ladies are explaining. No, but that's what she explained. The whole point of it with what what she's saying is these sites are colllocated. I I get that. I know that the the majority of the schools are.
That's just the way the nature beast. I know. But the thing is like they have different reps. That's the whole point of having different. See, like if like John said, if I knew somebody in D75 that had an issue, I would notify you
that they had an issue. So you could do what you need, which I understand that. In the same conversely, if I went in there and something got to my attention of that's really a CAC I'm going to like take the information and make sure that like I reach out to you they get to whoever it may be and the schools these five that I
am there is a primary CDC rep on it see that's okay you follow what I'm saying like these five schools understand that but they they're collocc they will deal with the principal for the general ed and you will be deal
but that's these schools it doesn't matter who like it so for me to reach out to the school to PS370 up Kevin's going to reach out for all of us in order to you cannot reach it on your own you
can't do the outreach needs to make the initial attempt of communication attempt of communication then follow up with you and let's say I represent general education you know and on and
one of the schools and you the rep of 75 both the both of us can be included on the initial conversation present as you see C20 repor you have yours yes and both of us can work together we definitely
design as far as working together like do you have a copy would be the district 75. Okay. Principal. Thank you. And the district 75 parent coordinator, right? Because honestly,
we got to move forward. Yeah. I think we Everybody has to get their children postpone this. We can discuss. Yeah, we're going to postpone it. Do a special meeting to discuss the fill out.
Get the phone first. My thing is that it's the sum it's summer. A lot of people is going to be out and for us to have an extra day just moving forward. We want to make sure we have a question. Yeah, let's vote on it now. Yeah.
So, the leazison on list approval. Uh Kevin, can you please do it for the recording secretary? Guys, we're going to do the voting now. Can we can we take care of that after, please? It's going to be voted on. It's going to be voted on. Voted on.
So you give me the vote or the email. I will I will I will email you. So we're voting on approving the leison on list with the one change for Fabiola to have MS to have PS 686 PSI is 8686 and then Alin will have MS7.
That's the only change we have right now. Um Kevin Zo is not here I believe. Kevin, no. Dear Stern, approve. May Chen, yes.
Ken Lee, yes. Nalin, yes. Lizu Chen, yes. Alina Lewis, yes. John, yes. Wen Mingchan.
here. Uh, Fabola approval and then Stephen Mahoney abstain. We have eight yeses, one abstain, two abstain.
So the leazison on list is approved. All right. So the next in agenda is meeting and dates approval. It's very simple. Can everybody look at the meeting and dates and see if it's good for you? There's no holidays. There's nothing that has to be changed. So this is it. Let everybody see it.
There's no holidays. There's nothing to change. Yeah. So I have a question. I have this question. If I can That's fine. You just let us know. You either let me or Kevin know and it's fine. And you don't have to go. You
don't have to do it because I'm maybe in China. That's fine. You just have to let us know and then we're just going to excuse you. Okay. So, if anybody needs off, you're going to be excused. Everybody's good. Are we good to vote?
Everybody, are we good to vote? You're good to vote on these days. There's no holidays. There's nothing. I guess they're okay. It's the It's the second Wednesday, right? Yeah. Yeah. That's the way it's supposed to be. Yeah. Kevin, can we let you know? Yeah. Taking roll call votes. Approve
meeting dates. Uh Kevin's absent. Uh May Chen. Ken Lee. Yeah. Nin. Yes. Lizard Chan.
Elena Lewis. Uh John. Yes. One man Chin and Fabola Mandapia. Yes. And Stephen Mahoney. Yes.
Eight yeses with three absent. The meeting dates are approved. Okay. Are approved. Um, so I just want to let everybody know that um, CEC committees, if anybody want to join a CEC committee, please let me know. Anybody want to join a CC
committee or make their own, let me know. And then that's what we're going to do. We need to have people on board, CEC committees. So like district 75 special education, you would be the chair of the committee. Somebody else would be the co-chair and you guys work together in regards to like special ed
education or whatever it is or whatever you want to do with a a committee. So I'm just letting that you guys know on the business meeting that's what's going to happen because that's what we need. All right. This concludes our July CC20 business meeting. Is there a motion to adjourn? Motion. Is there a second?
All in favor? I the meeting is adjourned. Our next business meeting is date would be August. August 13th at the district office. at the district office. Thank you everyone for attending. Thank you interpreters. You are dismissed. Thank you everybody. Have a great night. Get home safe. Thank you Stephen. Thank you
everybody. Fabiola. Part: 2
So you can start it. All right. So we're going to start the calendar meeting. Good evening. Welcome to July CC20 calendar meeting. We here tonight at district 20's family center and thank you so much for hosting us.
Recording. Secretary Nalin, can you please take roll call attendance? Kevin, we have interpreters here. May here. Candy. Yeah, here.
Here. Elizabeth here. Alina Le I'm here. Here. Chen here. Here. Fab.
I'm here. So, Carrie Py here. So, Stephen M here. 11 members are present. 11 members are present. 11 members are present.
Okay. Tonight we have interpretation in Arabic, Mandarin and Spanish. You should see these interpreters names in the participant list and they will post their information in the chat. They will now share directions for anyone who
needs interpretation for the meeting. Could our Arabic interpreter please introduce yourself? Good afternoon. This announcement will be for the Arabic audience. for suffer.
Arabic announcement has been completed. Thank you very much. Thank you to the Arabic interpreter, Mr. Thank you, sir. Could our Mandarin interpreter please introduce yourself? Hello. The following message will be announced in Mandarin.
Commander announcement has been made. You may now proceed. Thank you so much, Mrs. Melanie. Mandarin interpreter. Could our Spanish interpreter please introduce yourself? Good afternoon. Uh, this is Dora, Spanish interpreter. Um,
stress. Spanish announcement has concluded. Thank you so much to the Spanish interpreter, Mrs. Doro. Thank you. As a reminder to speakers, please try to speak slower than usual to allow our interpreters to keep up. Now, we will share the agenda for
tonight's calendar meeting. Kevin, can you please share the agenda on the screen? I will now share instructions for our public speaking sessions. I would like to recognize several guests here with us tonight. Superintendent Dr.
David Pto, family support coordinator, Silia Jasinski, President Council President Josephine Kagosier, Assemblyman Lester Chang, that's present here, Hanan Dabjit, from the New York State
Assembly Minorities Leaders Office representing Assemblyman Tanus this evening. Laura Kaiser, the executive director William Chin, family leadership coordinator. If
there's anybody I missed, please uh identify yourself. It is now time for our first public speaking session. We will start with speakers who have signed up in person. If we have time, we'll take some speakers who have signed up online.
That's okay. But if you have signed up online and we do not get to you in this first session, you can speak in our second public speaking session later this evening. Speakers are limited to three minutes now.
Sorry, disregard Kevin. Who is our first inerson speaker? I believe it is only Mr. Mr. Chair, if you could come to this side. Thank you. Yeah, that's perfect. Well, thank you very much. Uh, congratulations to the uh
to the newly elected office uh for the next, I guess, two-year term. But great. Thank you very much. And summer. So, for the rest of the calendar year, I'll be grounded in Brooklyn instead of going up to Albany. And uh uh so I'll be attending more more meetings more often
for for rest of the calendar year. Uh three things I like making an announcement. First, I just created and just started a what we call I call a smile program smile l is my small media um industrial
enterprise uh program. just basically uh letting small businesses we will try to help develop their social media content to help aid businesses for free. That's the first thing. We just started and made a press conference today. Second, very shortly, probably next week, uh
while I have uh manpower, I'll be introducing for six to eight weeks a free in rudimentary Chinese program uh details to VA and as well as Spanish program for all uh for all ages for
free. So those are two announcements on on that and I look forward to continuing meeting for the rest of the year since I don't have to go to Albany. Thank you very much for the time. Thank you. Thank you so much. That is it for in person and there's no
one I believe. No one's online. Now it's time for our superintendent, Dr. David Pto, to make this report. Dr. RTO, the floor is yours. Thank you, John. And I want to say uh
congratulations to the entire council uh on your new term. Uh, and I want to congratulate the executive board for being elected. I look forward to working with you all over the next two years in supporting our schools here in district
20. Um, I just wanted to be brief in my uh report, but I wanted to circle back to the recommendations that uh the previous council had made uh to
me uh as superintendent uh in the upcoming year. And I wanted to just uh share those with the council uh and uh definitely hear any feedback or uh new ideas from possibly uh new council members uh who may have
additional uh priorities or or needs. and um and also from uh to confirm with the the uh council members who have uh carried over from the previous council that uh the priorities that were
communicated uh to me uh are things that I am folding into uh my work uh specifically with CC20 and and definitely as they all relate to the schools in district 20. Uh so the first
priority that was uh given to me was uh for an updated vision and mission statement uh that was unique uh to district 20 and uh I was in complete agreement and I wanted to let the council know that I'm currently in
process of developing uh a draft vision and mission statement with the principles in the district and uh my next step after having finalized my work with the principles on drafting this mission and vision statement uh unique
to the district will be to engage uh the CEC uh the president's council uh title one DPAC and the district leadership team uh for uh engagement feedback uh prior to finalizing it. So uh I've
already begun work on that and uh felt like it was a a really uh relevant uh recommendation and will uh and and you know look forward to to to engaging you directly in the the you know the the
steps for finalizing and developing the vision and mission statement. Um the second uh priority or request from the council was to uh try to be less technical and less formal uh in
explanations of uh of things in my reports and this has been feedback that I have heard and I I I completely understand and I'm going to you know continue to uh try to make uh make the
information as accessible as possible. uh to all to all uh council members definitely and to the entire community. Uh and so that's something that I definitely heard. Uh there has been uh an ongoing concern with school bullying
in the district. Bullying is an issue that we have talked about a lot over the last two years and we have taken many actions on school bullying in the district and we will continue to do so. Uh so this uh bullying will be a topic that uh has been made a priority in
district 20 at the district level uh and also uh at you know in schools. So this is something that I have already, you know, communicated with principles. And just this past year, the latest work that we did on bullying was engage all
of our middle schools in uh training uh the assistant principles uh and deans in training on the development of uh school culture plans that are directly in response uh to bullying and aimed at
reducing bullying. So I will have more to report on that work over the course uh of this upcoming year. Uh but that is definitely uh going to continue to be a priority in the district. Uh the next
request uh or recommendation was uh increases in uh student performance in academic proficiency in how well students are reading, writing, and doing math and all of the other academic
subjects. So I I am very committed to this. Uh this is my primary uh you know kind of area and we will I will continue to share updates with the council uh on how students are doing in the district.
Uh something I regularly do is share student data on how students are progressing in reading and math. And something that uh I do with uh school principles is expect that this same type of information is shared with parents uh
at the school. And in this upcoming year, we will have an increased priority on engaging families in how their children are doing in school and what they can do uh to help at home, but also
get regular ongoing updates on how their children are doing. uh this is for all children but this is especially for children who are struggling to learn to read uh and struggling to learn how to do math. Uh so that is uh it's a city priority uh
this year and it's also obviously a a district priority. So this will be folded into our district plans as well as every school's uh C. Uh the next one is around specifically increasing parent engagement and
supporting non-English-speaking families. Uh and uh and I heard uh Tamara, you know, you know, mention that as a priority and that has been a priority for, you know, since I've been superintendent, but clearly we have not yet hit the mark where all families feel
like they are really engaged and are able to uh access information from the school. uh in a language that they understand. Uh so that is a a a a very big point of emphasis in this upcoming year uh with all schools in district 20
as well as from the district office. Uh this is something that we will we will get uh we will get better at it. Uh obviously we we have done some work here but not good enough. So this will this will get better. Uh and finally, there
has been, you know, uh there's been specific requests for increases in school leadership team visibility, information sharing, uh access to public meetings, and this is uh another uh very
big point of emphasis uh in the district uh this year. Uh it has been uh it will be included in uh school CS. Uh it will be a priority of mine and at the district level. Uh so that is something that uh I absolutely agree with and uh
we're going to do better on that as well. So uh those are the those were the highlevel uh you know recommendations for the work that uh the council looked for in the upcoming uh year from district 20. And
those are uh those are going to be action pieces that I will continue to share updates with uh with the council in the upcoming year. Um the f the final piece that I wanted to just share on because I know it is very timely is the
change in state law regarding cell phones. Uh recently this year, Governor Kathy Hokll and the state legislature passed a law that will require all schools in New York State, including in
District 20, to create policies that uh ban cell phone use that are connected to the internet from bell to bell. Uh so what is happening right now uh is after
the state passed the law, New York City public schools uh must adjust the chancellor's regulation uh that exists that governs how schools treat cell phones. This is chancellor's regulation A413.
And I've asked uh Kevin to forward uh the public notice uh for the upcoming PEP meeting. Uh and this includes the public notice about the process for how New York City public schools changes the
policy to be in compliance with this law. Uh the meeting is on July 23rd. Uh and in the meeting notice, it includes the information that the public has been uh made uh access to uh for this
upcoming change. Once the uh change is finalized, schools, all schools in the city will be required to uh adjust their policies and their practices to ensure that students do not have access to
personal cell phones connected to the internet uh during the school day from bell to bell. It also has many other provisions specifically uh around um supporting parents and also exceptions
uh to this. So for example uh what parents can expect is for every school to have a very clear uh policy and practice for how in an emergency they can reach their children. I know that that is a very uh that has been a a
concern that has been raised uh by uh families uh in district 20 in conversations that we have had uh in CEC meetings uh in the past year. Uh we can also expect that parents will not have
to pay for any storage uh solutions that schools develop as part of their school-based policies. there will be no cost uh connected to this at all for parents. Uh there are there will be many more things
but those were two uh those were two big concerns that were that were brought to my attention regarding uh the cell phone ban. uh and there will be more information to share obviously uh in August once the chancellor's regulation is changed but every single family in
district 20 uh can expect that once their school has set the policy and practice for how this law will be implemented in uh your school. Uh you will be communicated with by the school
principal uh and the parent coordinator. Um, one thing that I can definitely say is it will look different in every school. The the law does not require schools to use one specific method
for uh for for doing this for complying with the law. So there are different ways in which uh schools will be able to uh implement this law. Uh, and so there are definitely going to be more to come
on this, but I'm I'm going to stop there, but I really want to uh again congratulate the entire council. I'm really looking forward to working with you all over the next two years. Uh, and I'm definitely happy to take uh any questions uh that I can that I can
answer from council members at this time. Um, thank you for making that clear. Um, as a parent who, you know, have children that that there've been incidents that happened in school where I haven't heard about the
incident until later in the night. You know, I end up finding about the incident from my child because my child had their cell phone or from one of our elected officials because that was the only way we were able to know what was going on because school did not notify
us till like said 6 7:00 at night. Like I understand when incidents like that happen. So like what is the alternative? Okay. For if there is an incident at school, an active incident at school and all the kids cell phones are put away.
We assuming the teacher has their stuff. Now if something happens to the teacher, what is the next steps? Because honestly the the there's been an increase in school shootings nationwide and that is a concern from especially for me because
you know the in one of my kids school somebody ended with a gun. So that is a concern for me and it's always going to be a concern for me. So I understand the ban the the banning of the phones doing bell to belt but sometimes you can't be 100% prepared when something out of the
ordinary happens. And I and I think, you know, as a parent that has been through that, you take my kid being prevented from at least having the cell phone on them or being locked away. It's it's an issue for me because we we never know
what could happen. That that that's just my concern. I, you know, I would like to hear um you know, anything about that. My next concern is I do know schools in our community that are charging parents
a fee for if their child loses the yonder pouch. Now, I'm glad that you said that they should, you know, it should be free, but like there and it's a title one school and a lot of these kids and these families are already below the poverty line. So to charge them for something that they didn't ask
for that the school implemented like how would they you know you know that this fee is going to be like and the parents are going to know that they don't have to pay this. So Tamara, thanks so much for those the the concerns and and I I hear you loud
and clear on the the concern about um you know something an emergency happens at school, the worst case scenario and I and I am used to getting in contact with my child because they have their cell phone at school and I can get assurances that they're safe. I I hear you loud and
clear and you know and and frankly not just superintendent but as a parent of two kids in New York City public schools. Uh I have one in high school and uh one who just graduated middle school and is going into high school. Uh I've experienced this firsthand. So I I
totally understand. Um, one thing that I can say and I hope that families in uh the district can uh confirm this over the last uh you know year we were you know school for exactly this reason uh
all schools and you know and and the district were charged with ensuring that the school method of communication whether it's gamma or class dojo or uh whatever the method of communication is
that schools are communicating um in real time with families when these types of uh incidents occur. Uh whenever we have emergencies, an evacuation,
um a a shelter in any type of uh of what we call um you know general response protocols when we when we engage uh safety procedures. uh we are expecting our schools to communicate with families
notifying them that uh these things are happening so that one you're not surprised and two you can get confirmation uh from you know based off of different sources I know that a lot of people utilize a lot of different methods for
getting information citizen app and you know other other um means so uh we have been uh expecting schools to use their uh you know messaging systems to communicate with families uh
in real time to update them on uh when we initiate an emergency response whether we have to do a shelter in or uh do a school a building evacuation and then a follow-up communication when that
uh situation has been resolved. So, uh, it's not as, and I hear you, like it's not as, uh, immediately satisfying as being able to text your child or being able to call them and get assurances over the phone that they're okay. Um,
but it will, it is something that we have been uh, we've been successful in uh, communicating with families over the last this over this past year. It was after September when we started when the chancellor uh communicated with us that
this was an expectation uh citywide. So we've taken it very seriously and the principles have put in place uh systems to ensure that they can send communication out to families uh when an emergency has h you know when an
emergency is happening and when it's done. Um, as far as the other concern with uh the school a child, a family being charged for a yonder pouch that was missing and I'm assuming paying to
have it replaced. I'll look into that. We can talk afterwards about uh, you know, what school it was. Um, but I will definitely look into that policy and just look at what the school has done to communicate what the structure is for what happens when you lose one. Uh so we
can talk more about that and that's something I can definitely take into consideration and take that back to uh the principles as well as um central in terms of how we will you know treat this type of case where uh it's a a lost item
that was issued. I'm assuming that the child didn't have to pay for the yonder pouch when it was issued. They're having to pay for the replacement. So we'll we'll definitely look into that. I I also want you have to rent it like we can't buy it.
I'm sorry, Elizabeth. Say that again. They said that. Okay. Sorry. Like the yonder pouch is going to cost our district a lot of money because then we don't buy it, we rent it, I heard.
And wouldn't that take money away from uh resources that our children could be using for other things? And also like when an emergency happens in real time like how are they going to like reach us? Because there has been incidents where I've been in school
where things happen just like Tamara said and I only got information through my kid texting me on his phone cuz when incidents happen it'll be under five minutes and I don't think the school is capable of reaching out to all the
parents in real time. Okay. Yeah. I agree. You know I agree with you on the second piece. you know, it's not going to be it's not going to be the same as being able to text your child or call your child in the moment. Uh it's
going to be a little bit different than that. You know, it's going to be a little bit slower than that. Uh but it is something that all schools have to do currently. Um and it's something that will be able to allow this policy to be
in place and also to ensure that frankly that uh children are safe. the emergency response protocols when we have evacuations, when we execute shelterins, uh when we have to do a soft lockdown in a school, uh students need to be aware.
They need to be aware of their surroundings. They need to be available uh to be able to take direction. Uh they need to be it needs to be quiet, especially in some cases where we need uh them to be safe. You know, god forbid these types of things happen. And the
what we don't want is them on their phones texting or talking. So just from a safety standpoint, uh this is something that you know I hear you loud and clear. You know, it makes us feel better being able to connect with our children. Absolutely. uh from the school standpoint, make
being able to uh execute the the the protocol, making sure that children are able to be safely evacuated, uh that they're able to be safely sheltered in, uh is is really important. Um, one thing that we're definitely going to be doing
this year, uh, is, and we've been doing this over the last couple of years, is ensuring that that meth that method of communication that the school has, whether it's gamma, uh, we really urging everyone to use gamma because it it
automatically will translate uh, written commun like written messages, emails, uh, texts for families in their uh, that in their um, preferred language, those messages get sent can be sent very
quickly. And uh we've been able to leverage use that system much better over this last year. Uh and you know that's something that uh schools can expect. They can expect I mean sorry that's something that parents can
expect. they can expect that uh while they're not going to be able to call their children in the classroom, they will they can expect to get a text or an email from their school notifying them that um an emergency response has been initiated and they can also expect to
know when that response is done. And something else that is going to be included in school policies and uh is the a dedicated number in the school that when a parent needs to contact
their child, needs to pass information on, needs like needs to get in contact that that that number exists and that there's somebody who answers the phone uh and is able to uh either in an emergency get your child or uh pass a
message on um I think that this this is something that is you know with the with the introduction of cell phones over the past 10 years and the just increase in people having cell phones this is
something just calling the school on the school line. This is something that's been kind of lost a little bit but is something that is still in place. Schools have phones. They have hard lines that uh adults answer and are able
to talk with parents and let them know uh you know pass information like this is a like this is something that we have in place but I understand you know that over the past several years with cell phones coming on this has been something that's been kind of lost a little bit. Uh so that practice is going to be
something that's going to have to come back uh in our schools and it's going to have to be reliable. you know, it's gonna that is going to be something that you as a parent uh and the principles and me as a superintendent, I can I can know that if
a parent calls the school that they're going to be able to get somebody on the phone. Uh and that's and that's something that I I'm going to, you know, I'll be the first one to admit that that's not something that people are going to be used to and may not have been their experience over the past couple of years. Uh so that's something
else that's going to be a priority of mine in every district 20 school policy that there is a phone number that uh a parent can call and uh and get and get somebody to be able to uh to speak to
somebody when they need to uh especially in the context of uh contacting your child but in any context. I mean you should be able to call the school and and speak to somebody. Um, so Elizabeth, I want to make sure the the the other piece that you were talking
about was renting the yonder pouches and just like the cost that this is going to be on schools. Got you. So yonder is one option for uh for instituting the cell phone band. Uh folks like yonder pouches
because children uh can keep their phone on them during the school day. Uh, for those of you who don't know what a yonder pouch is, it's a it's a little plastic bag that seals with a magnet. So, and cell phones can't uh cell phone
signals can't uh go through the pouch and and kids can't get to the phone during the day because it's sealed with a magnet. Um, they are expensive. Uh, they are they have been effective uh in schools to
implement this policy. We have a couple of schools in district 20 who use yonder pouches. Um and it has been effective but they are expensive. Uh and this is a decision that uh schools make you know all the time. Uh you know when laws change and required to uh be in
compliance with a policy or implement something schools have funds and they use to to do these things. However not every school h yonder is not a requirement. Schools do not have to use yonder pouches uh to do this. There are
other methods for uh collecting cell phones or for making sure that phone that children do not have access to their phones during the day. Uh and that's the key part of the law that there that will be reflected in the chances regulation is that children do
not have access to their phone that is connected to the internet during the school day. Uh it does not have to happen with a yonder pouch. Uh but some schools will opt to use pouches or some similar type of thing. But uh not every school will use a yonder pouch. I I I
don't think that every single I I don't think that a 100% of district 20 schools will use yonder pouches. Uh I believe had a hand up. What is it? You choose who speaks next can speak. Thank you Kevin and John. I think just
I'll try to be quick because I know this is going to be a longer conversation. Um and we some of us were talking to Dr. Pa the other day. I think the one thing I would say is to make sure we're not it is not narrowly focused on just thinking about what happens in an emergency but that as a district and we need to do
this when we're talking to parents like revisit why we're bigger picture why we're doing this in the first place. And I think it's really important that we start talking about like how harmful the phones are in terms of what our kids
being on them all the time is doing to them and what that means when they're on them at school and what that means. You know, people are concerned about bullying and the extent to which, you know, using social media is tied to bullying and anxiety and depression and all that stuff. So, I would just caution
us against thinking about just one very narrow, oh, what if something happens and make sure that we're considering the bigger picture? And I really think that um in our conversations with parents, it's going to be important to come back to why what what's the point of even having this ban in the first place? Why
are we doing it? And um you know, some people frame the cell phone use as like a public health emergency for teenagers. So, like that's serious too. Um, so it is context and I do think of course Tamar you put this in the chat like yes
the the extent to which this works is going to be on how the policy plays out and that's why I do think it's going to be important for us on the council to engage parents in this conversation. Why are we doing this? What is the point of it? Um because the more that you have
all parents on board, the more successful it's going to be. So I'm just going to put that out there. Thank you. But I I think we can do a really good job and make it meaningful in our district if we do it right. I Lena, I I absolutely agree with you. I
think that the why behind this is going to be incredibly important uh to uh having this be successful across the whole district. And uh and it's impossible to, you know, it's impossible to uh you know, to ignore the the that kind of immediate fear with the safety,
but you're 100% correct. And you know, one thing that has been really encouraging in the district with the couple of schools that have instituted um policies already this year, they have seen significant significant decreases with incidents that are connected to
bullying and other uh things that you know originate on the phone. Uh you know, and it's been re and they've been really encouraged. Uh and I know that you know that's something that we can definitely from the district level you know kind of bring to the council in terms of like how this is landing uh in
in schools for kids. Uh and I'm really happy to partner with like kind of like you know getting access to the information uh about the impact of you know cell phones on kids and how this can ultimately serve you know a really
ultimately like a really powerful uh a really powerful thing for for them in school. So, I appreciate you sharing that. Okay, Steve, you're ready to speak. Good evening. Um, that was um the one thought that got
shared. The bullying, the fighting, the attention span. Why was this law put in place? How did I survive grammar school without a cell phone? I don't know. Um, but one thing I noticed when you were speaking, you said the word
internet, phones connected to the internet. Well, I happen to work in Burough Park and I'm a proud member of AARP. In Burough Park, there's something called the kosher phone. There is no internet connection. It's the old school cell phone where you actually talk to
somebody um if there's an emergency. I don't know if it's Jitterbug, Ladybug, but an AARP. And they got big numbers on them for people like me. And it's only a phone. It's a communication device where to
make a call. Um, and as Lena had said also, step back and look at the big picture. Why was this policy put in place? Both of you alluded to the bullying. That's the like that's the first thing I wrote down here. Social media. This is what our children
do. All right. This is their genre. This is how they communicate. But the tie-in with bullying and I'm very very delighted to hear you said that there was less incidents. And that's I think all of our concerns at the meetings I've
been going to since just about the very first one two years ago. Bullying. Bullying. And as parents, this is something that should be our main concern. Why are our children in school? Now to the safety aspect.
Emergency response plan. That is up to our administrators and our teachers, our school safety to have in place an effective plan to the best of their ability. because I can be at work or I can be at home, but the the first
responders that need to get there, they're the ones we need to get there. Before that, we need a plan in place in our schools to effectively keep our kids as safe as possible, and that's really the safety aspect of it. A second point
with those bags I wrote down disparit because the more affluent areas perhaps they're going to get donations and then what happens if you're not in such an affluent area and so that's just something where I'm not happy that I
hear the law allows it to be subjective so our children are not being treated all the same because I've seen a little bit that I that schools do fundraises. So, if you're in a more affluent area that more
funds may get generated for donations for that thing. And if you're not, if you're below the poverty line, so that's just something I think on a higher level than just our own CDC perhaps city or
statewide that really maybe should be revisited because if you leave it up, well, this one has it that and that one I don't know, they put it in a shoe box um so to speak. But that's I think as far as like all of our children and the resources
they're afforded should be the same. It shouldn't be, well, over here you get a little better. Over here, you know, you got the chuck chop today. And those are just a couple of things that I wrote in response, you know, a couple of thoughts. But, um, I'm sure you have an
emergency response plan, and I hope your teachers and staff practice it, maybe even without the kids so they don't get so terrified, but go over that drill and then maybe the teachers bring it to the kids to kind of explain in an appropriate manner for all age levels.
So, not they're not feeling stressed out about going to school, but as parents, we got to remember we see our kids. Just look outside the schools when they're going home. They're not looking at for the cars crossing the street. Their heads buried in a cell phone. And uh I thank you for your time.
No, I thank you for sharing those uh those pieces. You know, one thing that came to mind when you were speaking was uh the safety committee at the school, which the PTA president does uh does sit on, and also the annual safety town hall
that schools are required to hold. Um these are opportunities for schools and opportunities for families to hear uh directly from the school on the plans that you're speaking about uh directly related to school safety. Uh so that that's something that I'm going to make
sure is emphasized kind of connecting back to the requests from the council about just increased information sharing uh increased parent engagement and making sure that um all of our families are you know getting directly connected
to information uh from the school. you know, the safety town hall is one that this topic uh I think would be very relevant at at every school uh to be able to get, you know, specific information about how this is going to happen, you know, at your child's
school. Uh and that happens in the fall. Uh the other thing that I just want to share is, you know, the concern about resources and disparities. um the the I I I hear you and I I can understand that, you know, like hearing this is a
big change and that in a big change, you know, one of the few options that's been put out there is something that uh is pricey individual wise, these pouches, they do cost they do cost money. I I just want to you know I want I want you to know and I want the council to know
and I and I know that you know this you know we at the district and our principles we are really dedicated to your kids and we want to make sure that the system that we put in place is the one that is going to keep them the safest that's going to get them to learn
the best. uh and you know we want to make sure that uh you know principles engaging with their school leadership teams you know make sure that uh school funds are allocated in a way that meet the goals of the school and you know this year uh this is going to be one big
goal that uh all schools are going to be tackling together in a new way. Uh so I I'm going to expect that schools are definitely going to be thinking about their budgets when they're making decisions about how they're going to do this at the school level. Uh and they're also going to be thinking very uh very
hard on how are they engaging families to make sure that the decisions that they're making are very clear to families that they understand why they did what they did uh and how the policy will uh work at your school because again and district 20 is a big district
but everybody talks. So you know and I have you know many families have you know one child at one school one child at another school uh and everybody right everybody talks so you know it's going to be very important for uh and a challenge for all of us that you know
one school will have one system and another school will have a different system and the but the systems are meant to make sure that we're in compliance with the law and that's the that's kind like the headline. Uh so no, but thank
you for sharing all that and it's definitely giving me some, you know, some things to make sure that parents are made aware of uh and that the principles know uh that families are really looking for and the safety town hall and the safety committee at the school level are two places where
parents uh can get this type of information, you know, early in the year. Uh you know, especially the safety town hall for all families. Uh so thank you for that. Um, just to readress it. So, if they have a phone that's not connected to the internet, like just a a
phone, you have cell phones that don't have internet connection, will they be allowed to keep a possession of that to allay the parents concerns? Does that comply with the law? If the phone can make a call, it's connected to a cellular network, which
is the internet. So yeah, if you can make a call that's not gonna that's not going to work. That's not going to comply with the law. Okay. And those phones I Steve I think and those phone the phones you're talking about that don't have like an internet
brow they that don't have like a a you know kind of like a big touchcreen uh but they're uh still connected to the but you can make a call. You can also text on those phones. um you can you can't necessarily access uh you know
Snapchat or Instagram very easily but you know they are they they they are still connected to the internet ap's phone you can only make a straight up phone call there's no texting on it they have a big they have big buttons on it and that's it all you can do is make
a straight up phone call you can't even you can't even text can't even text you gota you got to show me all You got to show me. Okay. But but like but I don't have one but I'll show you in the end.
I got to listen and and you know in the in the vein of exceptions and making sure that all these like nuances and details kind of like what you you're these examples that you're sharing. These are things that uh I think were
one of the big reasons why statewide uh schools are developing school-based policies to kind of be able to account for some of these uh types of things. But, you know, definitely we're going to be talking a lot about this and, you know, we'll want to make sure that everybody's like 100% crystal clear and
I think Alina, you know, is really spot on in kind of also making sure that, you know, we're that the council and parents and we as schools are not are not just talking about how we're going to implement the uh law, but also why like
what, you know, why is it here and why is it important? because I I because I totally agree. It it's a um you know it's a it's a huge issue in our schools as we all know. Okay. And anybody else want to ask a question in regards?
I I'm going to say something. So I do understand um education department uh a part uh passed the policy for black out of student home but uh we need to think how we make the parent acceptable and
comfortable to to you know accept this policy and how we going to have result have how we going to be make them comfortable. I think we need to get the
sign for for in front of school. We are against bullying and also we're gonna have a special agent for emergency contact like a student they feel like dangerous in that time during that time and we have a special
agent to to you know help them right away. And third one we needed to clear to talk everybody what is the
consequence for bullying. You have to made up. You can't just keep it saying you can't just hire the number. What is bullying happen in a school? Because all the bulling thing happen the school
always saying oh okay this is a kid fight each other and no consequence and they don't know you know they don't care that they just fight each other. So we need really clear policy for school. If you really
fight, if you really are bullying other student and we have special agent to counter the parent and also if something need this special agent need to take the kid back to home in in doing that time
it's not just like that this happen just call the parent you know it's not it's we can't get final result for make parent comfortable and safety uh for putting the kid to school
especially for high school student and middle school. This kind of kid is kind like a lot of you know troublemaker. So I want you be attention and also you can
you know conversation with the all the school principal how you going to fix it you know like because this is It's been like forever and it's no clear policy for consequence.
That's all I can say. Okay, that's it. So, I have a question. So in regards to the revised uh A4113, it states here when necessary to monitor medical condition and to notify a user of necessary action to be taken on a
case-toase basis. So with somebody that has diabetes and they use their phone to check their glucose monitor on their arm, so would they be able to have that cell phone on them at all times? because sometimes your sugar could drop at any
given moment and that needs to be taken care of. So, it's a case- by case basis. It doesn't explain anything else to me or anybody else. So, would they be able to have that monitor and their cell phone at the same time at
all times to check their sugar? I believe that's one of the specific uh reasons for the exceptions is uh is di like are diabetic students who utilize uh phones to monitor their blood sugar.
Uh again that this is a draft policy. It doesn't get put into place until the PEP votes on it. But yes, that's something that definitely has been uh thought of and uh is likely to be one of those exceptions.
Okay. And then also in the comments, there's two parents that spoke out. They said, "My daughter went to the office to ask for a call because she wasn't feeling well and they weren't paying attention." Yeah, these are the these are the examples that uh you know I that I'm kind of talking about that need to not
happen, you know. So, are you going to be able to hold the staff accountable for things like this? if a child is sick and they're not able to go downstairs or speak to a nurse and tell the nurse that I need to call my mom or dad. Um
I listen I think that you know in the case where we're talking about an emergency situation happening in school and parents having a means for being able to contact their uh being able to contact their child. Uh that's something
that needs to be put in place. um because we're putting this uh because the the New York states put this law in place, you know, in terms of casebycase situations, you know, that's something like I can deal with this at a kind of
at a district level where there's an expectation, there are procedures uh for, you know, when these types of things happen. But, um you know, I can't I'm not going to speak to like an individual case in the public meeting. Uh,
okay. So, but you said parents speaking to their children or calling for their children. This is a different story. This is about a child calling for their mother and father when they were sick and they didn't assist them in that way. Yeah, I would I would want to I would want to get more details about this
case. Be happy to speak with the parent offline uh about you know what happened in this situation. Thank you so much, Superintendent. Yeah, no problem. Anybody else would like to speak? Any members? Yes. So, um to continue John, uh hello.
Uh just continue your so if the kids have the u u if the school can contact to the uh parents but the parents you know is a immigrant new immigrant here they didn't know the much English. So if
the school have the online translation the people online or have to how how they can handle uh because no I think it's no every school have the
translation people on the uh working in the school can speak a different language. So how do you fix this uh the question? How do you think about
this one? If the school connect to the parents, if the parents did not really understand me talking about how about because sometimes the I when I am when I when I my kids go to the kindergarten
right now uh the before and then the uh school contact to me they use the uh I think they speak English but they have to find another uh mandary on the line to translate for me. What's that happen?
So, um do you have the most the put the in the system uh the the school system to not the parents really quickly connect to the um this one? No. So, thanks for thanks for sharing
that. And you know this is again this is one of those things where um this is going to be a challenge you know providing translation to all uh we we speak over 85 languages in district 20
and uh it's a it's a huge challenge and we can't expect uh every school to have a staff member who speaks uh the language of every single parent uh in the school. We do prioritize hiring uh and be able to have folks on staff that
can speak with families because it goes faster. But like Sylvia put in the chat, every school has access to a translation line. uh where uh the school can get access to a translator that can speak.
Uh Sylvia would know better about the current number of languages that are available on the translation line, but when parents call over the phone or are in person, uh every single school in New
York City has access to a translation line where they can access a translator to be able to uh to speak either in person uh or over the phone. However, it takes a little bit of time, right? like it's going to delay the the
communication and that's going to be it's it's a challenge and and and especially when we're talking about an emergency situation where a family you know needs to or wants to be able to communicate with their child and you know getting access to translation is
necessary. It's going to slow down the communication a little bit and that's going to be a challenge. It's going to be a challenge for the parent and it's going to be a challenge for us uh to make sure that we're still able to, you know, communicate what needs to be communicated while also not getting too
frustrated in the delay of time that it takes to make sure that there's access to translation. Because even though a school may not have a person who works there that speaks a parent's language, we do have access to the translation
line and we do have access to translators. Thank you so much, Superintendent Alina Lewis. I know you had your hand up earlier. Um, would you like to speak again? No, I'm good. That was from before. Thank you, John. Okay. Thank you. All right.
Now it's time for CC president report. So I'm just trying to find out about summer horizon. Numerous parents reached out to the CEC members and stated that the children didn't get in. Um we know that there was a lot of issues because
of funding. Um also there was issues in regards to somebody having a disable um disability actually. And um it was listed that being that you have diabetes, your only disability would be
for the 10 months and not the full 12 months. So that needs to be revamped because if it's a federal disability and if you have a disability for diabetes, it shouldn't just be 10 months, it should be 12 months. And that should be included in the disability regulations
for some horizon. And also we're falling behind once again for after school funding. So, we need to actually contact our elected officials because just like last year, we had an issue with numerous schools in our district that were not funded. So, I would ask all our council
members to reach out to our elected officials, all the parents as well. Reach out to them and um council members, you know who we have as um CBOS. If you want to contact them as well, we get our information and let's do what we have to do. And that
completes my CEC president report. Any council members have anything else to say? Yeah, John, just to piggy back on what you mentioned about summer rising, I just like everybody to know that um as a parent of a child in a district 75 uh program,
our children um are also eligible for the afternoon session, the enrichment part of our summer rising program. And as I shared at uh some meetings earlier in the year um in this area, Kaitton Avenue is
location. Well, it seems uh myself and other parents made complaints and they did open up a new site. It's uh 231. It's up at 147272nd Street and they opened up a new weight list and I I was very happy to meet Mr.
Teranova and speak with him. And I'm happy to say I believe it's 12 to 15 of our district 75 children are availing themsel that program. So just like John said, it's up to us as parents to stay on top of it. Reach out, get the
emails going. Your local council members, your assembly members, you have to be as actively involved as you can. And I was really happy to see that you know uh speak with Mr. Terteranova and he said I think it's 12 to 15 children
district 75. So and that's as a result of collectively banging the drum and just to let you know so with what John's saying it's up to us the parents to bring this to the attention of them if we feel there's inequity or whatever it may be. Thank you.
Thank you so much Steve. Anybody else? Question. Sorry. Yeah I'm sorry. I didn't realize that. Um, Dr. Pto was done, but I did have one quick question for him. Just going back to the superintendent's report. Um, I was wondering if there were any updates on the 176 situation. I
know that there's a lot he can't say or you can't say, but if um if there are any updates, um, I would love to hear those. Uh the only update that we have on 176 is that there was a request for an audit
to be done of the school's ahira practices. Those ahira is the law. Yep. That governs the management of asbestous and every school in New York City Department of Education has an Ahira policy. Uh, the New York State
Department of Labor and the United States Environmental Protection Agency conducted an audit of PS1 176 Ahira practices on May 28th. We are awaiting the results of that audit
uh, and once it's provided uh, and I get an update on that, I will definitely update the council and the community. Awesome. Thank you. No problem. Now it's time for our second public speaking session. As said before, if you like to speak, you can sign up on a
Google form on your website and the link has been shared in the chat. If you are in person, you can sign up by using the sign-in sheet. Speakers are limited to three minutes. I would also like to bring on Joyce from Councilwoman Susan Zang's
office. I do recognize you and can you please unmute and speak. Hi, this is Joyce. I'm from city council students office. Today is the first meeting from the new newton with first four votes. We welcome all the new
member on the board. Um thank you for your commitment and sacrifice of time for our education and for for our kids. If you have any concern I will put down our office email and my contact information on the chat.
Thank you. Thank you Kevin. Who is our first inerson speaker? Anybody? No. Next. Whoever's online, if you like to speak. Nobody signed.
Nobody signed in. That concludes our second public speaking session. So, right now, we're going to approve the June calendar meeting minutes. Kevin, can you please share the minutes on the screen? No, I didn't. I was sorry. I was on
vacation and I got back couple, but I did Usually it's this time I got that Can I ask some questions? Okay. Are there any changes to the minutes?
Any changes to the minutes? No. No. If there's no change in the minutes, they are approved without a vote. This concludes the Jul July CC20 calendar meeting. Is there a motion to adjourn? Motion.
Is there a second? I second. All in favor? I. All right. The meeting is adjourned. Our next calendar meeting is on August 13th, 2025.