So, good evening everyone. I'm going to call the meeting to order. It is 7:03. Um, I have to pause for the first item that I wanted to do. So, I'm going to actually let our student go first and
then we will kind of go back. >> Roll call. >> Oh, yeah. Sorry. We're going to go through roll call first and then we'll have our student presentation. >> Eden >> present. Charlie, >> she's on her way. >> Angela, do you hear us?
>> Oh, I just heard you now. Angela's Harris present. >> Thank you. >> Amy, >> she's having trouble getting on right now. >> Vincent. >> Nope. >> Stephanie, >> President Fabiola.
>> Nope. No longer. Sorry. Thank you. >> Shauna >> present. >> Stephen >> present. >> He's on his way. >> Okay. Natasha present. >> Okay. Actually, I'm going to pause it
for a minute. >> Okay. So, before we go into the other items that we have, hello. We are going to call upon our student that is here. Dr. Mike has a little bit of a
lack of a voice, so he's going to try his best. >> Best I can, >> but just know that this is what you're going to hear. So, my apologies in advance. >> Oh my gosh. >> Yeah. Sorry. >> Hi, whoever just said that. >> Oh, hi, Angela. >> It's me. Sorry. Yes, something's going
around. So, um, as you guys know, civics for all work is really important for us here in the district, and we've been inviting our students, um, that have been demonstrating, uh, really great practices here through their soap box speeches to express it to our community
around things that are important to them. Tonight we're welcomed by I'd like to welcome Marvin from PS22 who's going to be sharing his soapbox speech about mental health which is very appropriate for us here at the district level as wellness kindness and community is part
of our entry point as a CC district collaboration >> state I'm really grateful for Marvin and his family for coming tonight uh to share a little bit about why uh mental health is important for us to be mindful of and how we can support it as a community. So Marvin, I'm going to turn
it over to you. I'm super proud of you before you've even started and I'm excited for you to share your speech with us. So I'm going to turn it over to you, Marvin. >> Set up a couple of spots. >> Oh, that's so different. Nice. >> No. Whenever you're ready. >> Hello.
>> Speak up for us, okay? So everyone on Zoom could also hear you. >> Okay. Hello. My name is Marvin Alvarado. Today I am talking to you about mental health. Poor mental health is a monstrous problem and
there are lots of horrible ways it can affect our community. Many people are affected by it and that is not great. It affects everyone by making others more negative. When people are negative,
they tend to be more aggressive. act up, are selfish, doubt themselves, misbehave or are angry. Good mental health is important so you can be more positive and emotionally healthy. But lots of people are affected
by the bad side of it. This is why it is a big big big problem for us. I chose this topic because someone dear to me is struggling with mental health. Many people are depressed and not emotionally healthy. Depressed means you
feel doubtful, sad, angry, or hopeless for a long, long. When you feel depressed, you would find yourself on the blue side of the mood meter. According to a study by the Centers of Disease Control CDC, 4% of
children ages 3 to 17, yes, 3 to 17, had a depression diagnosis and 11% of children in the same age group were diagnosed with anxiety. Mental health is important to everyone.
Yes, I mean it. Everyone in the world. It helps us stay focused, happy, and healthy. Here are some ways poor mental health affects their community. People are more negative. They develop unhealthy habits such as staying in the
room too long, not eating well, or not sleeping well. They are less focused. They have negative relationships with others by arguing, bullying, or being angry. Sometimes they might commit crimes. As you can see, poor mental
health is make is making our community worse and worse. People are more negative. They're less focused and they have negative relationships with others. When people are negative, they act up,
are selfish, doubt themselves, are angry, or break the rules. We need to stop it. imagine a world where foreman itself didn't exist. People would be happy and healthy. No
sadness. If only this was real. our world would be great and much more positive. So we have to fix it. When we are positive, we are more optimistic and look at the bright side of things. We
can help others and be more cheerful. Here are some tools we have to use to work on this issue. Staying positive and kind. Not letting people feel left out. listening to others, eat well, exercise, and take breaks. If you feel like you
need help, you can talk to someone like family, friends, teachers, or our school counselors. Even staff work at our school. If your feelings are too big, you might even see a doctor or therapist. We have multiple ways to help stop poor
mental health. We can be positive and kind. If you see someone feeling lonely, don't let them feel left out and listen to others. Don't stay quiet. If you're feeling like you're in the blue, talk to someone so we can help you. We can help stop poor mental health with these
tools. So, let's use them correctly. Overall, poor health is a big big big problem in our community. So, I need all of you, yes, all of you, even me, to work together, so we can help stop bad
mental health. We need to get rid of it and make our community better. Thank you. That was amazing. So, I know Dr. I can't speak too much, but >> but that was absolutely amazing. Any
comments for Marvin? >> Well done. >> A >> you have somebody crying here. >> Sorry. >> Can I actually say something? >> Yeah. >> I'm a therapist. That's my job. And I think you did a wonderful job of framing why this is important, especially someone who thinks this is an incredibly
important issue. You did a great job. >> Anybody else? >> Bravo, young man. >> And then Dr. Mike's going to say, >> "Yeah." Oh, Marvin, you did a fantastic job. And one of my goals is to try to make sure that these speeches become
something that become more than just a speech. So, as the year goes on, I'm going to be reaching out to PS22 and one Marvin to figure out how we can make this speech become something that we build on and create a bigger opportunity
for those around district 25 to learn from you in April. At least I'm hoping in April, we'll be doing a wellness day in district 25. And what I would hope, given if your if your parents are okay with this, we would like to invite you
to come and spread this amazing word around the importance of mental health and how we can help each other support this in a better way. So, you brought out something so super important, not only just for us here in community, but in general about being mindful of the
things that are important. When we're sad, what do we do? when we're not feeling that great, what do we do? And how are we doing that every day in our schools? So, you made amazing eye contact. You used amazing TPR, which means total physical response with your
hands. And your use of Spanish had me hooked the entire way. So, I'm super proud of you. Great job. And we're going to continue to grow. >> Thank you, Mommy. >> Thank you so much for bringing you back. Thank you so much. >> Awesome. >> Great work. >> Thank you so much. >> Thank you.
>> Okay. Bravo. Bravo. >> Thank you. >> Okay, so the next item on our agenda is um we did have a member of the council who resigned last month. So we and she was our second vice president. So we do
need to do a quick expedited election to fill that seat. So we do have PR now. Um I will serve as the chair prom and it is now 7:14
and we are going to convene this election. Uh going to ask if there's any nominations for the second vice president. >> Anybody want to make a nomination? I'm going to nominate Stephen.
>> Anybody else? >> Seconded. >> Okay. >> Does it need to be seconded? Anybody else? >> I have a second. >> Awesome. Does anybody else want to nominate anybody? >> Okay. Going once, going twice. Okay.
Nominations are now closed. >> Want to say anything? >> Thank you for >> Do we need to vote on it? >> Yes. >> Yes. Okay. So, we're gonna just go through roll call real quick. We're just >> Congrats, Stephen.
>> Hold on. We have to vote. >> Whoops. I thought we >> I appreciate your enthusiasm. >> Yes. >> Yes. >> Yes. >> You got Angela's. >> Yes. Yes.
>> Amy, >> yes. >> Vinton. >> Yes. >> Stephanie. >> Yes. >> Shauna. >> Yes. >> He's abstaining. >> Okay, that's fine. >> And then Ken. >> Yes. Perfect. Congratulations, Stephen.
Thank you. >> Congrats, Stephen. >> Thank you. >> Okay, so now the next item on our agenda is actually helping to fill the seat that became vacant. So, we are going a little bit out of order on our agenda this evening. So, just be
be mindful of that. So, I have one candidate that is here in person and we do have two of our candidates that are online on Zoom. I just want to explain to the council whatever questions we do ask each candidate, it needs to be the same question for all the candidates. So
once we ask a question, we will give a chance for all three candidates to respond. So our candidates are Grace, Christina, and Shirley. Um Shirley had a family emergency. Grace got stuck a little bit with work, but Christina is here with us. >> So I'm going to actually have you come
up towards the front a little bit more so that people can hear you. >> Yes, thank you. So, does anybody want to start with any questions for our candidates? And we'll have Christina go first since she's here and then we'll
ask Grace and Shirley to respond as well. Anybody have any specific questions? Go for it. >> Hi. >> Um, if you had to pick three core values that you think as a CEC we should, uh, what would you think those would be?
And so, you know, for me, for example, mine, inclusivity is a big one. And so, if you had to pick, you know, three core values you think we should lead with that you would like to bring to the room, what would it be? >> Um, I'm going to steal one of yours. I'm sorry. Inclusivity. I would say, um,
trust and connection. It's hard in this day and age to feel connected to your community, to your schools, to your leaders. Um, so the hope would be that this council is help. Perfect. So, Grace, we're going to come to you next.
Do you need us to repeat the question? >> Is she able to unmute? >> Uh, good evening everyone. So, please could you repeat the question, please? >> Oh, >> yes. Um, also, we had a a question in the chat of somebody wondering what we were nominating for. Do you want to
>> It's to fill a vacancy on the council. So that was yeah that first nomination was actually to fill one of our board positions. Now we are actually going into questions for our candidates to fill our vacant seat on the council. >> Apologies for derailing. I just >> Sorry. No, you're good. >> Um so I asked like what were three core
values that you think as CC we should work for in our community and that you would bring to the room to advocate for? >> Okay. So I think that uh my values are empathy, discipline and leadership.
So um yes on on this way I can uh promote my uh massage focused on the um wellness, mental health and support for everyone.
>> Perfect. Thank you, Grace. Shirley, if you're able to unmute to answer the question, >> you repeat the question. My son was talking to Well, >> no problem. >> Sure. Um, hi. So, I what I asked was, and I'm going to try and say exactly.
What are three core values that you think as a CDC we should advocate for in our community that you would bring to the room that you would like to lead with? Like just three core values you think are most important? >> Well, that is I'm sorry for breaking out. We can't
>> one core value that I would like to bring to the table like being relatable to both parents um and also staff members. The second one is compassion, of course, because we want to make sure that we are like passionate about what
we do and what we're bringing to the table when it comes to policy changes that can complement based the communities, you know, based on each um different community of course. And um my third core value that
I'd like to bring to the table is pretty much um let's just say community. Basically, it takes a village as we know an African proverb to raise children and to bring
them to a standard of um basically like you know work ethics, education and things that they can do to excel. So, I'd like to bring those three core values to the table when it comes to
being a council member. >> Perfect. Thank you. I'm actually going to go next really quick and I'm going to actually go backwards in the order this time. So, Shirley, we're going to have you go first with what I'm going to bring up. Um, so I want to give you guys a chance to kind of like backtrack a
little bit. Just tell us a little bit about you and why you think you're a good candidate for the council. >> Yeah. So, my name is Shirley Brown. Of course, I'm a parent of two boys. I'm actually single mom and a student. So, I believe that I am good for this position
because I'm a parent advocate in my own community. Um, the children feel safe to come to me and talk to me about things that they would want to see in their community change or if there's things that they're uncomfortable with, they actually do come to me to like ask for
advice and things like that. parents. Um, I am very, uh, let's just say like fluent with how I deal with each parent uniquely because I know everyone is different when it comes to their like
needs and to be met. Of course, also I've advocated for my son alone due to the complications that he had as a special education, my youngest son as a special education student. Um there was times where I had to, you know, of
course like stop my whole life pretty much to um accommodate and and to cater to his education and to like advocate for him to get better services in special education. Um, that caused me to
see that a lot of other parents, as far as working parents, they don't have the same uh energy or the same like let's just say uh time to like do the research when it comes to what it is that their children should be offered. Uh they
didn't have like the education to better give their children resources. That's when I realized as a parent advocate in my own community, it was something that I had um I basically enjoyed doing for my own child. So, I
realized that there's not a lot of people that have the same resource and education that I had. So, I realized that I am the best person for my community in district 25. >> Thank you, Grace. Go ahead. Do you need me to repeat what I asked or did you hear it? >> Uh I heard it. Thank you.
>> No problem. So, uh, my name is Grace Torres. I come from Colombia. I'm the proud mother of a fifth grade student at PS21 where she currently serves as the vice
president. So she previously participated uh in the English learning uh learner program which has given my firsthand insight into the needs of
multilingual families. Uh professionally I have worked as social work. I work with the uh department of social services and also I have experience as behavioral specialist
and also as teacher and I have a a strong focus on supporting diverse and vulnerable populations. Um, I have been an active member of the
SLT at PS21 since 2021 and I had the opportunity to serve on the uh CC since November 2024 for eight months. Um
so during that time I participate in the development of the of one resolution and I promote uh a student and family wellness initiative.
So at this point I am deeply committed to uh continue our um focus on school communities by advancing wellness initiative
that support healthy habists including nutrition physical activity and reduce a screen time. Um, I feel so motivated with Marvin who
espanol she he speak Spanish. So I feel that I can also bring that big population to the table with uh families who speak Spanish and need that support
to communicate with the world community. >> Perfect. Thank you, Grace. Christina, >> I'm so impressed by independence. So, Christina, I'm parent of two children, FPS79, a third grader and a kindergartener. Um, and actually my
husband is a teacher at JHS 185. So, we're 25 family. I grew up in Queens. I'm the product of public schools. Um, so very motivated to sort of, you know, lead your goal, which is keeping our public school system strong. Um, professionally, I also do a lot with
children. Um I work in children's book publishing. So I am very passionate around the topic of literacy for children and also um have worked on initiatives in my job for um more inclusive and diverse publishing as well as working against um book banning
that's happening across the country. That's a big problem. Um and yeah I mean I think you know I'm also professionally I will also say I'm learn I learn incremental changes growth and change is slow. So, I'm used to sort of working in the bureaucratic system in that way. Um,
but just motivated to sort of help the community and reach out any way I can and to learn from all of you. >> Okay. Thank you. Does anybody else want to ask a question from the council? I'd like to at least get one or two other questions in if we can.
>> So, I have a a question for you guys. So, but how much time do you have to devote to this position? uh let's say per week or per month. >> I'm gonna have Grace start this time and then we'll go to Christina and then Shirley.
>> Um I already have the experience uh working or participating of the CC25 and I think I uh handle it pretty well. I I always was um attentive to participating
in as much as possible. So I can I think I can deal with this pretty well. >> Great. You go. >> Yeah. I don't have I don't have a strong sense of exactly the time commitment, but I know for me evening evening commitments are fine. I think the challenge for me usually comes from a
working parent obviously, but I do work from home. So, I think if there's any commitments um that involve either school visits or um emails, anything like that, that that's very easy for me to do. I think anything challenging would be sort of daytime meetings to
make our own schedule. Yeah. >> Okay. And Shirley, did you hear the question or do you need us to repeat it? >> I I did fail to realize I did fail to mention I am a secondyear SLT member as well. Um, so pretty much with my experience with my own child, I realized
that working a high good paying job or whatever, I had to literally step down from my job because this um this work for children takes like a lot of time and effort. So I pretty much have all the time that I am um allocated to now
because of my child and the community alone. So, I'm very flexible with timing and I revolve everything around my children and my community at this point because it's just so important to me. >> Thank you. I'm going to actually ask Veronica who's on from President's Council if she has a question that she
would like to answer the candidates and this time we'll go back to the beginning where it was Christina, then Grace, then Shirley. >> Veronica, >> hi. How are you? Good evening. Can you hear me? >> Yes. >> Yes. >> Thank you so much for giving me the opportunity to ask a question. It's
pleasure to be here with all of you. So the question that I have is can you share an example of how you would turn parent or school concerns into concrete advocacy or action at the district level?
>> That's a great question. Um I mean I can think I can speak to one topic that I'm feeling very passionate about recently and have sort of started the conversations at our PTA at a PS9 level. Um I I'm very passionate around um this
recent cell phone bans in school, screen use and AI use and how it's affecting our kids. I worked most recently with um Jonathan Kate who is the author of the anxious generation. Um he's recently written a book for young kids. So, I am
I don't know how it all works, of course, but I'm passionate about any initiative that we can do to sort of protect our kids against the future use of AI um and digital technologies in schools. >> Okay, Grace.
>> Sure. Um uh currently we have an active um initiative at PS21 school uh where a lot of families have uh been
concerned about nutrition issues at the school. So with SRT, we have been working on a wellness program or project to uh promote
healthy habits including nutrition as uh one of the foundations of our program. And this uh have been focused on uh promoting
learning for families uh support families on how handle uh nutrition not only at the school but also beyond. So at home at the communities and how can we add not only
nutrition as a wellness goal but also increasing physical activity, reducing screen time and increasing the uh mindfulness
uh perspective for our community. >> Thank you. And Shirley, >> can you repeat the question, please? >> Sure. Veronica, can you just repeat it? >> Sure, of course. Can you share an example of how you would turn a parent
concern or school concern into a concrete advocacy or action at the district level? >> Yes. So, I would start basically with rallying up our parents of course, friendly rally, get their in um input in what it is that they would like to see
in their community and basically bridge the gap by having a meeting with staff members on a district level and coming to a conclusion of what we can do within scope of like policies and procedures. >> Perfect. Thank you. Uh, is there one
more question that anybody would like to ask? Otherwise, we can actually probably go ahead and do a vote and I'll explain how we're going to do the vote momentarily if nobody has any other questions. Anybody? One, two, three. Okay. So, we
are going to go around the room and you're going to say the name of the person that you are choosing as your choice for the candidacy. Um, we'll see where we land with votes and then if we have to do an additional vote or anything like that or if we go into an
executive session, we can then address that if we need to to discuss things and maybe revote at that point. So, agent, do you want to go through the names? >> Um, so we're going to vote.
>> Everyone's going to give you a name of who they're choosing. >> Oh, okay. So, Eden, >> I'm gonna say Grace. >> Shirley, >> Grace, >> who? >> Christine. >> Christine. >> Christina.
>> Okay. >> Uh, Angela. >> Christina. >> Amy. >> Grace. Grace. >> Thank you. >> Vincent. Grace, >> Stephanie,
>> Grace, >> Shauna, >> Shirley, >> Stephen, >> Shirley, >> Ken, >> it's a tough choice for us. It's a big difficult decision to make. Um,
Grace. Okay. So, currently that is six for Grace. We need seven in order to elect somebody into the role. >> I would like to possibly request that we
go into an executive session, see if we could discuss it a little bit and maybe come to consensus on how we want to proceed. Is everyone okay with that? >> Okay, >> we're going to go out that way. Um, Angela and Amy, I will get you in our
conversation. So, just give me a minute. >> Okay. >> I maybe you want to let everyone know what it is that means so that >> Yeah. So, we will be stepping out for a few minutes. Um, just have a quick conversation and then we will be back to hopefully be able to finish the vote.
So, everyone just bear with us a few minutes and we will make this as quick as possible. You guys can come. As a council, we have decided we would like to do a another roll call vote this evening. I do want to just say before we do this, all three candidates happen to
be very strong to us, very fitting for the role and it's just a very hard decision to choose just one and I wish we had more seats open. Um, but with that being said, Egypt, if you can do another roll call vote and let's see if we can come to a decision.
So Eden, >> Grace, >> Charlie, >> Grace, >> Christine, >> Grace, >> Angela, >> Charlie, >> Amy,
>> Grace, >> Grace, >> Stephanie, Grace, Grace, Steven, >> Grace. >> Okay, so thank you all three of you. Um, but I
do want to say congratulations to Grace as you will be joining the council again this year and we look forward to seeing you at the meeting next month in person. Um, I know you got stuck a little bit tonight, but thank you. Thank you, Christina. Thank you, Shirley. Um, and
Grace, feel free to stay on. We'll make sure you get in touch with Helena to get your oath done so that you will be able to do voting going forward. >> Thank you guys for the opportunity. >> Thank you. So, like I said, we are going a little out of order just because of
time and wanting to be mindful of certain people. So I'm going to ask our other presentation to come up uh related to student omni cards. So August is going to be speaking with us >> and also Juniper
>> and Juniper. >> Hi Juniper. >> Does he have a copy of it? Because he could share. >> Yeah. Hold on one second. We're gonna work on that for you. I'm going to email you over. >> He's going to share it from his screen for you guys. So, just give us one second.
>> I don't make you bully. >> Yeah. >> We're having it sent over. So, we'll we'll screen share for you and then you'll just tell us when to move on to the next slides. >> Thank you. >> Okay. You should two refreshes and you should have
>> not one but two. >> It is so >> I asked them to shut the heat. He said they were doing it. So, >> oh my god. Oh my god. My house is cold. So, this is why Intense.
>> Oh, popped myself in the head. >> Not yet. No, >> if you're on, you might be able to share your screen also. >> Okay, >> okay, just got it. >> Oh, he got it. >> There we go. >> Sorry.
Okay, >> my email. >> Thank you. Okay, August and Juniper, you can take it away. Let us know when to move ahead for you. >> Look at this slideshow tab. Yep. And start. Yep. >> Thanks, Louis.
>> Hey, so I'm August. I go to uh bar Manhattan. I'm Junifer. I'm a junior at LaGuardia High School, but I am a graduate from a district 25 elementary school and middle school. >> Which one? >> And >> which school? >> Which school? >> PS130 and >> we're part of a group called
transportation alternatives and we're in the youth committee. >> They're not hearing >> is a group of high school students advocating for safer streets. >> Should we give the mic to them? >> We can move this closer. If you guys bring that towards you, New York Steven, you'll be able to be heard a little bit
better. Try now. >> So, we're a group of high school and college students advocating for safer streets and better public transportation for all students in New York City. And we have two campaigns, one of which we're going to present today. It's called Expand Student Omni. Next slide.
>> Uh so, our campaign, Expand Student Omni, has four main tasks. The first one is for universal access for all New York City students. Currently, uh, students who live within a half mile of their school and students who take a yellow bus to school don't receive student Omni cards. And we're hoping to change that
so all students get cards. Um, our second ask is for unlimited rides. Uh, currently uh, uh, cards are capped at four rides a day for students, and we're hoping for unlimited rides as four rides isn't often enough for our students. Uh, our third one is for communication
around deactivations. cards are often shut down. Very little explanation and we're hoping for uh more clarity around that from the DOE and MTA. And our final one is for a faster and more reliable replacement process of student army cards. Uh we just want for the cards to
be able to be replenished at school so students don't have to wait to get a new card. If >> you guys could just speak up a little bit more for us. >> Okay. Um so we're not the first ones to advocate for these issues, but we are the first to have a comprehensive campaign about it. There have been letters from elected officials senators
Oilman and Kabana one since the student on introduced and there were also seven initial CC resolutions around the city. >> There you go. >> Okay. Seven C initial CC resolutions around the city that have addressed certain part of certain issues that we're going to be talking about today.
Next slide. Uh so so far we have launched our campaign that was back in May and we now have over 200 signatures on it. Uh we have met with the MTA and PCAC which is a watchdog group for the MTA in order to
discuss our campaign and our issues with student nominee. We have uh received supportive resolutions from five CC's across four bureaus so far. uh and we have uh connected with the office of people transportation at the DOE in order to try to push our campaign
further along. Uh in the future, we're hoping to gain more supportive resolutions from CDC's and to uh investigate the issues of student nominee even further. >> So the first issue is universal access. If you live too close to school within
0.5 miles or you don't have yellow bus, you have yellow bus service, you don't get access to a student alley card. This locks those students out of access to jobs, sports, extracurriculars, and after school activities that students who do get student cards are free to
access freely. Um, there's 7 73.5% of New York City students are economically disadvantaged, which means students are forced to pay out of pocket even if they they don't they're not based on like um economic. And then
there's also a discrimination against people with disabilities as well as students who live too close because of these income or these restrictions with eligibility. So the estimated cost is about $50.5 million. And while this may
sound a lot, it is a very small part of the DOE budget and it's also a small price to pay for a lot of benefits for every single student across New York City. Next slide. Uh so our second campaign ask is for unlimited rides for all New York City students. Uh this is not a concept that
we are hoping to be exclusive to New York City. Uh many other cities in the US including Honolulu, uh LA, uh Denver, and DC already have unlimited free rides for students uh regardless of restrictions. Uh we're hoping for New
York to follow suit. Uh adult student adult cards already have fair capping. you don't have to pay after 28 rides in a week but or sorry after 12 rides a week by but students have to keep on paying after 28 and uh students just have more places to be often than four
rides can allow for and so we are just hoping for students to be able to explore the city more and just fully see it without restrictions. Another issue with student nominee cards is randomly them randomly stopping to um getting denied at the turn style and
just getting deactivated. This could be due to bugs um damages with the cards as well as deactivations by the MTA or the DOE. And we found that there's very little transparency with this these processes. Um students are not notified if their cards are deactivated and they're not sure if it was deactivated
or if it was just damaged by like water. Um we have had initial surveying with students around the city. We have about 150 responses on a survey and we found that there's multiple layers to this issue and a lot of students are facing
this issue in including us and yeah >> uh so uh our final campaign ask is for a faster and more reliable replacement process for students on weekends at schools. Uh currently uh it takes uh over two weeks sometimes for cards to arrive at schools when schools will
replacement cards. So um when students cards are inevitably deactivated or just lost um students will go to their transportation coordinator ask for a new one. But when, as we've already seen, cards can get deactivated a lot. Um, too many students are coming in their
transportation coordinators, the schools will inevitably run out and it can take quite a while for um new cards to arrive at the schools, which means that students have to go without a card uh for as long as that takes. And uh that means they'll either have to pay out of
pocket or they'll have to fervate, which is just just creates more unnecessary encounters. And so now you've heard all these campaign asks that we have. We do have some action items for the CDC. First, we hope that you could pass a resolution addressing our four ask of unlimited
ride, universal access, communication for deactivation, and reliable replacement process. We also hope that you could push for updates to transfer regulation A81, which is the transfer regulation that regulates transportation eligibility and was last updated in 2000. Um, so it's well outdated. There's
also an ask to contact your elected officials and tell them that this is a priority and a need for students across the city. And we do have a petition that we hope you could share and sign yourself. Uh
there's one more slide. Yeah. Thank you. So our petition is right here. Um if you're interested in signing that. We also have our survey uh which we're going to hand out right now. If you have a student who's ever had issues with um their student nominee cards, it would be
great if you could have them fill this out. Uh we're trying to collect as much data as we can on who has problems with their student cards. So, I'll just head around and anyone wants Perfect. >> Sure. Do you want to just leave a couple with us and we'll >> Sure, I can leave some. Cool. >> Just leave them to >> Does anybody have any questions for
Juniper or August or anything? I know I would like to first say thank you guys for coming. being high schoolers and stepping up to do something like this is huge that you're trying to speak up for other students. And I know that our council is in the process of discussing
this at the very early stages. Um, and hopefully next month we will be discussing a possible resolution to go up for a vote the following month after that. So, I just want you guys to be aware that we actually did take a look at everything you've sent us previously up until today. Um, and we're very
grateful that you guys are here and coming from Manhattan and LaGuardia, like you guys are really stepping up to come out of your way to like speak up and try to make a difference. So, thank you guys. I don't know if anyone else wants to share anything, Stephen. >> Yeah. Uh, thank you for this. Also, I'm I'm co-sponsoring a backing a modified
version of your resolution next month. So, I think it's really important. Um, you may not have an answer to this. Are there any particular elected officials that you think need a little extra pushing that could be of help on this? this cuz you got a bunch of people on this call. So, is there anybody you think we should really encourage people
to reach out to? If not, it's okay. >> Just any elected officials who are within your >> district, >> your CC. >> Cool. >> Like, I just want >> We're trying to get We don't have a specific ask for them besides just like support this campaign. So, we're just trying to get it's more just about
trying to get any electives to put pressure on uh the DOE, too. >> Awesome. If you have um and if you wouldn't mind if you have any updates on any of this if you wouldn't mind sending it over to us. I'd really love to see >> as you get updates continue to send it over. That's why we see everything. >> Anybody else? >> Thank you so much. >> I have a quick question.
>> Yes. >> Hold on. >> So it says which creates confrontations with the police. Do you know about approximate how many cases students have to go through this and and did you ever interview those students? >> No. That's what we're trying to do with our survey. We're trying to get data on
that. That's why we're getting the survey. >> Okay. And I Angela, you had a question. >> No, I was saying I was just going to say I think it's a very um valid request because I personally as a mom of two children who take the public bus uh
public transportation, sorry. Um think it's it's needed. I I personally also seen students get on the bus and their card is is and my own kids their card go off indicating that they're out of um rides.
So, I think this is very valid and that's the reason why I'm actually the one who is sponsoring the um resolution and graciously Stephen is co-signing on that. So, just want to tell you gentlemen, thank you for putting this
forward and >> thanks for stepping up. >> Has one other question. >> I love I just love your presentation. It looks really great. It's very simple, easy for us all of us to understand. But I have a question. It says steps taken so far says met with MTA and PCAC. What
kind of response would you get from them? >> So they've basically put a lot of the blame onto the DOE saying that like the DOE is responsible for deactivations. Um DOE is fully responsible for eligibility and the MTA is just executing the
program as far as we know. they like they are the ones pushing for like the deactivation system but at the end the final decision is with OPT on the DOE side. >> So Junior any um like um department or something that where DOE
and MTA worked together to discuss this issue. Do you know any >> So that would be OPT probably. Yeah the office of people transportation. >> That's what I was thinking. Okay. >> Hope so. Um, any other council members before I open for any questions from
anybody else that's here? Okay. Any of our guests have any questions for our presenters? So, you guys presented a CCHS to go. Thank you very much for that. But I have to say my daughter's in college in Savannah and all the kids are free
buses everywhere and she's in college. So, it's ridiculous that you guys every every child a student under the age of 18 has to pay for transportation and you need a bus pass. That's so ridiculous to me. I just I just don't understand it. And it shouldn't be the DOE to be funding. It should be our the MTA which
makes lots of money off of this and then we get services aren't right. So I appreciate you guys for being in. I appreciate the CC listening to you guys. You guys are doing awesome job. So thanks for that. Thank you. And Senator Lou, we got to get on him because he's on the transportation committee. So thank you for that. >> Thank you.
>> Thank you guys. >> Thanks so much. Well done. Thank you. >> Next, we are going to jump to some voting resolutions that we have. >> Uh resolution five is the resolution to mitigate the effects of vac.
Sorry. >> Yeah, >> there you go. Sorry. So, resolution five, just in case you couldn't hear, is a resolution to mitigate the effects of vacancies in community and citywide education councils. And the second resolution, which is our resolution number six, is a resolution urging
caution and discussion over generative AI in New York City public schools. Uh, I want to open the floor for any questions or comments. I'm in the m set of time, I'm not going to have us read it out loud. If anybody would like to see a copy that's online, you can request it. We'll definitely share it
with you. It will be available on our website anyway, but I want to give a chance for anybody to ask any questions, bring up any concerns before we go to a vote. Anybody have anything? Okay, so Egypt, we're going to start with resolution number five.
This was sponsored by Christine and our co-sponsors, just so everyone knows, were Shirley, Angela, and Steven. Okay. >> Yes. >> Okay. Eden. >> Yes. >> Charlie. >> Yes. >> Christine.
>> Yes. >> Angela. >> Yes. >> Amy. >> Yes. >> She wrote yes in the chat. >> Yes. >> Yes. >> Stephanie. >> Yes. >> Yes. >> Steven. >> Yes.
Yes. >> Okay, perfect. And now we're going to move on to resolution number six, which was sponsored by Steven and Angela was the co-sponsor. So, thank you guys for all your work. Go for it, Egypt, when you're ready.
Resolution five, I see the question in the chat, was a resolution to mitigate the effects of vacancies in community and citywide education councils. And just to repeat what resolution six is, it's a resolution urging caution and discussion over generative AI in New
York City public schools. >> Yep. >> Eden, >> yes. >> Charlie, >> yes. >> Christine, >> yes. >> Angela, >> yes. >> Amy, >> yes.
>> Yes. >> Stephanie, >> yes. Yes. >> Yes. >> Yes. >> Okay. >> Well, thank you everyone. We have these resolutions now passed. So, we'll get
those submitted and in and we will be discussing some other ones during our business meeting later. Um, I'm going to turn the floor over to Dr. Mike who's going to do his best considering his not feeling well tonight. Um, but we have backup. any laughter that you might
>> that might be coming over you as I speak. Try to keep it to a minimum. >> Do the best that I can. >> Um, >> sounds painful. >> Sure. No, I'm okay. I'm good. >> He's good. >> I'm good. >> We got this. >> Um, it just doesn't say I actually feel more for you than I do myself cuz you have to
listen to this. >> Yikes. >> We got backup for you there if we need it. >> Yeah, I might have to, you know, call a friend that I'm going to hold this like this. It's a closer. Okay, guys. So, you know, I can't resist with our um connection before content.
So, Super Bowl season is coming. Um so, are you in terms of a this or that? Are you a classic Buffalo wings, a sliders person, or fill in the blank for whatever it is that is your go-to meal during the Super Bowl? If it's none of the above and you're not into the Super
Bowl, you could share that, too. but with your neighbor. Super Bowl kind of food. Are you a wings person? Sliders or fill in the blank with whatever it is that you like. Just take 30 seconds quickly with the person next to you and then we'll move on with our session.
Okay. >> I would say wings and like other orders >> or wings. I have to tell you, this one's actually a hard one for me cuz I love all >> not a Super Bowl person, but I love wings. >> Thanks, Angela.
I love all of the um >> finger foods like appetizers. I'm in. >> That's it. Even New Year's that's what I do. >> I do like a burger. >> Awesome. >> A nice fat juicy one. >> Oh, I like it. Angela
>> just another five seconds. >> I I'm just like everybody shouting. Oh, yeah. Oh, wait. No, that was THE WRONG TEAM. ONE AT ZERO. ANY quick comments? THINGS THAT YOU are are looking forward to um
in terms of the food. If it's not, you're not a Super Bowl person, that's fine, too. But anyone any comments? >> Any restaurant not hosting a Super Bowl watch party is empty and >> Stephen is all about the, you know,
leave the Super Bowl for another time. I'm good. Yeah, >> I usually watch the the that what inter interim show or whatever. >> Half time. >> Yeah, halftime show. >> The halftime show. >> Yeah, that's what I really watch. But I I must confess >> one year I I'm not a Swifty per se.
She's winning me over slowly, but that that year when Travis won, I was team him. >> That was about it. >> So funny. So, just so you know, a little bit about me. You give me any kind of an appetizer, I'm in. Whether it's a wing,
a slider, give me pizza. I consider the pizza as an appetizer, even though it's not for most. I can eat that at any time. What's it all sticks, I'm all in. That's that's just me. So, when it comes to the food, I'm all over the Super Bowl, including the game. I do like the game, too. Not just for the commercials or the halftime show. I do enjoy the
game. Uh, but remember guys, we do these small little exercises in terms of connection before content. So we build opportunities to build relationships, learn a little bit about one another, things that we like, things that we might not like. You learn, the more we learn about one another, uh, the more connected we are. So that's why we do
these short little exercises each month to do that. All right. So thank you for indulging me. I will continue to bring these forward. And if you hate them, please tell me and I will make sure I switch them up. So our newsletter, as you guys know, is always available uh with information on a monthly basis. I encourage you to
subscribe if you haven't done already. Queens North spelling bee. Uh big shout out to Melinda and our team members for hosting uh this year's Queen Spelling Bee. We did have um students that did win uh or did place, excuse me, um in
our spelling be that went to the citywide. Uh so we wish them luck um as they pursue uh hopefully winning that spelling bee for our district. Uh congrats to all of our other members from across our districts in New York City, particularly in Queens. Uh we
hosted the Queens North event a few weeks ago. So big shout out to our kids uh and our community for that. So Box Beach, this was where Marvin was going to go. We thank him for being here. He did a fantastic job and I'm looking forward to working with him moving
forward around this space in terms of mental health and how we're promoting it across our schools. Math family night, we had upwards of 200 people uh that came out to PS129. kids from across all grades were
present. Uh so I thank Principal Hulet, uh all of our teachers that volunteered as well as our volunteers from across our other schools that took the time to make this experience one that was positive for our families and our kids. There's really nothing like watching parents and kids get together and engage
in math games and activities where you could just see the joy coming out of them uh and the learning as well. So as we do these, I encourage all of you from the CC to join us uh in future events because it is really quite uh quite enjoyable and the learning is also
important uh is is important as well. Game 24 so excited. This was an awesome event. Just so you know, this is the first time that we did this. We had 13 of our elementary schools participate. And for those of you who don't know what
game 24 is, it is a scenario where kids are giving four numbers on a card and they're competing against children on all sides of the table. The card is placed down. They have to tap when they're able to make 24 out of the
numbers using multiplication, division, addition, or subtraction. And what I will say to you is it is really incredible. The cards barely touch the table and the kids are tapping because they've been able to make 24 using their
operate order of operations to support their uh landing on 24. And it was just a fantastic event. Watching the kids and their flexibility with using numbers uh to come up with a solution was really fantastic. If you've never experienced
it as parents, it's a great game for your kids. They have it online. and there's an app and it really promotes this space of of numerousy and fluency with numbers. This is the first year we're going to do this again on a yearly
basis. We had 13 schools this year. My goal is to have all 26 part of it next year for our elementary schools. Really great work. So, I thank Janice uh principal Egan for opening our school. uh Beth and Liz from our team for organizing it and all of the volunteers
from across our buildings uh for making this a special day for our kids. I happened to be on a call as students were coming back to the school. One of the one of the winners in grade five just was glowing as she went to the principal's office to share that she was
uh an award winner that day. So, it was really great stuff. Um, and more to follow on this moving forward, but I I just wanted to shout this out. >> Let's do one now. >> Say again. >> Let's do one now. >> I'll do one right now. Are you ready? I don't know if I want to get you.
>> Um, we had our middle school basketball championship game and All-Star game uh this past week. Big shout out to Diana from our team. This is unique to District 25. This is not happening across the city like this. We have our cheerleaders perform. We
have kids from across the district participate. Big shout out for to Francis Lewis High School for hosting us um and allowing this event to be possible inside of our uh for our district kids. And what was also amazing, our students were also to make
and build relationship with the coaches from Francis Lewis High School and because of those relationships made decisions to go to Francis Lewis because the coaches were able to connect with them that day. Really, really great event. goes beyond the space of sportsmanship.
It's created relationships and building opportunities for our kids moving forward. So, I thank our team for organizing this event uh and thank our kids for being good sportsmen uh and showing what it is to be in district a student in district 25 um you know and
you know just showing what what it means to be uh a leader in sports uh as well as in our classrooms. So, big shout out to our community for that. We also had our uh girls basketball all-star game as well as championship
game. Unfortunately, I was not able to make this event, which I'm disappointed that my schedule didn't allow for. Uh but really, really great opportunity for the girls in our district to also show what they are capable of on the court. Um you see our mascots laying here along
with our cheerleaders. Just a really great for our kids, uh great event for our kids and our community. Oh, I hope I make it through the rest of this, guys. I'm trying real hard. Celebrating Black History Month. >> Um, our schools throughout the month
will be hosting uh activities and events to really promote uh the amazing things that um our uh black leaders across um our country have led to making our country what it is today. So, kids will be connecting with that throughout the month. Um, so there will be more to
follow on this as the month goes on and we'll be sharing more widely in March so that you can see some of the activities and events our kids did. Um, happy school school counselors day uh week, excuse me. Our counselors are so super important for our kids here in the
district. Uh, huge shout out of appreciation for what they do for our students every day um in terms of providing the guidance and supports they need uh to be successful in our in our schools. Happy World Readaloud Day. Uh we had
many of our schools participating uh in this event. Uh so thank you to our educators and our families for participating in this across our district schools. Um and certainly more to follow on that as we hear our followup.
3K prek applications are open and close on uh February 27th. Just a reminder for all of our families, arts funding, as you know, the district was given um $80,000 to support arts funding and initiatives across the
district in collaboration with our CEC and DT. Um we have residencies that are going to be made available particularly for schools with limited funding. Um those include PS1 130, 154, 164 or 169,
uh 184, 200, 209, 214, 242, 244, and our prek centers. So each of them will have residencies to support arts in our schools from dance to theater uh to um uh to arts uh inside of our schools.
These funds will also be aligned with family nights that we are arranging right now or to follow next month and we are aligning it with our heritage months later on in the school year. Um, and we'll be available to our schools across our district.
Broadway show opportunities. I haven't landed on that just yet, but there will be some opportunities. I don't have a lot of money there, but we will be making that available to some of our kids in our community as well. And we've also had made additional funding available for PS20, 499, 2011, and 219.
They are part of a citywide collaboration uh where they are making arts available inside of our schools as well. Just reminder about our new chancellor. I did introduce him last month and just in terms of priorities around safety uh
academic rigor and uh making sure that promoting true integration and cultural responsiveness. This is something I will mention on a monthly so that we understand what the message of our chancellor is moving forward and where we're making our colle connections as a district community.
Oh boy. Um, so as you know, our events are archived. We've done recent events around special education, mathematics, and supports for our multilingual learners. They are present and available on our events page in on the district.
They're archived uh and recorded for anyone that would like to follow up. Uh I encourage our community members to do that. Um again just a reminder as from our parent survey but I did include the second um available um entry point here
for parent events based on our feedback from parents last month. I was able to share the one that will be available to us next week um which is around balancing the books and the bonds stress management um for our academically focused parents um as well as thriving
together improving family communication. So, one is going to be provided by the uh child center of New York and the other one for by Marble Health. These will be online and available for all of our families to participate in. We will send messages out widely through the gamma system.
These are YouTube links just reminding our families around I Ready um and YouTube supports around the cadence for kindergarten, first and second grade. Uh these are resources to make sure parents know what these assessments mean and what they mean for our parents and
supporting their children. Enroll reminders. I am not going to see these again, guys. You guys know these are up every month. >> Yes, you're good. >> So, am I okay here? Okay. >> Okay. State of the district. >> Okay.
>> I'm going to try this as strong as I can. So our goals and our priorities as you guys know is to impact our performance by 5 to 10% based on the things that we're looking to grow in as a community as well as targeted support for our
multilingual learners. As a district we are in a similar place where to where we were last year at this time. 48% of our kids are currently on or above grade level according to our I Ready performance across grades um three
through eight. Now, some promising things, our third graders have moved from 49% where they were last year to 58% this year. Uh so our third graders are in a different starting place uh middle midpoint place to where they were
last year. Our grades six, seven, and eight have also demonstrated progress. Two grade levels that we are going to be emphasizing throughout the remainder of the year are grades four and five. Each of which demonstrated
um a reduction in terms of performance when we're talking about yearover-year, meaning three grade three students into fourth grade and grade four st students into fifth grade. we're not seeing necessarily the alignment that we want.
If we elevate those two grades, my my um analysis of data indicates that we're going to see increased pro performance across our grades based on mid-year results to this point. So, I'll talk a little bit more about what that means in a few minutes.
In terms of our demographic improvements, I already shows a small growth in our students, particularly our target groups, our black learners, our Hispanic learners. Um, our students with IEPs did grow by 2% year-over-year. Our Larners
did grow by 3% year-over-year. Um, in terms of acadians, and this is some really promising information, um, our kindergarteners, now there's still more kids to test, but our kindergarteners year-over-year have gone
from 51% proficiency to 60. Now, we still have more kids to test. So, this may change just as a we'll do an update in in March, but more kids to test. But current where we are with our kids that have completed already, we're at 60% for
our kindergarteners. Our first graders from 57% year-over-year to 61. And our second graders from 63 to 64. But when you look year-over-year, first graders last year to second graders this year, it's from
57% to 64% improvement, which is a really important part of our work. We want to grow our little ones as much as we can so they are prepared for the rigors of third grade, fourth grade, and so on.
Now, here's something important that we're also noticing. Our English language learners last year to this year went from 22% proficiency to 37% proficiency for our children for our
students with IEPs from 30% to 39% proficiency which was saying that we're seeing the progress of our kids based on the things that we're doing at the early grades to support improvement for our learners over time. our targeting
groups, our Hispanic learners are growing, our black learners are growing, which is really, really important for us at the district level. >> Reporting in progress. >> Um, priority two, there will be more to follow when it comes to this. Uh, we've gotten feedback from kids. We've gotten
feedback from uh from our counselors regarding adjustments that we might want to make to the survey before it's distributed again to our kids. So, more to follow on that. Our math program in our district goal is to
improve by five and 10%. What we are seeing is steady progress for our kids year-over-year when it comes to mathematics. We are seeing fall to winter progress. That's great. But I'm always looking at year-over-year. I want to know that our kids are improving
from one school year to the next. And not just uhoh. And not just in terms of fall to winter. I expect all our kids to grow from fall to winter, but it's about comparatively speaking where are those same kids year-over-year and are we
seeing improvement? Our third graders year-over-year from grade uh in grade three are improved by 9%. Our fourth graders by 11%. Our fifth graders by 1%. Sixth graders by 2%. third grader, a seventh graders, third
graders, you can tell where my head is. Seventh graders by 3%. Now, the last one I do want to make sure is clear. Not all of our eighth graders complete the I Ready assessment. They take the MAP assessment because it's more aligned
with the algebra regions. But last year, some of the kids that took both the algebra and took Ire. So, it's not an applesto apples comparison when we're talking about our midyear students in 8th grade. So, it's not as
accurate as I would like to give you, which also skews the overall change for our our students in mathematics. We are seeing positive outcomes, which I am happy about. A lot more room that we have to grow. And what you'll always hear from me, any progress we make is
always followed by and sadly for everyone that gets to work with me, okay? that we have to do better and we have to do more. Okay, our targeted subgroups um we are seeing improvements for our Hispanic learners. We are seeing improvements for um for our uh black learners. We are
seeing improvements for our IEP learners as well as our Larners. All seeing improvement from last year to this year. Tremendous amount more work that needs to be done for our kids across our district community though. Um this priority four I'm going to
update during our next meeting uh in terms of sofox but this one uh we do have a lot more work to do uh in terms of safer college I mentioned this last month one of our very own CEC members and our district team members have been going out to our
schools communicating with our families I sent out a wide gamma message to all of our kindergarten through fourth grade parents reminding them that this is an opportunity. We're going to continue to convey the message. Guys, we have $190,000
that's currently being left on the table across district 25 for children in kids grade grades K to 4 where they can earn $125 simply by activating an account. So, I want to continue to get messaging out there to our families so they know that
it's accessible. I'll keep messaging. I know Stephanie and Jenny from our team, continue to message. We bring it to our parent coordinators and I encourage all of you as CC members to get involved and share. And it doesn't mean that I'm saying that parents must. You're never
going to hear me say that parents must. I just want folks to be aware so they can make the choice versus saying I don't know about it. SO THE MORE WE can echo this, the better because if families don't know, they can't choose to activate. So, I'm going to message
THIS EVERY MONTH. I ENCOURAGE YOU TO MESSAGE IT every month so that we can support our families. Another parent survey will be coming out within the coming weeks. Uh particularly focused on communication around progress
for our kids and the amount of opportunities we provide in our schools. I'm really grateful for our buildings. They're opening up their spaces, whether it's through first Fridays, welcoming Wednesdays, together Tuesdays, open houses where parents are GOING INTO OUR
CLASSROOMS. They're being able to see what's happening on a regular basis, and it's making our families more and more informed around what our schools are doing to support their children. So, more to follow in terms of uh next steps based on survey results we get
from a future district survey. First is the school survey that comes from the city. Um there will be one from me and I just ask our families to know that I I know that they might get surveyed to death, but I'm just trying to get information from them. So do the best
that you can as parents to complete it. Chronic absenteeism. Guys, you know where I stand on this. I'm going to keep pushing it and pushing it. And it's not because I don't believe that our parents want our kids in school. It's not because I'm saying that I don't think
that kids get sick. I know that they do. However, when they are able, I want them in our buildings. Our chronic absenteeism rates, and I mentioned this to you back in November when I told you that we will exercise caution cuz we
were at 14% chronic absenteeism rates as a district. We are now at 19%. So from November to now in January, these are the months that become the trickiest because the colder months include more illness.
Um, you know, as weather changes, decisions around, well, it's cold out, not sure I'm going to get my child to school. Those are real things. Um, we want to make sure that our kids are as invested in their schooling as we possibly can.
So when you look at data like this and you see the gaps that we have now 19% is very high for me very high for our district in general as a district. We are still in the top two
to three across New York City when it comes to attendance rates. So our kids are coming to school. We just need to do better because what also is evident is that when our kids are not in school, it impacts their over overall
performance rates significantly across district 25. So if you're a child that's chronically out, you're less likely to be proficient as a reader and a mathematician. So, I'm going to keep echoing this and again, it's not because I'm telling any parent they're not doing
their job because I know that illness happens, flu happens, YOU HEAR ME RIGHT NOW. I SOUND LIKE A nut probably on the other side of it. >> But if our kids, >> if our kids are able and they're not contagious and they're not going to
impact someone else, then they should be present and in school. And that's going to be my message to everyone as much as I possibly can. Okay. And I think I'm hoping Oh, these are the what are we doing? Right. So, there's going to be an ongoing focus on
our uh middle ofear um data across our district, making sure that we're focusing on specific grade levels. All grade levels are important, but the ones that demonstrated this most significant uh gaps for me right now are grades four and five. So, our schools and our team
members are going to be connecting with our teachers about this around where do we see some of those concerns, uh, focus walkthroughs from the district, um, strengthening our work in Aadians, continuing our supports for our L's and IEP students, um, and revisiting our
current plan for granting absenteeism. I identifying areas that are working and um more importantly things that haven't been working and making adjustments over time. Um so supporting schools and refining our plans, making sure our instructional
team is out there and targeting specific uh grade levels um and monitoring pro PROGRESS AS WE DO. AND YOU KNOW, I'M ALWAYS going to inform you guys on a regular basis. And that is it cuz I got nothing left in the voice tank. If you have questions, I'd be happy to answer.
>> So, I have a question that was asked um by Veronica. >> Sure. >> She said, "For schools who were not selected to receive the arts funding, is there a particular process that they can apply or how can they express interest to be considered for funding opportunities in the near future?" >> So, yeah. So, what this is really not
necessarily about um schools applying for this particular money. What I have an opportunity to see is across the district, schools that do not have the capacity to manage this on their own. Um, i.e. prek center, they do not have
an exorbitant budget. Um, because they don't have an exorbitant budget, this is a way that I'm able to support them in doing so. Um, uh, other schools that were identified there are also schools that are not able to bring other
programs in on their own. Um, I know we have a representative from 244 here that's just listening in as an observer. Their school struggles with, you know, getting additional dollars. So, that is a way for me to contribute that. So, it's really based on me knowing the
schools themselves and the fact that they don't have the capacity to do it on their own. Um, and if there are additional dollars, certainly make them available. But the intention here is really to SUPPORT BUILDINGS THAT DON'T have the capacity to do it. um on their
own at this time. IF I'M BLESSED WITH ADDITIONAL MONEY MOVING FORWARD, we'll certainly make that available. These are conversations that we have at the district leadership team. We've had them here. WE'VE ACTUALLY BROUGHT THIS UP AT OUR PRESIDENT'S COUNCIL, VERONICA, AS
YOU KNOW, AS WELL AS DPAC. SO ANY OF THE THINGS that I do, it's always about communicating with the with the masses at large so that we can hear what you got, what your perspectives are, which is why the decisions were what they were in this particular case. >> Thank you. Does anybody else have any
other questions? Council members. >> I know. Anybody on Zoom have any questions? >> Anybody here? >> Not at this time. >> Thanks. Okay. Thank you, Dr. White. >> Oh my god. GOOD. I'M CHOPPING IT UP.
>> QUIT CHOPPING IT UP. OKAY. >> THANK YOU GUYS FOR INDULGING THAT mess that was just happening. >> You're good. >> Sounds like you need lemon and honey for your throat. >> So, I'm going to continue to pivot the order of our agenda for the night. And before I do my president's report, I'm going to turn it over for public
speaking. Our first public speaker for the evening, we have Adriana Villis from CCHS. Hi everyone. So, uh, my name is Adriana VZ. I used to be on the CC as well, multiple terms as president as well, District 26, but now
I'm the proud president of district 26 president's council. Hello, Veronica. Veronica knows me. Um, I'm also now a newly elected member on the CCHS, which is high schools, which is a whole different conversation, right? So, I have a couple things I just wanted to talk to you guys about. I'm going to
different CEC's with different hats and not just CC's, I'm going to president councils as well. So, my first hat I'm wearing as district 26 president's council president hoping to encourage I spoken to superintendent about this more collaboration and awareness across our
districts what we're doing from CCS to president's councils to bridge the gaps. Why are we living in bubbles? A great thing you're doing is a great thing we could be doing together. So I think that's a good thing for parents and for kids to know that if we did it here, we could do it over there as well. And high school is a whole different story. So if
we really adapt those collaborations now, we can do it in high school because high school is a mess. So um I'm also inviting uh the CEC president here and hopefully superintendent the uh our invitation will go soon for May 22nd on
legislative breakfast in district 26. And I always invite everyone across the uh Queens North because we want the collaboration and we want everyone to be on the same page in what we're doing with our electeds, with our families, with everybody. So, it's nice to work in community. >> Um,
>> can I ask you to just send me the the invite? >> I definitely will. You know, I will without a doubt. uh and then also to raise awareness at the legislative breakfast and other spaces. It's uh we all have similar concerns for our children whether it's
safety or prioritizing transparency and communication across our schools for our parents especially we can't get our parents into our meetings and I think the more we collaborate the more we're transparent the more we communicate that's how we get our parents on to our meetings and onto our PTA especially our
PTA meetings which I love my PTAs my second hat is CCHS Queens rep is only two reps per each burrow on CCH citywide council of high schools and I'm one of the queens reps. So I'm hoping to strengthen the um bridges for our parents between the middle school and
the high school because once we're in this beautiful space on the middle school, you go to high school and the parents are just lost. You guys do such a great job cuddling us. Say it's my district, district 26, but then we get to high school and we're lost and there's no of that communication and
none of that for our parents. So, I really come here to hope that we can strengthen those bridges and if you're in a high school to please speak to your principal to do something for the incoming families so that we can have the information and we can feel better about leaving our kids in whatever high
school it is across the city. My kids, my daughter just graduated from art and design. She's in Savannah College Art and Design. Thank you very much. I love art and my other son's a junior in uh towns in Harris. And my other son's an eighth grader, my last year and this 26 president's council and I don't know
where he's going. Prince Lewis, maybe aviation is our top choice. But the point is there's so many great high schools out there that let's not just limit ourselves to one or two right down the block, go across the city, share the information with our families because you not everyone has an academic child.
Not everyone has a sports child and there's so many great choices across our city, right? Um the other thing is advocate for more events where we can come together and prepare our families with transition. Exactly. Um Queens um CCHS is having we pushed hard our first
burrowwide meeting. We're going to go try to go to different burrows. I'm the Queen's rep. We're having our first Queens meeting for families. I hope you can all come. We're going to send out the agenda, whatever it is, the invitation April 15th to the Queens Gateway High School and Queens Gateway
Health Sciences. and that's April 15th and I'm hoping to see a lot of students there so you can hear what the high school students are talking about and prioritizing and we're having a panel hopefully and it's really about strengthening the middle school to the high school. That's what I really want to push on these conversations. Right. And the next hat I wear is a parent hat.
So you spoke about the cannabis cannabis especially at CC26 is that we opened they opened up a cannabis shop around the corner from one of our elementary schools in PS21. And it was literally within the uh amount of feet, right? Between 51 ft or something
like that. They were allowed to open it. Our families were up in it was a it was crazy. How are kids allowed? We have two schools, middle school 67, 221, walking through the cannabis. People are smoking outside. It's disgusting. Sure, it's legal, but what does that mean? Joe's
smoking. We don't want our little kids walking through this. So, we had a huge protest. And I appreciate the resolution, but at the end of the day, I didn't even know you didn't resolution. It would have been nice if we increase the amount of footage that we have. 50 is not acceptable. That's what we're fighting. We're looking to do 100 feet
at least. If we can't get rid of them, let's increase the the the foot the feet. So, uh, Senator Davo has a I'm coming here. Senator Davo has a bill S1244 to increase the school buffer from the current feet 500 feet to 1,000 feet
which I've been going to every PTA president's council whatever I can parents to please sign on. Senator Davo's leaving unfortunately but doesn't mean another senator can't take this help. So, please vote yes for that buffer to increase from 500 to 1,000 ft
because literally if I tell you the cannabis shop, which is legal, by the way, and I don't even want to get to there about the cannabis shops because our local electeds, it's fine. It's legal, but I don't think it's right in residential area, especially when our kids are walking through this. It's not right. But at least support the increase
of the buffers. It's literally around the corner, next to a library, next to a gym, next to it's like crazy, right around the corner. And this is not okay in our communities. Do student in a business or with area whatever it is but not by our kids. And middle school we
have about a thousand kids. Elementary about 600 and we're all walking down the same space. So I come here please as parent leaders please share. Please support the bill. I'm going to leave it on the table as well. supports it. I to Senate Bill S1244
and oppose the current line which unfortunately was part of your resolution to strengthen that. But I don't really like that one because it just says to strengthen what you already have. I would like to see it increased so that our kids don't walk through these cannabis shops locations and
they're popping up everywhere. They're right by um Cardoza High School. We have another one, Harris Harding. Listen, legal, I get it, but at the end of the day, you I don't know if you guys go to other neighborhoods like Corona or whatever it is, it's ridiculous the amount of cannabis shops, and I don't
understand how this is okay in residential areas. So, so with that, let's see. Senator, okay, and that's it. Well, I appreciate your time, guys. Thank you for your leadership and for the parent advocacy you guys are doing. I know it's tough, but um please, please support your PTAs and your parent leaders within the school and share the
information you guys have. So, thank you very much. Just so you know, um, our resolution came about actually from district 26, from our RC, but unfortunately it wasn't about what we wanted. We wanted to really, if we couldn't get rid of them, >> but I I definitely I get it cuz I was
just telling Shirley, I live on a residential street in Bayside, and you walk to the corner, you turn right, and it's right at the next corner. >> And it's right on a residential streets, which is why I felt so strongly to follow suit with District 26. >> And I get it. I get a business back in
the day. Why are we We always talk about most vulnerable and our most vulnerable are singers and our children and why no one supports our children. I don't have no idea. Our parents are so busy and that's the problem. They pass these laws when parents are so busy to take notice and then it's too late. So, this is why
I'm saying to please. Senator Davo has been amazing with this. And I don't know how you guys feel with the new governor coming, but I'm hoping that one of them takes a stance. And we know how Governor Hokush, she keeps pushing his cannabis shops everywhere. And I'm hoping that someone will say no to these cannabis shops because especially if you go to
our most marginalized communities, it's not okay to have all these cannabis cry because they're they're marginalized communities. I don't understand that. That's like opening a liquor shop every other. I don't understand why that's okay. So, I'm hoping that we can as parent communities and kids too that
that we support really really support our children, our families at the end of the day when we can. >> Thank you. >> Thank you for that. >> No, definitely. Thank you. >> All right. Thank you guys. Lamar, I know you have your hand up. I will I will call you in one minute. Uh
Joe, >> thank you. Hi everyone. Um again, I want to thank you for the work that you do. Um I know you had the election and congratulations to Grace, but um each and every day that you meet and I know
the question of how much time you put in um and as teachers we know and parents starting to see because it's big turnout when you're on the Zoom um that you're involved in the education of your child.
So um congratulations and do you have a full everybody? Yes, you have a full team. we officially have a full council again. >> Great. That really is great. And by the way, >> which is not common in the past years, >> right? That's that's what's really great about it. And um you know, the rest of the city, they're missing a lot of
people and things. So should be very proud. >> I'm going to stand corrected. We actually do have our D75 seat open, so I will stand corrected there. >> By the way, Dr. Mike is a trooper. I've seen him in much worse shape than this. This is nothing. This is not I even
shared it with Ume and um >> that is true >> but uh yeah but you know everyone's a team player like you know he could have stayed home um so I was happened I couldn't make it uh
today to the uh sports piece um over 185 but I did see last week um the games at Bleecker um it's an amazing what that school does you know it's and the kids are so well behaved and um the
sportsmanship and it it's really a tribute to Diana Stein um and all the sports and as I was coming over here on 1010 wins on the top stories it says that pickle ball is coming to a public school near you. So I don't know what
that means it's in high school if it's coming down here but that was one of the stories today. Um, I just want to finish with what we talked about last month about AI. Um, I reached out to Eden and we're going to work on it for a parent
workshop with the UFP about what this is about and to ease people's uh concerns, parents and and um uh even some teachers in terms of it, what's going on. But um the city is going to come out with some
guidelines. a guy coming. >> I just saw a blurb that was sent to the UF and it's they're working on it and should be out soon. But um over the summer uh they're still going to do this institute the UF with furthering um
hopefully more teachers come to it to understand what it's about and uh again it never replaces the individual uh teacher. Um and the last piece is many teachers are going to be invited to
Apple. Um once again Apple is um partnering with the uft at their headquarters and they're going to offer a lot of trainings over the summer. And what I understand from Mary Vicaro who's the vice president of education is that
teachers that participate will benefit their school. Now, I don't know what that means in terms of maybe computers or stuff. Um, but that's what they're going to work with. Um, I've seen it before. Um, Apple is a great partner and
so we're hoping that the teachers come out to it even though it's a summer. Um, but um, it will benefit the schools. She emphasized that. So, um, that's about it. Does anyone have any questions? Anything else that you need to know?
>> Thank you. Thank you. >> Thanks, Joe. >> Lamar, take it away. >> So, hi everyone. Good evening. And man, I am kicking myself. I picked the wrong Wednesday to not have a district consultation meeting cuz Dr. Mike just
been asking you questions all day. All day. >> Exactly. Right. Oh, thanks a lot, Lamar. Appreciate it. >> Oh, I picked I'm looking at the calendar. I'm like, h wrong Wednesday. Good to um and and I think that's a testament to your dedication and your
work. So, as much as I I I've been where you've been, but I I appreciate the tenacity to keep moving. So, thank you, sir. >> I appreciate you, Lamar. And I won't blame you for getting feeling like this, just so you know. It might be your fault >> cuz you would do cuz you would do the same.
>> I'm teasing. Good evening, everyone. How are you, Lamar Hughes? Um, it's good to see you all again. I don't think I saw you in January, so as we're in the February cutoff, happy new year. I have two very quick announcements to make. Um, the first one is in regards to what
we're working on in our um in our union in relation to the um our members that we're always supporting and representing and such is um tier six. So, I bring this up as a call to action, and I'll get to that point in a minute, but if you're unfamiliar with tier six, it's
our um retirement tier system that if you worked in the DOE system, or at least in the city, I believe after 2012, you're considered a tier six member. And the reason why this is so near and dear to us as um DOE employees, as members,
as UFT members, is because the number to reach in terms of your retirement uh years of service in the city is 40 years. >> Ouch. >> So, I'll put it in context. If you're a 24 year old, let's say, nothing wrong
with 24 year old teachers, and they've got the energy and the drive and the the love and the everything else, and you can get to 40 years. You can, right? But if you flip it, we have to be honest with ourselves. We have career changers. We have people who came into the profession a little bit later on in
their lives. And some people have started in our profession as a tier six member at age 40, for example. The 40-year number still applies to get your full pension and benefits at retirement. So, as a union, we partnered up with um
other teacher school districts across the state. This is a huge huge endeavor for us and um we're on a fixed tier six campaign. So essentially we would like the tier six which is 40 years I'm sorry
and or age 62. you have to reach 62 and reach the 40 years if I'm not mistaken. And that's you're eligible for your full pension, right? But in tier four, it's 55, age 55 and 30 years. And that's what
we're focusing on there. So if you go into your schools, if you go into your child school, you may see some fixed tier six posters, you may see some people, you know, in in the move. If if if you come across a uft bulletin somewhere in the building, you may see something that's related to fixed tier
six. Um I bring this up because on March 8th, we're having a rally where we're going up to Albany and we're going to be partnering up again with other school districts, really making our voices loud and and heard. There is a
possibility that we may have space available for parents outside, you know, parents who would wish to participate and who would wish to come along and show their support too. We don't have a 100% um confirmation on that, but it is out
there. So, I just wanted to put the bug in your ears now. And if you're a city employee and you fit under that tier six pattern and you know what this means for you, you know, maybe you want to spend the March 8th with us up in Albany with about 10,000 teachers and you know, we
can um do our best do our part for our TS reform. So, I just wanted to put that date in your ear if we get um busing available for parents. Still working on that. Not 100% there, but you know, if it's out there, I just wanted to put the bug in your ear first. We'd love to have
your support. So, that's one. The other announcement I want to make and um Eden I'm gonna pass this flyer on to you when when you know later on in the evening or tomorrow morning there is a meet the president >> at central office February 9th this
Monday February 9th for um CEC members for your board here that you and congrats all to have just elected. So it'll be available for you if you are interested in attending. It's um February 9th. I believe the start time is 6:00 p.m. down at central office
which is 52 Broadway. So I'll get that flyer out to you Eden and you can give out to the other CC members. >> Perfect. Thank you. >> Okay. And thank you all. I will see you in our travels in school. You have a great evening. >> Thanks Lamar. >> No problem. >> Is there anyone else on Zoom that is
looking to speak or have a question or anything? >> Not at this time. Anybody here want to chime in? Anything else? Okay. So, with that being said, I'm going to move into my president's
report. I don't have too much, but I want to bring this up actually during the calendar meeting so that we could hopefully vote on it. Um, as you can see, we tried to change around the setup of the room tonight based on some feedback that people felt they were behind us and not able to see us. So, we
did try to put some seats on the side, give people the option to still be back here, and we're still playing around with that idea. Based on that though, we also have looked into different systems that we could actually purchase um in order to have a device that will be the
cameras centrally. So, if we wanted to turn ourselves around, we could. So, this way we're including everybody. Um, the members did get an email over the last couple of weeks to look at different types of conferencing systems and I wanted to open the floor for us to
quickly discuss those four item and hopefully we can come to a vote on which one we would like to get ordered so that Egypt could get that order in for us. So, the first one is the Logitech group video conferencing system with expansion mics, which is $1,249.
Then we have the conference cam video conferencing camera, also by Logitech, for 22808. Then we have the Pot video conferencing camera for 54868. And the last one, which I personally think from my research seems like one of
the better ones for us, is the meeting owl 360 smart v video conference camera, which is 80822. So, I want to have the council members share feedback on what they've thought about these, what they've looked at, and hopefully we can go to a vote on this.
>> Uh, personally, I'm not a big fan of Logitech products. I find that they're allergic. Uh, I like So, just in my experience, I find the Logitech stuff to be not the best. So, um, we'll do one. >> Anybody else?
>> Um, we use the Owl at work and it depends on how many people you have and how large the space is that you're using it in. Uh, I think if it's like just in this area, it' be okay, but if you're talking about the entire room that that's it's not going to work very well. So that brings So if we were to turn our
table around and have it set up so that we could still have people here and we face this way and then the people on Zoom could still see us basically. >> Would that work based on what you've experienced? >> Again, I think it just if you're talking about this and all the way to the windows
that's >> I think like the half room basically like we've done. >> Yeah, but I think that could >> that's good feedback. That's why I I wanted to ask more. Anybody else? >> How would we see a screen though if we were to face the other way? Just trying to envision.
>> We would be able to see that one I believe. Correct. >> Not very well. >> Right. >> Be on an angle. >> Yeah. It would be a little bit of an angle. >> But then Dr. Mike also mentioned a previous setup that was used I guess before my time. >> Years ago, they used to set up the the U
was in the back of the room. Um so we were facing the audience this way. The chairs were set up on this side facing that direction. So you would have access to both screens. You can see that screen over there. And then you would be able to see the screen. We' be able to look
forward. Nothing's optimal. But with the chairs on that side, you'd at least be able to face the audience and still see the screen on the side. >> So with something like that, I think we would need to possibly have just a microphone that could reach a little bit further back, but we'd have to be able
to set up back there. Yeah. >> Instead of from there. >> And then we might not need this system. >> I I mean I don't know. This is really a funky little system that we have going. >> I know. It was hard to like reach it
tonight. So if you got it >> 30 foot cable. >> Um I'm sure they have a longer. >> Can I ask your input there? If we were to move back how we can uh make this microphone work if we didn't go with something else.
So, so yeah, if you you could definitely move move your setup to the back of the room. You would just have to use a laptop for Zoom, which is fine. >> Um, and the Owl is I've never used it
myself. It is It is the easiest as far as it's plug-andplay. Like, it's a single unit. The other things that I shared um are just different solutions that are a little bit more complicated. Um especially the ones that have the the sound. Sound is
the most important thing. You guys can look blurry. Who no one cares if we can hear you? That's all that matters, right? And I I would like the chat chat, which is more important to you, sound or video? >> Both. Honestly,
>> they're going to say sound. So, yeah, there you go. >> They're going to say sound. They're going to say sound. >> I'm seeing it right now. >> One of those things that I I I I listed was like a unit that like goes in the center of the table and then like has like other microphones that go out from
the sides. That's to capture sound from all parts of your of the table. >> Yeah. >> That's the one with the expansion mics, I'm guessing. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, that's only reason why I picked that because it's sound the the alo the Owl. >> Owl.
>> The owl might have good microphones. I don't know. And if it's right in the middle of you guys, it might pick up everything. What is our friend that used it at work? Is it good for sound? >> Well, that's kind of an issue as well. Like if people start talking like side
chats, it will pick up like focus on that. >> Yeah. >> Well, I feel like that will be something that we deal with any in any with any microphone setup. If if even if we buy the other microphones, if someone on the side is having a conversation, we're going to hear it. >> Yeah. >> So,
>> just because the camera will then focus on >> focus on whoever is talking. >> Oh, got it. Right. Because the camera uh camera rotates, right? >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. Like that. >> Listen, I I I definitely think the Owl would be a good a good choice. I mean, it's it's just it's easier. It's plug.
It's plugandplay, you know? It's a single device. We're not worrying about lots of wires and stuff like that. Um, but that's the only reason why I chose the other options was because I liked the the kind of what they were doing with the audio. >> Okay. Thank you. So, based on that,
>> can I ask if we were to get the owl and find that the sound isn't up to what we want, could we separately get some mics and have it all together? >> Yeah, I'm sure they have separate mic stuff that we can order. I mean, that's how this piece came about. Yeah, I could
look into I could look into that and see what what the owl allows. Yeah. >> So, based on that, does everyone think we want to try to get something or do we want to try moving back and seeing how that works? Like what what's everyone's thought process? Cuz if we need to vote
on it, I would like to do that tonight cuz we are if we have to move any funds around, we have to work on that later, too. So, I do agree that we need to update because this is even with our guest. It's tricky and tripping over.
So, maybe I do think we need to upgrade. And um the owl looks good. I agree with Stephan. The the login tech haven't had good good relations with that company. >> I I think we should upgrade just for
future. >> Okay. Does anybody else have anything like where they don't think the owl is a good option? >> Isl wireless or wired? >> I don't know. I don't set it up. I just >> I think it plugs into was the question
about is it wired wireless? >> Yeah. So, I definitely think it needs to be plugged in. >> Okay. >> Both to the computer and probably to power. >> Yeah, >> that would make sense. Okay. Um, is everyone comfortable doing like just a show of hands, yes or no, rather than
going through a full roll call with this? Okay, >> I'll go with the majority cuz I'm not a techsavvy person. >> I'm not. I'm not. >> So, just pick you. >> Amy, what about you before we go and
vote as a group here? >> Hi, I I really have no idea. So, >> okay. Totally fine. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Um, then we'll go with if you are okay with going with the owl, raise your hand.
>> The owl. >> Yeah. If you're in favor of the owl. >> Okay. >> Okay. I said owl because initially everyone was saying the owl was good. So, like I said, majority rules. So, I'm with owl. >> Okay. Thank you. So, we'll go ahead and
do that. We have the line item already there for supplies. So, okay. Other than that, I don't have anything else in my president's report. Um,
any last >> no minute statements from anyone? Okay. Everyone want to make a motion? >> Yes. >> Shirley and Steven. 9:06. We're going to take two minutes and then we're going to move into the business meeting because it is 9:00.
>> Present. >> Present. >> Present. >> Angela >> present. >> Present. >> Present. >> Present.
>> Present. >> Present. present >> present and then >> yes I lost Grace but I did ask her to come back up so hopefully she will be joining us back. Um if everyone could
just take a quick second to look at the minutes from last month and let me know if there's anything that stands out or if we could adopt the minutes. I do believe that you guys. >> Yes. >> Speaking of minutes, someone's asking if
she can get a copy of the minutes. >> Those are available on our website. So, after tonight's meeting, these will get worked on from this meeting and those will go up on the website. But currently, the January ones will be the ones that are up for you to see.
I don't know who this person is. >> Um, so yeah, the only thing would be resolution number six that we voted on tonight needs to be added to section seven. Um, but other than that, everything looks okay to me. Does anybody else see anything? So, we'll adopt it with that
being added in. Awesome. Thank you. So, we're going to move to the treasures report in a second because I want to cover some of these other stuff that's going to actually affect our treasures report. Um, so first step is anybody do
any school visits in the month of January that I need to know about dates and schools. >> U PS24 and date I will get back to you right away. But, um, they're in great shape. The only thing that they like could do could use is a new boiler because it's
the original one. It's very old. But seriously, school's in excellent condition. >> And you got to be on there today with us for another call. So, um, anybody else that had a school visit in January? >> Oh, sorry. Date was January 20th.
>> January 20th. Perfect. Thank you. >> Okay. Um, I visited PSMS 164 on January 22nd. >> Perfect. >> And, um,
their school was built in the late 40s. It's covered in scaffolding and apparently it's passed due to the scaffolding taken down. Um, and uh, yeah, it was in kind of rough shape. I mean, there were things like
there's a what was once a theater room. It has sinks in the room itself, and they're being held up by a stack of those like plastic buckets you would get from Home Depot so that the sink doesn't just collapse. The mirrors that were behind the sink have fallen off of the
wall. They had a classroom where raccoons got into the building and took up residence in the ceiling. And >> that is true. Uh the kids had to have class somewhere else until the raccoons could be gotten rid of and then
the ceiling completely I think redone because they left a mess behind. I mean it was just like a lot of things along those lines like the science lab looks nice but they don't actually have like sinks or safety equipment that they would need to actually have like
scientific experiments in there. Um, so and oh, I guess I should back up and say it's both an elementary school and middle school. So that's the PSMS. Um, so it's a pretty big school, but they don't seem to have the space that they need. Like a lot of the classes,
especially for the special education are in the very small rooms that used to be offices or something else that have been repurposed. >> Okay. Thank you. So, the reason why I said I wanted to wait for Shauna to give her treasure report
is because I know we said we were going to talk about the award ceremony tonight. >> Um, we do want to get this order in sooner rather than later because it is crucial. We do have on the table, if you look, there's a few of them around. This was the medals that were given to the
children last year and to the staff as well as the staff received these notebooks which were awesome. >> Um you can pass them around. >> Yeah. And the students get a certificate as well. And then this was our program
of the night or part of it. >> All the other stuff is missing. Um, >> we're we're missing the the names, but it's okay. Maybe the other version has it. Mine doesn't. In this program, we put all the kids names. Your copy, I
think, has it with kids names in it. >> It's just mine that doesn't. >> Um, so that is something we will work on. But specifically, we need to come up with our Joe Kesler award recipient. And the new award that we created last year
was the community recognition and appreciation award which was given to Esther Moludo. So I think that we should continue using that award in her honor just like we've done with Joe and the Joe Kesler award. So there were multiple
plaque ideas that uh Egypt sent out for us to look at other ideas for gifts. I just want to see based on feedback. I know there were some comments in our email chat. I just want to see if anyone has any feedback on anything specific that stands out because we want to get this order in as soon as possible. And
also, we did do something with getting names last year for the Joe Kesler award. I don't remember how we went about sending that out. >> Um, share it with Diana and then Diana some recommendations. >> Okay. So, what we did do last year was we had Diana Stein actually give us some recommendations on people that fit the
Joe Kesler award. Um, and then as a council, we looked at those candidates and we made a selection. So, we can go about that the same way. I could ask for her to give us names again for that one. But then I also would like us to think about who we want for the community
recognition appreciation award. Um, if there's somebody that we know in the district that stands out from the district team like people that somebody that's here, things like there's all different things. You can keep that one there. um >> for an award for community recognition and appreciation.
>> I can't hear. >> Sorry. >> No, we're not saying anything. Sorry. >> Okay. >> Charlie was just asking me a question. >> Are we don't know if she's still on? Is she Um, I don't think that would be a fantastic woman. >> Yes, cuz I really want to work.
>> If she's not on, I don't want to say unless she's not there. >> Okay. Is she on there? >> She logged off. I think >> you've not seen her now. >> No, we're purposely we're just checking something. Sorry. So, um, Shirley was just bringing up a name to me that I wanted to make sure before we said it out loud. Um, >> I think
>> most of you guys have seen her on our meetings. Um, Arlene Flechman, >> who is >> she was on earlier. >> She was on earlier this evening. She actually did this tonight. >> Um, Shirley was saying she feels she might be a good candidate for that award. Dr. Mike actually happens to agree.
>> I agree too. >> Um, but I want to hear feedback from everyone. I >> feed the faithful. >> The reason why I want to nominate her is she's a true true advocate for this district. I strongly we I I learn a lot from her too and she still continues to
attend our meeting, make sure that we are doing the right things for the parents and you know students and I just feel like she's the perfect candidate for this award and I would say I mean just the fighting she did alone for 242
and the parking situation it it was I used to live on that block um many moons ago already. Um, and I know firsthand how intense it could be there. And to see somebody be able to make that much of an impact for a school community is definitely
something important. And I think there's more that she has to do. And she started with PTA and she was the education council and >> she slowly moved along >> at least 20 30 plus years. >> So what did she do exactly with the parking situations?
>> So she direction changes. >> Yeah. If you look at 137th Street on the other side, um, where 242 is, instead of it being just a two-way street with double parking on each side, now the side closer to her building, cuz she
actually lives on that block, is all diagonal parking and only one side of the street is straight parking. So, it gives a little bit more room for people to park. It opened up more spots. It opened up like safety issues were resolved. >> It serves as um the education point. board,
>> the community board. >> Yeah, she's part of community board. Um, >> she was she was part of district 25 for a long time as the board president. >> Um, >> 242 was built because of the work that she had done. 244 was built because of
the work that she had done. Um, >> she's had a very large impact. >> She's always I mean, she's always advocating for district 25. >> Yeah, she seems to >> She's always on Zoom cuz it's >> Yeah, that's why I said she's the faithful faithful. talk to her. >> She just doesn't come in person cuz it
is later in the evening. So I think easier on Zoom knowledge and she always teach us. She makes sure that we do the right thing and the students. She's a true student. >> Is anybody opposed to that or have any
other person that they would want to recommend for it? >> Cuz you guys might have just made that really easy. >> Literally grew up on this corner so this is a huge change. You're experiencing it also. >> Well, I do still see some cars go the wrong way.
>> They're probably not used to it still. >> They're just ignoring it, waiting for a ticket. One of the other. >> So, I have a name there. I will have Dr. Mike ask Diana to give us some names to look at for the Joe Kesler Award. >> Does anybody have any feedback from the medals and different gift items that you
guys have looked at on what you saw as a preference that stood out to you? >> I like these. or >> like the metal you're talking about? >> Yeah, the metal and the little book. I think they're >> I just don't know that we because we try
to get something different each year to the staff. >> So, we did a special pen one year. >> We did the book with the pen last year. I know one of the things you sent out was a tote bag. >> Yeah, there's tote bag umbrella. >> An umbrella.
>> And I have to say I I think the umbrella thing was kind of nice. Like I'm not too sure what >> did she ever get it? No. >> I thought we did. >> Yes. >> The year she had the baby. >> We did. >> I think so. >> I'm pretty sure not. I think >> I think it was because she was coming.
We brought her in after she had the baby even though we gave out. >> Um >> we had a lot of tote bag left over too. >> But no, I think the umbrella thing I happen to like I I've seen it done at 193 for the teachers for teacher appreciation and the teachers loved it.
>> But that was just an idea. The tote bags are also good. >> I mean, if we want to look for a different type of stationary type thing similar to this and still go along with this idea, I'm okay with that, too. >> I would prefer an umbrella over a tote bag. We're We're all inundated with tote bags right now.
>> Umbrellas are always so handy. >> Exactly. >> I can only speak for myself that I'm very picky on my preferences for tote bags. So, >> agree. We'll have to see how many. Okay, we're going to see how many notebooks we actually have still because
if we have enough, we can still use them and maybe add the umbrellas to it. >> Would that be a nice >> idea? >> Yes, umbrellas are practical. >> Oh, that's for the Joe Kesler and the other one. >> What's the budget? >> Like we're talking about like $5 per
item or $10. >> Well, supplies is also going to be the owl. >> Yeah, owl. But the reason why I'm bringing this up is because when Sha goes over her treasure report, we might need to move some money around to different line items. So that's why I wanted to kind of talk about this first. >> So
we've spent Do you remember how much we spent last year >> on the stuff? >> I'll give you an estimate of what we spent last year, Kent, >> to give you an idea of what we kind of spend on that stuff. >> Yeah, I'm buying anything that's not a water bottle or a codeex. Makes sense.
>> And the umbrellas do come in handy. I'll show >> I do think though, however, >> mostly cuz I tend leaving mine everywhere I go. >> Any type of metal that we could do something similar with this, I'm okay with. I don't know if anyone has a preference on a style of metal, but >> I can't see the metal.
>> That's why vision is take a picture and send it to her. >> No, you just have to give it to um >> It's not. >> Thank you. >> 2015. So, we spent a little over 2,000 last year on all the gift items and the
plaque. >> Are we allowed to get a sponsorship? >> Not really. >> Yeah. >> There you go. >> Angela, look at the camera. >> I'm looking. Thank you so much, Dr. Mike.
>> See the top of my >> This comes out of supplies. >> So, this would come out of either supplies or You can move some >> media expenses. We do have extra technically in the reimbursements from what we were calculating. So we could
move some of that around if we want. >> Um I >> always think will be good enough. No, >> we'll be okay in the supplies section to cover it. I just want to make sure. So we'll have her look at the pricing for
the umbrellas. We'll see how many of these we have because it's usually one teacher per school. Occasionally we've had a second teacher, but usually it's one teacher. Um, and then I will see about which medals are the closest to this Egypt. Whatever's closest to this
style. >> I don't know if they have the exact same ones or not. >> Do we like this exact one and want to stay with this style? >> I like it. It's simple, but >> we could change the color of the logo. >> Yeah. Yeah. How much is this? by
>> I don't remember how much they were. >> Did you have a concern budget >> about what >> did you have like a specific concern? >> We definitely have the budget. We have this is something we plan for every year. So we have the budget. We have the room for it. It's not something >> No, I'm just check.
>> Okay. Um so we'll look at that. I'll have her send us some final ideas based on that. So, moving on from there. >> Can you guys see my um message in the chat? I don't want to interrupt. That's why my message. She's That's her vote.
>> Okay. I'll look back at that one online. >> Okay. Okay. And so, with that, I'm going to turn it over to Shauna to give us the current treasures report, and then I have some recommendations I wanted to make. And if anyone else has anything, we have to make any changes by March 2nd
to the budget. So, reimbursements, we have a balance of $7,69. Meeting expenses, $1,568. Pee card still has $500 on it. Supplies, we have $5,400.
And for equipment repairs, we have $12 remaining. Okay. So, based on that, there's no equipment that we need repaired right now. So, I think we could move that $12 right over to meeting expenses is just my recommendation cuz why not? It's an
easy $12 to move. And being that meeting expenses does cover anything like food wise that we're getting for the meeting, things like that, we want to make sure that everyone has something cuz it is right around dinner time for us. So, I would say being that I know we have extra in the reimbursements cuz Egypt and I were looking at that. If we wanted
to move an extra like thousand out of reimbursements, we can and we still have enough there for everyone to get their reimbursements. So those would be my recommendations. Does anybody have any other thoughts? >> Uh how about PE card? That stays the
same. Does the PE card actually get used? >> It's there. >> The card is for the buten. >> So like if we needed to get like a case of water or something and needed to run
across the street, that's where something like the PE card would come in handy. They cannot go over $250. >> Yeah. 20050 >> at a time. >> One transaction. >> But I think by move if we took a,000 from reimbursements, put it in meeting expenses, that goes towards anything else meeting expense wise we want for the rest of the year. If we decide and I
think supplies is okay where it is to cover the award ceremony, the owl and let's say we want to order anything else to give away like cuz I know the wellness event we are going to be talking about. We do have the stress balls that we ordered last year and water bottles that we will definitely give out this year since we didn't get to give them out last year. they came
too late. >> Um, and some of the pens, so we will use them this year. Um, however, in case there's something else we want to get to give out, I think we're good in the supply line, >> but I would say let's move a little bit from reimbursements to meeting expenses and get that equipment repair line
eliminated and put into the meeting expenses. >> Um, if we won for the war night, we could order some, you know, refreshments, too. So, but >> that would go under meeting expenses. which is why I'm kind of leaning towards
>> moving a little bit there. Does anybody have any thoughts or anybody against that? >> Okay. >> So, the thinking is that we might be spending more on like refreshments and stuff for awards night. >> No, not necessarily awards night, just in general to put extra there as a buffer.
>> Okay. I'm just thinking since we've spent less than half of the budget, it doesn't seem like we're going to have any issues on that line. I just know that we have extra in the reimbursement. So, I'm trying to put it somewhere that if we want to let's say order something, let's say we want to like we have these pens that we ordered
and the stress balls that we ordered or the water bottles, we can order that stuff under meeting expenses or supplies where we can't order it under a different budget line. >> Yes. >> So, that's why I'd rather put a little buffer there >> so that we could maybe buy something even if we use it for like the following year and we buy it this year in preparation for next year. Something
like that. Um, in the past they've had backpacks. We didn't like the color. I would like to look into different backpacks at some point. Um, that maybe right before school we do something and like we have backpacks that we can give kids or something like that. >> Certain like you know places
little more there's more little >> you have more wiggle room there because the reimbursement line is literally only for reimbursements. So that's why I'm thinking if we move a little bit there, we'd be safe. And being where we are in the year, each and I did some
calculations, we should be more than enough in there. >> So my recommendation would be that we vote to move a,000 from reimbursements into meeting expenses and move the 12 from equipment repairs into meeting expenses and eliminate the equipment repair line. So I'm going to ask that we take a vote
on that >> unless anybody has a different suggestion. Egypt, you want to go through? >> I'm sorry. >> Does Did you hear what my >> Yeah, I was writing it down. >> Okay. Yeah.
>> Okay. So, we're doing all in favor of the budget modifications that you just spoke about. >> Yes. >> Yes. Yes. >> Yes. >> Yes. >> Yes.
>> Awesome. Okay. Thank you. So $1,000 $1,12 will be moved into the media expense line coming out of reimbursements and equipment repairs and then the owl will be purchased through the supply line. Um and then we'll start
working on these award ceremony orders. I will work with >> Just bear in mind that the purchasing window closes, right? That's why we want to get this in and like that's why the budget had to be changed by March 2nd. So, I wanted to bring that up.
Okay. Before we plan for next month, I wanted to talk, we're only going to talk about resol one resolution right now because I know the other one we might want to make some changes after hearing the presentation today. So, I think we should wait on that one, which is resolution number eight. Angela, I think
we're going to wait till next month to talk about it. This way, you could be here. >> That's good. Um but resolution number seven is being presented by Shauna. Shauna, if you want to speak on that a little bit and explain a little bit to us.
Sure. Um so I uh my kids schools do not have librarians and as I've gone on school visits, I've only been to one school so far that has a library um in this district. Uh, it turns out I think I've put it in the resolution that there
are like four out of the 32 elementary and middle schools in this district that have a librarian, which is pretty typical for um the New York City schools in general. Um, and it just seems like, you know, obviously, you know, I'm a big
fan of books and reading. Um, I think with the HMH into reading curriculum, the kids don't read any full novels anymore as part of that curriculum. And so I think it's extra important to have a place where they can go and pick out books to read that they are interested
in um, and not just have the classroom instruction. Um, obviously not everybody, you know, their parents are going to be taking them to the public libraries or that they have that access at home. Um, but I think, you know, libraries aren't just about books and
school librarians are also there to teach the kids how to do research and to discern what's a good source from a not so trustworthy source. And I think that's especially important now um that there are so many not very trustworthy
sources of information and so many kids think that you know research is asking chat GPT the answer to their question. Um, so that is why I sponsored this resolution to essentially say that we should have librarians uh funded, school
librarians funded. >> Should be open to hang on co-sponsor. >> Yes, >> I would love to. >> Oh, we got >> I would love to as well. Sean, >> we got three co-sponsors there. Anybody else? >> My god, a lot of >> four lot of writers on that bad boy. Let's go. >> I would do that.
>> So, you got Stephanie, Christine, Angela, Steven, and Shauna. and Ken. Oh, there you go. >> As the saying goes, reading is fundamental. >> Okay. So, with that being said, thank you for bringing that. We will move into the planning for next month. Is everyone
okay with bringing this resolution to a vote next month? That's my first question. >> Yes. >> Yes. >> Okay, perfect. So, I have that. We'll continue our discussion of the award ceremony and starting the process and going over maybe what Diana gives us. >> Um,
>> she already texted me back. She's on it. >> Amazing. >> I have >> Christine and Angela. >> So, >> I'm sorry I missed that. >> No, we were just reiterating the names. >> Oh. Oh, I'm sorry.
>> We got Grace back. Hi, Grace. She didn't realize that we were >> Hi, guys. >> Okay, so we're just talking about next month's meeting. Um, we do have a resolution that we're going to be voting on. We're going to continue our conversation about the award ceremony at that point. Um, we'll have another
soapbox speech, I'm assuming. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Dr. Mike's presentation. Anything else? Has anybody reached out about wanting to present >> for next month? >> Yes.
Is there anything from my team that you guys would Yeah. Is there anything about >> that we want? >> I know we talked about MTSS. Be happy to bring uh and do >> any kind of presentation on that. >> Anything that you guys feel certainly let me know and we can work towards it.
>> I actually have something also. So, >> um I know you were talking about the state for college thing and how you're having like issues with some people getting. Are there any concerns that parents are bringing up about it that we could dissuade with some more information around it versus this program?
>> See that I say that one. >> So like you know what I I know there's like the awareness factor but you know there are some people who may have some like skepticism for some reason the program >> are there any like common questions or push >> like an FAQs >> that people are coming up with
>> instead of just like hey this exists adding on we've heard these concerns here's where we could dissu >> Yeah. There there's a list of there's a list of FAQs for parents uh that we do have available we could share with families too. >> I was thinking
>> maybe if you guys are up for it maybe they would want to do their presentation about inviting other people >> themselves >> and have them come directly >> present. Sure. >> Okay. We couldn't >> um I want to add on from Stephan. We do
school visits and there's like um it's it's not just the parents, it's also uh PC's. >> Yeah. >> Probably need a little bit more information because I want to personally state I think it's like they hear
building block one and they're on but I think a lot of people hear building block two and that's when they're getting >> confused, nervous, whatever. Then this part in the and then so we Jenny and I when we go to do school visits we emphasize even with the PCs when we the
here we just focusing on building block one which is just activating 100% >> and when we're saying building blocks two and three are optional and they can do it whenever they are ready and then when they are ready they can contact kids right directly for you know for more information. >> I think when people hear the program
>> and they hear like 1 2 3 4 is like >> it's a lot for people to hear. >> Yeah. And I think sometimes Stephen one one of the things that that has come up is about what personal information am I given >> um is often the biggest concern that families and the answer to that is
nothing. It's their that the students ID >> OS >> their o their student ID number their OS number and they activate it through their Nixa account and there's nothing else that they have to do >> um or that is asked of them. There's no social security numbers. There's no any of those things.
>> Dr. Mike, it's it's activated on the New York City Kids Res website, not >> I I just wonder if we might get some kids. I'm sorry. >> That out loud on the meeting. >> So, >> Jenny is willing to see about us having the person come. >> We have to summarize information.
>> Yes. The application. >> Oh, yeah. They haven't shared a date yet. >> Okay. >> Yeah. Maybe you guys know as soon as the publication. >> The other thing that I was going to bring up and maybe we'll wait to April to kind of bring it up is I ready specifically. I get the diagnostic
testing. I think it's a good assessment. I wanted to revisit what schools are doing with it other than the assessment time because I know for instance my daughter 40 minutes of math 40 minutes of reading every week and to me it's just busy work instead of them getting
real actual academic work where it could enhance the learning and I want to see where we can kind of do something with that. The research from I Ready will say is that when kids are on it 30 to 45 minutes a week in on their my path,
they're more likely to grow than if they're not from our from our sprinting that we did last year, which we're going to do again for kids that are one grade level below or on grade level to make sure that they sustain that. What we
have seen is that kids have in fact improved their outcomes simply by practicing for the 30 to 45 minutes per week, not a day per week. >> It's just cuz I feel like >> kids might not want it, >> how presented.
>> I think back to like how we learned >> and like we had worksheets and homework or we had to write something and physically do it. And I feel like for me, like I look at what my daughter's doing, I see the exact same stuff that my son had 2 years ago. >> It's identical. Like the same path, everything. And sometimes I see it come
up more than once. >> So the path is individualized based on where the kids are. So the program organizes itself based on how kids respond. So if they respond and they're struggling in a given area, it's going to revisit it so that kids eventually
get over the hump based on the instruction it provides. Now, do I think it's the end all be all and the only thing we should do? No. But do I think practice is something that's supportive? Yes. How we present it to children matters. If we present it to
them as though it's just something you have to do because I'm asking you to do it for 30 to 45 minutes is not as compelling to a kid as telling them that if we are organized and we utilize this time to support our growth, it changes the dynamic of why they're doing it. If
we present it like it's always just something you you know we're asking you to do what it feels like >> as a compliance space then a kid's going to take it as a compliant thing. I don't want to do something that you just want me to do. Because I've seen I've heard it actually come up at SLT meetings even like where parents have expressed this
concern and I'm like I get it. Like I I almost think like if it was 20 minutes math, 20 minutes reading to equal that 40 minutes. I feel like that makes sense. 40 and 40. >> What I ask for my what I'm prioritizing is reading. >> Schools at the school leadership team
level should be deciding whether or not they're doing it in both reading and math. That's up to the schools to be able to make that decision. My ask is that we have kids that still struggle in reading and if we can give them a little bit of extra support and help in practice 40 minutes in a week, 30
minutes in a week is not a huge ask. >> So is there maybe something you can speak on in your presentation? Maybe a little bit more about I Ready then for us. >> I love talking as you can tell. >> When you get your voice back though, >> but maybe just so that to bring it up like rather than wait to another month, just have it in your presentation. an entire group of kids that sent me an
email last year uh expressing that they needed to speak with me about I Ready. >> Oh no. >> And they it was a group of 12 kids. And by the way, I love this. Just so you know, I you want our kids to be able to say, "Dr. None to come and talk to me
about." And we did have a whole long conversation about the reasons they didn't want it and why me sharing with them why the entry point for them could be helpful. So having a single story for a kid doesn't mean that they're right.
>> Doesn't mean that they're wrong either, right? >> They just have to have the clarity around why we're asking them to do it. >> If we're not clear with why we're asking them to do it, of course. Why would you want to get do extra work if you don't feel like it's important? So it's about making sure that they understand the reasons behind it and part of my
messaging to them will be around that to make sure that they understand that we're doing this as a means of helping them grow as readers. >> So I think not just to do it because Dr. Dona said I want you to do 30 to 45 minutes of work. >> No, I think adding that to maybe your
presentation next month and we could actually advertise that that and kids rise are the topics that are be might bring some more people online and in person. And then I know we're going to hopefully have more wellness day information. >> So, if everyone could take a look at their calendar, I'm hoping for the 18th
or the 25th of April. Um, Diana from our team is going to be connecting with and started the process. I just don't know the update yet. On either April 18th or 25th, um, and don't put any like tenative just noted somewhere that
works. Yeah. may be a potential opportunity for us to host this wellness day. >> And just so you guys know, as long I will definitely be there. Um, I would ask that some people come. If you could all be there, great. If you can't all be there, that's okay, too. >> But we definitely like it. I know Grace
last year actually did a yoga session for us. Um, if anybody else has something that they would want to host in like one of the rooms and we start talking about it. >> The goal is to make it bigger. We invited 300 people. 300 tickets were accepted and about 150 showed up. >> We want to grow that.
>> So we had the United States Tennis Association was there teaching lessons. We had the New York City Soccer Club teaching lessons. We had New York City Lacrosse Club teaching lessons. We had Office of School Food and Nutrition sharing food samples with families so
they knew what it was about. >> We had physical therapists. We had people from the mental health field. We had, you name it, we had people present. You might be able to do that. >> Unfortunately, we had three people in a room. >> We had folks come prepared, ready to
support a much larger group and the larger group didn't show up. >> So, we're going to increase the number of tickets knowing that we typically get about half based on our experience. And then we'll have a much bigger turnout for uh for the community cuz it was
really a terrific event. And it's not something because I organized it, my team did, but it was a great event. We should have more people participate. >> I will tell you, my son was three when we went last year. He still mentions it. >> Yeah. >> Cuz he thought it was really cool, especially because he had the meds there. >> Yes.
>> Yeah. No, that was a fun like they had activities for the kids to do everything >> for him. Um, no, >> I walked into the room with Grace and I saw a bunch of people on the floor doing yoga and I they looked like they were having a blast. Yeah. And I and I pitched last time like I would like us
to maybe have an open listening space to have people because I think part of wellness is also like mental health and advocacy like having people want to do I don't care like people coming in voicing their concerns or the CC that they may not be able to come on a meeting.
>> Grace has her hand raised also. >> Grace go ahead. >> Yeah. Um according with our last year experience we talk with the team about how can we deal to have an alternative
because you know as Mr. Daytona said um at the same time we were hosting a lot of uh terrific activities but with only a few people in every room. So
>> maybe if we can uh set an schedule where and avoid that the activities were running simultaneously so we can maybe have a better performance for our
activities. Yeah, I love that, Grace. And you know, I think um just forward thinking, getting the messaging out sooner than later, and then a followup for families with a wait list of whomever else would
like to come. Cuz if people give them a chance to say that, no, I'm not coming. If you're not going to come, I'm not. It's fine. But don't take up a space and then someone else can't go, you know? Um because they also don't want to make it so large where it's unmanageable and then we look like we don't we're not
organized. So it has to have some kind of a limit. I can't say 23,000 kids come with your families. I can't do that. It just wouldn't work. So we have to have some kind of a limit on what we're able to do. >> Say it again. >> Could we do time slots for for people
signing up? >> We could. I don't know if that would work, but I was just thinking like that might give you a gauge of like when people were planning on filing in and maybe a more of a commitment if they're supposed to be there 10 versus maybe I'll go that day. >> Yeah, I was just >> I have a question back. This has nothing to do with wellness. Do you think we
could bring somebody who could speak about state test because state test is coming especially I heard from one of the uh parents you know third grade parents brand new state testers they're very nervous especially it's typing now they're like my kids
>> they are doing practice in a lot of the schools I will say that >> so parents are very >> so maybe we could certainly do something on state testing for sure >> okay >> so I think we're in a good place for what we are covering next month. Does anybody have anything else before I ask for a motion?
>> I have two super quick things. Yes. >> Um, one, uh, I didn't want to take this effort without running about anybody else. I think it would be really good if we could reach out to the Queens Library to have them come talk about their programs at one of our meetings. They offer a ton of stuff for students. Uh, I feel like it's not known as much as it
should be and I may have somebody I can reach out to. I don't not saying for next month. I think >> I would say aim for like more April. >> That's what I'm saying. I think that would be fun. But I think it might be really good to have the Queen's Library invol and maybe even involve in wellness day um because they have they have so
many great things and I feel like a lot of them are just under attended because the the word and mostly the word is their websites. >> Yeah. And what what they typically are willing to do is um bring their uh traveling um >> Yeah. you know, >> and they also bring the stuff where you
could like get your library card if you don't have it >> library card and all that stuff >> because I I like and I just wonder like you know we had an audience might be cool talk about like the millions of resources. >> Can I second off my >> I agree. >> Uh yeah, also they'll
pass the pass. So, I think that'll be really awesome leading up to the summer where people are going to have more free time and people like >> April, May, >> we want to aim for that in April or May. >> And I know Ben, Natasha, you guys would probably have very busy student
schedules. >> But in terms of contributing to a wellness day, what are some things that you guys would see that maybe you would also like to contribute through the lens of being our high school students that are part of the CC? What would you see as potentially something that you would
like to contribute? Not saying you have to, but if there's a space where you feel like you can add your voice, we would love for you to be part of it. Um, and engage in the process of organizing. >> Okay. >> You said you had one other thing really quickly because they are going to kick us out in a few minutes. >> This might be acknowledging part.
>> They do kick us out. >> Huh? What happened? >> Do you do anything? because I know last year there was no like formal messaging that I saw and that really bothered me. I'm not gonna lie. >> So like if not that'll be a resolution on whipping it up. So I just wanted to
know are we planning on acknledging >> June? Yes, June. >> Yeah, of course. >> Cool. >> Got it. >> Awesome. >> Absolutely. >> Can somebody make a motion? >> Stephen >> and Christine, it is 9:52. Thank you guys. Sorry. I know it was a long one tonight.
me Christine. >> All right, guys. This was fun. >> Yes. >> Feel better. >> Feel better, Dr. Mike. >> Thank you, guys. I'm good. I'm good. >> You guys were nice. >> Just no voice. I think honey and lime if