You're good. Okay. Calling the meeting to order at 7:41 p.m. Thank you everyone for your patience. I'm going to go through quick roll call. Shirley Lee present. Christine Hang
present. Angela Harris present. Stephanie Colado present. Fabiola Abraham present. Shauna Williams present. Vincent Louu is not here right now. Mike Quintang not here and Eden Rubenstein
I'm present. Okay. So our first order of business is our elections. Um so my name is Eden and I'm going to be convening the annual meeting for the purpose of electing officers. We did go through our roll call. So article 2
section two of the council's bylaws requires that officers be elected by roll call vote at the annual meeting. To be elected, a candidate must have at least seven votes. Officers remain in position until their successors have been elected. The first order of business is to elect a chair prom to
chair the election meeting until the president has been elected. The chair prom must be someone who is not running for office in the election she or he is chairing. Since the first election is for president, the chair prom cannot run for president. Once the president is elected, he or she can take over running
the election from the chair prom. Are there any nominations for chair prom? We will accept self-nominations. Nominate myself. Okay. Anybody else? Okay. Second. Nominations for chair prom are now closed and we will proceed to a vote for
the chair prom. Do you want to do a roll call vote? Yes. Give me one minute. Let me pull up the form. I'm so sorry. Um, when we do it, I'll say that part and then I'll give one minute. I'm sorry. I'm trying to
pull up the roll call. I can start mean if you want. Okay. Thank you. Please. So, myself, yes. Shirley Lee, yes. Christine Hang, yes. Angela Harris, yes. Stephanie Colado, yes. Fabula Abraham,
yes. and Shauna Williams. Yes. Okay. Congratulations. Shirley Lee has been elected to share serve as chair prom and will conduct the election of officers for 2025 to 2026. I'll continue to elect the officers will vote upon each position before moving on
to the next so that any candidate not elected to an office can run for others. I'll take nominations and members can nominate themselves. If a member is nominated by another member, I'll confirm that he or she accepts the nomination. Nominations do not need to
be second. If a member is not present but has submitted his or her nomination in writing to the AA or another member, he or she will be treated the same as any member who is present, including having a twominut statement read aloud
by someone else. Each nominee will be allowed to make a speech of up to two minutes. Following the candidates's presentations, we'll conduct a roll call vote. All positions must be voted on even if there is only one candidate
where there are two or more candidates. Each member must make a choice and vote for one or the other. Example, John Doe and James Smith are running for the president. On the roll call, each member will vote for either John or Jane. The
council must not vote first on John, then on Jane. Members may abstain from voting. If no candidate receives at least seven votes from CC uh 25, we will vote by show of hands on whether to do a second round or proceed to the elections
for the next office. If a position remains unfilled over two or more rounds of voting, the incumbent will continue in the position. New elections for all unfilled positions must be put on the agenda of following month's calendar meetings until all the positions are
filled. Is the procedure clear to all the members? Yes. Yes. Good. First, we'll elect a council president. Are there any nominations for the office of president? I will nominate myself Eden Rubenstein for president.
Any other second nominations? Okay. Nominations for the office of presidents are now closed. I'll now call each candidates in alphabetical order to make a statement of up to two minutes. The AA will be the timekeeper. After all candidates have spoken, we
will proceed with the roll call vote. Egypt. I have a count. I have a counselor going. Okay. Good evening everyone. Uh my name is sorry. Awesome. Thank you. So I am prior president from last term. I'm on my now
fourth year as a member of the community education council and I am looking forward to working with all our new members. But I would like to continue to serve as a president as I've learned a lot the last year and I would like to continue to do everything that I've been doing alongside all our members. So
thank you. So, we'll do the roll call. Get the Do you have it now, Egypt? Okay. Okay. Uh, Shirley, yes. Christine, yes. Angela,
yes. Shirley, I mean, excuse me, Stephanie, yes. Fabiola, yes. And Shauna, yes. You got to ask me also. Oh, Eden, I didn't know that you vote for yourself, too. I'm sorry.
Yes, that's a forum. Congratulations, Eden. Rubenstein, who you have been elected to serve as a council president for 2025 to 2026. Okay. So, we're going to move on to nominations
for the position of first vice president. Are there any nominations for the position of first vice president? Anybody want? I'm going to nominate Shirley. She's sitting here so silently.
Oh boy. Will you accept the nomination? Yes. Okay. Anybody else interested in that one? Okay. So, surely you have a chance to make a statement for up to two minutes and Egypt will keep time.
You can say what whenever you're ready. I'm ready. Hi, my name is Shirley. Well, it's written as song Eli. It's hard to pronounce so you could call me Shirley. So this is my actually third term in a CC25.
I grew with this uh CC25. In the beginning I had no idea what's going on. Honestly, I was in a learning process and as I learn more, it made me keep going because this seed actually do makes change. We grow with other
parents. We grow with the community. And I just loved every moment of it. Yes, there was up and down. I'm not going to lie, there was a big up and down. However, we had a teamwork of parents and we worked together, especially we have a really, really great
superintendent, Dr. Mike over here. He's our strong back support. Any problem that goes around our community, especially with our kids at within our uh public school, we are there. So, I really love um having good teamwork and
I'm growing in here as a parent, but also as a uh our future kids advocate. So, I like to be a first president just to just to help more. But if there's any member who's willing to do more, I'm more than welcome to, you know, support
be a support as well. Thank you, Charlie. Okay, Egypt, we're going to go through a roll call vote. Okay. Eden, yes. Shirley, Christine, yes.
Angela, Stephanie, Fabiola, yes. And Shauna, yes. Okay. Congratulations, Shirley. You have been elected to serve as council first vice president for 2025 2026. We are
going to now move on to the position of second vice president. Are there any nominations for the office of second vice president? I'll nominate nominate Fabola. Okay. Will you accept the nomination?
I'm once involved. So basically, if I'm not here, she takes over. If she's not here, then the second vice president takes over. Put it simply, I will accept the nomination because as she stated, we're a team and I know that
y'all would definitely make sure I don't sound crazy or look crazy. So, I appreciate that. And y'all been so humbly welcoming. So, yes, I'll take the nomination. Is there anyone else for second vice president before we move forward?
Okay. Do you want to say anything else fabula or do you want us to just a vote? Okay. I'm giving you a chance. Um, well, this is new for me too. Um, and I care so much about my community,
my children, other people's children, and my goal is to progress. Anything that we can do to make a difference, I'm front and center. As you can see, I don't end the party. I start.
Okay. So, thank you for nominating me. Nominating me now after that. Yes. Thank you. Okay. So, Egypt, we can move to a roll call vote. I can't hear you.
Can you guys hear me now? Yeah. Okay. Eden, I'm so sorry. Shirley, yes. Christine, Angela, Stephanie, yes. Fabiola,
yes. Yes. And Shauna, yes. Okay, congratulations. Congratulations. You have been elected to serve as second vice president for 2025 2026. I'll make you proud. Next position we need to see if there's
any nominations for will be treasurer. Are there any nominations for the position of treasurer? Sorry to interrupt, but for those who are like confused on to what the role consists of, they are in the bylaws. Um, so you guys can run through to see what you guys will be um doing as far as
officers on the council. And also, treasure and secretary, you do have a lot of support from the AA, so don't feel afraid to like nominate yourself. Absolutely. is that like secretary and treasur are two different Yeah, we're gonna do them each separate.
So, I need somebody for treasurer that would be interested. Is anybody interested? Christine, would you anybody show us there? You go. Okay, we'll give you a chance to
actually have been a treasurer for a small professional organization in Seattle before and um so I have a little bit of experience and in that case I didn't have an AA so that would be great change. Um I think I'm fairly organized
and good at not afraid to deal with numbers. So that's me. Yeah. Okay, Egyp, we can go to a roll call vote. Shirley, yes. Eden, yes.
Christine, Angela, Stephanie, Shauna, yes. And Fabiola, yes. Okay, congratulations. Shauna, you've been elected to serve as treasurer for 2025 2026. Our last
position, last but not least, uh are there any nominations for the position of secretary? And I'm going to look in that direction because there's three of you there. Yes. I'd like to nominate Stephanie. Awesome. You'll take the Okay. Any other nominations? Okay. Stephanie, go ahead. You have two
minutes if you want to say anything. Um, do I introduce myself? Yeah, I do. Okay. That's a lot of things. Okay. So, um, you don't have to use all two. Don't worry. Thank you. I'm Colado. Um, this is my first year um participating in in in uh
as a PTA. secretary of my school. So, um I'm very honored to be the secretary to now the CDC. So, hopefully um I can use my skills and my background. Um uh I did mostly like social work, but um
I love working with kids now. Now that my kids are in the district, I enjoy participating more. So, I look forward to participating with you and my constituents and hope we can have a great year together. Awesome. Thank you. I want.
Okay. Egypt. Last roll call vote for now. Eden. Yes. Shirley. Yes. Christine. Angela. Stephanie.
Yes. Fabiola. Yes. And Shauna. Okay. Congratulations. You are our secretary for 2025 to 2026. So, congratulations to everyone. Um, just so you know, the position is one
year. Next year we reelect positions again. So, anybody who feels like they want to move around next year, anything like that, feel free think about it throughout the year. Um, the next thing on our agenda is public speaking. I don't know is you
want to say anything? Sure. Hello everyone. Hello. My name is Alvin and I was former CEC 25 member. I was in your position two years ago. Wow.
Uh served here for uh 2023 2025 until 2025 this year. I want to congratulate all the new incoming members. I want to congratulate the returning members D and Shirley. Hope you guys have much success in the next
two years. The next 24 months, you're going to see a lot of issues concerning public schools. So, be prepared. Okay? Okay. It's something that you learn along the way. Okay? You get to, you know, learn the workings of public
school education. You're going to meet a lot of people. Okay? Don't feel intimidated. Okay? Voice your questions. Voice your opinions. Okay. Most important thing is your kids need you. The city of city of New York kids public
education needs good CDC's. So once again congratulations to one of you. Thanks Alvin. Very successful two years. And Alvin will hopefully come visit us pretty deadly. My son's laughing. Just to add something
when you guys look into this folder we have all at the end there's a bylaws. Yes. So this is what we've been working on till the end and he is actually the uh member who was putting a lot of effort to make this. He was one of two members that really
Yes. So I mean this is something that we it's ongoing that we need to take on. So we'll look at it throughout the year if we want to do more changes things like that. So, but Alvin was a huge part of that and we were able to have our election
on the bylaws at our very last meeting of the year. So, just one thing, bylaws are no by. So, if you need to change anything, add anything to it, edit anything, please.
Yes. Yes. Anybody online that would like to speak? Arlene, Shane, Susan, Congratulations, new board. Look forward to meeting you. Yeah, that was Shane.
Okay, I'd like to congratulate everybody. Wish you well. If there's anything you want to know, you feel free to ask me. I might not have the right answer for you, but I could probably answer something.
Good luck to all of you. I I didn't introduce myself. I was the president of school district 25 and I was on the board for 27 years. So, um it's in my heart. It's in my blood. She lives right around the corner basically. I I I can't help it, you
know, and I have so many new little babies in my building and they're thrilled to be going to PS 242 and I keep telling them what a wonderful district this is and we always depend on the parents and that's what I was the PTA president, president of President's Council and then on the school board for
27 years. So enjoy yourself, learn about it and you know be open, be honest and voice your opinions. Good luck to all of you. Thank you, Arlene. And Arlene is just an amazing resource for the district. She she knows the
history of District 25, the schools that were built, a number of them. Arlene was responsible for making sure they get constructed, including 242, which is right across the street. Uh, so just a wealth of knowledge, but aside from the wealth of knowledge, just someone that you can always tap into and ask a
question because she's often joins us as a community board member, but serves as the education point for community board 7. So, uh, just a wealth of of knowledge and and a tremendous resource for for the district, but would also be for for yourselves, too, in the event that you had any questions. She's just terrific.
So, thank you, Arlene. And in addition, Mike just mentioned there are three new schools being added to District 25. Yes. Yeah. So, we we have um a couple of schools, Wat's Edge, there'll be a new building opening uh
referred to as W's Edge, which is the Bay Terrace uh area. Um, we have one I I'm not even exactly sure what what it would be phrased, but it's uh near Colden uh Colden Street. It's in uh in Flushing between Colden and Casino on 45th 45th
Avenue. Uh that one projected and you'll hear more about this as the year goes on. And we have sea comes and presents to you guys to hear a little bit about space planning and the types of uh buildings that will be coming to us. And another one in Well, it's Point. Um, so there's
an expectation that we have three brand new schools coming on board within the next four years or so. Um, so more construction that is happening uh in addition to some some buildings that have just recently had new additions um to their schools too.
So um but a lot of that work you guys are going to be privy to in terms of conversation um with uh with folks from SEA space planning talk to you a little bit about what are the projections in in projected enrollment in the district. what are the trends that they're seeing and then mo ultimately what does it mean
in terms of making sure that that we uh we have the space necessary to support our kids as best as possible. So uh you guys will be privy to a lot of that information over the course of time. Yeah. Awesome. Is there anything else you want to share? Yeah. So so typically so typically guys
I will give you a presentation given the fact that you are um engaging in elections. That's not something that's going to be happening tonight necessarily, but uh you'll hear a presentation from me on a monthly basis. You'll often hear a little bit about what has happened in the district,
what's been going on, some of the celebratory things, um things that we have coming forward, things for you to just be aware of as um as a as a parent, but in this case, as a CC member to share that widely as as widely as you can with your communities. Um, you'll
also hear a lot from me in the event that you don't know a lot about me. Uh, you'll hear a lot of information regarding where what's the I'm a very big believer in current reality. Here's where we are as a district. Not because it's going to be the perfect state, but it's the state we're in. Um, and the
only thing that we can do with that state is make adjustments so that we can get better from where we are at. Um, so what you'll hear from me pretty frequently is what does the data say about where we are in terms of our goals? You're going to hear of our district goals. You're going to be hear about the the spec the expectations that
I have as a superintendent for the district in terms of what we're going to do next to support those goals. Um, and then I'm going to keep track of them as the year goes on so you can know the progress that we're making or not making and if we're not making progress, the things that we have in mind to to improve upon that. The CC also played a
a major role in terms of some of the things that we do as a district as well. So in your bylaws are things around special education. couple of years. Uh if I think about four or five years ago, the CEC felt it was really important that on an annual basis, there was a
special education section, a presentation that came from the district to the CEC and the community so that there was an awareness around special education students with with IEPs and what does that mean just in terms of awareness. So, we took a springboard from that to create a larger group of uh
uh a professional learning series for families that had three parts throughout the year. So parents knew what the IEP process was, what classifications meant, what it meant for incoming kindergarten families to know what that was about. So we take a lot of our lead from conversations that do come from here to
start creating and adjusting as a district. Um, based on some of the conversations, the latest one this year uh came a new model and you're going to see a new iteration of what the strong roots strong schools theme is for district 25. And that came as a result
of a CEC district collaboration. Um and it the the the new model which will be added to our current strong root strong schools is wellness, kindness, community. Those three words came as an outgrowth of conversation that we had
here as a CEC and district. So we did meet um about a half hour before every one of the CC meetings and that began around February. Uh we did a huge event um in collaboration with uh Common Point
Queens, the CBO. Uh we had vendors from all over the place to talk about physical wellness, mental wellness, social emotional learning. It it was just incredible the the variety of folks. We had New York City lacrosse there. We had NYCFC FC Soccer Club
there. all engaging collaboratively to enga to support our kids in our community. Um, and because of that work, we now have an ask, and you guys will hear about this if you're members of your SLT, uh, an ask that every SLT
agenda includes wellness, kindness, community, so that we're consi consistently connecting on some of the important things in our school in addition to the academics, right? Yes, the academics is important and will always be, but so too is making sure that we're promoting and producing
children um that are well in each of those phases that are promoting the space of kindness um and we're doing it together. Not that it's just the schools or the parents or the kids, but that we're doing this in a collaborative effort. So, those are the types of
things that um that you'll hear me talk about and hopefully we can engage collaboratively on. How do we do that better? You know, our schools do run as pretty strong communities, but we can do that better. Our schools do offer things around wellness, but we can do it better, right? And the whole idea around
kindness, listen, I can tell you for sure, having an eighth grader going into high school now, a n soon to be freshman, and a sophomore soon to be junior going into next year, it's really important. It's really important. You know, our kids are
in spaces where this age is a difficult time figuring themselves out. What does it mean? How do I connect with that peer? They may have said something that rubs me the wrong way. It doesn't mean that they dislike you. They might have just said something that you didn't like. So, how do we make sure that we
give our kids the tools and strategies to make sure that they can manage that really, really well? Um, so those are the types of things that we're going to be doing and talking about as the year goes on. And um I am a listener. So as you guys share, you know, I take note
and then uh we make adjustments as necessary as the year goes on based on that feedback. So other than that, I I wish all of you guys well. I'm excited to to have a new group. We'll miss certainly our old group in in the form of Alvin and all those that served before, but um you know, sometimes
there's not necessarily the full understanding of what you guys can do as a as a CEC. Um, but there's a lot that that you can do as a collective community. Uh, so I'm excited for that and excited to work with all of you. Thank you, Dr. R. You're welcome.
So, does anybody want to make a motion to adjourn the annual meeting before we go into our business meeting? Motion to adjourn. Somebody want to second it? Second. Okay. So, Shirley and Christine and it's 8:08. Okay. I will give everyone two minutes
in case anyone wants to grab cupcakes, water, bathroom, and then we'll do our business meet up. And you guys can fill out your member reimbursements if you haven't done so already. Everyone the sections of it. So, yes. Okay. Well, tasty.
Stop and Shop makes the best cakes. Let me tell you, I'm ordering cake for my birthday also from there because their cake, I don't know what it is, but Stop and Shop their cupcakes and cake is the best. You muted yourself again, just so you know. No, it's okay because I was agreeing so
hard it was too loud to unmute. Delicious. They're so voiced. I agree. Stop and shop is good. Their cake are good. Yeah, they're really good. The whole thing I have to come over here tomorrow to order his birthday cake actually for Saturday. That's yours. Hold on to it. So,
thank you so much. Yes. I'll just give everyone a second and then we'll get started. Um, so let me show Fabiola while we have a chance. Uh, where did I put it? My other one. So the reimbursement I'm going to use Shirley
is just as an example. So you fill out the top section. It's in your folder with your information. Here you would put the date of the meeting. And then you would put for incident is where you would put the 75. Childare you would put 50. You sign and put the total and date it and then I will sign for you.
Okay? And then this one is where you would put the child care provider the information there and then the internet and then you sign it and then you give it to me and I'll or Egypt when she's here but I'll take it for you for today and then I'll put it on her desk for her. Thank you. And then you're gonna have to sign mine
when I submit mine. That's what the one difference because I can't sign my own. If anyone has questions, I can help you also so you don't all have to like both of us. Um, but yeah, I will give it one more minute and then we'll get started. I'm
filling out as well. Yeah, there's something about their cakes that I just love. I don't know. They was really good. Really, really good. I have it written on the bottom. So, I'll email.
Okay. So, before I call the business meeting to order, I'm going to put Dr. Mike on the spot. Sure. with my son and I'm going to ask if we could sing a quick birthday. Oh god. Yeah, I didn't know that was coming.
Say something about if we can just do a quick happy birthday before we get to Oh, there you assisting. I appreciate that. He's a
part of He's in on it. We're waiting for you. Putting music on. I wasn't expecting that. Come on. Oh god. Please don't play anything. That's We're waiting for it.
Oh, happy birthday to you. That's not Oh, no. No. Okay. Well, we try. That's good. Okay. I'm
good enough. Thank you. Thank you guys. Thank you. Okay. Oh, there you go. Happy birthday, Dr. Michael. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to
you. Happy birthday. Happy birthday. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday. Happy birthday.
Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday. Okay, perfect. That was a long That was hilarious. That was perfect. A little safe. Cute. Okay. So, I'm going to call I'm going to call our business meeting
to order. It is 8:13. If we could just go through a roll call again. Egypt. Emily and Sean, be quiet. Um, Eden here, Shirley, Christine,
Angela, I'm sorry if I butcher any names. So Mia Quinn not here. Vincent not here. Stephanie present. Fabiola present.
And Shauna present. Thank you. Okay. So for our business meeting I had mentioned to everyone to start looking at the calendar. We do want to just finalize our calendar of meetings for the year. So, if you look in your
folder, there was an email version of a calendar and then we also gave you the DOE calendar to compare. Um, from what I've looked at, I know we need to come up with the date for April, but I think we also should look at September because it is the f day before
the first day of school and I would recommend that we look to push that back a week. And then for April, I think we're going to have to look at like the third week of April. So, I just want to see if anyone has any specific dates. So we don't necessarily have to have it on Wednesday, right?
But we chose Wednesday because um other CC 26 they have it on Thursdays. So So I was like they have meetings tomorrow. So I we kind of try to not overlap with them. But sometimes we do a lot of collaboration
meetings together with them. Um CC26. So uh as long as we have a one meeting per month that month is good. So I was thinking because April 1st is Passover and after that we have a spring break
right after. So I was thinking maybe April 14th Tuesday or 15 Wednesday. Either either one. I know Monday is going to be a little tough for everybody to stay here till 9:00. If we want to stay with the Wednesdays just because that's what we're staying with then the 15th would make
sense. And then I think for September September 10th would be the following Wednesday after the kids are in school and settled. That would be my recommendation, but I want everyone to kind of chime in. Wednesday.
And the other part is once we decide those two dates, I think those are the only ones we really need to change looking at what I was looking at. Do we want to have the meetings here or do we want to rotate around to schools because that was one of the things we've been discussing last year.
I like it here. and she's like, I make it. You know, I'm up I'm okay with whatever everyone's in favor of. Just ask the man wick and I'll be good to go. I mean, it doesn't matter to me where we
go, but if we want to maybe do half the meetings here and then half maybe of the year somewhere like every other month, maybe change it up, something like that just to kind of start there and see. But June meeting, we always have a awards our money. So we will be at uh
school for that one for that. Oh, it went 194 the other day. This year we did at 194. Yeah. Actually the last two years we have been uh posted at 194. Um so any other dates that stand out to
anybody though other than those two? I think only those two months October 8th is start because that we had to do the second week just due to holidays also. And then the only other date I was contemplating when I was looking through
was the June 3rd. I think it should be okay. There just happens to be no school June 4th and June 5th. So I didn't know if anyone was going to be like traveling and if we wanted to possibly move that one back. June is important. We want every member
to be present because award. So, do we want to push it back a week or do it the day before people are going possibly away for a long weekend? Those were that would be my only other thought doing it the day before everyone
goes away cuz I'm the type who goes away for like the long weekend. Yeah. No, that's why I'm saying like I know people tend to do that. Yeah. especially near the end of the school year, people start to do things. And so like if we did the Wednesday, June 3rd, it would be okay, kids still had
school that day. You're still going to be around and then possibly going away after. Or we could do it the following week once everyone's back already, school's back in session and do it that one. So we have options, but it will be our awards ceremony and that will be our calendar meeting for the month at the same time. Gotcha.
So we could stay with June 3rd or we can go with what date is that? June 10th. June 10th. Whatever everyone feels most comfortable with, I'm good. But by the time because I feel like everyone should be back
from any travels they might do, right? Okay. So, let me make note of that. So, the 10th? Yes. I'm sorry I didn't catch it. Did we agree on the 10th? For June, we're talking about the 10th. Yes. Yes. We were talking about the 15th and September we were talking about moving
to the 10th also. Okay, I got those. Okay, those are the three dates that we kind of flagged and looked at. Do we have to vote on the actual date? Okay, so is there any other dates before I have Egypt do a vote for us to agree
on the calendar? Egypt, go ahead. We're going to vote on it. Eden, yes. Shirley, yes. Christine, yes. Angela, Stephanie, Fabiola,
yes. And Shauna, yes. Okay. So, I did not have this on the agenda originally because we didn't know the budget would be released, but since it was, as we found out yesterday, there is
a copy of last year's budget in everyone's pile there. And you could look at how we allocated things last year versus what we spent and our balance. This was prior to June, so this was prior to the end of the year.
Yeah. Okay. So, I'm gonna make a motion to add this to the agenda since it wasn't there. Anyway, want to second that. Yeah. Okay. I got Sean up for a second. Um, so we're going to add that on for now just to discuss.
Um, if anyone has any thoughts, I would go by the allocated column. Um, and then look at what was being spent throughout the year if anyone has any recommendations. The PC card is automatically 500. Everything else we can kind of play around with, but we do have time to move things around also.
But we do have 25,000 that we need to split up across the different categories. I don't see what yours is. Okay. So, this is this was as of June. This was the updated one. I could show you that because I happen to have my June one.
Yes. So, this is basically new budget that we Yes. for a year. So most things were spent except the meeting. And our PC card wasn't spent because Egypt was hired later on in the year. So we didn't get a P card till we had an
AA. Normally AA use a P card just like a bottle of water folders like you know like a snack sometimes. They said and the equipment this year. So this year's equipment was like really focused on Egypt getting like a laptop up and
running, like anything she would need for her to do her job since we had to actually hire an AA this past year. Um reimbursements, we want to make sure we're allocating enough so that everybody's able to get their reimbursements throughout the year. And meeting expenses, those seem to be like our big ones. But then supplies and
meeting expenses, we kind of use a combo of for like our award ceremony or any events we do throughout the year. um Egypt will bring some water bottles and stress balls down to everybody next month. So you'll see like that's another one of the things like we happen to order um under those so we can kind of
stick with what we did come up with new breakdowns if there's any recommendations but I want everyone to look at it and give thoughts and feedback the same thing. So, everyone has that.
Um, look at the allocated column and that's how it's set up originally, but we can play around and move stuff from there. Yeah, cuz our spend column is blank. Yeah, that doesn't So, I happen to have the one from June that that's what I was
just showing up. Um, we had spent, let's say, as of June, we had spent 10,475 of the reimbursements. Um, we spent 3,300 basically of the supplies. We spent all of the repair line, all of the equipment line and only
2,600 of the meeting expenses and then nothing of the PC card last year. So, I feel like reimbursements and expenses and supplies are definitely our big bulk items that we'll want to put a lot towards. Um, but I just want to see
where if anyone has any suggestions on any specific numbers. The reimbursements line is that based on um how much it would cost if each member spends their full re that's what we had calculated but I think we started it late started it later
share something yeah so um this budget is based on this is the whole $25,000 right and this reimbursement line is based on a full 12 member compliment um all the members getting $125 a month coming every month
the president getting $200 a month right now. Um, you're short four members, right? So, right now we can say you're not going to spend all of that money. You do have until I'm going to say around March. I think that's right. I could get those changes. Y
you know when you have until now and then more or less you as the plan comes closer where you could make budget modifications. That's usually the last window is is March and then after that wherever it
lay where it falls is where it stays. So for right now, let's say if you vote on this budget or if you want to make some changes, that's fine. Um but if you vote on this budget, you can open your budget, you can submit your um your reimbursements, you can also order,
let's say refreshments, you could order dinner for next month, right? We'd have like a dinner possible ordering supplies and things like that. Um, you know, and then, you know, as months go on and you see kind of how your spending is going, any month, you know, even in September, October,
November, you can decide, oh, you know, we want to reallocate, we want to buy equipment, we don't want to buy equipment, we want to buy supplies, and we want to reallocate, and you can vote to do that at a later time. So, I think going off of that, like you
know, in the reimbursement section, I feel like it's probably a safe bet to start there and then allocate things around if we need to. But I want everyone to make sure they give their feedback and then we take a vote on that. So, anybody have any thoughts, concerns,
comments? Okay. So, Egypt, we can vote on the budget that everyone had in front of them so we can start using it. Okay. Eden, yes. Shirley,
Christine, Angela, yes. Stephanie, yes. Fabiola. Yeah. And Shauna. Awesome. So, we are good with our budget for the
year. So, I will work with Egypt on putting together a food order for next month. Um whether it be pizza, Panera, things like that. We try to find bagels. So, I'll come up with something so that when you get here, you don't have to rush to get dinner on your way here.
You'll have something to eat. Um so, that'll be that. And then as you guys hand in your reimbursement forms, I'll sign for you and I will get those over to Egypt. She's not here today, but in the future, we'll be able to just hand them into her. So, if I could also just say one thing to you guys, too. When it comes to the budget one, it's not a huge amount of
money, right? But whatever is still there does not get rolled over. It goes back to the same. So, it's not it's not a rollover. So, if you didn't spend 5,000 of it, you don't they don't add the 5,000 on to the next year. Um, so it's just important for you guys for just a space of awareness as the
year starts going on. if you if you don't have all of the members that that you would thought you would have uh and the reimbur reimbursements aren't being used, how do you kind of reallocate, right? Um just so just something for you guys at the very beginning to know that there's not this rollover that happens
in June to the following year if you don't spend it. Okay. And then I'm going to make a motion to just add one other topic to the calendar before we adjourn. just talking about next month's meeting. If
we could just take a vote on that so we can talk about the agenda really quick. Yes. Eden, yes. Charlie, yes. Christine, Angela, I'm sorry if you guys are saying yes, I
can't hear you. So, if I repeat your name again, I apologize. Okay. Um, Stephanie. Okay. Fabiola. Yeah. And Shauna. Yes. Awesome. Okay. Thank you. So, for next month, um, just for our
calendar meeting, Dr. Mike will have a presentation for us at that point. Um, but I also will have the list of schools with us at that point. So, we could start kind of assigning ourselves to different schools. So, we could do site visits come September, start right away.
Um, is there anything else anybody wants to put on the agenda, has something in their mind offhand? If not, I'll put together and then email out to everyone a potential agenda. But I want to see um for first the calendar meeting and the business meeting if there's anything specific that anyone would like to put
on that. to discuss how we advertise the meetings um to the public and if they could be uh maybe a bit more enticing to the people who might be interested in coming to
Okay. Yeah. because Lena I I didn't know I don't I don't remember knowing about that before um running I did attend some online um uh at home I think too
after finding out and um they're pretty likely I think some people might not want to come because of that so maybe like Sha said something but I didn't stay on most of the schools are pushing it out through the parent corner, you're like
hanging up at the school, but I don't know that they're pushing it out through their like platforms that they message out. And that's where I think might be a little bit of a disconnect. I know like I get through Dojo and I don't get the updates from about it through Dojo, but I know if I look at the school when I'm there for PTA stuff, I do see it
hanging on the wall. So I don't know if maybe like at PTA meetings, SLT meetings, like in like dojo or whatever format anyone has or gamma messages like reminder, hey, this is happening to try to get people involved. So, that's something we could definitely talk about at the next meeting.
Um, and then next month, I also want to put on the business meeting if everyone's okay with that, planning out specific presentations that we want throughout the year from the district. Um, so we could kind of plan
ahead of so just so you know the things that we will certainly be talking to you guys about uh there will be things connected to our uh reading work, things connected to the math work uh and things connected to special education for short. Um I've
already gotten uh an agreement from our Common Point Queens. They're very willing to do another uh wellness day with us. Um so just so you guys have that in your mind's eye. Um but yeah, anything that you feel like you'd like to be in the know about
um certainly let us know. And one of the things that also just to in entice families that was was really great last year is bringing our kids in to showcase themselves uh and the work that they do. Um we had a number of civics for All presentations. Kids got up and I'm
talking as young as first grade doing their soes. um engaging um you know us certainly as a as a panel, but you know their parents are here, they get excited, their teachers are on on Zoom listening in. It's it's just a nice way to celebrate
our kids um and celebrating the things that they have done really really well. Um you know, and that includes a young lady that was invited to the um to the Queensboro Arts Festival and was able to kind of showcase her her talent as a singer. You know, those things you don't always hear about. So it's how do we
make sure that we get it shared more widely. It's almost to your point, you know, just talking about how do we kind of advance that so that others hear because otherwise it stays in silos and no one knows about about the amazing things that are happening for for our kids. So we'll create as many of those opportunities as as you guys see fit.
Yeah. So while we're talking about that like plan and like certain months like there's certain things we know we have to do, we could also talk about locations like if we want to change location for certain month at that point. I think that would be good to talk about during August because I know July and August it's not as many people
in attendance at to begin with. Um so it's a good chance for us to catch up on anything that we want to do for the year and line it up for the year. Um that's the only things I could think of off is there anything else. Could I just say two two quick things the month by month actually. So help
guide that as you make your agenda. I think that's I don't have that in front of me right this second but I'm like I'm trying to think of all the different things off hand. Can I just mention two quick things? Yeah. Yes. So, um, what I'd love for everyone to think about is what does wellness, kindness, community mean to you? Um, so
that you can be part of creating what a shared definition, shared understanding of what that should be across our our district. Um, it is a new motto. I'm going to be talking about this with our principles. Um, in fact, tomorrow we have a principal council tomorrow. So, I'm going to be talking to them about
that, too. But I would love to hear your perspective on what that means. We know we got that perspective from the previous CC, but I would also like to know what that means for you because it will be something that I add to every one of my own meetings um my own meeting uh presentation that I share with you.
There will be a component that I try to include on a monthly basis around those three things and some of the things that we're hearing about in our schools. Um some of the events that are happening from our building to building uh which could also be a nice little entry when you get to your assignment of school that you're going to get a chance to
visit. just a conversation piece around so talk to me about what you're doing wellness, kindness, and community in your school. Um, so just a nice way to kind of enter into a discussion. Uh, and the other thing that's going to be coming pretty very very soon and for those of you that have children,
especially those that have um cell phones, there's going to be news that's coming to them that will be a little bit uh not so appealing to maybe some of our middle schoolers um and maybe some of our upper elementary schoolers. Um but there is new cell phone policy that will
be coming out. Um there is space for public comment that is out there and available through I believe the July 22nd I believe. Um but it's important that you guys are also aware of that because this is not a well this school
is going to decide not to participate. This is an expectation from the state. What schools will be doing is organizing their expectations with their kids. But it's important that you guys know that this is in fact something that is coming down the pike. Um, and parents will be
hearing about it from from SLTs, but also from Yeah. from the the space of community letters that have to go out so that everyone's on the same page that this is not, well, there's a policy, but guess what? I'm going to take my phone out and, you know, reach out to person
A, B, C, or D. Um, know there's concerns from from families. Well, if I want to get in touch with my child, well, there's always ways to get in touch with my children. It doesn't have to be on the cell phone, you know, during the school day. Um, but needless to say, there's going to be conversation that's coming. There's going to be lots of
people on one side of it, the other side of it, and in the middle that others that yes, please take those away, and those that know, right? There's going to be a range of that. In the end, there's going to be this this notion of consensus that it's just what the state
expectation is and we're going to comply with it as best we can inside of our schools uh through the policies that are going to be created. But I wanted you to be aware that this is in fact coming down the pike and I will be talking with it uh with you guys about it more uh during the August meeting. So just to
kind of give you a little bit of a frame of reference that that will be happening across all schools in district, in city, in state. Awesome. Okay. Yeah. And then one last thing I need to add if everyone's okay with that is we have two
members that are not here tonight that we need to vote whether to approve their absences. So anytime somebody is not here, we do have to take a vote on that. So whether it's approved or unexcused because if you're unexcused a certain amount of times, your
seat can be vacated. So these two child one of them did um one Jenny spoke to um so just so to explain so Vincent is
out of the country right now which is why he's not here I don't did you say he was back for the August or he didn't specify so um that he would not be able to attend the check in okay the country I ask that would be able to attend the um the meeting in
person who wasn't back inside and there was no response. So, I'm not sure. Okay. So, my guess is she's probably still out of the country and that might be causing the delays. And then my Quinn's Tang um from the communication that we had through Jenny is finishing
up her masters and so she is in a class tonight and that is why she was unable to be here. So for each individual I would like us to vote whether to excuse or unexcuse the absence so that we have that reported mention about the bylaws they should
bring by laws on yeah in your bylaw cop is an explanation of what is considered excused and then also what we could kind of see and what we feel based on the reasoning for the absence. So there's if
you look at that section you'll see that before we vote on it. We know the class is going to be ongoing. We don't know that as of yet. So it's going to happen. We do have some information really
the class she has sessions left right two sessions. So July and August her last class will be August 10th. So she'll be available to come and she emphasized that she will understand. So it would be this meeting and the August meeting that she's meet vote that
she would be missing, but we're not going to vote on the August one till that happens. So we would just be voting for this month um for each of them. So I just want to give everyone a chance to look at the bylaw section there on
absences so that we can then take a vote. And that unfortunately I can't put on the agenda till I see if somebody's actually absent. So that will come up as we run into it. Stephanie, so you did they give them 48 hours in
advance? Yeah. I mean Vincent, we knew for the check-in that he was out. So I'm assume I'm going to assume that that meant he was just out before. It's kind of hard to know 100%. to to Marabel did not get further communication after that but I do know
that we did have notice from the other candidate yeah I think we with the way we worded in the bylaws we were very careful to make sure we kind of elaborated a little bit more and kind of gave some leeway there so that would come up that
yeah cuz like I ran into a conflict last year at one point and it was something that wasn't on there but luckily we had voted to excuse So like we just need to know how we want to proceed with that. When Marel sent it that night, I did read it. Um I can look at it again, but if my memory I think school was in there
on excuse work, school, things like that that come up. I don't sorry, but I think it's there as an excuse. I think so. Okay. So let's start with voting on my Quintang
and her absence first. whether to it and then we'll go on to Vincent. Okay, sure. So, Eden, yes. Charlie, yes. Christine, Angela,
I didn't hear anything, so that's what I'm saying. Yes. Okay. Sorry. Um, Stephanie, Fabiola, yes. And Shauna, yes. Okay. So, we will excuse that absence for today. We'll address next month when
it comes up. And then we're going to move on to Vincent. Vincent, like I said, Marabel's communication was that he couldn't make the check-in. He did not necessarily answer about today. So, I don't know. I can only assume that he's still traveling, but we don't know 100%. So, that's just something we have
to decide how we want to vote on. He say country, right? That's why he couldn't be on the check was he was a valid country. So, I I mean, if it was yesterday that he was out of the country, I don't know that he would be back today, but I I I'm leaving that up to everyone how you guys want to
vote. Um, okay. I feel like it would be okay. Um, because I assume like what I know is when you're depending on where you are, when you're away, Wi-Fi is horrible, right?
So, I'm giving him out that he's assuming that they can't respond somehow. So that's my assumption. So I feel like it'll be and I know that Vincent has submitted his oath, right Marbel? He has submitted his oath or he has no Okay.
So that's the other piece just to right now like we can excuse them for this but if by the end of this month they haven't submitted their oath right after 30 days. Yeah. It we run into an issue there anyway. Yeah. Gotcha. So,
get a document notorized out of the country. It would have to be here, I think, though because it would be the law of the land, right? I think so. So, we can take a vote on his absence and then I guess at the end of the month once we see if they get their open, we can re-evaluate how we
have to proceed. Um, but we'll go through that vote at that point. Yeah. So, once you have three unexcused, that's when you're able your seat's able to be vacated. But then we would write up um a resolution after sending out a letter to the person. Then we would also
create a resolution if they don't respond to that and then we would vote to vacate the seat. I'm sorry. Can you So if we excuse them today, does that go for that that wouldn't be unexcused? It would be considered excused. Okay. So it doesn't count toward the
right. One thing I just want to add, we need seven seats to make quum and we are already at four right now. Right. two four we have two seats that aren't filled filled and we have two people not here and we also don't have a burough president so that's total three package right now
right so our purpose of this bylaw is not to pinpoint if you're excused not excused it's more like be responsible right everybody's here you know we this is voluntary we are all here let's
respect that that's why is there so at some point I you know want to give them an excuse. It's just that I'm just giving you the idea that seven forum is very important. If we don't have seven at a meeting like today, I had to wait for us to have
seven in order for us to start the meeting because we had to do elections. Other meetings I could start, but we wouldn't be able to vote on like minutes, things like that. We wouldn't be able to do anything like voting wise. So, we'll vote on Vincent and then we'll see how things play out with getting his
oath and everything from there. So, Egypt, we'll go through it one more time for Vincent. Eden, yes. Shirley, yes. Christine, Angela, Stephanie,
yes. Then, I'm excuse me, Fabola. Yes. And Shauna, yes. Okay. So, thank you everyone for that. Well, on that note, I will let somebody make a motion to
adjourn. Okay, Shirley. Who's And who was my second? And Stephanie. Okay, perfect. So, thank you guys. We are done for the evening. If you have your reimbursement filled out, you can bring it to me. I'll sign it and then I'll take it to put on
Egypt's desk for her. Sean, I need you to sign mine and then we'll be good. Um, and I will see everyone next month on August 6th. Guys, it was so nice meeting all of you guys. Congratulations to you. Social media list.