You want me to pull up the screen. Good evening everyone. It is 6:31 and we will call the October 27th President's Council meeting to order. Um, I'd like to welcome everyone to our meeting tonight. Um, as you know, it's
being recorded, so if you do not want to be on the recording, you feel free to leave your camera off. Um, so we have some good information for you tonight. >> Good evening everyone. It's a pleasure to be here tonight. So, we're going to kick off our agenda
today. Uh we have welcome and we have the approval of the September meeting minutes >> and once the minutes are approved they will be posted at the D25 uh website. So can we go over those documents those
meeting minutes? Uh Jenny You're in 2020 2021, Jenny. Okay. So, the meeting minutes for um well, it says June. >> Yeah, the meeting >> it was it was October. No, we we're approving the ones for in
September. >> It should be this one. I don't know why it says June. >> And we're in October, so it can't be meaning no minutes for October. >> Okay. Um, >> hold on. >> Hold on.
>> I think I have them open. >> I have it in email. Um, let me stop sharing so I can find it on I email it to you. On the left on the left. I apologize. I'm still looking on.
>> All right. Why don't we move on and come back to the minutes? Y >> um so go back to sharing the screen. We'll move on with the agenda. I think next up is superintendent report. >> Yeah.
>> So Dr. Mike, the floor is yours. I can't I cannot find you guys. I don't see you guys. Right here. Okay. So, Dr. Mike, we're going to give the floor to you first and then I'll look for the minutes. >> Yep. Sounds good. Good evening,
everyone. Uh hope you guys are all doing well. Um so, we're going to go over a few things with you tonight. Just a couple of uh couple of points to share. A few things in terms of enrollment dates. This is something that I do share at every one of our meetings. Really super important
um for all of our families to be connected with. I'll give you a couple of updates on um on where we're at from the baseline assessment from the start of the year. Um talk to you a little bit about a student survey that we shared as well as a parent survey. Um gather some
of your some of your preliminary feedback. And what I'm actually going to ask also our parents to do uh when we get to the parent survey is to see if we can get even more families involved in communicating with us around some of those things that are going on pretty well for them and things that maybe perhaps are not so that we can use it at
the at each of our meetings from CEC, president's council, um DPAC meeting and so on. It'll just help help support adjustments to our goals. Excuse me. Uh, so connection before content, I mentioned to you something that that I do think is important for
all of our schools to engage in. Talk about a couple of celebrations, updates, reminders, and then just some district goal updates uh from um from our most recent baseline assessments. So, if we were in person, we would do this.
And I'm not going to, you know, break you guys off into breakout rooms, but we'll just pose a simple question for you guys to ponder. And those of you that are willing, if you can just come off mute, it is something just to kind of connect uh a little bit before we start. Uh things that we're asking our schools to do with our students as well.
This notion of connection before content, building relationships with our kids, kids being able to build relationships with one another. Uh which brings us to this very simple question. Uh is there something you are afraid to try and why? Uh just a a general
question just to get us started. any of you that have um something in the back of your mind, they say, "You know what? That's not something that I would ever do." I do have one to share myself. Um but just take like 30 seconds, just think about is there something that that you've that you've been afraid of that
you'd like to that you wouldn't try and why would that be? >> Well, I have one. I don't have to think hard about this. >> Sure. Um, my dentist wants me to do a deep cleaning where Novacaane is involved. And I'm not afraid of the
dentist, but the thought of needing Novacaane for a cleaning is something I am very afraid to try because it sounds painful and I don't want to be afraid of the dentist. >> Yeah, I'm with you on that. I I don't like anything uh any anywhere near my
mouth when it comes to the dentist, but I know we have to go, but it's not my not my favorite either. So, I love that. Anyone else have one? So, I'll share mine. You know, the the idea of uh those that that skydive, more power to them. Um but it would take an
awful lot to get me to jump out of a plane to do skydiving. So, for me, mine would be doing that. Um, just the idea and I'm not necessarily afraid of of of heights, but the idea of not having any control inside of that space is a little bit uh a little bit much for my mindset
mindset. That includes even bungee jumping. I don't know, not something that's not necessarily for me. But I I share these small little activities with you guys and we'll do it every month just for you to kind of create space inside of your meetings, whether it's
for your PTA or uh at even the the president's council, just to create space to get to know someone in in a non-threatening way. Um these small little questions that we that we've that we're asking are also things that'll be asked inside of our classrooms um in different ways throughout the year and
at different levels for our kids all the way down into kindergarten, all the way through the eighth grade. just to promote that relationship building that's so important for our learners. Um this past month was um and we're still in it obviously breast breast cancer awareness month um national
principles month as well as national bullying prevention month in October. Um you know huge shout out to our principles for all the work that they do on behalf of our kids. um breast cancer awareness, you know, is is something that is always um so so super important.
And I think um you know, sadly there are way too many of us that have uh folks that have either had to endure or are currently going through um you know, this this particular disease. So um you know, thoughts out there for all those during breast cancer awareness month and
National Prevention Bullying Month is is something that we shouldn't be just talking about in October. uh something that we do need to continue to talk about throughout the year. Uh but it is something just to kind of shout out during uh today. Um National Hispanic Heritage Month was
in September. Just sharing a couple of little images from our schools as they visit our schools. our kids are talking about the activities that are happening inside of their buildings, kind of shouting out uh appreciating the experience of uh being able to learn about whether it's, you know, someone
learning new something new about the Hispanic heritage or um getting to know others uh because they hadn't had experiences uh with a culture other than their own. So, this is something we're going to continue to build on throughout the year and we will be sharing some of those insights during our president's
council meetings. some upcoming events. Um we have a L training for uh for our parents. It's a virtual training on November 12th, Wednesday, November 12th for um for folks really just to support uh children
that speak languages other other than English um and how we help support our families in doing so. So on the 12th we have um an English um session that will include Spanish translation. On Wednesday, November 19th, we will have a
Mandarin speaking only session. Uh we're fortunate that our one of our team members is um is fluent in Mandarin, so she's able to deliver that in Chinese. We have a special education virtual parent workshop. Uh this is part one of
a series of three. Uh understanding your child's IEP. I do encourage you guys when you have your when you have your PTA meetings that you um you know, share these dates. to feel free to take the slides, share the uh the upcoming events with uh with your parents. All of the
access for those are right on our district site. Um but I do encourage you because it's a lot of information that is shared and can help parents, particularly the IEP workshop in understanding what is in front of them should their child uh need an IEP.
Uh mathematics, we have a virtual session um it's around sensemaking. If you weren't able to be part of the CEC meeting um in October, I do encourage you to look up at the recording that they have available. Uh Beth from our team did talk about amplify mathematics.
Um and during this session coming up, we'll be talking about one of our priorities in math and that's to promote sensemaking uh for our kids. Um so I do encourage and she provides some some resources for our parents to to better understand how to help at home.
Uh enrollment updates, fall 2026. Um the window open for high school applications for LaGuardia on specialized high school admissions test on October 7th. Friday, October 31st, SHSAT registration closes. Wednesday, December
3rd, um high school and LaGuardia applications close and then high school offers will be released on Thursday, March 5th. uh middle school admissions uh Wednesday, October 15th. The middle school application opens deadline November 3rd for um for Mark Twain and
District 21 talent tests. Uh middle school applications close on December 12th and then offers are released on the 15th. Um, I do encourage you if you do have uh folks that have questions, you're more than welcome to reach out to the district office for additional
support and certainly counselor, your school counselors at the school level. Uh, enrollment updates. Um, kindergarten uh and kindergarten G&T admissions Tuesday, December 9th, kindergarten applications open. January 23rd,
applications close and kindergarten offers on March 31st. Um, enrollment for 3K preK. Wednesday, January 14th, applications open. Uh, Friday, February 27th, applications
closed. Tuesday, May 12th, preK offers are released. And Tuesday, May 19th, 3K offers are released. And lastly, uh, G&T grades 1 through 4 admissions. Uh, Tuesday, April 21st, G&T upper grade applications open. May 8th, the upper
grade application closes. And then on Thursday, June the 11th, G&T upper grade offers are released. So this I did share last time. K to2 reading um assessment is the Aadian assessment
and the 3 to8 I ready reading assessment is administered um for our children in grades 3 to 8. In math, we have the assessments in K to8 is the I ready mathemat mathematics assessment and then
MAP is grades um is grade 8 for algebra for the algebra regents all administered three times a year. Now, I share that to kind of give you a little bit of insight in terms of what the current state of performance is. And during the upcoming uh CEC meeting, uh we'll be sharing a
little bit of a bigger breakdown of this information. But just to give you a little contextualized understanding of where we are, uh for I Ready reading, that's for children in grades 3 to 8. If you look over the the trends over the last 3 years, it is a similar starting place. were a little bit higher um this
year than we were in 2023. Similar, very similar to last year, we have about 1% change in children that are um one grade level below. So, to give you a little context, dark green means children that are already at or above grade level. The lighter green is
early on grade level, yellow one grade level below. The pinkish is two grade levels below, and the red is three or more grade levels below. Now just note that the beginning of the year um does not mean that's where the kids are going
to stay. We do grow as the year goes on. Uh this is the initial baseline assessment for our kids. Uh for Aadians, this is for children in K to2. The starting place is relatively similar to where we were last year. Difference of about um less than 1% lower than where
we were last year. The 25 26 is in the middle. And this is kind of ordered by uh by performance level. So we're around the same uh pl starting place that we were last year. Kindergarten is in a lower beginning place than we than we started last year, which gives us a lot
more room to grow for our um early readers. And I mathematics you'll see here the from 2022 23 all the way to where we are now. We have seen a steady progression in terms of the starting place and we are seeing a little bit of
that um a little bit of that here by a small percentage improvement for kids that are early on and above and a little bit of a of an increase in number of students that are starting below standard. Um so this information is
really super important for our schools uh when it comes to organization of their MTSS program. uh for our children that are currently reading below grade level, well below grade level. Um one of my expectations is that our schools are
organizing so children are receiving some additional academic intervention uh for those that are performing in the bottom 20th percentile of um of this particular assessment which are normed. They're normed assessments. So, children in the 20th percentile and some that are
in the 40th percentile and lower uh will qualify for for getting some additional intervention. And the the the interventions that we um as a district are really focused on is sound sensible. Um and I'll talk more about this as the
year goes on. Sound sensible is really for children that struggle with phonetics. um spire which is for children that struggle with with phonics and then phonics for reading which supports phonics as well as building up towards comprehension. Uh in the middle schools
we have a program that we call it's called rewards. We're also using phonics for reading because that's a program that goes up through the middle school grades and another program called just words. So, our goal is that we're really trying to meet our kids where they are and provide some of those additional supports uh during the school day to
build them up. Um, parent engagement, and I will just kind of flash this up. You'll be able to get a better view of this on the actual um slide deck, but we did start a parent engagement survey to really gather some feedback from our parents to get an
understanding of where where we are. Um, right now we only have about 600 responses. I'm going to send out a reminder email to all of our families uh to give us some additional as many of people as possible to give us feedback because then we get to share this with
our schools and then schools can make adjustments as needed. Now, for the most part, we're in the 90s uh for in terms of parents either or agreeing um and the disagree is is never really over uh the 10% place with the exception to
communicating during parent engagement time, which is why I would love to have as many families as possible complete it and would love it if you as a as a president's council would connect with um during your PTA meetings. Um just
reminding them the link is here. I included it in the survey um uh excuse me in the in the PowerPoint deck because it's if the more information we have the more decisions that we can make collaboratively as a district leadership team as a community education council as
a president's council and then certainly as a uh DPAC uh team. So, you know what I what I do ask is that we continue to share. While 600 is a is a is a decent number of families, we do have 23,000 children in the district. So, the more
feedback we get, the better off um it will be for us to make some really strong decisions. Some of the ones that are really important to me is making sure that that um there are opportunities for uh for our parents to get to know um how their children are
doing in terms of progress. Um you know and we it's an area that we still need to uh to grow in. Although you know we do have 91% of families indicating that they get that and that's that this middle one right here. my child provides me with uh my school provides me with
updates in relation to the progress of my children. This is something we still need to get better at. 9% saying that that's not necessarily the case is something we need to grow in. Overarching our uh you know the the feedback that we get from parents tends
to be on the positive side which is a good thing. But at the same time we have a lot more that we have to to do. So the more families that respond the better off for uh for us as a community. Uh and this by the way I will share with
with you an update during our November session. Hopefully we have a far far more people that have responded and if they don't we'll base a lot of our decisions on what we see there and some of the feedback that you have to continue to bolster engagement for our community.
Uh for our students in grades 3 through 8 uh we administer a social emotional learning survey and that survey covers the following areas. self-aware. This is student perception survey. Uh self-awareness, social awareness, self-management, decision- making, uh
relationship building, community agreements, um connection before content, and supportive environment. The reason why you'll see connection before content and community agreements in there is because this is something we want all of our schools to do in their classrooms. Are they coming to an
agreement around how we should be acting? Uh how we should be treating one another inside of our classrooms. and more importantly, what do we do as a collective community when we're not doing that? Um, so that's in there to get some feedback from our kids. The starting place for many of our elements
is in the upper 60s to 75ish range for the vast majority of questions. And it if they would not agree or dis agree or strongly agree, many are in the neutral. So the way that I look at the neutral means that we have a lot more work to do to make sure that children feel as
though uh they agree or uh strongly agree with some of these areas. Uh especially when it comes to managing themselves, you know, making sure that they're making responsible decisions and are able to build relationships. The reason why we landed on um you know the
area we landed on for social emotional learning is because some of our middle schoolers middle schoolers in particular indicate that their peers don't always respect one another. So part of our work is really to promote this connection before content to promote community building uh as a whole. Um, so these are
the things that we're putting into place to make sure that they happen and we're following up with these surveys to see where where we need additional support and if to and also to get some additional feedback from our kids. One of the other things that you should know, we are piloting um and it started
today which I'm really excited about in our middle schools. We're piloting a districtwide um a district pilot that's with coming from the district lens um in terms of peer mediation. So we had uh upwards of 30 children here today in the district
office uh learning uh about peer mediation so that they can go back and help support conflict resolution in their own schools. Um for for me the more we have our kids actively engaged in um in supporting you know a positive learning environment the better off uh
we will all be for not only their social emotional learning growth but their academic growth as well. um SLT training um the session that we're going to be having just so that everyone knows um is tenatively scheduled we can take that tenatively
out I don't know know why I have that there anymore uh is scheduled for Monday November 3rd there'll be two sessions one at 4:00 to 6:00 and the other one from 7:00 to 9:00 uh those that are on the SLT you'll have an option of
choosing either or of them uh we did send out a registration link so I encourage you if you haven't uh signed up, please make sure that you have um and things that we're going to be covering. Uh just kind of the SLT 101 um chancellor's regulations, which we have
to make sure that we're reviewing with you. uh progress monitoring um our expectations around MTSS which will be different from last year and then a review of school budgets just so that you have clarity on where you find it what you should expect in terms of your
school sharing uh and you know the questions that you can ask uh if you have them. We're also going to ask all of our SLTs to complete this brief survey before everyone leaves on the um the evening of
the SLT training. And the link is here and I'll just quickly open it. Uh some things that are in here that is really important. Um it's going to ask you questions around what's happening in SLT. And the more we know about the areas of need for your schools when it
comes to a school leadership team, the more our district leadership team can support uh to make sure that's that best practices are being implemented across schools. So we have done this in the past and it's really you know um quite supportive of the uh the things that
we're able to provide our SLTs in terms of layers of feedback and next steps should they need it. Uh so that is coming coming soon. Uh, I hope to see all of you guys on the 3. If you can't make it, then it it is going to be
recorded. Um, and a member from your team would need to kind of sit with you to go through it. Uh, but I'm hoping that uh you're able to join during that time. Uh, DCP goals, these have not changed, but I share them with you again just in
the event that you have um in the event that you have any additional questions on it. I encourage you to make sure that um you know, whatever it is that that you see here, if there you have questions about it, all of our schools in some way, shape,
or form are connecting to each of these goals as part of SLT. So, as a parent that's on uh the PTA and you're on your school leadership team, your goals should look similar in some way, shape, or form to the district goals. They do not have to be identical, but they
should look similar to what it is that we're trying to get accomplished. For our subgroups in particular, we have a a big emphasis on our on our multilingual learners this year, as well as um our students with IEPs. And one of the other
things that you should be aware of is that um as a district, we're piloting a program. 10 of our schools are participating in that pilot. Um I will make that list available to you guys. Just so you know um if your school is
participating or not. It's really for our children that are entering and emerging with with uh a lot of language needs. And uh the purpose of of this pilot is to make sure that everyone is aware uh that that we're building that muscle for our kids, those foundational muscles for our kids. Um, we do a really
good job in K through three of of um helping our kids meet mastery by the time they get to third grade or reach proficiency for grade level. Uh, but when we get our kids that are coming to us in grades three, four, and five, learning the language is not as easy for them as for children that have gotten
here when they were 5 years old. So, we're really looking to build on this and uh get our kids ready as possible from elementary to middle and then to of course to high school. Um, this I already shared. I'm not going to necessarily spend a lot of time on these because you already have seen
these goals, but they are present in here for you to give us feedback on. Um, the only one that I do want to always make sure I'm referencing is the chronic absenteeism. We are in a really, really, um, good place to start the year, um, we
have the second highest attendance rate in New York City, uh, which is terrific. And our chronic absenteeism rates are much lower this year than they were last. Uh the last check was around 12% overall. Uh and that's down from 19%
from the end of last year. So the goal is to make sure that our kids are in school with as much frequency as possible. Um our buildings all have a team that's dedicated to this. Um but we do need everyone's mindset on on this. It's not about um a parent doing the
wrong thing because a child is sick. I will never never suggest that. It's about making sure that they're in school every day they can possibly be in school. Uh and that's what we want to strive to. Uh but that concludes my report for today. Um I'm looking forward
to uh to speaking with you next time. And if anyone has any questions, I'd be happy to answer any of them. Any questions? Anyone? >> I guess they're good. >> I was going to say if anyone has questions, you can either unmute yourself and ask the question or you could put it in the chat if you prefer
not to speak. So, those are your two options. >> For me, um, you know, for those of you who are new, I I really do, um, I do appreciate when folks share some things to think about. Uh, it helps with the decision-m process. So, um, you know,
doesn't have to be right in the moment, but if things are hitting you and you say, you know what, this is something that I'd love to know or love to learn more about or I have a question for for for Mike um or the team, you know, don't hesitate. share whether it's uh with Rachel or Veronica or Jenny from the
team, you know, don't hesitate and we'll be happy to um you know to organize around it. >> Y I just dropped Thank you, Dr. M. I just dropped our um district 25 email address in the chat. If you should have any questions coming up, just feel free
to email us. >> But thank you guys. If anyone has anything, I'll be happy to answer. I was just curious if we could get a copy of the presentation. I was wanted to get the copy of the dates that you were discussing. >> Yeah, sure. So, if you go right to um
Lewis, if you can put the website in the in the uh the email address in the chat, excuse me. If you go right to the to the to our district website, you'll see it has all of the public meetings. Once you click on the president's council, there is a meeting documents and you'd actually see it from the past 5 years.
You could look at anything that you want. They're all dated um with the Hold on. You know what? Let me actually just share my screen. >> Okay, Dr. M, if you don't mind because I was going to show the uh the website anyway at the end of this meeting. >> Yeah, let me just quickly show you
where. So, our district 25 site when you when you go to and the address is here. we can put it into the chat. Uh, but you'll see a little button here that says public meetings and then public meetings. You click on president's council.
It'll bring you to our our uh meeting page and you'll see all of the different resources that are present here. Uh, but there's a button that says meeting documents right on the front page. When you click on meeting documents, it gives you all of the years that we've
had our meeting se our session dates. Um, and when you click on the year, it'll then have uh 2025 uh 102725. And this will give you the current uh the current all the elements that are going to be here for today, including my
report. >> Thank you. >> Okay. But in the the short term, what I will do, I will just put it into the chat so that you have it for today. But just so you know that it's up there uh for you anytime that you that you would like it. Um, and I'll put it into the
chat for you now. [Music] Okay, there's the the slide deck is right in the uh in the chat. uh you're welcome to go in there and all of the dates are are available to you. >> Thank you so much, Dr. Mike.
>> You're welcome. My pleasure. >> Anyone else have questions for Dr. Mike before we move on with the agenda? >> Okay. Well, thank you for being here as always. We look forward to seeing you every month and so we'll see you in November. Can I also just say
>> Steve number third >> can I say one more quick thing of course which I forgot to mention and uh I know I see Eden is on here but just so you guys know we're also working on a CEC district 25 collaboration um around you know the these three words
it's wellness kindness community and what we've been talking about is kind of organizing our definition for what we mean by that and then using it as a means of across our schools doing something on a routine basis that promotes wellness or promotes kindness
or community where I believe we we landed during our last meeting and we'll continue to build on is the idea of doing something around kindness on a regular basis to build community inside of our schools. But I will give you an update on that routinely because what we do during the CEC and district meeting
uh we would love to see happen across all of our schools. Um, so and anywhere you want to give feedback on that too would be most welcome because we want this to be something that we're really promoting. You know, I I say all the time I, you know, yes, I want my kids to do well. I have a ninth grader and I
have an 11th grader. I want them to do well in school just like anyone else. But what I will also say is that what's even more important to me is that when they leave my house that someone say would say Emily is a really wonderful young lady who's super kind,
super appropriate and respectful of all her peers and the adults around her. The same thing for Matthew. You know, yeah, they can do poorly on assess on an assessment. We can work on that. But you all the but what what I want is that there are kids of really high strong character and wherever we can promote
that is something that I'm really looking to do as a district community and we need everyone's kind of support in that uh of continuing to build. I know that's what you guys will want as parents too. So wherever we can continue to convey that message across our schools is what I want to do. So anyway,
I just wanted to throw that last little little little piece in. Thanks guys. >> Thank you Dr. Mike, >> I'm going to go back to the minutes. I apologize for before, but we have it right here. So, I'm going to go back to the minutes.
You guys see it? Minutes from September. >> Yes, we see it. >> Okay, I'm just going to scroll down. So, and I just want to make a mention that later on we will be having elections for the recording secretary who will be
handling the minutes. And I literally did this copy paste from Lewis in less than 5 minutes. So, it's not an ownorous task. Um, as you'll see as we go through the minutes from last month's meeting.
So you can see why we ask you to rename yourself with your school. So we can have that for the minutes purposes. We have the agenda listed here which it pulls um directly from the documents. Um Miss Dr. Mike's information that he
shared um he was double booked. So, he briefly went over some of the um the same things he was able to share tonight about the testing and con connection before content and the uh wellness,
kindness, and community. Um we had elections for the president's council board. Um Veronica Pedra Leon and myself were elected as your co-presidents. Mirna Pacheco was elected
as the treasurer and the recording secretary remained vacant. So we will have um those elections tonight and that was the end of the meeting. So can we have a motion to accept the minutes as they were read? If you could
state your name for the minutes. Stacy Goldberg, I approve. >> Thank you, Stacy. And if someone could second the motion and state your name for the minutes. >> Charlotte. >> Go ahead. >> Thank you, Charlotte.
Okay, so the minutes are approved. Um because I don't think we have a a poll for that. So, we'll have to make that for next month's meeting. Okay. So, next is how to set up a Zoom meeting. and we will um turn the floor
over to Louisito who is our resident tech expert. >> All right. Hello everyone. Thank you for having me tonight. We're going to go over Oh, my camera's closed. We are going to go over some um Zoom meeting um etiquette and
essentials. Um uh it's a little hard to to show you the Zoom application while we're actually in Zoom. So, we're going to do a lot of our work on the Zoom web interface where we can set up our meetings, access our meeting recordings and and other things. Uh, and I'm also
going to share with you the video resources that we have available from the past that you can look at to kind of see um how the Zoom application um works. So, I'm going to quickly go ahead and share my browser. Got a lot of windows open.
See? Okay. All right. So, um as um Dr. Mike, let me see. As Dr. Mike explained, um we do have Let me see if I bring this forward. One second.
Let me share the other The other one. Okay. Going to share it all. Okay. So, um, as Dr. Mike explained before, on the, uh, President's Council website, you are able to access all of our meeting
documents. So if you go ahead and choose meeting documents and then choose the current school year 2526 and then choose today's date. Um I we we've named the folders the European format of of um dates because when you sort it it's it
puts it in chronological order which is really nice. And then you're going to see here that I have a um a document called Zoom tutorial links. and that's going to bring you to this document that just has links to some other resources.
So, these are all YouTube links on how to do certain things using your New York City public schools Zoom account. So, there's a video on how to log into Zoom, which we're going to go over together here. Um, we have a document on scheduling a public meeting the correct
way, choosing the correct settings, which we're going to go over today live. We then have um in meeting Zoom options and features. This is the one part that's hard for me to share because we're currently in a Zoom meeting. So, I'm going to refer to you to that um to
that video to quickly see how we have different security um and different features in a Zoom meeting such as um turning off the chat, turning off people from uh preventing people from unmuting themselves, stuff like that. Some things that might be handy if you ever find yourself in a large meeting that you
want to control a little bit better. And next is how we access meeting recordings and transcripts which we can go over that as well. That's all on the on the website. So the very top of the page I have a link here. It's nycdoe.zoom. us. And this is going to be the website
we use to access um our Zoom um you know web interface. So when we go to the website, we're greeted with three options. The green button lets us join a Zoom meeting that's currently in progress. The blue button lets us host a meeting or start a meeting on the fly.
And the bottom button just lets us sign sign into our account where we can do some different configurations and and settings and stuff like that. So, I'm going to choose sign in. And you're going to notice it's going to bring you to the single signin website uh where we log in with our username and password. I'm going to go ahead and use my
fingerprint to log in with my own. Okay. Now, sometimes when we log in, we are prompted to um get a um a two-step verification code. So, I'm going to go ahead and get my two-step verification. I'm going to use an authentication app,
which means I don't have to get a code. I use my phone. And I say it is me. And we are in, which is great. So, I'm just going to quickly make this a little bit larger. All right. Okay. So when we log into the
Zoom um um you know web interface to set up our settings like that this is what we see on the left hand side we have a bunch of different categories we can choose from. First is uh meetings. These are all the meetings that I have scheduled here. We
also have profile which uh is where we can change our photo and information about ourselves. Um, and as we go down here on the left, you will see we have recordings and transcripts. This is where we access all of our meeting recordings
and um, a whole bunch of other things, you know, settings, reports, stuff like that. So, let's go ahead and just go back to meetings and we're going to quickly um, show you guys how we um, schedule a Zoom meeting properly so that
families um, and people from the public are able to join. So, on the right hand side here, we have a big blue button that says schedule a meeting. I'm going to go ahead and click that. Uh, we're going to give the meeting a name. Okay. And you can go ahead here and give the
meeting a um date and a start time. And then we can give it a duration. You're not married to these things. You can always start the meeting early, start the meeting later, um, or and you can even go longer than the duration you set. You just want to make sure that you give it a ballpark information. Now, if
you're scheduling a meeting that's going to be recurring, such as a the president's council meeting, which takes place every month, you could go ahead and choose a recurring meeting, and you can set it to recur daily, weekly, monthly, or my favorite, no fixed time.
And this just creates a meeting that will not will never expire. uh and allows you to use that meeting link over and over and over um without it changing which is very handy um to make things easy for families and for for everyone.
So that's how we set up the um president's council meeting using a recurring meeting that has no set time. Okay, if there's any questions just stop me at any time, okay? Because I can't really see the chat or anything. Okay, so we
have our time zone. We go down here and um we have the meeting ID. So every Zoom account has a personal meeting ID. This is one that's linked to my account. We typically don't use this because we want the meeting ID to be different for every meeting we have. So I choose generate
automatically and that will generate a new meeting ID. Um some of you might not even be able to choose this option when you log in with your Zoom account. So if you if you're not able to select this, it's fine. generate automatically is the one we want to use anyway. Now, um the
the the um New York City public schools requires that all our meetings have a passcode. So, you'll see here a generic passcode has been generated. Um the passcode for all of our meetings is always 252525 because it's easy for me to remember and
if someone asks asks me for a passcode, I can always uh think of it off the top of my head and just tell them what it is. Um, another passcode I like to use is I like to use the date. So, I'll put like 10 27 25. That would be like today's date. And that is how um if I
have a meeting that only occurs once, I usually will use the date as the passcode. Again, you can do anything you'd like. Your school code. So, if you're from PS129, maybe 129129, that could be your code. Something that's easy to remember uh and that you can
communicate to people uh quickly. Um the waiting room is always turned on. We can't turn it off. Now this is the most important question, right? This is the one that you guys have to focus on is require authentication to join. Okay, so
this means what do people have to do in order to join your meeting? Now there's a few options here. Okay, the first option is sign into Zoom. This means that everyone joining your meeting must have a Zoom account free or otherwise
and they have to log into that Zoom account to access your meeting. The other option is staff which only lets um these three types of accounts log into the meeting. So schools atnyc.gov that's
like my email address so we can get into the meeting. DOE external um are email addresses we create for entities that do not work for New York City public schools but still need access to like the infohub and other other resources um and our kids the New York City
students.net email address can log into these meetings. So when we schedule a meeting for like let's say principles a principal meeting we will choose this option here. Um sign to Zoom will let anyone join but they must log into Zoom. Now, there's a third option that's kind of hidden, and that's actually
unchecking this box. If you uncheck the require author authentication to join, no Zoom login is required. All they have to do is click the link or use your meeting ID and passcode and they will get ushered right into the meeting. And
uh this is the best way to set up a a meeting with the least barrier of entry, right? You want to make it as easy for families to join and if they don't have a Zoom account, unchecking this box will let them will let them log in uh very easily and without any uh difficulty.
Okay. Are there any questions about about that? That's the most important check box to take off. Um so when we have our parent trainings, this box is unchecked. Everyone can come in.
So then we have a few other options. uh when we're scheduling a meeting, um the continuous meeting chat just means that the the the the chat will um like kind of live on and people are able to see it anytime and it's kind of saved in place. Uh this is
a new feature which is always on by default which is fine. Um when you enter the um when you enter the meeting, do you want your video to be on or off by default? So, usually we keep that to off so people can choose to turn their cameras
on. And then audio, how do you want to allow people to contact uh to to to hear the meeting? Do you want them to be able to phone telephone in with their with that um conference call line? Do you want them to only use computer audio such as on a computer or phone? Or do
you want to give them the option to use both? Both is the default. And then under options, you have a few other things. If you click here, you can turn on and off the Q&A option. Um, so at the bottom of the screen, instead of just having chat, you can also have an option
for people to submit questions. Um, and um, you can have the recording automatically restart when the meeting begins so you don't forget. Um, and then you can also identify alternative hosts. So these are people that if you are not
available to start the meeting, they can start the meeting. So if you look at any of our dig 25 zoom uh meetings that I've have scheduled uh basically the entire team is an alternate host. So Jenny, Dr. Mike, um um the whole team is listed under here. So that if they uh if they
join before me, they can start the meeting without me which is very helpful. Uh after we schedule our meeting, we go ahead and click on save. And you'll see here now the meeting has been created. This is the actual meeting link right here which I can copy. It's
now copied to my clipboard. I can go ahead and paste that on a website, an email, um you know um whatever you wherever you want to put that link. You now have that link available. You can also go to the bottom and click on copy invitation. And this actually has a little bit more information like the
name, the date, the time, the link, the meeting ID and passcode. And you can copy that as well from here as well. And then anything that you uh that you want to change, just go ahead and click on edit here. And all those settings that we just set up, we can go ahead and make changes to it. The only time you can't
make changes to a meeting is when the meeting is in progress. So, if the meeting is already started, some of these options will be grayed out. You won't be able to um you won't be able to go ahead and um and make those changes until you end the meeting first. Okay.
So that's how we quickly um schedule a meeting correctly. Are there any questions from anyone? >> Yes, I have a question, Louis. >> Yeah. >> Um at the very bottom there was an option for enable um translation.
>> Yes. Interpretation. >> Interpretation. Yeah. Um >> so so the the interpretation that's available in Zoom requires an actual person to be doing that work. Okay. >> So, when you say enable language interpretation, you you have to identify
the email address of the person that's going to be doing that interpretation >> and you're going to talk about uh the the host language, which typically is English, and what language they're going to be translating into, for example, Spanish. So, I would have to put in the
person's email address, the language that uh the meeting will be in, which is English, and what they will be translating into. So, this is not an automatic thing. >> Okay. >> Okay. It's like um uh like kind of like when the interpreters come on. It's kind
of like having them do that. And you can enter multiple ones for different languages depending on who you um you know who what you need, stuff like that. For example, >> and if say, so for example, our last PTA meeting, we had a teacher that was
willing to translate into Chinese. >> Okay. Was it on Zoom? >> Yeah. Um, but I didn't know about this, so we just were going to have her periodically translate, but nobody actually needed it. But with this type of translation, if I had her email
address, would that create a separate room where people would go to hear the translation or how does >> So, I just invited myself. I'm gonna I'm gonna see if I get this email. So, this is what it looks like when you
um when you enter that email address. Um let me see if I can zoom in on this. Can't zoom in. Okay. So, um you'll see here that it has um
uh just an invitation to the meeting. And then you'll you'll see that when there is a when we go into the actual meeting and again we can't do it um because we're in a meeting right now, >> right? >> You'll actually have the opportunity for them to kind of have their own little channel
>> and it works. It works. Okay. It works well. Yeah, it works good. But you could definitely play around with it. I definitely think you can um do some test runs before you actually have it for a meeting. >> Okay. >> And we can we can look at that. Yeah. But that's but that's how that works there. >> Okay. Thank you. Mhm.
And um that is the meetings tab. We also have the recordings and our transcripts. This is where all of our meeting recordings get saved. Recordings are only saved for 60 days. So if you are going to and you'll see here, President's Council is going on right
now. I'm going to scroll down to President's Council from last time just to open that up. Um the meetings are only kept for 60 days. Um this meeting will automatically delete uh in 18 days. So if you do want to save these meetings
and put them somewhere else, it is encouraged that you download them to your computer and upload those files somewhere else. So um we had stopped recording and then started recording which is why we have recording one and two here. Uh but it was the same meeting
that just got continued. And um you'll see here that Zoom records every single angle. So we have the shared screen with the speaker in the corner. We have just the person speaking. We have the gallery view which is the grid of all the um Brady Bunch heads on on Zoom. We have
just this SC, just the shared screen, no little speaker in the corner. We have just the audio of the meeting if you wanted to get that for some reason. And then we have the transcript file and we have the entire chat file. So, you can go ahead and download the chat um and um
go ahead and um and save that uh as well. You'll notice that typically I download the chat file and I save it in the folder for the meeting on Google Drive for the meeting documents just so we have that as a reference. So, the audio transcript um
is the document the file that I use to make the meeting minutes. So, I can show you what that looks like. So, I'm going to go ahead and click on this attachment. I'm going to save it to my downloads folder. And I'm going to open the file. Let's
see. Okay. So, here is the file. So, this is what the transcript looks like. You'll notice it will say the name of the person. Let me make this bigger. I'm sorry, guys. Oh, okay. So, it has the name of the
person and what was said. So, and and the time stamp of of the of the recording. So, Jenny said Dr. Mike's going to start with his opening all that stuff. And then you'll see Dr. Dr. Mike's uh um part. Now, depending on how you're logged in, sometimes it might say
their username, not their name, but we can uh determine who's speaking, which is really handy. And then once you um have this information, this is what I actually go ahead and upload to chat GPT or to I should say to um uh the
Microsoft copilot and I just say please make meeting minutes from this file. Upload this file and it go ahead it goes ahead and makes a summary and a nice a nice document for us to uh to to you know to use as a template for our meeting minutes which is very handy.
So that is the um the transcript which is really great and this works really well obviously when everyone is on Zoom um on their own computers. That way you'll have their name and what they said. If uh like for example our CEC meetings all CEC members that are in
person are kind of using one microphone. So it's kind of hard to get the meeting minutes for that. Um, but when we're on a a completely virtual meeting, not not a hybrid meeting, um, it's very easy to get this information. All right. Is there anything else that you guys are interested in?
>> Before you move on, um, I have a question about doing the chat GPT or the Microsoft copilot. >> Sure. >> Is that something that's not allowed if you're at the school? because I tried doing it at the school on the school's
website and it kept denying access. >> So, chat GPT is blocked. >> Okay. >> Um on on on school networks. So, if you're on Wi-Fi or or on a desk a wired computer in a school, you won't be able to log into Chat GBT. But Copilot and
Google Gemini are both authorized to use with our Dwey accounts. So, you can log in with your um school uh parent leader account um or your PTA email account and you'll be able to access full versions
of um of Copilot. So, here I'm going to log in with my fingerprint >> and it's going to bring me to single sign on. But since I already logged in, it should just pull me right in, which it did. So, here is Copilot. Um, and you'll notice um over here I have a
little green um badge icon >> which says enterprise data protection. That means that we are logged in with the correct um account and um Microsoft is not using any of this data for anything else. Uh it's not using it to tr train any of their models or anything
like that. So what I can do is um you know I can say make a meeting summary from this transcript and then I'm going to go ahead and find
my file. Now I will say that sometimes um uh it likes a text file. So, I sometimes just have to rename the file.ext. Uh, and then just drop it right over here. Let's see. So, now it's uploading that file. Make meeting summary from the
transcript. Bloop. And it's going to start to read it. And there you go. Instantly, we have a summary of it. And you can say anything else. You can say, "Give me next steps from this meeting."
And now it's going to go through and listen and listen to the meeting and say um what everyone has to do um like this is so it's so great like the new the the people that got elected into the um president's council um leadership u into
the uh have to email Jenny their information. Um you know just really really cool how it pulled this all from those notes which is really really cool.
you know, so super super easy, you know. Um, but that but that is a little a little preview of what that of what that looks like. Um, are there any other questions regarding scheduling a meeting or
logging into the Zoom website, anything like that? So, you see here, this is the meeting that we're in right now. And there's a little red icon here that says it's it's uh it's in progress. And then you'll see the edit button is not available because the meeting is in
progress. And oh, here's the alternate host. Remember I said my whole team the whole team can start this meeting, not just me, which is good. All right, I'm going to go ahead and stop sharing and see if there's any other questions. And again, I I shared the the document
earlier um at the beginning where with all those YouTube video links. Definitely watch those. It goes over again in detail how to um you know access a lot of the different features that are available to us. And that's it.
>> Hi, I just had a question. >> Sure. Yeah. Um I'm I'm wondering have you or any of the uh other uh uh attendees here had any kind of success with any kind of translation like live translation either be it text or uh you know I'm not
sure what else to use. We have two predominant languages besides English and >> um we're trying to obviously uh and I'm sure other people have the same issues trying to address that kind of barrier. um you know we try to get obviously
parents or uh you know staff who can translate but that's not always available to us. So I was just wondering how other um you know other PTAs have figured out or method is there is AI coming down the line where it's I know that for some of them um there's
additional services sometimes that you can add on to meetings like Zoom meetings like I don't know how the DOE is kind of I guess >> not that open to that stuff. Yeah. >> Right. Exactly. So it's it's we're trying to figure out how to do that because it's hard to sometimes rely on
one or two parents only and you know things always happen. Um >> so I'm not sure how other people have addressed that. >> So um so Microsoft Teams does offer translated subtitles
that are like automate automated but you can only do it into one language. You can't choose multiple languages. So you'd have to pick one language. Um unfortunately there is no although we have closed captioning on
um on Zoom, it will always be in the language uh that's being spoken. So if you're speaking English, the closed captions will be in English. If you're speaking in Spanish, the closed captions can be in Spanish, but it can't translate. Um, so right now there's nothing that um we have
um that will let us uh you know do a translation like that. Um and I just turned on the closed captioning for this meeting. And if you go into the bottom, you can go ahead and you can see that. Um but there's no translation as of as of yet in in Zoom. Does anyone else have
any other solutions that you guys know of? I know that there is the interpretation unit that can Yeah, go ahead Jenny. Go ahead. >> No, I was about to mention about the translation unit that um they can arrange a call in the PC can help
arrange you know to call them a specific specific time because they are open 24/7. So you can do that and I know there's also translation uh fund set aside. Each school has it translations fun set aside. That's something you can discuss.
Oh, that's not for the PATA meeting or can schools use that for the PAPA meetings, Le? >> I mean, I don't know. I I feel like I feel like the parent meeting should be given a uh, you know, priority for that. >> Yeah. Yeah. That's something you can try
to sit down and discuss with the principal about because they all at each school are have, you know, have that money set aside and that it has to be used, right? It has to be used within the school year. >> Charlotte, is your are your meetings on Zoom or they in person? Some of them are in person and then we switch over. I
don't know if other people do the same or not, but like during the winter months we end up going back to Zoom just because it's easier for a lot of the families um and safer for them. Um and then we switch back um and it's so far it's been working for our our community. Some parents can come in,
>> you know, and see their children, especially when we do student of the month, like they can see their children walk across the stage. It kind of brings everybody in. Um, and then you know we revert to like I said winter months to be virtual so it's safer for everybody. So can you I'm sorry. Can you tell me a little bit more about arranging a call-in? How does where am I finding
information about that? >> Um those information cannot be shared with parents. Those are information that the staff will have and the staff can help you. >> Yeah. So I would touch base with your parent coordinator. >> Yes. >> And they can go online and they can book it and it's it's great for in-person
meetings. the the the little team comes with the headsets >> and and the you know everyone will listen to their headset while the interpreter's in the corner you know speaking in their language and then there's also a service where um they set something up um where families can call
in on a phone number while watching the Zoom meeting and listen in their language and but still they still get to see and hear in English as well which is kind of nice. It's not just one or the other. So, um, your parent quitter knows how to how to do that. >> Okay. Yeah. Thank you so much.
>> Yeah. No, good question. Do you think it'd be easier? >> All right. >> Okay. Just an update for the um the parent leader accounts, the DO DOE external email accounts are not ready as for now. So once I know once I they
working behind the scene to link everything >> but they still have their they still have their um ETA accounts right >> some schools do have their own PAP account but the we should we're supposed to provide each parent leader a DOE external email account so you have
access to Zoom account unlimited right and then all those DOE um >> features >> um feature yeah >> benefits that we use >> I I will update the PCs. I will update each of you once it's um resuming or we
can provide those email accounts. All right, let me go back to the slide. So that's Louis. Thank you Louis so much for >> You're welcome. presenting Rachel or um Veronica.
>> Yes, we are. Thank you very much, Jenny. Thank you very much, Lewis. We are now just here's a brief summary of the district 25 president's council executive board members. Myself, Veronica Peter Leon is one of the co-presidents, Rachel MNA,
and we do have a vacancy for the recording secretary of President's Council. We're very excited to be here with you and we're going to move forward with the review of the bylaws. So, Rachel, would you like to take this on?
>> Yes. So, um, as you all should know, uh, as the states in the third bullet, PTA bylaws and in this case, President's Council bylaws should be reviewed every, um, every year and updated every 3 years. Um, our President's Council
bylaws are actually beyond that. So, we want to make sure and review them at this meeting and then they will be voted on at the November meeting um, to be adopted. No changes have been made. Um we will go over the the bylaws
themselves, but we just want to let you know that we did not make any changes from the previous um bylaws. Um if you do make changes to your bylaws, for example, you want to add co- presidents where you only had presidents before, u
bylaw changes must be reviewed at one PTA membership meeting and then approved at the following membership meeting. You also need to outline or identify what changes are being made. Um, parents may
want to vote on them one by one or all changes can be voted on um as a full slate as opposed to one by one. If you cannot find a copy of your current bylaws, you can ask our family support coordinator, Jenny, if she has a copy.
If the district office does not have a copy, you can create them now. for going forward using the template from the A660 the chancellor's regs. So >> Rachel, can I add something? >> Yes. >> So um over the summer I went through all
the bylaws. Many of them are outdated and again the bylaw should be reviewed annually and should be updated every 3 years. So I'm going to reach out to all the parent coordinators because they will be reaching out to you for to ask for a copy of the most up-to-date bylaw. But please have a copy ready for your
parent coordinator because we're going to be collecting them in our for our November meeting. Okay. So, just a heads up, I will be reaching out to all the PCs. So, they will be reaching out to you for a copy of the utmost up to-date bylaw so we can keep a copy. We always keep a copy as a backup.
>> Thank you. >> Okay. So, do you want to share the the bylaws so we can through? >> Yep. Um so again I log into our district website
all the meeting documents are posted. Um so for this one we will go to president's council meeting and meeting documents. Let me click on the correct year this time and the correct month.
And the bylaw is has been posted. This is from 2021. This is the latest bylaw that we have. So, Rachel, you wanted to review them now or >> Well, do you have the updated ones that
I the the word document that I shared? >> That's the one you share, right? >> This is the one I email I shared today. Um, I shared the >> actual bylaws that I
did with the current template. >> Okay. So, okay. Maybe I got a little I have it. I have it. I was a bit confident. >> I can I can share it right now with you so you can >> Okay. >> Don't have to go looking for it.
>> Okay. Thank you, Rachel. Stop sharing. >> You're emailing it to to me. Rachel, >> I showed it to your email. >> Okay, let me download it quick. Give me one second. >> Sure.
Download. Let me share my screen again. Okay. >> Mhm. >> Okay. So, Rachel just sent me the most up-to-date bylaw. Correct, Rachel? >> Yes. >> I I downloaded it from Rachel's um >> what Rachel just sent me and I uploaded
it to the same file, you know, at D25.nyc. NYC website, President's Council meeting and meeting minutes and it is right here. Okay. So, we'll go over it briefly. I'm not going to read every single line. Um
again this is from the template uh the current 2020 2021 temp or 2021 November template from chancellor's regs. Um it does mention about dues. We haven't been collecting dues but we may start
this year. We may plan something with the district office. Um but again that $50 is the same thing that was in the previous ones if you want to look at that PDFs. um officers, the mandatory officers are
president, recording secretary, and I don't know why it doesn't say treasure. So, we'll have to update that. Um the underlined items are the ones that you have to physically enter. So, within the Burrow of Queens,
um we do have a bank account. So, we a treasurer is a mandatory officer. Um the term limits for each officer position shall be three consecutive one-year terms. Uh we do have both president and
co-presidents um positions available also for recording secretary or co-recording secretaries. Again, most of the duties are the same as the ones you would undertake as your PTA um
functions. Uh treasure and co-reasurers are also uh an option. Um again, same duties. Um the non-mandatory officers, there's a first vice president, corresponding
secretary, and an assistant treasurer. Although generally we don't get those positions as it as you know we've been trying to get a recording secretary for two months so hopefully we'll get that tonight. Um notices must be sent out 10 days in
advance eligibility details on the voting and again most of this is exactly the same as uh PTA bylaws. um talks about officer vacancies,
the ranking for succession, expedited elections, disciplinary action, officer removal, which hopefully we never have to deal with the executive board. Um composition the meetings
voting quorum for executive board is three members. Shall it constitute a quorum? Details about the June transfer of records. The general membership meetings. This is where it's held
monthly. um September through June on the third Monday of the month at 6:30 unless that date falls on a holiday like it did this month. Uh the order of business quorum is a council member. So in order to have
any voting, we need to have two executive board and six parent members. Again, same as your PTPA PTAs. Uh the minutes, special membership meetings that might be called. um details about the different
committees that um we could have >> financial affairs. The president, treasurer and recording secretary shall be authorized to sign checks. The budget process that the proposed budget must be presented at the
June meeting. um banking, same details as with um our PATAs, details about ATM cards and appropriate use and inappropriate use.
Um things that cannot be done such as um using withdrawals if an audit committee is ever needed. financial accounting, the different financial reports that must be done, which we always reme remind everyone and
go over it and then just uh a vote would is required for approval and then the signature page. So, does anyone have any questions about the bylaws uh the updated bylaws as
they've been read out or overviewed? Again, we will um have a vote at our November meeting to um actually adopt these bylaws and then they will be signed and
filed with the princ the superintendent in this case um and with Jenny so that she knows we have the most updated bylaws um and they'll be available on the website as well um for anybody who wants to reference them.
So that's it for the bylaws. Thank you so much, Rachel. We will now move on to a couple of our reminders. Um the PA, PTA, and SLT election certification form. Um you know, as always, the PTA keeps
the original. the parent coordinator keeps a copy. You also have we have two annual financial reports. One which is due January 31st and one which is due June 30th. If you don't have the form, you can always reach out to Jenny and she can help you and guide you through
like that process and what that looks like. We also have a proposed budget report which is due by June with the membership meeting. And just to clarify, Jenny, the proposed budget needs to be submitted to you to the district office or should be kept with the principal.
I believe this one should be kept with the principal. I um I mean I don't mind collecting this ones as well, but I haven't start collecting this one. I've been collecting certification forms and financial for June and January, but I believe district office should be
collecting that one as well. So we when we get audited we have everything ready. >> Okay. Thank you very much Jenny. Next slide. No >> problem. >> Yeah. >> And then we obviously we have the PTA link. Um they do have office hours on
Thursdays from 10 to 11:00 a.m. They started in September. So if there is any type of questions that you may have regarding to the PAPTA, you can always come to their office hours and they will be more than happy to answer your questions. >> And our next meeting is on Tuesday,
November. >> So this is the PAC, I'm sorry, this is the pack meetings. >> Okay. So we um so for title one schools, uh we also have parent leaders on the pack. PAC is also having um monthly meeting just like the PAPA. So on the district level we have a DPAC. So we
have Crystal and we have Jamie as our chairperson and alternate. Jamie and Crystal are having DPAC monthly meeting just like the BAPTA. So if you're a title one school, please encourage your parent leaders at the tit title one to attend our BPAC meetings as this is
where we are sharing the most upto-date and informations and they also attend city pack meeting which the liaison from the chances office to get the most upto-date you know information from the from the central level. So this is where they bring back their information and
turn key to our title one schools. So these are the meeting dates. The next one will be on Wednesday. you guys are welcome to join as well just to check it out or you know just to come and get some information and um Eden is here like I'm looking at
Eden so these are our CEC meeting dates um CEC meetings are in person for our CEC members but there is a hybrid link that you can listen in uh through our D25.nyc NYC website and it's at 700 p.m.
um on these dates in person at Lynen Place. >> So Jenny, just to chime in there, November 5th um we will be talking about middle school admissions. So if you know any parents that are looking to get some further information, that is the focus
of our November meeting and that will be on November 5th. I know like we have to check off the other ones um that have passed already, but yeah, November 5th. And we do have a full council. Everybody is assigned to schools. Um, so they should be doing school visits. They may connect with you guys at some point, but everybody is working on getting to the
schools that they're assigned to. So, thank you. >> Thank you, Eden. >> I do have a question, Eden. If a school has not heard from the community um from their CC liaison, should we reach out to the council directly or what should we
do? So, our administrative assistant had connected each of us to the parent coordinator of the school. Some of the parent coordinators may or may not have responded. If that was the case, I did instruct the council members to let us know so that we could then get the principal looped into the email. I
haven't heard from anybody that they haven't heard back in one way or another at this point. But if you yourself have hear from the principal or the parent coordinator that they haven't, feel free to email us and Egypt and myself can kind of look at that and see what's going on with that. >> All righty. Perfect. Thank you so much,
Eden. >> No problem. And these are our president's council's meeting dates. Veronica, if you want to. >> Yes. So, our next meeting is going to be on November 17. We will be sending our agenda as well as the topics that we
will be discussing once we meet and agree upon the next topic that we're going to cover for our upcoming meeting. And are there any questions or any type of feedback that you would like to share at this time? Nothing.
>> Does anyone have any questions? Nope. Okay. Should we resume with the um the the vacancy that we have for secretary? >> Yes. Okay. Rachel, are you okay with resuming? >> Yes. Um, give me one second.
>> How many you have left? So right now we have one opening which is the secretary PAPA secretary um recording secretary it's vacant um I'm trying to look for the uh the
roles up. Give me one second. >> You could pull it up from the bylaws. Is that on? Yeah, you're right. >> Yeah. >> Um, I have a question. Uh, >> yep. >> Just quickly, um, the question is about
candy sales in uh that we can't do candy sales anymore. >> Um, Ronica, you want to talk about or you want me to um to mention it? Why can't we have it in there? >> So, there was an update from central
from the chancellors that she just signed uh only for this school year from 2025 and 2026. So, the school cannot sell any soda, candy, uh or have bake sales. So, that's prohibited for this school year that she um
>> why just this school year? I'm not sure why, but this is something that came out on I would say a week or two weeks ago that we share with all our PCs. >> Uh, no, I'm just kind of It puts a
damper on a lot of the fundraisings. I mean, yeah, we don't want chubby kids, but at the same time, we're trying to raise some money for different things that we could do for the PTA, and it just causes a little hamper. And and the thing is what happens when you have like
inventory now? What do we do with that? Is that is the schools going to reimburse us for that? >> Um that's a good question. I can reach out to face to find out what um parent leaders can do with the uh inventories.
>> Yeah, because I mean we have a cotton candy machine. We have cotton candy sticks and and sugars. And I'm just wondering like if I can't sell it, what do I do? Is like no one gave us warning ahead of time before the school year started and it was just kind of like put
on suddenly. And I think it's kind of unfair that the PTA's whoever invested in whatever it is gets it now has to eat that that inventory and cause us kind of >> cause us kind of economic harm.
>> Yeah. >> I just I just want to clarify, Jenny. Maybe perhaps there there may be a clarification that is needed from FaZe because it says that no big sale can happen in the school cafeteria. >> I wonder. >> We're not worried about that so much. >> But they did mention no sales of candy
and soda. So I'll find out um >> what to do with the inventories that's sitting around. >> Just to interject really quickly. I mean, it's they want us to increase fund fundraising opportunities throughout the
year, but at the same time, when we sell candy, which is one of the biggest ways of fundraising for the school, it's you're not allowing us to raise the money that we need. >> And they they've moved it up to 14 fundraisers. >> Up to 14. Up to 14.
>> Yeah. I work and there's no way I'm going to do 14 fundraisers. >> No, no, no. It doesn't say minimum. It says up to 14. >> No, no, no. I know. But they're they're basically saying, "Hey, you don't have to sell candy, but you can you can do more fundraising." I I don't even think I mean like what are the kids supposed
to buy or even 14 is a lot, right? I mean, >> just because you have volume doesn't mean you're going to raise more money. >> Yeah. And each fundraising activity must be also must be approved by the school principal. >> No. And and it just seems like they're
like hampering us down, right? there PTA seems the PTA seems like they're asking more of the PTA from funding, but then they're cutting our our legs off because we can't raise any money. We're very, you know, it's harder. >> So, so our president's council also meet
with CPAC every monthly. So, maybe Veronica, if you can raise these concerns next time you attend those meetings, that would be um >> Yes, I will do that, Joe. And if anything if you can send those an emails with all the concerns and all the questions and that goes for everybody. I
attend the CPAC meetings. Um if you have any question or related to this particular item you can send those questions to your email and I will compile it and use that space to bring clarity to some of the concerns and raise those concerns. Um at the CPAC
>> I have um I have two questions. Uh the first one is about candy as well um regarding movie night. So we want to know if candy can be sold at movie night after school hours. Um and our next
question was as far as fundraising. Um, with picture day, we have uh picture day for sixth grade through 8ighth grade, but we're having picture day for um 8th grade in their gowns as well. We want to
know is that considered as an additional fundraiser or because it's you know from one entity is it going to be just one fundraiser or each addition each picture day is it a different fundraiser considered a different fundraiser?
>> Are the picture days being held at the same time? There are different days like we have picture original original picture day and then we have makeup day, retake day for those who missed and then we have eighth grade gown picture day. They're all different days,
>> but the student would be missing class one time. >> The students will not be missing class. They're coming, you know, they're coming to take their picture, they're going right back to their class. >> Okay? because the the the um provisions
from the chancellor's rags about missing instruction time um allow for up to three times per year. So, as long as they're not missing instruction time more than three times um then it then it
wouldn't be an issue as to how many um different days and how many. >> No, I that's not what I'm asking. >> That's not the question. I think she's asking is it two fundraisers or is it one? I say you just go with one. >> I believe it's one >> just one. >> I believe that's picture a day is just
one fundraiser picture day. Yeah, it goes over three day because some schools are large in able to photograph everyone. You need to have them over several days. >> So, but it's one fundraiser. Yeah. >> Thank you. >> No problem.
>> But I have a question. >> Um who's speaking? I'm sorry. Hi, it's um I'm uh the PTA president at PS129. I just have a question. And when they say 14 up to 14 fundraisers, was there ever
a cap on the number of fundraiser? I thought it was just the three during instructional time that you guys were just talking about. There was a a maximum other than that guideline. >> I will look into it. Rachel and
Veronica, do we >> because I don't That's what I was wondering when when we saw that update that it says 14 fundraisers. >> Does that mean 14 during the school day? >> No. No. No. Up to 14 of the school year that
>> there was never was there ever a limit before? Because I don't ever remember seeing that in the chancellor's regulations that there was a limit. The limit before was number of hours per um
per school year. >> Okay. So >> school but it when it's I don't remember how many hours it was. I don't know if it was like a 100 hours. >> It was 100. It was 100 hours. >> Yeah. Because it doesn't really make any sense. They saying they increased it to
up to 14, but there wasn't ever a limit previously. So we weren't we were unclear on what that meant. >> You know what I remember is the same thing that Rachel communicated um you know at the beginning when she started it was 100 hours that we had access to
do activities within the building. So there was never really a cap only the hours. >> Okay. >> Um and then al so now there's no cap on the hours it's just 14 fundraisers in total. It's a little vague, but >> we we can ask um for our next time you
attend city pack meeting, Veronica and I attend the PTA open uh office hours, I will have them clarify what that means so we can have it. You know, >> I say if you want to do 28, just do half days >> and then you're good, right? I mean,
like if they're going to be vague, we could be vague. >> Nobody has time for 28 anyway. Um, and then also the snack sale not being allowed in the cafeteria. Um, I mean the bake sales. If the school is doing their own snack
sale though in the cafeteria, they're not supposed to do that either, right? >> For what chances, you know, to sign the waiver is only for the PAPA. I'll find out if schools can sell snacks during the school hour. >> Okay.
>> I'll find out. Yeah. I'll write I wrote down all the um questions. >> Thank you. >> No problem. But I know PAP cannot sell any sodas. Can they have a bake sale in the cafeteria? But can they have it in
other? >> No. So >> in the chancellor's regulations, it says that bake sales can happen outside of the cafeteria. So even if it's just outside of the cafeteria in the hallway, I believe that is still allowed. It's just not candy and not soda. But we can
sell cupcakes and donuts and everything else still. >> That's correct. >> That's correct. >> But if not in the A660, I'm not sure which part of the chancellor's regulations, but there are rules about the school itself doing snack sales
inside the cafeteria also. I don't believe they're supposed to. So, I just was wondering if you guys knew that off the top of your head. I heard I heard you can't do any bake sales like food in the cafeteria. >> You can do it outside the cafeteria. >> Yeah, you can do it outside the
cafeteria, but you can't do anything in the inside. >> So, even if it's a school. Okay. >> Well, I don't know about the school, but for us, which kind of puts a damper in, too, because now we got to shift kids outside. It's going to cause some problems. We're putting it in the library. It's just the most ridiculous
thing I've ever heard. >> No, it has a lot of good questions. We're going to find out. We have president's council and I'll also find out by reaching out to face. So we'll update you guys. >> Thank you. >> Yeah. I just want to make sure like on one of the chancellor regulations I
think it was 812 where they said you know P um PATAs can sell non-approved items which meant that we could sell candy. So I'm just wondering if this is the change that they're saying we no longer can sell that. >> I didn't quite understand your question.
So on chancellor because I I went through like a whole bunch of the different regulations the chancellor's regulations that were listed and I believe it was 8 um 812 and it said that under there was that PATA can sell non-approved items which means that like
candy and all that other stuff was included. So is this waiver that just came out negating that regulation? >> Yes. It's saying that you specifically cannot sell candy or soda and that bake sales cannot be in the cafeteria. They
have to be outside of the cafeteria. That was >> fine. I was Yeah, I was held outside of the cafeteria. So, Right. >> Okay. >> So, but no more candy and soda if that was something that your PATA was selling even if it was outside the cafeteria.
>> Can we give it away for free? >> Um, then what is the point of fundraising? I can do a buy one get one free. >> We can't. We We see we You still would need to sell them, right? Buy one get one free is 50% off, but we can't sell
them. >> That's the thing, >> right? If you can find out what we can do with whatever stock that we have. Yes. Other than making the school, you know, the school lose out on the money that we >> We don't want to throw away, you know, it's going to expire at one point. Yep. I'll find out. We we will find out
>> because one possibility we've done before in our school last year is we sold candy at dismissal outside the building. >> So I don't know if that's still okay because it's after school hours. Um that
might be a question for for CPAC. um if that's allowed to try and get around the >> the restrictions. >> It went very well at the middle school
um at the middle school exit. We sold very well. Are there any more questions or can we um proceed with the elections for the recording secretary? Okay. So, we'll proceed with the elections for recording secretary for um
this this school year. >> I found it. Let me post it. Give me one second. Let me share my screen again. Do you see my screen? Oh, it's loading.
>> My computer's very slow today. >> Do you see it now? >> Okay. Yes. >> Yeah. >> Okay. So, we are in need of a recording secretary or two co-recording secretaries. The duties are include but are not limited to recording minutes at
all president's council meetings. Prepare notices, agendas, signin sheets, and materials for distribution. Of course, that that would be as applicable for Zoom meetings. Prepare and read the minutes at president's council meetings. Incorporate all amendments into the
bylaws. Ensure that signed copies of the bylaws with the latest amendments are on file in the superintendent's office. Assist with the June transfer of records, including pertinent user IDs and passwords to the incoming executive board. And lastly, serve as one of the eligible signitories on checks if the
president's council is engaged in fundraising. And we do have a bank account as we have um done fundraising through dues in the past. So, I'd like to open the floor to any nominations. It is 8:10 and I open the
floor to nominations. You can nominate yourself. You can nominate another individual as long as you know that they are willing to accept the nomination or if they are here in the meeting and able to accept the nomination. Um, you can submit nominations by unmuting yourself
and stating your name or the person's name you're nominating or you can put it in the chat. um the full name of the person that's uh being nominated. It is not a time-consuming task. Um you
saw the minutes and how quickly Lewis was able to do them from the transcript. Literally within minutes of the the meeting ending, Lewis will email the transcript to um the president's council email and
um it literally takes no time at all to do the minutes. It's probably the easiest job now as compared to what it used to be where you had to take notes and type them up. That's a thing of the past. So, please, if you guys could,
somebody could step up and be a recording secretary so we can have a full board, that would be fantastic. And the district needs to be in compliance with these mandated roles. So, we are asking someone to please um
nominate yourself to become a um the recording secretary of the president's council. >> And I believe we need to have the role filled by October 31st. So, this is our last chance to have this role filled. Um
please, we just need one person to step up. I We know your plates are full. All of our plates are full, but um the district needs one person, just one. Two would be great if you wanted to share the load, but just one person to step up and be recording secretary for the
school year. And we will be happy to support you. I mean, you have a great team behind you. We just need one person or two people who decide to do this. And like Rachel said, we're very close to a deadline. So, if somebody would like to
step in, we would greatly appreciate it. Rachel, could you guys explain to people what happens if we don't make that deadline? >> Uh, Jenny, do you know? >> I will have to I will have to report it back to phase and then um wait for the next guidance, but we would like to be
in compliance like all the schools would like to be in compliance to have all those mandated roles filled. So, we need to set the example as the district team and make sure we have all of our positions filled um by October
31st so that um we are not don't have a black dot next to our district. >> And we also need to include that in every single president's council meeting, I believe, until the role has been filled.
Anyone please? Someone. >> Someone. Yes. We are all here to support you. >> We're only here to work with you. >> It'll literally take 5 to 10 minutes out of your month. That's it. >> So,
>> the amount of a coffee break, if you can give up one coffee break or do it during your coffee break, that that's a a possibility, too. It's just cutting and pasting and checking names. That's it. someone could please nominate themselves, we would really really be
grateful um to have a full board and be in compliance and you know represent our district 25 in a great way like we always do. We have a wonderful district and we'd like to be able to support um all of you to the best of our abilities,
but we can only do that if we have a full board. And we need just one person to be willing to dedicate 10 minutes a month to being recording secretary. >> Five minutes. Five minutes. Five minutes.
>> Yes. Five minutes. Louis and I will help download the um the transcript from our meetings and all you need to do is just to copy and paste it into an IIA platform and make it into a minute. It takes five minutes. Anyone?
>> Anyone please? Someone >> I'm only looking at one face which has the camera on. Charlotte. >> Charlotte. I was looking at Charlotte's. >> Everyone else has the camera. Everyone else has the camera off, so I can't see their faces. I don't know what they're
thinking. >> Daisy, >> Charlotte, I see your big smile. Charlotte, five minutes. I don't like putting anyone out there, but all I see is you and Louis and Eden. And we have Rachel and Veronica already on the, you
know, >> Charlotte. >> Okay. Okay. I'll do it. Um, but I'm I mean I I haven't done it before, so I'm going to need to rely on you guys for the first couple of times. >> It's super easy. >> I will show you. I'll show you. I'll
help you. And >> we're all we're all going to be here to help you. >> Okay. And I was a recording secretary for my PA, PTA many, many, many for many years. So, I would be happy to work with you. >> Okay. No problem. I mean I I know the role in general, but like obviously I
mean I would love to learn the skills so I can adapt it to ours as well. >> Your recording once you learn and you teach your recording secretary which is what happened after Lewis that their lives are going to be you won't have a hard time filling your recording secretary position anymore because it's
not taking notes and typing them up. That is a thing of the past. Zoom is a fan. I mean it will be more complicated for your in-person meetings but >> that's okay. I mean, we'll, you know, we do our best, right? >> Yeah. But we don't have inerson meetings. We have it all recorded and we
have a transcript. So, thank you so much for stepping up, Charlotte. >> Okay. >> Um, >> yes. >> Do we need to vote? >> I don't think we have a poll, but if everyone is in favor of Charlotte being
our recording secretary, we have a second from Carrie. So, if you're in favor of Charlotte being our secretary, please put a thumbs up in the chat or yes, that's fine, too. Okay. So far I've seen like two floating
ones and we've got seven or is it nine? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Plus the two floating we've got nine. So that is over 50%. So, congratulations, Charlotte. You are
our recording secretary. >> Y >> So, please email Jenny with your address, phone number, and email so she can fill out the um election certification form and we can add you to
our our group lists and congratulations. Thank you. We are so appreciative. And now we are not in compliance. We are in >> Thank you so much, >> Shella. Please email me your uh information, okay? Your phone name, your school, your phone number, email, and
then I'll add you to to the certification uh form. >> Thank you so much. >> We'll do >> and and I'll reach out to you so we can I can show you on how to create that minute in five minutes. >> Thank you. We'll do.
>> Okay. Is that the last item on our agenda, Jenny? >> Yes. >> Okay. So, are there any last questions before we close out our our October meeting? Okay. So, it's 8:19. If someone could make a motion to adjourn our November
meet our October I'm jumping ahead to November. Our October meeting of President's Council. >> Yes. >> Okay. If somebody could second. >> Second. >> Okay. It is 8:19 and our October
President's Council meeting is officially adjourned. Thank you all for joining. Thank you Charlotte for joining the board as our recording secretary and we look forward to seeing you all in at our November meeting. Thank you so much and have a great night. >> Thank you everyone. Thank you so much.
>> Good night everybody. >> Good night everyone. >> Thank you Charlotte. >> Bye. >> Good night. >> Good night everyone. >> Thank you. >> Good night. Veronica, I'm looking to see if I have access to that real quick for you right now. Otherwise, I have it in my car in the morning.
>> Sure. >> I don't know what that sound was coming from. I thought it was a fire drill. I was about to run at this time. I'm still at Lynon Place. So, Oh, >> so you have um Fabiola Abraham. She works at She's from 499, Rachel.
>> Yep. >> Okay. So, that is the assigned to 165 Veronica. I will connect the dots for you. If you just send me an email so I have your email address, I'll connect you with her. >> Yeah. I just wanted to make sure that we're connected because there's some
issues in that area that I would love to bring up to the CC and then just try to figure it out how we can work around it. >> Definitely. Yeah. And then if you I'll connect you guys, but if she isn't responding, then let me know and I can jump in. >> All righty. Sounds good. >> Awesome. >> Thank you.
>> Have a good night, guys. >> Good night, everyone. >> Good night, everyone. And then um Veronica, I'll and I'll email you those questions that I wrote down from these parents. So we can we can >> you can ask the CPAC and I can ask uh
Antonio when I meet with her on those Thursdays um uh office hours. I don't think I have to reach out to Faith just for that. I'll I'll use Antonio. She's great. >> And then I'll we'll we'll talk about the response and then we'll see how we can respond that back to those parents on
our >> meeting. Yeah. I mean, as long as as we have the list of the questions, I think that that will help us. >> I wrote them down. I wrote them down. >> Yeah. >> Yep. >> Perfect. >> So, since it's just the three of us, should we talk about what we want to do for our November meeting?
>> Um, >> yeah. I I think we should talk about I was talking to Jenny about like the like the midyear report. Maybe we talk a little bit about finance because it's already November, December is coming in, January. we have to submit um the
midyear I believe is it January or is it March? >> It's due it's through January 15th and it's due by January 31st. >> So from July 1st to June 5 January 15th is the time frame of the report and it's
due by January 31st to the principal. >> I want them to do it the correct way because each PAP does their own way. Some people would just use a blank paper. Some people would just text the PCs, this is the ending balance, right? Some people will use the right forms,
the expense and and um >> income >> income form. I will show them how to uh access those resources, PAP resources. I can do that. >> Yeah. What do you think about that? Um, you know, Rachel, I think it's a good
topic. It's November. It gives us some wiggle room in December in case we have to do troubleshooting before the deadline in January 15. >> Yeah. And um I did talk, like I said, I did talk to George at Chase Bank about coming to our November meeting um and
just talking about from the banking side, like what types of things they need from PAPAs. >> Um because there's been a lot of banking issues lately. Yeah. and to have a banker and I have dealt with him for
years. Um MNA also has banks with him. Um it's painless so far dealing with with um Chase Bank and with George. Um nothing compared to what we dealt with with TD Bank for our president's
council. And you'll see when we go to add you, it'll hopefully now that we know and we have the correct form and you know the it'll be an easier process but um TD Bank has been tedious to
>> and it happens with with some banks, right? It happened with Capital One. It happened with like TD Bank. I think Chase is one of those banks where as long as as you don't have like a personal account connected to it, you're able to like do the banking easier and they're more flexible. The the category
that they have is secretary, which means they really don't have like the banker that we use uh for our school, you know, they told us like everybody for them is secretary. They don't have a specific position and it's just very easy, very straightforward. You just need the minutes. You don't have to even worry
about anything. >> Yep. You don't need the election certification form. >> You know, I do the letter, but they don't really even need the letter. The main thing they want is the minutes. So, as long as you have the minutes, it's >> it's easy peasy lemon squeezy. >> Yeah. And that's what we want.
Especially now that we're like in October and everything is supposed to be set up and ready to go. >> Yep. So, I'll let you know when I hear back from him. I should know by sometime this week whether he's going to be available for so November will be all about finances.
I think it's a good topic because we can do like if you bring Chase like from the banking perspective we can review everything related to like the forms that are needed ask any questions we can have the update from the waiver about the bake sales the candy stands from CPAC I think it will be a very good
meeting to just talk about finances in general and use December because it's a short month as like a catchup of like have you done this have you done like a checklist like did you do your budget did you do your bilateral review what haven't you done and where there's still room for them to catch up?
>> Did I I forgot to ask you, did you have any updates from CPAC that you wanted to share today? Did we skip you? >> It it's okay. I'm going to send you a summary because there are two resolutions. There were presentations regarding like from the
regarding the pupil uh office of transportation. As you know, we have this issue with the busing contract >> and that recently communication just went out. I've been in contact with like central to try to get some understanding of where they are.
>> I do think that we should as a district some parents in the area like have reached out and say like like I told you early, they have not received communication from NYCPS about the press release that was sent out. So, they're trying to figure it out what exactly is happening, especially for children who
have an IEP. um what are the options for them to make it to school if they are not living in district but they are outside. So that's that's something that I think we can definitely talk and try to see where everybody's at. >> Veronica, when you go to CPAC meetings,
is there like a qu is there time for you to ask questions? Yes, there is a time where you can ask questions and the the more concise the question is, the better it is because then I can just get clarity and the chancellor usually for the question and answers, she's there.
>> So, we can ask her for a question in advance. I can send it out and just have that be one of the first questions to get an answer. >> Okay. >> Yeah. they they send out a questionnaire like a week or two before the meeting and you can submit questions through that that they can be prepared in
advance to answer. So like if it's somebody from the chancellor's cabinet, not necessarily the chancellor that would answer that question, they would have that person have the answer prepared um in advance. >> Okay. >> Yeah. And she she also takes some questions from the floor, too. That's
what she did at the last meeting. She took questions from the floor. >> These questions from tonight, I'll type it in. I'll send it to three of you and then try to mod modify the way we I interpreted understood the questions and then ask yeah have them those questions answered so we can give it back to the
parents next month. Um >> yeah also Rachel did you have anything from DT >> DT this month because of my daughter was sick. >> Um yeah but mostly DT is the same thing that Dr. Mike presents from
>> Yeah. >> Um >> Dr. iz presentations. Uh he has the enrollment dates, you know, for middle school, >> G&T, high schools, um preK, 3K, and then Gus will talk about the title one stuff and
whatever Gus mentioned about something with the I plan portal that I'm going to bring out during the title one DPACK meeting. So that's not really pertaining pertaining PAP. That's more title one. and high school people were talking about the high school the college fair
that I share with all the PCs um that they were having at college fair coming up. >> Yeah. >> All right. >> Okay. >> I I'm going to wrap up. Okay, ladies. I have to go home. >> Yes.
>> Get home. Get home safe. I'll I'll send everything tomorrow, the questions, and then I'll update the certification form to include um Charlotte, and then we're good from here, and then we'll we can discuss about those um the meetings for next month.
>> I am I don't know what happened to my minute. I did it. I'm pretty I I'm 100% sure I did it. I don't know where I saved it. >> I just lost. And behind the scenes >> behind the scene, I said, "Louis, I can't find it. Can you forward it to
me?" He said, "I sent it on 9:16." I look through 9:16 from Louis emails. I don't even see the date. I feel like there's a ghost behind me right now. I said, "I don't see it." And my hand starts shaking. And then he sent it to me and I use AI. But AI sometime it doesn't, you know, let you do it
immediately after like redo it and redo it. Finally, it's like Rachel, it's done. But my hands are shaking. >> You poor thing. All right, go home, Jenny. >> Anyway. Yes. Yes. >> Take care, Jenny. Nice, ladies. And we're all good now. Bye.
>> Bye. >> Bye, Jenny. Hi, Veronica.