Hi, everyone. Good evening. Welcome to our committee of the whole meeting. I would like to call this meeting to order at 06:40PM. And as a reminder to those in attendance, since this is a committee meeting, we are not taking comments from the public. However, you are welcome to send us any, comments or suggestions via email at cec30@schools.gov. Jonathan, would you, mind calling role for this meeting? Thank you so much. Sure. Kelly Craig?
Present. Linda Chung Leek Liang? Present. Todd Hunter Dare. Jonathan Greenberg, present. Juliet Noor Haji? Juliet is Medallius? She's sick. Yeah. Juliet is sick. She's not gonna make it tonight. Victoria Medallius? Present. Dani Rojas? Present. Marlene Rossi? Present. Maricela Santos? Whitney Toussaint? Present. Alright. Thank you so much, Jonathan. Tonight serves as our committee of the whole meeting. This is where we would, use this time to finish, some business items that we were not able to get to at our, calendar meeting early this month.
I thank you all for attending tonight. We do have a brief agenda. But the first thing that let me see that I had on the agenda this Let's see. As I said, that's my charge. She's not going for it. No. I think we had a member reports and then committee reports. Let's go back to that. See. Yes. So the first item we had for topics of the discussion were our member reports. So if we had, any members that would like to give a report on what they did for the month, as an individual or things that they are working on for council business,
please go ahead and raise your hand at this time. We'd love to hear from you. And this could be a school visit or anything that you've organized, as an individual member. Okay. Molly? Hi, everybody. Let me lower my hand. So I I did go to the meeting. I can't keep track of time right now after this week four. Alright. It's February. It's towards the beginning of the month, and they, they had their meeting. They're having it virtually now, which is amazing. I don't have anything to report from the meeting because I don't have my notes with me. But I do I did get they they are having a town hall,
with the chancellor, and, they did ask to see if if we had questions or if as a parent on on the council. Oh my gosh. Give me a second. Sorry. Sorry. My dogs are, going crazy. So the, so they wanted to know if there were questions, from, you know, us from the council, from the parent, and I was thinking of just grabbing a question from the the ones that we had from the community that we didn't get to at get our, Chancellor Town Hall. So I was I'm going to take a look there. I don't know if anyone has any,
like, suggestions or recommendations or something, you know, that I should focus on that you've heard out there on the streets. But I'll I'll take any recommendations, any opinions, and I'll take a look at those questions and send it over. I'll let you know which one I choose, once I I decide and hear feedback from you guys. And that's it. That's all I got. Yes. Bye bye. Thanks, Marlene. Kelly, I see your hand is up. I have two SLT meetings that I'm going to next week. So I'll have more at our next check-in. But one thing that I did do the week before the break, we had the,
a borough appointee within Queens Borough appointees from the different, CEC districts in, in Queens at Borough Hall, and we all connected and we're talking. And one of the things that the borough president was interested in learning about is schools that are having extreme bathroom issues. And I remember Louis Armstrong off the top of my head and a couple others. But if it's possible, if you guys can email me the numbers or, like, put just tell me if you have, like, a pressing bathroom issue because they did want that escalated.
And I'd like to just get a list together and be like, here's what's going on in 30. So if you guys can sort of from your past conversations or anything you have, just give me a heads up, and then I'd like to just put it together and be like, ta da. Here we go. What's these are their these are bathroom issues. Specifically bathrooms, not necessarily like playgrounds, auditoriums, but bathrooms. Thanks, Kelly. I can get that to you relatively quickly because we have all the capital requests. So what I'll do is just redact the requests that are not bathroom. We do have quite a few in the district. Yes.
Louis Armstrong is one. I think the pre k center is a long standing one. So I can get those to you. Thank you for elevating that because we we really these bathrooms have become an issue Yeah. Citywide. He we were having conversations about, you know, different districts were experiencing different things. And in terms of infrastructure, sort of something that really stuck out in '30 were plumbing issues, bathroom issues. And, just, you know, putting that together, and I'd like to escalate it to see because I know that they're quite keen to help step in to do that. So thank you so much. Anybody else?
Jonathan? Not a report, but just a comment on that last topic. I wonder if we could email, all of the principals, and ask if they have a bathroom that the you know, if there are bathroom issues because there are many schools that did not send capital requests, and I know that some of those schools probably could have. They have needs. You know? So, if we know that this is something that the borough president is interested in, you know,
in the past, Gail would have sent out would have done this, been able to do this for us. I don't know what how we would do this now, but I it's just an idea. Would it be possible to put, like, a time limit on it? Because I know that since it's budget season, they're trying to do like, look at these quite fast. Like, would it be able to be like, hey. Can you, you know, if so, fill in this Google Doc or what fill out this form returned to us by x date so we could sort of get it to them quite quickly? Yeah. We can do that. I'll try to have at least some of the ones that we have already, and then we could just ask, like, hey, if you have something too because this is what we have if there are more.
It would it be okay if we phrase it like that and at least included the included the information we have so that people who have already sent something, they don't feel compelled to do it again, like, who knows who we have. Specifically bathrooms. Like, that was a high priority. Okay. So I guess I we can work on redacting that. If, Danny, if anybody else wants to work on the Google form, and we'll just put it together, put them together, or how how do y'all think we should do that? Internalizing talks. Just something we could turn around quick. If anything, I'll just I can work on it and just send it to y'all tonight. I mean, I think whatever is Whatever is easiest for the principals.
You know, like, the just the the lowest bar that they could just get back to us quickly. I don't know if, you know, if the if this is a project that the borough president is gonna work on, then they might be getting back in touch with these schools or principals anyway. So just a just a very minimal amount of information, you know So, like some of that. What's your bathroom problem? Give us your contact information so they can just Yeah. Take that data and reply. Okay. Certainly. Just some because I know if we give them too many instructions, like, sometimes things get lost in Yeah.
I like, I would just like to give him, like, for instance, Louis Armstrong is having issues with these bathrooms. And then you know what I mean? Like, whatever other schools, just like a real high level, and then they can connect with the prince thing. Then it goes through CAT, and then they can contact and go ahead. I'm sure what SCA has to or school facilities would have to go in. But Yeah. At least just give them a list of where to contact. Mhmm. And where to go. K. Victoria? So the new, director of the Queen's Planning, reached out to Whitney and myself to have a vacation. Whitney, unfortunately,
was sick that day, so she was unable to join. So we briefly had a conversation about Okay. They wanted to know what the people are saying about LIC and if they're interested in rezoning. So I told her I'd bring that to the meeting. I also mentioned that, the chair, Jonathan, is gonna have a zoning committee meeting. You know, it's gonna be rescheduled next. I told them to come back. The incubation, she's getting inquiries from, council member Juan's office. Let me tell you what some incubation. She just wanted to know if we thought that constituents would want a rezoning.
So I told her I'd bring it to you guys today and see how we felt about it, and I'll I'll select from the zoning committee, meeting has been postponed to a late date. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Thanks, Victoria. Yeah. They reached out to us. So pretty much what Victoria is saying is, like, these are REBA's replacement because REBA, you know, has since transitioned from, the office of district planning. So, these are the people who are taking over from REBA. I know that we had the external party help us with outreach in the community, and, you know, that was what led to them deferring the rezoning for March.
But now with the construction of the new school, so the additional school in Hunters Point, the Court Square School, those two schools, in addition to three eighty four, I think what she's asking for is, like, what would the timeline be for a rezoning given the fact that there will be, essentially three unzoned elementary schools in Hunters Point and Court Square area. So that was what she asked. And, you know, obviously, I I guess, how to start the process in talking with us. I know we're gonna go there will be a new CEC here,
but just, you know, the the little bit of institutional knowledge we have from the prior process and what happened the last time. Obviously, maybe give them some guidance on how to reach out to the community again. And we need to figure out how we can do that. And, obviously, I think and Victoria is right. The first step and thank you, Victoria, for bringing that tonight. The first step was seeing how, as a council, we would engage with them to at least pass on some of the information from the prior attempts with her predecessor and how that went and how, I guess, how we can improve on the outreach that was done the last time.
And so we'd love to hear some ideas from y'all on that. Great call. And, Jonathan, I guess maybe the first step would be having them come to talk at a zoning committee meeting. So we need to figure out, I guess, when that would be. Yeah. I'll I'll reschedule that as soon as, as I'm able. I think so that last our our last effort was really the previous council. Mhmm. It was. It was. So only some of us actually were were around for for that,
process. I'm focusing my energy on rest. I think that, Yeah. That was what I Like, have they gone back and and familiarized with themselves familiarized themselves with the I cannot answer that. Cannot answer that. I was not at the meeting. I was not at the meeting. But I I do think that we probably would have to share some of that with them or maybe at least our perspective on what occurred. Yeah. Alright. I I mean, I guess and this this I can, I I can ask this to the zoning committee members,
you know, those those who are not here as well? But I guess the question would be, do would we want to invite them to our zoning committee meeting, or do we want to just discuss this issue on our own first, before we before we invite them? So Did you guys find, Tisha? That's hilarious. I think that's a great idea. We can forward Victoria and I can forward at least the information so you, Jonathan, can have our contact information if, you know, the committee wants to reach out to her and carry the conversation forward.
And then also, as a reminder, remember, all council members are welcome to any committee meeting. So if you want to come and participate or at least see what's going on, you everyone is welcome to all of the committee meetings. What is her what is the the new director's name? Oh my gosh. Anne? Yes. Don't take long? Don't worry. No. That'll do. Real deal. Just hold on. I've I've I've missed that. Julianne. Julianne, g o is easy, though. Mhmm. This is new Reba? Yes. Version of that thing is slow. Ria's still there.
Ria's still there. But that's the new You're very welcome. REBA. The Titus. Maybe moment. She might. Okay. Also, let me pull this up. Victoria and I attended, congresswoman Velasquez's know your rights seminar that she helped at, the law school, and it was really good. We got to hear from a lot of community stakeholders, like the person from CB2 was there, a lot of different community organizations. They discussed about, you know, when ICE comes, the things to look for, how to be proactive when things happen. Legal aid was there,
like, different, groups that are active in various communities, like the Bangladeshi, business people's group was there. Malika was there. There were a lot of immigrant groups there. Obviously, Victoria and I were there representing the CEC. Our superintendent was there, so miss Hidalgo was there. I can't there were just so many groups there, and it was really good to hear from everybody from a lot of different, immigrant advocate groups. And it was just a really good space, and they talked about how people can fight that, how people who are citizens can help their neighbors or families in their schools,
and be proactive in those spaces. They even talk about, blue cards. You know, like, we brought up that some parents were saying, hey. I've I've told parents that I know who have who are undocumented. Just go ahead and put me on your kid's blue card. If I gotta pick them up, I will. You know, things like that or drop them off or different things like to know how to be proactive. They even discussed how to know that you're looking at an official document and not some, like, memorandum from ICE. Like, you are literally looking at a legal document, and what those would look like and and, you know, your how you would act in those situations.
So it was really good. Victoria got the information from was it late from legal aid, Victoria? Like, you got her card? Yeah. So Victoria got her information. I know that, Victoria and I talked about maybe inviting them to come and give assistance to our community on, you know, what legal aid can do for them and how they can work with, our undocumented families, and make sure that they feel safe taking their kids to school. So it it was a really it was a really good event. Like, I I enjoyed myself, just hearing what other groups are doing to fight for their in our community,
in relation to everything that's coming out with these executive orders and ICE. And, it was it was I really appreciated that we have a congresswoman that had that event. I know that there have been other know your rights, seminars, but that that was one where I was physically able to go to before I got ill. And it was it was really good. Am I missing anything, Victoria? Did I get it all? No. You had it all. There was some some elective schools there as well. Yes. It felt good to be in community just, like, on the heels of so much that's going on and still remains to be going on. So we're we're, we have a good environment around us with the people that are caring about the
kids and and and folks in our community. Mhmm. Yep. A lot of it is, like, the officials there. Thank you. Yeah. So, council member Juan was there because, you know, that's her district. It was a Long Island City. The assembly, Claire Valdez came. Gosh. I can't think of everybody that was there. I'm sorry, y'all. But, yeah, a lot of the elected officials, a lot of them were there. So, yeah, our assembly people and our state senators, they had people there and city council members. She was the one that's on city council that is in charge of all the immigrant stuff. She was there too, and I forgot her name, but she was,
like, we talked. Everybody talked to everybody. It was it was it was a nice event, and I learned a lot. Sorry. I should have brought my notes, but, that was really good. Also, and I did get a chance to discuss this at our last meeting, but, they did, chancellor Elvis Ramos, they did. She did. Her and her team, they have finally reinstituted the monthly meetings with CEC presidents. So the last meeting was, I think, late January. Was it around the the twin I think it was '27. I think it was January 27. And so I was able to go,
but it was a very active meeting. And I was unfortunately, I wasn't able to ask the question before time went out, but there were a lot of questions that I was going to ask. One was about ICE coming into schools, how they make colocation decisions and how, a lot of communities have felt failed in relation to the DOE's efforts and letting them know about colocation decisions or closures with schools lately. They also discussed how FACE has dropped the ball on the harassment that a lot of CEC council members have faced.
They even brought up, you know, how some presidents have been, you know, attacked at meetings, how other council members have attacked other council members. That was brought up. This was a question that I was gonna ask. It was something that we had talked about as council. Our schools in the district that lost after school funding because of the change in the LEAPS program. So somebody did ask that question, so I was gonna ask that question because that was something we had discussed as a council. So they brought that up. They also talked about, how we have some high school principals that fall under the community superintendent
compared to the high school superintendent jurisdiction. I guess there are some districts in other boroughs where they have questions about how that reporting is being done and, you know, how some parents don't really know what superintendent to go to because some of them go to the community superintendent, some of them go to the high school superintendent. That was something that came up. Another, talking something, I think, was a point of contention. I'm gonna describe it as such because that's how I felt, about how a lot of people were disappointed in New York City reads and in relation to the reading scores falling.
And then this was kind of the longest discussion, and I don't know if they're gonna work on it for the next elections process. But this was the one that took up a lot of time because, as you all know, I mean, we were one of the councils that were affected, that FACE did not do a good job supporting the district seventy five presidents council in appointing District 75 parents to districts where there were no parents elected. And so they talked about how FACE did not do a good job supporting District seventy five Presidents Council in getting that because a lot of councils do not and
have not had, d 75 parents. It took a long time, like, it took a long time for us. And then I think in Staten Island, they had a a very extended process as well, and a lot of people felt that they did not do a good job supporting the District seventy five president's council in making those appointments. So that was that meeting. Next month, which is February, the meeting is tomorrow. And I apologize for not giving y'all more notice. You know, I've been sick. I did have a voice. But if there are some questions or anything that you would like Victoria and I
to ask, at this meeting, you know, please let us know. I will try my best. Maybe I'll just be the first one to raise my hand, but, like, literally, everybody's hand was raised and the the hour ran out before they got to me. But I took I thought I just these were my copious notes. So that was what happened at the last meeting. So if if y'all have anything you want me and Victoria to ask because we both will be there, just, you know, let us know, and we will ask those questions of the chancellor and her team. Jonathan? I just wanna mention that, you know, these these meetings had been happening for quite some time,
and then the last chancellor kinda dropped dropped them. And, the way that speakers' questions were chosen were they had we had a we had a whole method. Like, if you ask the question the last the last meeting, then you didn't get to ask one the next meeting, and people signed up, you know, in advance or, you know, whatever. They had, like, a whole system. It wasn't just, like, people raising their hands. So I don't know. You might suggest to face Whitney or Victoria,
you know, that they should develop a better system for a more orderly system for asking questions. Because it's really important that that all the districts get to ask their their questions. And if it's just hands going up, that's not okay. It was hands going up. That's what happened. But I was just happy to be I was just happy to be invited again. Like, you like, it literally just stopped because we did have for a time, and then chancellor Banks moved it to every other month. And then after it happened every other month for maybe, like, four times, then it just stopped. Then it then it just stopped.
It just stopped. And so, like, this is the first time that it's happened. Well, every month, which I think they was started when she was when she became chancellor was the first one, and they kinda did the same thing. Like, raise your hand, ask the question. So Victoria and I got to ask the question at that one. And then for this January 1, unfortunately, the time ran out before I could. Cool. And so tomorrow, I'm trying to be ready. So if y'all have anything, you know, just email Victoria and I. But I do think that some of the things that we're probably gonna revisit is, again, like, are they gonna issue I'm just I mean, they probably not gonna answer me,
but I still kinda wanna ask. I'm very concerned about what they're gonna do for our vulnerable populations given the fact that we are under mayoral control, and the mayor has pretty much said, I'm gonna do what Trump tell me because I got my party. And so, like, I I kinda wanna ask them, like, what are y'all gonna do? That was my question. Because, I mean, we have a lot of parents in our district that are very concerned. You know? Like, we we have families that live in shelters that go to our schools. We have families that have, you know, maybe they have one or two undocumented parents. Like,
these are real concerns that they have about getting their children to schools. And then we also have our other communities, you know, given the executive order that came out about, what did he say, the radicalization of k to 12 education? They're worried about them learning about diverse communities and LGBTQIA. So, yeah, indoctrination. So those are the things that people are worried about. Like, we have a very diverse school system. Queens is one of the most diverse areas in the world. Are we really gonna tell our schools they can't teach about the populations that attend their school?
Like, we're in February now, so no Black History Month. You know, like, March is what? Women's history? They're not gonna they were not gonna be allowed to learn about women. So, like, these are questions that I have. Play anymore. That'll probably be kind of the vein that we're gonna ask. I don't I don't know what else other people gonna ask. We'll probably ask about the bathroom thing too. Like, hey. I At least our resident cares. What can we do about these bathrooms? Y'all not helping us. So I don't know. But if y'all have any other ideas, Victoria can ask. And if they let me or Victoria, if we get our hand up, we could just ask three questions like other people did.
You know? I don't care. I'll be selfish. But that's how they went. I don't have anything else to report. I think I got am I forgetting anything, Victoria, about what we Oh, yes. So for our upcoming March calendar meeting, I know that, again, these executive orders coming out and given the environment that we are in, we did have some emails that came through. I'm not gonna talk about the disparaging one email right now. I wanna talk about the one where we did have a parent that showed concern for vulnerable populations. And in relation to that, I reached out to, one of the community organizers that I know in AQE.
Like, she kinda works with legislative affairs as well for AQE. I wanted to see if they could come present at our, upcoming calendar meeting, maybe to give parents some pointers on how to reach out to elected officials and how to talk to elected officials and present at our calendar meeting. So I'm waiting to hear back from Kayla. That's her name. Victoria and I are gonna talk to her, and maybe they can do a brief presentation at our calendar meeting to help parents be able to organize and reach out to elected officials. I just want to share that with you all. I hope everybody's okay with that.
I mean, because if you think about our March agenda, it's kinda light. So I think it would be good to have them maybe do a brief presentation and, talk to our community on how to organize and talk to our elected officials to advocate for our community. Because I learned a lot from AQE doing that. So is are y'all okay with that? Because Victoria and I are gonna speak with Kayla, I think, this week and kinda flush out the presentation. Yeah. And we do have that long resolution. Thank you, Jonathan. But, so that would be one more thing, added to the agenda. But at least in in addition to the resolution, we will have this,
and then, obviously, our superintendent report and, the ratification of the budget amendments. Speaking of that, I have to speak to, Yelena, our senior grants officer again, because we need to go ahead and try to use as much of the funds as we can. After the reallocation, we do need to order some equipment, for our office and things like that. So I'll I'll keep everybody updated on that. Outside of that, I don't think I have anything else to report under what I've been doing for the last month. And thank you, Victoria, for helping me when I was down there. That's okay. I forgot to mention one last thing.
I I phoned up the, IS 10 location for our March meeting. She said we can use the cafeteria or the library, Jonathan, which I know, you had mentioned. Thank you for bringing that up. So as we get closer to the date or if you know what time, you wanna arrive, Jonathan, just let me know, and I can we can, email the the principal to let her know. And she'll be doing the school spotlight, which is also gonna be obviously an agenda item for the March meeting. Okay. Thank you so much. If we don't have any other member reports, is it okay if we go ahead and go to committee reports?
Great. And we kinda low key did the zoning during November of fourth. So, Danny, if you wanna go ahead and share for you and Linda, I greatly appreciate it. No problem. Actually, I just wanted to share a one quick I guess, it's member reported sort of, not in the context here. But, Juliet and I are working on, getting a list of summer options for families. We we're sort of thinking about, whether we just put, like, something on the web page. This has a list of, like, recommended as opposed to just coordinating a Zoom, but we're in conversations,
and, hopefully, we'll get that information out to the community. Let's see what else did I have. Like, we we did we mention that we were all participating in the town hall, including the preparation leading up to to the chancellor's town hall. Did I is that a question again? And you can say that because we all did that. Thank you, Danny. No problem. Yeah. We, like, synthesized all these questions. Just got and got them prepared. And, again, huge kudos to everybody involved. I thought the production was awesome. District Day, we Linda and I met, as a committee. We're just we're going through budget reallocation. We're going through outreach to electeds,
walk throughs. We're getting walk throughs scheduled, at, IS one forty five. Permits have been submitted. So we are working on, like, getting vendors and specific pricing, so that we can be ready for, ready for, for May. Linda, if you wanna share anything else, I think we do wanna Yeah. I did Yeah. Yeah. Sorry. I did wanna add that. So the permit didn't go through yet, because we're missing the insurance for the vendor for the bouncy house. So right when we get the insurance from them,
I spoke to the lady that's doing our, sample. So she said it's no problem. Just get in as soon as possible. So that part, we really need to get in because it's getting closer to May. Yeah. And I think that's it. Okay. I think Danny oh, sorry. Danny and I was gonna do, like, a quick walk through ourselves. I was sick, so then I'll I'll Danny, I'll text you. Yeah. And then we could do a quick walk through. Okay. I think once we decide on the vendor for the bouncy house, so I need to go we need to go ahead and get the funds reallocated, and then go ahead and work with, mister Wallace to start doing those purchase orders,
and then they should give you all the insurance as soon as we pay them the money. So I think that's how that works. Okay. Thank you. But, Jonathan? Oh, I I just wanted to, I had an idea, for the district day. I also went to a know your rights, session, like a bystander kind of training session recently, and they were giving out these red cards, which I know are are kind of all over the place. They had them in a number of different languages, and they said that they could get them in more languages. And I thought that our district day would be an excellent time to actually just
pass out red cards to people. You know, we could we could have them in all of the languages that people in our community speak, especially ones we know whether there are vulnerable populations. Like, you know, there's a there's a Nepali community in in in Jackson Heights and Woodside, and I think those I don't know if they've already lost their their TPS status, but, anyway, that's just something it's a a a a place where there'll be a lot of people, and we could just hand out cards like that. I think that's great. We can also drop them in those bags too that we're giving everybody stuff when
we have our bags stuffing party. Can't do that. Okay. Do we have any other committee reports? Alright. I think we can go to the next item on the agenda, which was a speaker series. So if we have any updates on our speaker series, that have been proposed or if someone wants to propose a new speaker series, we can we can discuss that. I know we had a few maybe in discussion. I don't know, if we have any updates on those. I think one was like a technology one or a cybersecurity one,
like keep kids safe, you know, from the Internet. Talk about that one. If we don't have any updates on that. And then, Danny, you said you and Juliet were working on the, virtual, what, activity fair for, like, summer activities? Summer activity fair. Yeah. Whether whether it's gonna be an act whether it's gonna be virtual or maybe just a landing page on our website with links to to the actual programs. Okay. Thank you. And then I think, Victoria and I talked about reaching out to was it legal aid? And maybe if you all were okay with that, maybe just having them come and do,
like, a know your rights, seminar every virtual. That was one of the things that came up at the, know your rights thing we did with, congresswoman Velasquez that having these events in virtual spaces will be safer for our community. So we don't wanna put a target on anybody. So just having these virtually, so if y'all are okay, Victoria and I can, reach out to legal aid and, see if we can organize something at least before the school clears up. K. So everybody's okay with that? Alright. So Victoria and I will reach out to,
legal aid to get that done. Alright. Thank you all. Okay. So if we don't have anything else on speaker series right now, would everybody be okay if we move to new business? We have any new business that we, wanna discuss or if anything that somebody wants to propose, now is the time. I'm sorry. Did did did we wanna talk about school spotlights? Mhmm. So we're gonna be at IS ten, and that is new business. School spotlight is new business. So I know we're gonna be at IS ten, so they're gonna be our school spotlight for our March meeting. But we will need someone for April,
and we will need someone for May. For May, I kinda wanted to reach out to, three sixty one. That's one of my liaison schools, and I really like the Riverside Community School. That's the name of the school. I know doctor Wong is really great there. Would everybody be okay if I reach out to her for May? Okay. So I'll reach out to her for May, but we do need someone for a now we should go since two you know, we wanna maybe do another middle school or elementary school or anything like that. Linda? I actually have I'm I'm actually talking to one of the PTA members,
the president, for IS one forty one. Perfect. So they're actually really interested in doing a school spotlight. They just had a parent coordinator, so they are in need of a lot of support from, like, other schools. I'm so I'm talking to her, so I think for April, maybe. Right? For the April meeting. I'll I'll ask them again about the April meeting at the president council meeting. Okay. Thank you so much. Jonathan? Linda, do you want me to contact the principal about that? Oh, yeah. That'd be I'm Yeah. That'd be awesome. I'm the liaison for that for that school. Yeah.
Yeah. That'd be awesome. Because I was just talking to the PTA president, and she was she was interested. And she wanted to actually get more parent support in this school because that they're lacking that. So, yeah, that'd be perfect if you can contact the principal. That'd be great. The principal is great, and she she's great at selling her school. So I think we would be I'd be happy to to ask her. That's perfect. Thank you. Question, will we? Alright. So we did it, but we also have to figure maybe somebody for gym. I know that they're out. You know, this is the last month, and that will potentially be the last month of our term together.
You know? People don't come back, so we gotta figure out who who would like to do June, who would like to close it out for our term. And, hopefully, the next council would love to continue with the school spotlight on the agenda. So, if y'all wanna talk about June now or maybe next month or how how would y'all like to do that? Next month. That's fine with me. And then, also for new business, I know we have our president's council meeting coming up, this Thursday. And we can just remind them again. If anyone wants to join our external committees,
they can. We have it posted on our social media, and I know we've sent the email out a few times. We do have some parents that have joined the district day committee, and we're thankful for that. But our other committees are open as well, absent Sony and bylaws. But everything else is open. So I don't I don't have anything else under new business. Am I forgetting anything? Yeah. Thank you, Jonathan, for bringing up school spotlight. But other than that, I I I don't have anything else to to add for this evening, and I appreciate y'all coming. Victoria? Just another reminder for reimbursements.
If you don't have it in, please send it in. Please send them in. Please get them done. We did reallocate some money, but guess what? We're gonna remind you all because if we don't use it all up, guess where that money goes back to? The DOE. And we need to use those things, you know, get our reimbursements, especially, you know, Ubers or going to the meetings, going to this or do our school visits, get reimbursed for that. They should not be at a cost to you. We also can order some supplies for our office. We do need to order some supplies for our office. We did vote to, you know, order the supplies that we needed and then also order the,
tablecloths so that the future council has that just like we have our nice banner we take everywhere. Jonathan. I it's not just that it goes back to the DOE. It's that when councils don't use all of their funding, the DOE tries to argue that we don't need as much funding. And they try to cut it. And it's hard to it's hard to argue with them if we don't use if we don't use it also. So we need to use it. Yeah. Thank you, Jonathan. Okay. Alright. So I don't have anything else to add. I think everybody is you know, we're coming up on time. I appreciate everyone joining us this evening.
If I can get consensus, I'd like to move that we adjourn at 07:21PM. Okay. Alright. Thank you, everyone, and thank you to you all in attendance. Again, as always, if you have any questions or comments, please reach out to us at cecglirty@schools,um,.nyc.gov. Alright. Thank you all. Have a nice night. Friends, have a nice night. Good night. Good night. Good night, everybody. Good night.