Is being recorded. Good evening, everyone. Thank you for being here. I'm gonna all call the meeting to order at 06:34PM. We have Spanish interpreters here working on a separate line. Thank you to them for being here with us and providing this vital service to our families. I would ask all participants to please speak slowly to allow the interpreters to keep up. The interpreters will now announce instructions in Spanish for attendees who may wish to dial into the Spanish line at this time. Spanish is done. Reporting with. Thank you so much. So much. And interpreters, can you please make your announce your instructions as well?
The following announcement will be in Bangla. I mean, I'm gonna have to double check. I think all the announcement is over. Thank you. Thank you very much. We also have captioning available for those who would like to use it. Just click on the live transcript button at the bottom of your screen. Jonathan, will you please call the role? First call. Sure. Kelly Craig? Present. Linda Chung Leo. Present. Hunter Dare. Jonathan Greenberg. Present. Hunter's present. He can only raise his Oh, Sorry. He can only register. Juliet Norhaji? Present. Victoria Medelius? Present. Denny Rojas? Present.
Carline Rossi? Present. Marcela Santos? She's become she said she'll become white We need you, sir. Not present. Well, thank you. Thank you, Jonathan. This is also a public meeting and is being recorded. We are gonna have several public comment sessions. Please do not raise your hand now as we are providing instructions we have fifteen minutes. They've been scheduled for the first public comment session during which you may speak on any education related topic, following the d thirty president's council presentation check-in, following the coalition for equitable education funding budget presentation,
following the presentation from the office of district planning, following the resolution, one ninety one, in support of prioritizing the utilization needs of community school districts when considering significant changes in school utilization and procedures for the management of school building, housing more than one school. And as a reminder, public can also comment on the superintendent's report during the final public agenda speaking time. And then also, as a reminder, during the final public agenda and speaking time, you can speak on any education related topic.
Comments are limited to two minutes. If you're using interpretation, you will have four minutes. You will be given a thirty second warning before your time is set. We apologize for the abruptness, but we wanna hear from as many speakers as possible. I'll be using a timer. If you are here in person, it'll be in the window where my face is on the iPad. And if you're participating from home, you'll be able to see it in the corner of my screen. There's also a nice chime to let you know your time is Thank you. Please do not raise your hand now. We are giving instructions. First, we will take comments from those attending in person.
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Nyc dot gov. Also, before opening up our meeting for public comment and speaking, I'd like to remind all in attendance, our public, and our members that during these meetings, we are to address points made and not directly address or attack people. So please address your comments directly to the topic at hand rather than targeting individuals. This ensures that our discussion remains productive and centered on the matters we're here to address. Additionally, please do not utilize profanity or derogatory language during your comments. In the event that any participant or member fails to adhere to these guidelines by
engaging in personal attacks, off topic commentary, or otherwise disruptive behavior, the chair reserves the right to enter peace. This may include requesting the individual to cease speaking or directing the discussion back to the relevant points. Such measures are necessary to upload the integrity of our discussion and ensure that all participants can contribute from a respective and productive manner. So now I'm going to introduce our school spotlight, which is IS one forty one, the Steinway. We have principal Vanessa Williams, on the line with us here. Jonathan is the liaison.
Thank you for facilitating this, Jonathan. And we're we can give the floor to you, principal Williams. Hi. Good evening, everyone. Thanks for having me. I'm Vanessa Williams, the principal of IS one forty one. I'm just going to share my screen. Not sharing, dear. Oh, wait. There we go. Alright. I thought I had to call in tech support, but it's good. Can everyone see my screen? Thanks. Wonderful. There we go. Okay. Great. So I wanted to start with, first and foremost, the school quality guide came out last week. Oh, now I'm not,
dear. Sorry. My husband is doubles as, tech support. The school quality guide came out last week. It's not changing for me, dear. So we were excited about that because we turned out to be excellent. What did you just say? Oh, x thank you. Excellent in instruction and performance. Thank you. Safety and school climate. And, of course, we're good with relationships with families, so we're currently, you know, reviewing to see how we can get excellent in all categories. I would definitely be remiss if I didn't share that because we were really excited
about that. Next up, a little bit about us is, our core value system. We use the pirate system, the pirate philosophy. It's a whole series that comes that was put out by David Burgess. It really focuses on continuous learning and growth mindset for all stakeholders, and that's what's really central to the pirate philosophy. We like it because it gives the leaders rules on how to learn like a pirate, the students on how to learn like a pirate, and the teachers teach like pirates. So central to the pirate philosophy is it makes the students the main ingredient in
the classroom. The teacher is required to have a student centered classroom that's inquiry based, and they use hooks. It can be a kinesthetic hook. If you come to one forty one, the class is up. They're in the hallway. There's a gallery walk. It's called hooking the student into the lesson. They incorporate mute. They incorporate music. And most importantly, they make a real world connection in terms of what they're teaching in the class. So we are pirates at one forty one. We're also an SEL school, so it's important for us that we embed SEL in our lessons.
We use this uniform icon system for across all subject areas to tie everything in. So on a day on a regular day, if you walk into a classroom, you'll see on the smart board that today's lesson will require some relationship skills. It will use improvement focused learning and one of the habits of bind. We start each day. We don't have homerooms. We have SEL groups. That's what we call them. And we start each day with an SEL morning moment. Here's an example. It could be a song. It can be a quote. So this one from November 22,
they had two quotes, don't change, so people will like you, be yourself, and the right people will love the real you. And another quote. And then while the teacher's taking attendance, you know, the kids pick a quote. We talk about it. And, you know, realistically, if it's working really well, this quote will find itself in the day's lesson. That's, you know, the ultimate goal. My favorite one was National Underdog Day a couple of years ago. We played the theme from Rocky. I put on my Rocky gloves. I ran around the building. And the kids said, who's Rocky, miss? And that's when I was like,
oh, boy. We got some more work to do. Oh, lord. So that's how we start our day every day with our SEL morning mindfulness moment. I think what makes one forty one special is our strong school culture, and this culture is built in our academies. Each academy has a dedicated team, an AP, a dean, a guidance counselor, and we have four academies. So, again, it's kinda like I like to say it's like the theme song from Cheers. The academy creates this feeling that, you know, sometimes you wanna go where everybody knows your name, and they're always glad you came.
So that's, how everything starts in our academy system. Sixth graders enter our school. They either go to Einstein or Shakespeare. All academies are created equal, and everything we do is centered around our academy system. We start each year with a trip, so the academy could kinda get to know each other. It's a bonding trip. This year, it was bowling. You can see some pictures here. The kids went bowling. This creates the sense of belonging to your community and your academy. We also have college trips each year. The seventh grade students visit the colleges as part of their career course.
And because, New York Rise is coming to middle school, so this is the connection there. All seventh grade classes picked a college. They went to Columbia. They went to York. So that happens for the last couple of years, and it's been working well now that we're back in person for college tours. Next up, this is something great that happens at our school every year. It's Operation Santa Claus or Winter Wishes. This year, we worked with our PTA. They picked the organization through the mayor's office. Our kids raised, like, $5,000 worth of gifts thanks to the parents and the children.
You see here, we have a presentation where each class gets up. You know, they say what they bought, how they contributed, and then, the kids wrap the gifts, and the gifts were picked up and delivered to one of the homeless shelters throughout the city. So that was something we do every year so the kids understand, you know, the bigger picture of life. Central to our school culture are spirit days, helps the year go faster, if you will, makes every day exciting, keeps everything exciting. So these are really the dates that everyone looks forward throughout the year. You can see here,
this is Einstein's picture. They have sports day. They have decades day. It's a little competition, friendly competition between classes. In the Einstein Academy, the winning academy gets the belt. The winning class gets the belt, and they keep the belt until the next spirit day. Here's another example from the Shakespeare Academy, silly sweater, Jersey day, twin day. So these are some fun things that happen throughout the year within each academy. I believe this is mad about plaid. Another key thing that we do is each academy creates its own culture and personality.
So the Einstein Academy is known for their annual family feud game. It's sixth grade versus seventh grade. I always say America has Steve Harvey, but one forty one has our very own AP, Steve Tanaglia. And there he is in his glitter jacket doing his best, Steve Harvey. Something new this year is Jeopardy Regents Jeopardy. This year, all of our eighth graders will take at least one Regents. So I was very happy in February when we had Regence Jeopardy, and the kids were out there answering the questions. They had a really great time, so this is something that we will continue going forward.
Another new and wonderful thing we had this year is our living wax museum. This happened just March. Our humanities department held our first annual living wax museum. This was an independent study project where each student researched a famous person from history. It could have been an inventor, a leader, or an artist. And then on the day of the museum, you act like a statue and come to life when someone stands in front of you. So history really came to life on March 21, and it was really magical. The eighth graders did this,
and we invited the seventh graders to visit the wax museum. And doctor Fahey happened to be coming to the building later that day for a math meeting. So we put on a very special, showing of the wax museum for doctor Fahey. You can see him there talking to Picasso. So that was really, an exciting really tears. Seventh grade teachers were in tears to see their eighth grade students come to life like this, so that was really successful. Another thing new we did this year was, for student voice. We did teacher for a day. This was very successful and will also become an annual event.
The students had to petition their teachers for the opportunity to teach their class. The students created the lesson, the slides. They presented the lesson to the class. It was great to see students who normally wouldn't answer a question decide that, you know, I'm gonna teach the science lesson today, and the kids were really into it. So that was another successful thing that happened, you know, this year. We did participate in district thirty's middle school basketball game. We didn't win. IS ten took the win, I believe. But the kids had a great time, competing and representing one forty one.
So that was our team. Coming soon is my favorite time of the year, if you will. We have all the wonderful senior events coming up. This is one of my favorites. It's our third annual dress and suit drive. You can say yes to the dress or hoop to the suit. A favorite picture here, you see mister King showing a student how to tie a tie. So that was, something we've been doing for three years, very successful. This is my first prom ever as principal. I've photobombed that picture. These kids are now in college, so that's fun. Also,
our prom. These are some other pictures. I like these pictures because this particular group of students, the some of them weren't going to make it to the prom. As the parents said to me, you know, we don't have prom in my country. I'm very I'm not feeling really good about this. So we had a meeting. This is not the high school version of a prom. It's more like a party to celebrate your last, you know, hurrah at 01:41. I remember her saying, you know, my husband and I debated this for months. I don't know if this is we should do this. But then after we came to the meeting and we heard what it was about,
you know, we decided that our daughter should definitely, be a part of this. So I kinda keep these pictures on my desk to remind myself communication is key. And now this prom meeting, we have it every year prior to the prom. Coming up also, each year, in addition to our traditional yearbook, our students in eighth grade publish a book. It's called it's a book of personal narratives and poems. It's entitled Moving Forward, Looking Back. So this is the published the book publishing party from last year.
Every student has an opportunity to publish their narrative or their poem working with their ELA teacher. So that's something fun coming soon. And, of course, graduation. And this is some special pictures because for I don't remember exactly the reason, but this student couldn't make it to graduation. And we didn't want him to miss his moment, so we kinda threw together this special graduation ceremony just for him. So that's what's happening at one forty one. Thank you for the opportunity to share. Thank you so much for presenting on that beautiful school and everything great that you've got going on. And that that looks excellent,
and students must be so excited to to come into school every day. So do you want the counselor to say anything? I do. Thank you so much for coming, miss Williams. I appreciate it. And I think I might have some dresses to donate. So, when do we need to get the dresses up there by? Any day now. Our prom dress drive is the May. I can I will definitely email you the exact dates and the flyer? Thank you. Can I add something? Do I need to unmute? No. It's not. It's okay. Thank you, miss Williams. I just the the I just wanna say that the meeting,
the pre prom meeting Mhmm. Is something that sounds like really, kind of embodies the concept of meeting your families where they're at. As the as the child of two immigrant parents, I could definitely see my dad, my Indian dad being like, no. But, like, being able to connect with the parents in that way and kind of explain to families who may come from other cultures who may not be able to connect to that, but really kind of, you know yeah. Just meeting them where they're at, explaining to them what it means to have this this prom,
really spoke to me and and really touched me, and seems like a really unique way to connect with families. So, thank you for sharing that. I think a lot of families could benefit from that. Thank you. Okay. Thank you again, Ms. Williams. Thanks for having me. Now we're going to move on to our next agenda item, which is a first public comment and seeking session. So, if you are in the room and would like to say something, please come up to this iPad here and and state your name and connection to the district, and you'll have two minutes to speak about any educational related topics. K. So,
my name is Magdalie Vergara. I am a mom of, p s three twenty nine, East Elmos Community School. And, I'm here representing the whole, community, with our school community. And we wrote a letter, And it's it's been written in Spanish, because, this is how we all it's it's it's our thoughts put together. So we'll read it in Spanish. Okay? Okay. So if I have time, can I say something else? Yes. But I am gonna ask you for one thing. If you wouldn't mind handing that to our co president, Okay. Yes.
Sorry. This is the Spanish interpreter, Marcela. I could just summarize a little bit what the statement was said in Spanish. Okay. Yeah. So she said I'm representing a family, of the community school in Olmos. We, the family, with respect and support, we would like to say that, based on the reduction of the, the class size, it's not easy. We we, as parents, we, we involve and volunteer in our schools, and this. It's not it's not fair that, the first grade class only has two Maricela, you're cutting in and out.
Has three Maricela, you cutting in and out. I missed I missed the last fifteen seconds or whatever. You were cutting in and out. I'm sorry. She was oh, so yeah. Yeah. So she was saying that, it's not fair how, it's there's injustice in the funds to reduce the capacity at her school. If fifth grade only has two classes instead of the other classes, for example, first grade, second grade, and third grade, and other grades have three classes. Also, they already using the multipurpose for many uses, for example, the gym cafeteria and other arts.
Also, they feel like it should go, based they should go by the whatever the state is mandating to reduce the sizes of the classes, by based on the state. And also, how is it is unfair how other schools with less students are receiving these funds. They are a guest of cutting art and music because this embodies their cultures and creativity of their students. They are they don't want no they don't want no more cuts in their schools and they hope to get a solution and work with the staff, to get in order for the students to have a best equality of education and
also for their growth in in the future. Thank you, Maricela. I want you to have twenty seconds. Oh, okay. So yeah. So we, as a community, will learn about this issue, and we've seen it. So we came up with this letter. A hundred and three parents, signed this letter, and we have it with us. And so we wanna give it to you and show it to you because this is a big problem. Like, we are really stressing on how to reduce the class size. My daughter, she's in a class with 33 students in fourth grade, and there's no more room.
And for some reason, we the we have to keep taking the students, but there's no funds to hire more teachers because there's no space. So thank you. Hopefully, this goes to the right people and can help us. Thank you for coming tonight today. If we are gonna let just respond, we usually let wait since y'all are here. We have to hold y'all all night. So I just wanna just ask Okay. If you could email the letter as well Mhmm. To the cec@cec30.schooland.nyc.gov. I know that.
Go ahead. Okay. Good. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. So I wanna say thank you, to I'm sure there's other all the families from 03/29, but I just wanna bring clarity to Sandy. So the small class funding application, it's it's not for what I'm hearing you want it for. So the small class reduction size was not, to reduce enrollment. So the the the application that was given for for that particular application was to reduce enrollment. That is why the application was not approved and it didn't move forward.
The criteria was that if the schools had to have the available space. So the application for small class size is wasn't mandatory. It's a it's it's it's it's something that we're moving toward, but it's a five year plan. So right now, you don't have the space either for for, for this for for the purposes of the application. So that's why it was denied. But, I I I do hear you, and I do, and we will I just had a conversation today with, the principal, mister Rova, and we will look into this a little bit more.
However, I need you to understand, that a lot of the things that you've done at three twenty nine are commendable. So you say that you have two self contained classes sharing a single classroom, but in my conversation with the robot, she was able to reimagine and rethink about how to support these students to get to optimize their learning. So they're being mainstream for half of the day in and then being kept as their IEP requires. So that's a compliment to the school to how you're taking a difficult situation and
you're making it better. Right? In addition, you're, something, you mentioned something about the library being, having to have clothes. But you know what? You use the community library that's down the block. So you do two two things. You take the kids out for a walk, you expose them to the neighborhood, and they're learning how to use the public school library. So there's a lot of good things that are happening even though I I see what you're saying. And I had a conversation today with Max Appelbaum. He will be connecting with, with, mister Mrova to see and visit the building itself. So this is a plan that we have to,
address carefully. So we have to talk to enrollment. We have to talk to space and planning, why the situation is there. And just to make sure that every nook and cranny in the in the school is being used how it's supposed to be used. Okay? So we will move this further, and I will have conversations with your principal to make sure that she continues to reimagine and and give keeping the kids at the forefront of her of her mind like she's been doing because a lot of the things that she's done, is a good thing. But I just wanna let you know that there are moments as a leader that
you have to we're used to what we're used to. We're used to a a a classroom looking a certain way and sounding a certain way, but a classroom doesn't necessarily always have to be when I was a principal, I had to close my art classroom, but I still kept art. We had art in a cart, and they still received all the fundamental lessons that they needed to to receive. That I did the same thing with music for a season. Music was on a cart. So we, as leaders, and these are conversations I will be having with your principal so that she could later have it with you and the SLT on how to take what you have
and just change it a little bit. But the students, at the end of the day, I'm hearing you want to use the space better so that kids have what they have. 33 kids in the classroom, I'm sure there was an exception for that because we're only allowed 32. I have Ashley right over there. So, how we got 33, I'm not sure. But that's a conversation that we can also have later. Okay? So can I come come in to the I'm so sorry, Mal? Sorry. I gotta move on, but I'll take I'll talk She will be here. If y'all wanna talk offline,
I appreciate you, and thank you for coming and reading the letter. And thank you for emailing it to us so we have it as well. And I don't wanna take any more time. We have another speaker. I would like them to come up, and and then we'll have to go to the next item, Milwaukee, and Chanda. Does anyone else wanna come up that's here in the room? Is anybody online? I don't see any Anybody's been in the Zoom room that would like to could well comment during this session? You can raise your hand. Interpreters, in the meantime, can you ask please if there's anyone in the rooms that would like to ask a question or make a comment?
No question from Bangla. No questions from Spanish. Thank you. Okay. Okay. So we're going to move to our next agenda item, which is a c thirty president's council presentation and check-in. We have the president's council for presidents Ron the call. We have Douglas Haley and Nick Massant. I just sent them the promotion to panelists. Alright. Hello? Can you hear me? Yes. I can hear you. Hi. Sorry. I'm outside of a gym, so it might get loud. I'm gonna be brief because, like I said, I'm outside of a gym, and it's gonna probably get really loud in a second here.
I just wanna remind everybody, we recently hosted two candidate forums, April 1 and April 8 for all the candidates for the CEC for next year. Voting begins this Friday, April 25 through May 13. If you haven't already done so, please create or access your Nixa account. If you don't have one, reach out to your parent coordinator. All the information regarding these elections can be found, at the website. I'm gonna try to paste it somewhere, or maybe I'll send it to one of you guys so you can put it in the chat. It's schools.nyc.gov/elections2020five.
You can view candidate profiles, read their personal statements, and watch both forums. Both the forums like I said, there was two different days, so you'll have c third just our district, c CEC thirty, has two different forums. You can watch both videos, but all the candidates will be listed in the same spot. I'm gonna be updating all our personal president's council website, d30presidentscouncil.com, to include all those links and videos shortly. And if you have any questions about it, you can you can email us at d30presidentscouncil@gmail.com.
I just wanna give a special shout out to my fellow fellow presidents council, executive board members, Nick, Suny, and Ekram for helping plan and moderate the forums. It was a great opportunity to hear from the different candidates. We had a lot of a lot of candidates. We have I think we have close to 40. I'm not a % sure of the exact number, but that's why we had to hold two nights because we wanted to be able to ask as many questions as possible. 50 something. Was it 50? Oh, hey, Nick. Yes. Hey. Yeah. 50 something. Okay. So yeah. So we we it it went really well. Nick, did you wanna add anything?
Nope. You said it perfectly. I guess that's pretty much it. Does anyone have any questions or anything? When's the next president's council meeting? Good question. What is it? It's April. Today's what is today? Today is twenty first. Today is twenty first. No. No. We did it. We did the April, and the next one is May. The first is in May. It's the one that's in at IS 26. 1 20 6. Yep. 01/26, May first. '10 AM. K. Come come hang out. Yeah. Thanks, Sai. Does anyone any have any questions for our president's council of both presidents?
I have one question. Did they give, did they send you all the link to the information session on how to vote that's supposed to take place on the twenty eighth? I believe they did. I'll have to double check. We talked about it on the working group last Thursday or the CC election working group, so I I'm pretty sure they sent it. Okay. If they did Did you get did you get it or no? The CEC email got it. So we could forward that to you all if y'all wanna share the link so parents who, you know, don't know how to vote, they can go to that webinar. Okay. And they they were talking about potential,
like, for a, like, a voting party to sort of pick destinations throughout the district so that, hosted by schools, and I'm not sure where they didn't release that list yet as to where and when and how. But, again, as as Becca said, you have to have your your New York City, schools account. And if you don't, make sure you ask your parent coordinator in your school. Most likely, if there are two parents or two guardians, only one of the two of you has it. At that point, you just have to ask, and they can create one for you. I think you said In regards to elections, PTA elections,
people should be PTAs should be forming their nominating committees if they haven't already, and, elections for PTAs and PAs are coming up in May and June. That's it. Thanks again. Mhmm. Cool. Thanks, y'all. Have a good night. Hold on one second. We got see if you have any questions from anybody in the room. Oh, sorry. Do we have any questions for the president's counsel with anyone here in person? Anyone in the Zoom Room have any questions for president's counsel For interpreters, you can ask if they have questions for president's counsel, please. No one's the Spanish line? No one from Bangalore line.
Great. Thank you. Thanks again, Becca and Nick. Have a good night. Yep. Thanks, y'all. Have a good night. Thank you. So our next agenda item is a presentation, Coalition for Equitable Education Funding. We'll present on New York State and New York City budget. I'm going to give you the floor. Hey, everyone. Wow. You are impressively on time. That was, like, to the minute. That's incredible. Hi. I am Kaiser. I've been to 07:30 before, so I'm a familiar face for some of you. But in case I am new to you, I'm Kaiser. I, am a community organizer with the Alliance for Quality Education.
I'm here on behalf of the Coalition for Equitable Education Funding. AQE is a member of CEEF, and I'm gonna be talking to you about, the city and state education budget. It's a lot of information. We're gonna pack it into a small amount of time so that you can hopefully stay as on time as you already are. So I will try to kind of break it down and make it as clear as possible, but I will also have time at the end for questions. So if anything is confusing or if you want a little more information,
like, kind of as things pertain to your specific school or your specific community, just kind of make note and save it because I'm happy to get into any of that. And then at the end, I'll have a little mini presentation as well about a separate thing. So lots to get into. It's exciting. I'm going to share my screen, and will someone let me know if you can see that? Yes. I can see. Thanks, Heather. Yep. No problem. Okay. So, again, I'm here with the Coalition for Equitable Education Funding that is a coalition of over
a hundred different organizations that came together to fight for some programs that were expiring. So last year, many important education programs were at risk of ending in 2024 because they were funded with expiring federal stimulus funds and expiring city funds. The city continued funding for many key education programs that were at risk of ending. Some programs were continued using one year city funding, so the funding will expire in June of this year unless it's extended. And other programs were continued long term using state foundation aid funding.
So that's just a little background. We've kind of been through this battle before. And anytime that something is in the city budget continued long term, we call it baselining. That means that we don't have to fight for it again the next year. But not everything that we fought for was baselined was continued long term, so some things we're fighting for again. So in the city budget, these programs were continued through one year city funding last year. I won't read through them in the interest of time, but we're gonna get, into a little bit of detail on some of them in a minute anyway.
And then the mayor's preliminary budget extends funding for two of them, summer programming and learning to work for one more year. So what that means is we don't have to worry about these programs expiring. We already know that mayor Adams plans to fund them next year. In April, very recently, the mayor also announced long term funding for three k and preschool special education classes. So just to be clear, because we have seen him doing a little victory lap as though this is a really exciting new thing that he is funding,
that is inaccurate. What he's doing here is restoring some of the cuts that he made earlier this year. So earlier this year, he said, I'm actually not gonna fund these things this year. Now he's saying, oh, never mind. I will. Is that a favor? I mean, I guess it depends on your perspective, but it's just important that everybody understands he is not giving us anything new. He's giving us back what he refused to give before. And notice as well that within early educate early age childhood education,
those check marks are just the top two. Right? So there's still early childhood education money that, again, not new stuff, but stuff that we already had that he's trying to take away. So we'll get into that in a minute, but just because I know that announcement was a little bit confusing for some people. So the following programs are once again at risk of significant cuts at the June. Sorry, not the three k and preschool special education classes, but the other ones here. I'll correct that slide. And we'll get into a little bit more detail about some of them.
So, again, the mayor did announce continued funding for three k classes, but last year's budget also included $25,000,000 for early childhood extended day seats for one year only as well as $5,000,000 for community outreach. And outreach is important because if you have heard stuff at your school about preschool classes maybe at risk of closing because they're underemrolled, this is why. We know that there are families that need pre k and pre k seats. That's that's not a question.
Right? There are families that don't have those seats and need them. But are we reaching those families and making sure they know that those seats are available? That's what the community outreach funding is for. And if we don't do that, then then classes sometimes close because we can't get the right kids into the right seats. There's also $14,000,000 for community schools on the table. Community schools are where schools partner with community based organizations to provide students and their families with comprehensive wraparound services like after school programs,
medical and dental care, and adult education classes. And expiring one year funding supports more than 50 community schools. So it's not every community school, so I don't wanna, like, so panic if your child goes to a community school, if this funding expires, it doesn't necessarily mean that that community school won't be a community school anymore, but, they will have to kind of restructure because 50 community schools are funded with this money. And I worked at a community school, so this is close to my heart. Community schools, the services, the wraparound services that they provide are evidence based proven to be especially effective for
our most vulnerable populations of of students Restorative justice So $12,000,000 in restorative justice funding is at risk Restorative justice allows more schools to use alternatives to suspensions keeping students in the classroom while helping them build and repair relationships And one year funding represents, unfortunately, the majority of the city's investment in restorative justice practices So if this expires, then there's very little left that the city is investing in in terms of restorative justice And there's $4,000,000
in immigrant family outreach that is at risk as well. Immigrant family outreach strengthens communication with immigrant families, many of whom would otherwise be left without important information about their children's schools. And it's critical for this initiative to continue given the increase in the number of newcomer immigrant families in NYC as well as changes in federal policies. We know that immigrant families are scared right now, and we need to build trust with them. We need to be reaching out to them more and asking what kinds of supports they need to feel safe,
sending their kids to school. We've seen a drop in attendance in migrant communities. The last thing that we need to do right now is to cut this funding and, and make the relationship more distant and more, yeah, more fraught. That's not gonna be helpful. So I didn't cover all the programs. There's also $41,000,000 in arts programming at risk, $10,000,000 in teacher recruitment, $4,000,000 in high impact tutoring. This is all, we are we are demanding that all of it be funded, ideally, long term.
And if you take action with us in a moment, it'll all be included in that action. So our recommendation again is for the these programs to be funded long term in the executive budget. Parents, students, and educators need to know that they will be able to rely on these programs next year and beyond because it's really destabilizing when a principal or a leader doesn't know whether they'll have the funding for a given program from year to year. The city should also make additional investments that are needed to support students with a
focus on those who have the greatest needs. And so that you're aware of the timeline here, the mayor's preliminary budget was released on January 16. That's why we know what he's planning on funding and not funding. May 1 is the deadline for the mayor to release his executive budget. Within this isn't on here, but within there, we also get a city council response to the mayor's preliminary budget, and that has happened already. And in the city council response, they argued that the mayor should be funding pretty much everything that we said he
should be funding, with one exception. All the other programs that we mentioned, they had in their city council response, which means that, there's a lot of demand in the public and that our other elected officials are are understanding the need right now and also calling on the mayor to fund these programs. So any day now, the mayor will release his executive budget, and we will find out whether he's willing to fund these. And that means that this is the perfect time for us to make our voices
heard because he's real it's down to the wire. He's making these decisions right now, and we need him to hear from us. And then the city budget deadline is June 30. So by then, the negotiations have ended, and we have a final budget, theoretically. Sometimes it's late. But right now, like I said, it's the perfect time to take action. So if you scan the QR code on the purple square, it will let you email mayor Adams to demand that all of these programs that I just went over are included in the executive budget. It's really quick. It's one of those forms.
You just type in your name and you send it off. Super easy. And then the QR code on the right will allow you to sign up for updates and get involved with SEEF so that you hear from us, when there are future actions. For instance, the last education budget hearing, we had a rally on the steps of City Hall. I think it was at least a hundred people, maybe a 50 people. That sends a really strong message to city council. Then we had people testify with us. So if this is something that you care about, if this is something that matters to your school community,
definitely scan both of these QR codes, email mayor Adams, and then make sure that you can stay in the loop and hear about future actions. So I'm just gonna give you another minute to scan both of those. It's really easy. If you're not scanning it, I'm telling you, just thirty seconds, and you can send an email. These emails make a difference. The people I work with send them literally every day, which I didn't know you could do, but it turns out you can send one every day. I will send you this presentation. I'll send it to Whitney. Wendy Whitney will send it to you, and you can keep these and just scan them every morning.
It's a great way to start the day. Alright. I'm gonna keep going. Okay. I see somebody's. Alright, and we're gonna move on to the state budget. Again, if you have questions about the city budget, I'm happy to answer them. Just save them and we'll come back to it. But the state budget, we are gonna start by talking about Foundation Aid. Foundation Aid is the largest source of funding from the state to New York City public schools and other school districts. It's distributed to New York City and other school districts through a funding formula that provides funding for each student and it's currently being reexamined for the first time since
02/2007. It is a big pot of money. It provides $24,900,000,000 to districts across the state this year and $9,900,000,000 to New York City public schools. It is 25% of New York City Public Schools' budget. So just to put things in perspective, I know that there are major serious concerns about federal funding right now to schools. Those are valid. Not to not to, take anything away from that, but just to keep things in perspective,
New York City Public Schools federal funding is about 5% of the overall budget, whereas again the state funding that comes in the form of Foundation Aid is 25% of the overall budget. So this is a huge amount of money and something that we really rely on. New York City Public Schools uses the funds in many ways including school budgets and education programs. Foundation Aid funding is really flexible. It's, it's one of the more flexible budget lines. So it can be used for staffing, it can be used for curriculum, it can be used for materials. Basically anything that Happens in the school that happens or is used in the school building,
it can be used for it. What it doesn't cover, which is easier to name than the things it covers, what it doesn't cover is, like, ACs, water fountains, that facilities stuff, and then transportation and food are also not covered. So lunch is separate, busing is separate, but everything else that kinda happens in the school day, is covered and after school programs, all sorts of things. So how the formula works is very complicated, and I wanna be clear from the beginning that if you don't understand everything about the formula, number one, welcome to the club.
We have vetted so many experts. Like, education funding experts tell us that they don't understand everything about the formula. It's incredibly complicated. Number two, that does not mean that you can't talk about it and that you can't advocate for the formula to work the way it's supposed to work. You do not have to be an expert on this to understand that your school, your kids' school, has needs that are not being met, and you need funding for those needs. It's that simple. Right? But so that you have at least a little bit of an understanding. The formula it is literally a formula to math.
The formula sets a base amount per per student, and then that base funding amount is adjusted, to account for inflation, regional cost differences, and student needs. So there are added weights if a student is living in poverty, if a student has a disability, if a student is an English language learner, or any combination. There are specific weights that are attached to those needs. And New York State determines what a district's minimal local contribution is, like, from our local taxes. That amount is subtracted, and then what's left over is what the state pays.
Again, you don't need to memorize that by any means, and you don't need to understand every detail of it, but just so you have some, some basic understanding. So how did we get here? In 1993, a group of parents led by now senator Robert Jackson sued New York State arguing that their children were not receiving the education they were entitled to under the New York State Constitution. In February, parent organizing intensified across the state with the founding of the Alliance for Quality Education, raising awareness on the issue outside of the courts.
And between 02/2006 and 02/2007, the parent parents won. They won the lawsuit. The foundation aid formula was created as a direct result of the lawsuit to equitably distribute education funding to school districts. So this formula was created to resolve a constitutional issue where specifically students of color were not receiving the education they were entitled to under the Constitution. The formula was made to fix that. The state between 02/2007 and 02/2021 repeatedly failed to fund the foundation aid formula.
Parents continued to fight tirelessly for full funding even marching to Albany in protest. So 02/2007 to 02/2021, that is a long time where we had to, put a lot of pressure on the state to try to get them to just comply with the formula that had already been created by that lawsuit. In 02/2021, governor Hochul and the New York State Legislature committed to a three year full phase in of foundation aid, which led to, in 02/2023, New York schools starting the school year with the full amount of foundation aid they
were entitled to for the first time. So I just talked about this timeline that started in 02/2007 with the creation of the foundation aid formula. So we thought it would be helpful to just go back to 02/2007 in our minds for a moment, think about what things were like then. In 02/2007, Barack Obama launched his first presidential campaign launched the campaign. He was not president yet. The first iPhone was released, and Twitter was a year old. So if you think about it in terms of schools, right, there's there's no one who is a student in school now,
who is a student in school then, at least k through 12. I, had just gotten out of high school. A lot has changed. And what's changed in New York schools? Well, COVID nineteen, youth mental health crisis, rise in student homelessness, increase in community schools, new learning standards, technology, new class size law, added pre k and pre k to whole new grades, and more children have been diagnosed with autism. So some of these things are just needs that we need to meet. Some of them are improvements, you know, but all of them come with added costs.
This year, the state is examining the formula for the first time in more than fifteen years. After pressure from the community, they realized it really needs to be updated, and they are updating it this year. They funded the Rockefeller Institute to study the formula and recommend changes, and the changes could have a major impact on how much education funding New York City and other school districts get from New York State. And, of course, when we're talking about on the city level, making sure those, those programs that are that are at risk of expiring are funded,
some of the money that they use to fund those programs is foundation aid funding. So it's all it's all connected, and, the more that the city gets from the state, the more they are able to provide to each school. The governor has released her budget proposal, and it would shortchange NYC schools. Governor Hochul proposed only a few changes to the Foundation Aid formula, and the changes overall would result in New York City schools getting nearly $350,000,000 less than they would without these changes.
The changes she proposed include replacing the free and reduced price lunch metric with with a broader measure of economically disadvantaged students. This is a way to measure economic need, and this change is a good change. It would bring more resources to New York City schools by better counting the number of low income students. The free and reduced price lunch metric was just not working. It was outdated. A lot of you know our kids get free lunch anyway, so then the forms don't really show accurate data. So it needed to be replaced, and this replacement works well.
The other change that she's proposing is to replace the 2,000 census data with the three year average small area income and poverty estimates. So, previously, what were they using to measure poverty in the foundation aid formula? The data from the February census, like, just the year February forever. That doesn't work. That's a problem. They did need to replace that. That. However, what she's proposing to replace it with is we call it the SAPE. There are some problems with the SAPE that we'll go over in a second. And if this change was made,
it would decrease funding for NYC schools. So the safe is also a census measure. It uses federal poverty guidelines. That's one of the big problems. The federal poverty guideline is currently $32,150 for a family of four. It does not make adjustments for local cost of living. We know it costs more to live in New York City than many other places in the state. $32,000 in New York City for a family of four. I mean, we know that some people do live on that, but for that to be,
like, the the line the dividing line saying, oh, yeah. Somebody who makes $33,000 a year and they have a family of four, they're good. Like, that we know that just does not make sense in New York City. It also the safe also includes students in public and private schools. So, obviously, that changes the measures, and it's overall just not an adequate way to measure student poverty. So the impact is that NYC will still see an increase in foundation aid because of other parts of the formula. So,
again, we never wanna fear monger. We we're not losing money from the money that we were given last year. However, the increase will be nearly 350,000,000 less than it would be without the governor's proposed changes to the formula. Generally, the amount of money that New York City receives goes up every year because of things like inflation, and the formula accounts for that. But it's going to go up much less than we expected it to. And, again, that gets into how leaders plan from year to year.
Right? If you expect a certain amount of money next year and then someone comes and tells you, actually, it's gonna be $350,000,000 less, that is going to drastically affect how you can provide the services that you were gonna serve that you were gonna provide. So what can state leaders do? Our chief recommendation is to update the regional cost index. The senate's budget proposal increases the RCI for New York City from 1.425 to 1.464. I'm gonna explain what that means.
After the governor gives her proposal for the budget, the state senate and the assembly each give their own proposals. They kind of come back with their answer. And so in the senate's budget proposal, they said we should increase the regional cost index for New York City. Basically, this is accounting for how much more expensive it is in the city, especially to pay teachers. That's specifically why the regional cost index is there to account for how much staffing costs. And this would restore $288,000,000
to NYC schools. The assembly's budget proposal would increase the increase the RCI as well, different number, and it would restore nearly $200,000,000 to NYC schools. So one of these should definitely happen, and you can guess which one we prefer, but one of them should definitely happen. And, additionally, we need to increase the weight for English language learners. The assembly's budget proposal also includes an increase to the formula weight for English language learners from point five to point six five, and that would drive a hundred and $52,000,000 to NYC schools.
So, ideally, we would love to see this new weight for the English language learners as well as the, senate's budget proposal for the RCI. But either way, if they make two of these changes, then it will make up for that 350,000,000 difference, from the from the poverty measures. So the timeline for this, the governor's budget was released January 21. That's why we know what she plans. March 11 was the Senate and Assembly budget proposals. That's why we have an idea of their, their suggestion for what should happen. And April 1 was the state budget deadline.
You may notice it is past April 1 now. The state budget has not been released. They are still debating, which means, again, perfect timing for us to be advocating. So the the governor is deciding right now. The senate the state senate and the assembly have already told her what they think she should do, and she's deciding. And part of that decision is going to be based on whether she hears from people. Does she think that she can let this slip by and New York City won't notice that she's taken $350,000,000
from us? So we need to let her know that we are noticing. Join us in calling on the governor and New York State Legislature not to shortchange NYC schools. State leaders must ensure any updates to the Foundation Aid formula drive more resources to New York City schools and certainly do not result in our schools receiving less money than they otherwise would. The final budget, we recommend should the students' senate's proposed increase to the RCI and the assembly's increase to the ELLA. QR codes again. The one on the right is the same. Sign up for updates and get involved. The one on the left is different than it was before.
It will allow you to email governor Hochul and key New York State legislators. And while I'm waiting for you to do that, I'll check the chat. Oh, okay. Yeah. This is the last thing, and then we'll do questions, and then I'm gonna have, like, a two minute, other thing. Thank you, Chris, for the presentation. No. No. No. No. Any members have any questions for Kaiser? Yeah. I do. Kaiser, thanks for giving the presentation. I really appreciate it. We're gonna, put copies of the QR codes up for, you know, people to scan and sign. But do you have, I guess, any other information sessions that parents can go to or community members can go to
in relation to, advocating for the budget, especially given that the state budget is still in negotiation because they haven't approved it yet. They keep granting these many extensions, and it just feels like in the news cycle, they're concentrating on other things and not just education. I guess this is the comics last question because we also need, like, the, CCAP funding that's for our child care credit program. This helps parents who need, child care for their kids. And then especially after school funding,
I know the restructuring of LEAPS has also, not really helped our district. We have some, community based organizations that did not get funding through the program. Are there any other, things that parents can, I guess, tap into and also participate in reaching out to their local elected officials to get them to advocate for these other programs as well? Yeah. Absolutely. There's lots. There's lots going on. The best thing I would say people should do is scan that QR code on the right. You can also sign up for updates from AQE because we send things out all the time.
I can send for CCAP, which if folks don't know what Whitney's talking about, CCAP is the child care assistance program, and New York City is is losing funding for that and might have to, stop taking people into the program. There is an action that AQE has up right now, so I can send the link to that for folks to, contact their legislators about that. And there's also a rally. What day is it? It's Monday. There's a rally, for CCAP tomorrow as well. So, again, if you sign up for updates, you'll hear about things like that.
And then in terms of the city and state budget, the work that we're doing with, there are two things coming up that don't have solid dates yet. One is gonna be a town hall, with council member Rita Joseph who chairs the education committee. Again, we don't have a date, but we are really excited to, to make sure that people are there and can, you know, interact directly with, the the city council member who is in charge of that committee and tell her exactly what we need. So sign up for updates so you can hear about that.
And the other thing is that the, city council is gonna have another education budget hearing. So similar to what I said before, we had a rally. We made sure people came and testified. It would be great for people to interact with that in that way again, but we don't have a date confirmed yet. City council hasn't confirmed yet. So, so, yeah, sign up for updates, and you will get all that information. Thank you. Does anyone in the room have questions I'd like to come up and ask? Pfizer? I don't know if does anyone in the Zoom room have any questions, the information you had at this time? Mister Robertos, can you please ask in the rooms also if anyone has any questions?
There are no questions for Spanish. Oh, there's no question from. Thank you. We have one comment in the q and a, and that was from, And it said, can the CEC please send out the equity QR codes to parents? They can email mayor Adams. They couldn't scan from a Zoom session, and so I dropped them both in the chat. And we can also, post the links, as as later in one meeting as well. So, please let us know if you wanna send those letters to the legislators about the budget. Yeah. I will send you the presentation so you can send out. And then if I may take,
like, two more minutes of your time, I apologize. But I wanted to kinda put on my AQE hat instead of my seat hat. So I'm switching gears a little bit, but I was asked to share with you about something else that we're working on that's really exciting. So this is can you see that okay? That is the wrong slide. Can you see that okay? Yes. Great. So I'm gonna be talking to you about a campaign called spilling tea on NYC brought to you by RJPS, which is short for New Yorkers for Nationally Just Public Schools. RJPS is a coalition of groups.
We have educator groups, youth student groups, and parent groups, that are all fighting for platform of justice in New York City schools. And we are inviting all of you to join our campaign spilling the tea on NYC education to center education justice in the upcoming mayoral and city council races. Our goal is to talk to a thousand New Yorkers about public schools. And we are doing that, because we believe really deeply in this platform that you can see in front of
you. I know some of the words are small. I'm sorry. I will send this out as well. But the the basic, platform points are safe and supportive schools, inclusive and integrated schools, truly public schools, engaged schools, fully and equitably funded schools, and culturally responsive schools. And these are some things that we believe in, but we also wanna know what you believe in and what everyday New Yorkers wanna see in their schools. So we're driving around our decked out van, and we're stopping at all sorts of different events in different communities.
And we're talking to everyday New Yorkers about what they think about schools and what they would like a future mayor or city council member to do for our schools. And if you have a community event that you can think of that we should join, you can scan that QR code to tell us about it. Or if this sounds fun to you and you wanna come hang out with us and talk to people about schools, that QR code will also allow you to do that. And then you can participate now. So we have this is a really short survey. It's like two questions. And we wanna know from you what issues are most important to you.
So if you scan the QR code in whichever language you use, you can tell us what's important to you about schools. And then your response is gonna inform our policy roadmap and advocacy work. We're gonna take this information back to the mayoral candidates and tell them New Yorkers want a mayor who invests in our public schools, and this is what we wanna see, and this is what's important to us. So, as many people as we can hear from, that will, you know, really, amplify our message. Thank you, Kaiser. Thank you so much for having me.
I will definitely send both of these presentations. And, yeah, it it was great to be here. It's always a pleasure. Thanks again. Have a good night. You too. Thank you. And next next on our agenda, we have a presentation from the office of district planning. So I'm gonna let you introduce yourselves. Seems awesome. I'm just gonna say panelists. Are you I'm just gonna let you find her now. I got Hi there. I think I just heard Julian introduce herself. My name is Rhea. I'm also from the office of district planning. I'm the associate director. I work with Queen, and I'm here to learn and hear from you all.
Thank you so much. Sorry. I'm just having a patient. She read my screen. Just come in. Okay. Now I'm good looking, everyone. Thanks for having us. As we have shared, we're here from the office of district planning. We're here to share an exciting update about new schools opening and potential opportunities. So before we jump into that, do some introductions. I'm Julianne. I am the lead director of base planning. I'm the office of district planning, and I'm here to my colleagues. And we also have on the line a whole group of colleagues from some of our partner offices. We have Maximilian from John Van Geis also from the office of district planning.
We have Daniel Hendricks here from the office of student enrollment, Donna Taylor from the office of new school development and design, and Jeff Klein from the division of early childhood. So we'll be jumping in as questions come up. They're all here. So our goals for tonight, we are here because there are two new school buildings opening in Long Island City beginning in September 2027, which is very exciting, and we've been having initial conversations about the buildings, and we're excited to continue that planning. We also have the opportunity though to open a new school earlier in a temporary
location before these buildings happen, starting September 20 '20 '7. So our goal tonight is to discuss this opportunity and have this very initial conversation to start gathering back. So throughout the presentation, I'll be using the term incubation, and that what that means is that is just when we have a new school open and serve students at a temporary site in advance of moving to its long term site. So in addition tonight, as part of this school's kickoff, this incubation conversation, we'll share updated enrollment and utilization data for schools in the area.
We'll share updates on 2025 to 2026 admission at nearby schools, and we'll continue the discussions maybe having on the new buildings that are opening at their timeline. So here's our agenda. Like I said, we'll start talking about the new buildings, just refreshing where they're located, number of seats. It will share updated enrollment, utilization, and admissions data for schools in Roanoke Island City area, and then we'll talk about these potential incubation sites and their timeline before we talk their next steps in those. So I will turn it over to Christina. Don't forget in the So right now,
we anticipate three new buildings, in Seminole Bay in the next few years in the Hunters Point, the Fort Square area in Detroit, so you're gonna have determined, anticipated opening dates for it. And those are the parcel seat and Hoard Square. We anticipate Carson City to open in September, which is going in Summer Hill and the new building, sports area to open in September. Additionally, we have funding from the top of the plan to a middle school from. So here's the map. I want the two new I mean,
buildings that have a rental domain base for opening in 2027 and 2028. In the bottom left corner, we have parcel city of Coconut Region 7, and on to that, we have the two title eight and transcript anticipated to open So looking at current enrollment's manualization data, we're seeing that TMS enrollment in Syria has standard increase over the past several years. And there is energy created from passively people in there.
Also, subject to ISLA Gate and Huntington Town Elementary School faced challenges in accommodating academic academic academic applicants, in written written itself. At the middle school level, those schools are the school that the school, and there continues to be capacity that the area of zone middle school, No. We're having some audio issues. So just wanna make sure a very quick recap of, what we've shared so far. Folks can hear me. We talked through the several new buildings that are opening here,
where they're located, and we're gonna have for a seat, some timeline. We also have this map, and, it's a good reminder. We're sharing, you know, a lot of information tonight. So we will share this step with you all after and make sure it gets dispersed by the CEC so you can dig into this a little bit further. And then we also shared some updated enrollment utilization for schools in the area. As you're seeing, enrollment in the area has steadily increased over the last five years, and there's a need for additional capacity to meet demand, particularly at the elementary school level. And on the middle school level,
there continues to be capacity at IS two zero four with middle school seats being filled at 78 and Hunters Point. And we are going to kick it over to Daniel from the Office of Student Enrollment to take this slide. Hey, folks. Yeah. This is Daniel from the office of student enrollment. I'm just gonna speak to sort of the situation right now, for families who are zoned to p s seventy eight. So as of, when we pulled this data, April 11, earlier this month, twin there were 22 students who were zoned to PSIS seventy eight who have not yet received an offer to either PSIS seventy eight or PS three eighty four.
And so that's fewer than last year, and we have this deadline coming up on May 2 next month, which is the deadline for any families who who have received the main round offer in April. Any families who received an offer earlier this month, this is the deadline for them to to accept their offer. And after that date, we see more wait list movement. We know families drop off after that date. So that will be a milestone for us to look to to see how things change after that date. I'm gonna break down a few more of these, metrics here and go kind of row by row.
So, and we'll have the comparison of fall twenty twenty four as well as fall twenty twenty five. I'll speak to the 2025, and then just note whether it is, an increase or decrease from from last year. So right now, students zoned to p s 78 who applied to kindergarten at any school in our admissions process was 330 students. Last year, it was 321. And of those c s 78 zone families, we have 307 families who listed either 78 or three eighty four on their application.
And then there were which is just about the same as last year. There were 305 last year. Of that 78 zone, we have 285 families who have received an offer to either of the two schools, p s 78 or three eighty four. And that is about 20 students higher than last year. So, last year was 264 students were accommodated between the two schools. P s 78 families, there are 22 families. Again, like I said, 22 families from within the p s 78 zone who are waitlisted,
at either of the two schools or both. They do not have an offer to one of the two schools. Last year, that was, about twice as large. 40 families were in that situation. And lastly, right now, we have no families who are in the p s seventy eight zone, who applied to 78 and received a offer after the main round, to either of the two schools. So right now, we're still waiting for wait list to come together and more availability to be seen. But right now, we we just haven't seen wait list offers be made quite yet.
And last year, we saw quite a few wait list offers be made. So, I think that covers everything on this slide, and I will be available to answer questions for enrollment after the presentation. Thanks, Daniel. Great. So moving right along, I think now the exciting piece here, we wanted to talk through, some of the potential incubation sites. So while there has been a commitment to include some middle school seats in Parcel C and or Court Square, and as you saw in the data on earlier slides, we see a strong need for elementary school seats.
There haven't been any final decisions made about how the new buildings will be used. It does seem likely though that one or both of the buildings would house new schools. And so we've started to actively explore opportunities to open in incubate a new school or schools beginning with kindergarten in the twenty twenty six to twenty twenty seven school year, and any school that's incubated would then eventually be housed in the Court Square and or parcel CU buildings long term. And that's why we're here tonight. I think we really wanna hear from all of you feedback about the location of
the buildings that we're looking at and their facilities, because that's a really important part of our process to see what you all might be open to. And so tonight is the first opportunity to discuss the possible buildings and hear your feedback. Just a note on the new school design process. So should we move forward with a new school in Long Island City in collaboration with superintendent Hidalgo, the office of new school development and design would help plan the new school and identify a leader. That would also be done in partnership with CEC thirty and the Long Island City community. So we're here this evening to hear initial community feedback around the new buildings opening
and the idea of potential incubation for the twenty twenty six, twenty twenty seven school year. And any formal new school proposal can be submitted to the Office of New School Development and Design at the email address on the slide, newschoolsjobs@nyc.gov. So this is the same map we showed you earlier with the new schools, but it's you'll see here we've added in three blue callouts for the three buildings that we're exploring for potential incubation. So just to recap, in the yellow callouts, you'll see we have Q 341, Parcel C,
which is slated to open in September 2027 with 547 seats. And then we have Q 508, Court Square, slated to open in September 2028 with 547 seats. In the blue, these are the three sites we're considering for incubation. So first, you'll see Q 346 labeled as PKC. We'll share more details about this site in a second, but just so you see its location, it's in Long Island City North. We also have Q 444 labeled here as PKC. Again, more details coming, but you'll see this is where it's located in the district and in relation to
other schools. And then we also have 797, which will share more, but it's the P S 150 Annex. So it's right here near P S 150 in Sunset. And we can come back to this map. But just so you have some more information. So there are three stand alone potential incubation sites we're exploring. That first one, q three four six, like we said, is in Long Island City North. The building has an early childhood design with seven classrooms across two floors, and it has an exercise room. It's currently under construction but expected to be ready for occupancy in September 2026.
Q '4 '4 '4 was the building we were looking at in Woodside on Van Damme Street, also an early child to design, and this is nine classrooms on one floor. That building also has an exercise room and is under construction, expected to be ready for occupancy in September 2026. Both of these buildings are currently designed to serve early childhood students, but we're working with the SCA to see if they can be used more flexibly long term. And then this last one, q seven nine seven, that's the one in Sunnyside. It's the annex for PS one fifty. That one has a,
this abbreviation here. PS stands for public school PS design, to elementary grades, and that building contains two floors and a basement, 11 classrooms. It has outdoor space, a multipurpose room, and a cafeteria, and it's currently temporarily being used by PS one fifty in the current school year. We have some pictures here as well just to orient you. So on the left, we have Q 346. This is the site in LIC North. And then on the right, we have Q 444. This is the site on Van Damme Street, pinpoint side.
And then this is the q one fifty annex building on the left in the picture, and then on the right, that's their outdoor space. In terms of geography and where these buildings are located, and, again, I think this is helpful to look in on the map so we can bring that back. But, the first q three forty six site, just so you can get a sense of how far they are from the new buildings opening, Q 346 is closer to the Court Square Building, a bit further from Parcel C. It's accessible by the f seven and w trains and some buses. Q 444 is kind of equidistant between the two new buildings opening,
also accessible via the seven train and a bus. And the Q 150 Annex or Q 797 is a bit closer to Court Square, a bit further from Parcel C, accessible via the seven train and some buses. But in terms of bussing eligibility for students, k to two students would be eligible for yellow bussing or OmniCard to these sites if they live further than point five miles. Cool. So we're gonna open up for questions and feedback in just a second, but just to preview where we are with next steps in the process. So tonight was the first opportunity to share these potential incubation possibilities and to begin
to hear your feedback. We'll work with the district thirty superintendent Hidalgo and with the CEC regarding next steps in exploring these potential incubation sites. Our goal here, though, is to reach a decision about potential incubation opportunities by the end of this school year. And then looking further out, I think there are so many conversations to come around planning for the new buildings, and, we'll continue to work closely this spring with the CEC and superintendent to assess potential rezonings and to think through how the new buildings can potentially be used to best meet district needs and priorities.
But I think first step is we're hoping to, get to a place where we have a plan for how we might wanna do any potential incubation here first. And there'll also be that new school planning to come with the Office of New Schools should we move in that direction. So we have some questions up here just to prompt your thinking, though we're really open to hearing any feedback, questions, concerns, ideas that you all have. But just to get the wheels turning, I think we would love to hear if you think future kindergarten families who may attend school at these new buildings, Court Square and Parcel C, if they'd be willing to travel to some of those incubation locations potentially on a
temporary basic basis. It would also be helpful to know if there's anything in particular you'd like to see at a potential incubation site or if there's any particular amenities that you would really like to see. Or if you have any concerns about the sites we presented, that would be helpful to know too. And then any other needs and priorities we should keep in mind when planning for Parcel C and Court Square. We also are starting to think through our planning process and engagement this spring. So if there are any particular engagement methods that work well for the community, we would love to hear more about that too. So pause now for questions.
And if you have any thoughts, we would love to hear them. Thank you. That was insightful. Mhmm. It was a great starting point. For me, I think I'll just speak to what you asked about the amenities. The outdoor space, I think, would be something that families would love to have at an innovation site. I can't see them traveling if they're able to to a place that doesn't offer that. It's my personal opinion. Okay. Mhmm. Do any other members have any questions or comments or you can wanna read that, Lenny? I do. Thank you for sharing the information about the amenities at each of the buildings.
I think the first two, you know, mentioned that there is an exercise room. I do see there's an absence of a cafeteria. So if those schools or those incubation sites were selected, would meals be delivered to the school? Would would that be the way the children okay. So they would have meals delivered to the school. Yeah. We could get more information on this. Typically, how it worked is there's a warming pantry, and then, meals would be delivered, but we can definitely get confirmed information on how it would work. Yeah. And then, also, thank you for providing the information for the yellow school bus.
I do think that if these incubation sites, you know, are they are gonna be discussed with the community. I think other items that would be, questions from the community would be after school options. And I know that probably come with school leadership, you know, and working with miss Hidalgo and select school leadership and then being able to build out the programs. But I do think we should have more information for parents to see, how a school, like, comes to be, like, how you roll it out, select the leader, what programs will be there if there's after school, because that would help people make the decision about these incubation sites and then,
providing information on, I guess, geographically where some of the applicants live and how they would commute there. And thank you for putting, like, the transit lines near these areas. That's that that will help. The kids get the yellow school bus, but the parents don't. Yes. And I can add to that. When you speak about the warming pantry, if you can also find out about, like, early breakfast. Breakfast. Mhmm. A lot of parents go to, you know, work and 07:30 drop off is, like, ideal for them, so that would be also something helpful to know. Yeah. Yeah. Linda. So one question is, since it's a I just wanted to know,
like because you know k to two, at least kindergarten and first graders, their bathrooms are inside the classrooms. Mhmm. I think parents would be concerned about that too if the kindergarten classrooms would have bathrooms in the classrooms. K. I think that's something really important to find out as well. Yeah. Thank you so much. That's all really helpful. I know we're getting the notes down. Thank you. So, bathrooms, whether they're in the classrooms or not, is a great flag. And, the warming pantry and the meal piece Mhmm. Also good to keep in mind in the outdoor space. So appreciate you raising those.
And for the question on new school process, I know we have Donna Taylor on the line. I'm not sure, Donna, if you wanna share anything just in general about new school process and what that typically looks like, to get it part of Whitney's question. So hi, everyone. I actually helped Christine seven was it seven years ago, Christine, that we started three year school? So I am no stranger to district thirty. And I dropped in the chat the link for the proposal process to open a new school in New York City,
a new public school. So that can be helpful to people. It's a very simple process. And, you know, essentially what we do is work very closely with all of you here and the superintendent to, bring your vision to life for the kind of school that, all of the stakeholders want. And so it's a very exciting process, and I look forward to working with all of you. Thanks, Econ. Marlene, you had a question. Yeah. I wanted to ask about the, when you have the design in Earth and it says early childhood, is that three k,
four k, up to second grade? The design, is that for, like, those size of the children? Yeah. It's early elementary grades. So three k pre k kindergarten and first. And, yes, those buildings, they were originally slated to be pre k centers, and they are currently being used. And so that's the way that they're designed, but we're working with the SEA to see if we can make any tweaks so that they we can use the buildings more flexibly with older students moving forward. But right now, they would be for early childhood students.
So the plan would be to open a school there temporarily with just the younger grades to incubate, and then that school would be resided to one of the new buildings once it's open, as it continues to phase in and serve the upper grades. Are those spaces, like, the classrooms that are in those early childhood spaces small smaller than the average, for, like, second graders? Because I know the three k's and four k's are are pretty small rooms compared to, like, all the other grades. Like, how does that look there?
Yeah. We can definitely get more information on the square footage. I know we have the floor plan, so, we can definitely see what the sizing is like compared to, you know, a regular school building to see how the difference is. Comes another good flag. Thank you for raising it. Yeah. Go for it, Linda. So just out of curiosity. So especially so if it only goes up to, like, first grade with a new class size law, how what happens after first? Like, they would go to They should be in a permanent school by the end of it. This is only temporary for, like, two years. Oh, okay. Two years. They should be in a permanent school by the end of it. Confused about that because the lower would they go especially with a new class size
law. They're going back to the new bill. Right. Sorry. I didn't mean to No. You're shut up. Thank you. It's temporary until the new building's open. So it's gonna be temporary. I I have a few questions. So when I I was unfamiliar with the concept of an incubation site before tonight, but and in my head, I'm thinking, well, these are places that already exist. But when you say under construction expected, and I see what you're saying, it was designed for an with another plan in mind Mhmm. Like, I guess, how much construction needs to happen, and what if it's not ready by 2026? Yeah. We're working closely with SCA,
and with early childhood around the sites and their timeline. I will say it's yeah. They're not perfect school buildings like the new ones that are opening with the, you know, full suite of amenities by any means. I think just given the opportunity to expand seats sooner, we wanted to talk through this as a potential option that we're exploring. And, you know, there are the classroom spaces there that can certainly serve students. But to your point, it's not, you know, a full k to five, like, the way that the new school buildings will all look when they're open. And in terms of the timeline,
you know, the one site, the Q 150 Annex is is there. It's there's no construction there, so that would be ready for use. For the other two sites, we would continue to stay close with SCA and or Lake Charles if there were any updates on timeline, but we haven't heard any delays. So the sites look quite I mean, a mile and a half New York standards is right now. It's, like, can be pretty far. Was there any attempt to try to find any locations more south? Yeah. So I think, originally, with P S 384, I know there were some discussions about incubation,
and we heard a really strong desire to be looking in the current 78 zone. And I think we we're thinking that that is the the thinking that would continue here, and we really were focusing on that area. We didn't have any spaces that were coming up that would be available for use. And so we then, you know, wanted to continue exploring any avenue we could for seats and kind of widen the zone, and then that's when we were able to find additional buildings, that would be able to incubate sooner. But we hadn't been able to come up with anything that was more directly in that 78 zone. And, also, you mentioned parent engagement and how that might look.
I think maybe creating, like, a very accessible survey that could come with, like, a QR code and I don't even know if this is a thing, but maybe heading out to, like, daycares in the area We did that. Kind of thing. During the SEPRO engagement last time. Mhmm. We've got to do it again. On on this on these particular We did it for the $3.84 process with SEPRO. Remember last time? Yeah. So we're gonna roll that out again. So what's the gonna be more that's that's why we're doing this tonight, and they're gonna be coming to our next three meetings. So we're they're gonna be coming to our calendar meetings. We're gonna be sending out the links.
Jonathan, you can speak to the because he's the zoning chair. But, yeah, we're doing more, like, engagement, reaching into people, sending them QR codes, going to the day cares. Was there a lot of feedback from them? Would people have to We are going to get a better timeline last time because if you remember through the last time we did it through Sephora, we've got feedback from some of the day care parents and some of the younger parents in the community that the timing was off when we sent those out because some of the engagement took place during spring break. People went home. So that's why we had them come to this meeting so we can get the process started again.
Right. So, yeah, we we're we're working. Because I feel like that's something maybe Mhmm. I'd be happy to play. Well, like, cutting the strings. Covanta is on the committee. We'll take you. Okay. Jonathan, Jonathan. Good to know. Survey with the QR code, isn't it? Yeah. That's the easiest way for Yeah. I'm a let you have to talk about it because I You know? Draw a distinction between Mhmm. The zoning process Yeah. And the process of identifying a Potential engage incubation. An incubation site. There is a possibility of identifying this site before we do the zoning process.
Mhmm. And the advantage of that is that we could get it sooner because our zoning process is probably going to take time. And we want it to take time because we want to really engage the whole team really, really well, and we wanna get this done. So that's great. Yeah. Thank you for adding that. That's very helpful. And, yes, I think there's a whole zoning process, which is a a longer term process that we're planning for, and then there's these incubation sites I think we're hoping to get more feedback on on a quicker timeline by the end of this school year so that we can
start planning through this whole new school process that Donna was talking through. So lots of things to get feedback on for me, Bob. Thanks. Does anyone in the room have any questions for office district funding? I think we have some hands up. Okay. I see, Randy Dent. Randy, I'm going to promote you to panelist. Please accept the promotion, and then you can unmute yourself and ask your question. Hello? We can hear you. Okay. Wonderful. Sorry. I know you said don't bring up zones. I'm like, I it just comes with my spiel, I guess, but, I'm, like, three blocks away from the Court Square School where it's supposed to be just slightly
out of zone. But I just want to add in because I know it was mentioned whether or not parents would be excited about this that I would so happily put my child on a bus, out to Sunnyside. I think that larger location, Q 979, with the outdoor space looks amazing and without a doubt would happily send him over there for a year or two if it meant that we could walk three blocks to the Court Square School. Thank you, Randy. That's very, I think that specific kind of feedback is really helpful knowing that you'd be willing to travel and that the outdoor space is important to you.
So thank you so much. Mhmm. Sure. There's a couple in the thanks, Ernie. A couple in the Q and A. It's exciting. This is from Virginia. It's exciting to see new schools in the neighborhood. I'd like to understand the middle school plans better. Also, what is the current middle school situation similar to what Daniel shared for elementary schools? Thank you. Yes. Maybe Daniel, do you wanna are you able to speak to it all some of the middle school admissions for any of the schools in this area. I know on the slide here, we have both. I'm sorry. I I'm not. I I oversee elementary school admissions.
If there's something specific that I could maybe look into while we're talking here, maybe, but, that would need to be a different member of my team office. We can definitely get back. Yeah. If you can just can you email us at cc30@schools.nyc.gov, And we'll get your questions to the right, people so we can get an answer for you. Mhmm. And then Caitley says, maybe this is addressed through the the number slide, but how might this impact p s one fifty and their moves towards smaller class sizes? I think that's using p s the annex as an incubation site. What would they do for the class size?
Gotcha. Mhmm. So yes. So I think with the new schools coming online, you know, as we saw on this slide, we definitely are keeping an eye on this area and their enrollment and utilization, particularly with the new class size law. I think we're hoping the additional seats in the area will help alleviate some of these schools, and provide, you know, additional space so that they can get closer towards complying. We don't know exactly how, you know, the enrollment and the numbers would shake out. And I think with the incubation, you know, it takes several years for the schools to phase in.
So even if we were to incubate, we would start with just the earlier grades, and then the school would phase in over several years. So it may be a bit of time until we're able to fully see exactly what the impact would look like. But, overall, I think we're hoping to really just provide support in this area with the additional seats to support the schools with alleviating some of their overcrowding. Can I actually just I can clarify that question also? Yeah. Please. I think part of that question is what is the plan for the current plan for the annex, the 150 Annex?
Is it are they planning to stop using it Yes. Next year or the following year? Mhmm. Or would this be taking space that P S 150 would would be would have been planning to use for their school. Thank you for clarifying. Great question. So one fifty, they're having construction in their main building. They were temporarily using the annex this school year. That work is expected to be completed, so they will be fully back in their main building as of next school year, and they will fit comfortably in that space, so the annex would then be great for us to consider for other district needs
and priorities. So I think that's why it came up as a potential option here. There wouldn't be any impact to one fifty being able to serve all of their current students. One fifty. Is that all for the q and a? Yes. I see a hand up. We have, Verena Gumbs Lou. I think she's gonna clarify the question that she asked, in the, q and a. So, Verena just accept the promotion to panelist. Hi. Can you hear me? Yes. Thanks. I think this is a really important topic, and, I think these schools coming up are it's very exciting. And I'd really like to understand more about the middle school because I think that
one fifty queue site might be good to to incubate a middle school because I'm not seeing too much talk about that level of, the education system for us for our neighborhood given that 78 and Hunters Point are at capacity, right, from the slide that was just shown? So that's what? A 11%. I I assume that's for k through eight, but just knowing that the class size law is coming down the pike Isn't that something that, you know,
one school at least should be middle school? Yeah. Thank you so much for that question. Another really good one. So, yes, the utilization here, this is taking into account the total building, the total organization's utilization. So for 78, this would be their utilization across all of their grades through eighth grade. And, yeah, as you pointed out here at Hunter's point, is 96% utilized, although there is some existing capacity at IS 204, which is 49% utilized. In terms of planning long term, we do have a commitment for middle school seats in this area.
There is this project here, the Vernon Boulevard, project, which is pending ongoing discussions as part of the Long Island City neighborhood plan. So I think we just have less information about that than we do about the Parcel C and court Square capacities. But, as we said, I think, you know, we know that there's this commitment for some middle school seats and a strong need for elementary school seats, and so we haven't made any final decisions about how parcel C or Court Square will be used, whether you know, what grade levels or what that will look like just yet. But I think we appreciate you pointing out the middle school need as well in
addition to the elementary school need in the area. Thanks. And, you know, IS two zero four is not really an option for many of us, especially people who live all the way down on the waterfront and in Hunters Point. So I think that needs to be taken into account. Yeah. Thank you. We we definitely hear you. Thank you for that feedback. Okay. I don't see any other hands raised, and I don't see anything else in the q and a. Alright. Is there any questions? Are there any questions in the interpretation rooms? There's no question in the Spanish line. No question for Bangla line.
Thank you. Okay. Oh, we do need to ask the telephone. We have someone on the telephone. Their last four digits on their phone number is 4194. We're going to allow you to talk. If you have a question, you could say yes or no. You can't allow to talk. Okay. So we're asking you to unmute. If you want to say something, you can. Okay. I am not hearing anything from them, so let me if it's on. Okay. Alright. Thank you. Alright, Julianne. Okay. Well, thank you all so much. So I put up here both the CAC thirty inbox and our Queen Zoning inbox.
It's queenzoning@schools.nyc.gov. We will share this presentation with you all with all the information on the potential incubation sites because we would love to hear from you if you think of something new. If you have fellow parents or community members who you think might have feedback, please feel free to share this with them, because we would love to hear from you. And as Whitney said, we will continue to work, to meet with you in upcoming CEC meetings to continue collecting your feedback. I've also just included our contact information here on the Queen's team, me and Christina and Ria. So you're welcome to reach out to us with any further questions.
And and then we have some extra data and maps here at the end if anyone is interested. But thank you so much for, having us join your meeting tonight. We really appreciate it. And like I said, we'd love to hear from you, so please reach out. Thank you. You, Jonathan. And just while you're here and while we have representatives from other central offices here, I wanted to make sure that we just brought up the issue that was brought up about the East Elmhurst Community School. We have the CDC has already, you know, noticed for, you know, some years that East Elmhurst has become a very overcrowded neighborhood.
There are two schools there, and they're both at really at full really over capacity. And so, you know, we know that East Helena Community School is doing wonderful things with what they what they have, but, really, we need more capacity for the population that is there. They want smaller class sizes. They deserve smaller class sizes, and the only way that's gonna happen is if we can get more capacity in the in the neighborhood. So I just wanted to make sure that that was poised while while you all were here.
Yeah. Thank you so much. We, you know, we work closely with SCA around looking for new capacity in areas where there's need. So we'll definitely dig into that further, to see if that's something that we can flag for them as well. Thank you. And and then since you all are coming back next month I believe you. Thank you for coming this month. We appreciate hearing from y'all next month. Daniel, thank you for coming for talking about, early the the elementary. We might have to bring somebody back from middle school because we did get a middle school question. And then, also, if we could get any updates on the proposed middle school on Vernon Boulevard.
I know we've all seen it on the capital plan for years, but I do think if the community could hear, like, what's going on because the Long Island City plan, that's like the city planning thing, and they are I'm saying this because I live in the area, and I've been to a few of those meetings. But I think hearing from you all and how you all have been receiving the information in that process because as a constituent, we've been told, like, we have to advocate for that space to remain becoming a school. And so we just really wanna know how we can uplift that because that was on the capital plan for years,
that Vernon Boulevard, middle school, and we need middle two seats in that area. And then also what Jonathan said about elevating more seats in East Elmhurst. And we have heard about the site referral process with SCA, but, you know, I shared with you offline. Parents will refer sites. They don't get feedback. And so we really need to understand, like, what the process is to get official feedback on any sites that have been referred to become school buildings in these areas. So maybe we could get, you know, them to come to the meet the upcoming meetings as well. But I'm so excited,
and thankfully y'all came to talk about these incubation sites. I'm glad we had some parents that are gonna be affected by this speak up and hear from them. So I cannot wait to hear what we have come up in the months in between time. Okay. Thank you so much. And Thank you. Definitely hear you as we think about upcoming presentations that will make sense to join. So thank you so much. Thank you, Dan. Alright. Mary El Ortiz is the one that was on the phone. She said she wanted to say thank you for asking. She was on the phone for audio purposes, but will continue to be here. No questions. And Varnia says thanks for advocating for OTP to provide more info in the middle
school and LAC Whitney. Okay. Now we're moving to our next agenda item, which is resolution one nine one, which is resolution in support of prioritizing the utilization needs of community school districts and New York City public schools. Programs on considering significant changes in school utilization, procedures for the management of school buildings housing more than one school. Okay. Thank you, Victoria. This is a very long title four resolution that we worked on. Essentially, this came from, our community becoming aware of a new charter school entrant wanting to take over the
annex for PS one fifty in Sunnyside. So that's why we wrote the resolution. But I am gonna say for, meeting purposes, we gotta stop the screen share. For, purposes, we need to, state that we are not meeting the in person quorum requirement to have an official vote on the resolution, but I would like to read it and discuss it because we do have people who have come to the meeting today to talk about either their support of the resolution or ask questions about the resolution. So is everyone okay with that? We'll just discuss it and then have the official vote, at the next meeting. Hopefully, that we will have,
an in person quorum at our magazine. So we have to make a change of funds? Mhmm. Oh, yeah. We gotta stop this when you should stop. Here we go. Thank you. And I will let me pull up the resolution, and I'll share it on the screen. Share my screen. Apologies, everyone. Let me get that up. Share my screen. Okay. Can everyone see the, resolution? Let me zoom in a little bit. Sorry. Apologies for that. Okay. Can everyone see it now? Go ahead. Okay. Two four words then. Yes. Okay. Is that good? You know, scroll down a little bit.
Okay. So, resolution one ninety one. This is a resolution in support of prioritizing the utilization needs of community school districts and New York City public school programs when considering significant changes in school utilization and procedures for the management of school buildings housing more than one school. Oh, no. I changed the page. Apologies. Whereas in March 2025, a petition titled, protect our public schools, no Zeta charter school in the PS 150 Annex in Sunnyside was circulated by many
district thirty parents and guardian along with the c along with CEC thirty to oppose the colocation of a Zeta Charter School location within the P S 150 Annex, whereas the aforementioned petition gathered over 500 signatures. Petition signature of that, page. Hi. We just need the interpreter to, mute in the Zoom, but speak up in the Teams. Thank you so much. Although the proposal from Jay Zeta Charter Schools has currently been vacated, district thirty should have been empowered by New York City public schools to decide to
use the PS 150 Annex to address various seat needs for district thirty families, including pre k, kindergarten, or early childhood special education programs. Whereas the proposal from Zeta charter schools was a result of the Charter Schools Act of 1998, which states that a charter school may be located in part of an existing public school building in space provided on a private worksite, in a building, or in any other suitable location. Whereas the Charter Schools Act of 1998 also states that if a charter school may
be located or collocated in an existing public school building in a city school district in a city having a population of more of 1,000,000 or more inhabitants, The chancellor shall identify which public school buildings may be subject to location or colocation, provide the rationale as to why public school building is identified for location or colocation, and shall make all information publicly available, including via the city board's official Internet website. Whereas in 2014 Uh-huh. Apology. Whereas in 2014,
New York State passed a law requiring the city to either provide classroom space in existing Department of Education public school buildings or reimburse schools for rental costs and private spaces for any new or expanding charter schools, whereas the city paid about 75,000,000 in charter rental reimbursements in fiscal year twenty twenty three after factoring in the state's portion of payments according to the independent budget office. Whereas one charter school part of one charter school network artificially inflated its rent cost by using an affiliated group to sublease the property back to the school at three
times its original price, which caused the rental reimbursements paid by the city to increase. Whereas chancellor's regulation a one ninety only permits the affected community school district to hold a joint public hearing on charter school collocations with the impacted CEC and SLT at the school that is subject of the proposal after the educational impact statement concerning the charter school utilizing the space of the community district is public is published. Sorry. Whereas the Charter School Act of 1998,
the 2014 law, and procedures within the chancellor's regulation a one ninety provide an unfair priority and advantage for a charter school to enter a community school district's facilities and require New York City public schools to remain responsible for covering the rental costs for a space that would not serve children enrolled in a community school district in New York City public schools. Now, therefore, be it resolved that community education council thirty calls on the New York state legislature to amend the existing laws that permit charter school colocation to prioritize the needs of
existing community school district and New York City public schools when determining the use and utilization of existing school buildings. Be it further resolved that CEC thirty calls on the New York State legislature to repeal the 2014 law requiring New York City public schools to remain responsible for covering the rental costs for new or expanding charter schools. Be it further resolved that CEC thirty calls on New York City public schools to improve current procedures and devote resources to prioritize community school district and New York City
public school program needs, including adding seats for early childhood education or special education programs before presenting these spaces as options for new or existing charter schools. Okay. Let me go to. Okay. And, yeah, that's it. These are all the notes on the resolution. So I am going to, stop sharing my screen. And, if I have any council members that would like to comment or have, questions about the, resolution. Jonathan? Thank you, Whitney, for this excellent resolution.
We have in this district not had a lot of charter schools trying to start for some time. There are many other districts in the city that have had new charters open, and many more charters open than than in our district. But the the kinds of problems that that this resolution describes are real. The fact that New York City has to pay rent for charter schools, and it is the only part of the state.
And probably the only part of the only municipality in the country that actually has to pay rent for charter schools is really a disgrace. And I hope that the the the state listens to us and and fixes that. And I also hope that CECs are really empowered to have more of more of a role in deciding what schools get cited in their district, whether those schools are charter schools or district schools. And, I really commend this this,
resolution and supportive coordinating. Thanks, Jonathan. Kelly? My apologies, guys. My eyes are completely swollen. Pollen is real, and it is a live friend this spring. But, I just I wanna echo what Jonathan was saying, and I, wholeheartedly and enthusiastically support this resolution. I think it is extremely important and should be elevated. You know, everything that Jonathan said, I would also just, you know, it it infuriates me that we pay for the rent on on charter schools, that it comes out of the Department of Education funds and directly takes away from
our children. It's a disgrace. It infuriates me that it happens. It has to change. And, you know, know, I'm always fascinated, you know, in District 30 because we've had so much, buildings and construction. You know, for all the years that we've all been involved, a lot of us have been on this council involved in education for a long time. We hear from FCA and even ODP. You know, if you hear of any spaces, let our real estate team know. And, you know, we're always looking for spaces for new schools in your district, and it just fascinates me how charter schools seem to just find all these buildings.
And so I, you know, I I I'm always curious about the disconnect with how quickly they seem to procure buildings with the charter school. But if it's a Department of Education school, we go years kicking the can down the road. And if that means we have to start snatching their real estate agents because apparently they can find them, then let's do that. But it's just the inequity of the way that these buildings, seem to come online, is shocking to me, and I think it should be investigated. Thank you, Kelly. Do we have any other comments from the members? Okay. Well, I don't wanna hold everybody, but thank you for speaking up. I am glad.
I hope that the next month's meeting, this, resolution will pass. We're also going to, probably discuss it, with the PEP as well because some of the processes involved with a one ninety. Again, I probably we could probably elevate it here just a little bit is that our community would not have an opportunity to speak for or against a charter school colocation until after the process has already started. So they are far along in the process. The charter school, like Kelly said, they found the real estate in our existing school buildings. They want to take the space. The chancellor does the,
educational impact statement. That goes to the PEP. Then we do not have an opportunity to speak against it until we have joint public hearings as a council with the rest of our community. And by then, they already have one foot in the door. So, essentially, this resolution is asking for us, and along with our district because we know what the district needs are, especially when it comes to programming. Here now, the annex was proposed as an incubation space. But if this proposal with Zeta had went forward, we wouldn't have had the opportunity to advocate for any of this because we will
only have the opportunity to say we are for or against it, and the vote goes to the PIP. And that would be it. And they could get the space, and we wouldn't have it, and it's lost to us. In addition, the process does need other improvements because once a school is collocated, I think miss Stahl, can you help me out if I'm saying it wrong? There are committees for the schools that are collocated. So the charter school is supposed to work the charter school network is supposed to to work with the community school district to make sure they're using the space correctly. So if their enrollment goes down and our enrollment goes up, we're supposed to go back to the table and see how this space is supposed
to be used. But, unfortunately, that's not happening. In other districts in the city, I think in District 13, they actually have a petition out where the charter school has lost enrollment so much that the public school that is collocated with them need their space back. 15. Sorry. 15. Apologies. But in 15, they are asking for that space back, and they are having a hard time getting that space back to the public school. So this process needs improvement. It definitely disadvantages the, community school district. And so, hopefully, this resolution will get some people to pay attention to that given the fact that,
like Jonathan said, we are the only public school district that I am aware of in the state, probably in the country, where we pay the rent for the charter schools to use our buildings or find their own building, and I feel like it is at the expense of our public schools. Great streets. Thank you, miss. But so yeah. So I think that's it for us. If we don't have any comments from, our members, I'm a first gonna go to if we have any comments from people, in the room. If y'all wanna come up and speak. And. Alright. Do we have any attendees in the Zoom room?
Oh, I see a hand raised. Laura Simpson. So I'm going to promote you to panelist. Please accept the prompt. Okay. We can see you. Just unmute yourself. Hi. Hi. I'm Laura Simpson. I am a parent of a kindergartner at Q 300, and I want to give a comment. So as a concerned District 30 parent, I live in Jackson Heights. I'm so I'm straight up outraged that there's a double assault on our public school funding. So not only do we have these proposed changes to foundation aid and the formula with it,
we also have charter schools charging an outrageous amount of money to it it basically robs our students and families from that funding that we would be able to use better for our schools. And it siphons it away to just people who are at a charter school, and the charter schools don't necessarily keep those children after they've arrived. So to me, it's it's a a double attack. I from reading resolution one ninety one, I think that it is the right way to go, and I really applaud the CEC and all the hard work that you are doing
to keep our public schools public, to allow our students to have funding and for us to not be siphoning away resources so that, a few people can benefit. And, also, honestly, the idea that our public schools could lose $75,000,000 in a year to rental cost is outrageous. So I I I'm I'm sad that we won't be able to see this be adopted at this meeting, but I am looking forward to next month and hoping that this resolution is adopted. So thank you very much for your time,
and I'm very eagerly awaiting, a future where we are more equitably funded. Thank you. Thank you, Laura. Okay. Do we have any other participants in the Zoom room with their hands raised? If you were to, make a comment, you can either raise your hand or type it in the q and a, and we will, read it out loud. Do we have anything in q and a, Victoria? Britney says thank you to the CEC for this resolution. Hope it passes. Okay. Me too. We'll vote on it next month. Okay. If we don't have any other comments do we have any comments in the, interpretation rooms? In Bengali land,
there is no question. Nothing. No comment. No comments or question in the Spanish line either? Okay. Thank you very much, and, appreciate this. So this will be on the agenda for next month, and we will have a vote there. Without any additional time, I would like to go ahead and turn it over to our superintendent, miss Lisa Hidalgo. And thank you, miss Hidalgo. Apologies for the delay. No. No problem at all. Good evening, everyone. I'd just like to say thank you to the CEC, for really working hard and making sure that our leaders in the public schools, get the best that they can. So thank you so much.
And I wanna thank all the people that are on and everybody that's here. Thank you for being here. We appreciate it. Some of this information is a lot. And my presentation today is a little bit a lot, but I'm gonna do my best to finish as soon as possible. So let's go right on to the next slide. The first thing I wanna do is I wanna highlight, give some district highlights. And our second annual District thirty Science Expo was held on March 26. Some of you came. Thank you so much for being there. We had 33 schools and over two twenty students who participated.
So I just wanna give a shout out to all our school leaders, teachers, students, and district teams that are supported in making this event possible. And a special thank you to, IS one forty five for hosting. Okay. We also have some district further district updates. So this week and the in the coming weeks to come, as you all may know, we have, New York state testing, CBT, computer based testing and or paper based testing. So just a friendly reminder that, most of most of our, k to five schools, k to eight schools actually,
are administering the New York State ELA and math in the upcoming weeks. So just be mindful of that when you're going to the school or calling the school that they're in testing mode. And I also wanted to say that, 23 out of our 28 schools that that applied for the small class size applications were approved. So that's a that's a good thing. And these are schools, again, principals did not have to apply, but the principals that did. So out of 28 schools, we have 43. Out of 28 schools,
23, were, were accepted. So we are currently in need of approximately a 46 teachers and seven APs in district thirty. Thanks to the, our co presidents. They met with the d, DSL also this week. And one of the things that came out of it was of us just making sure that principals and this is something I have a principal meeting tomorrow. So I will make sure I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I what and how small class size is going to look like in their particular
schools. And in order to support, where we're at right now with the new hire the amount of teachers that we're gonna need and administrators, We also, Queens North is having a hiring fair on May 20. And we at District thirty are also planning our own hiring fair early in May. Because it's not just the small class size applications. It's also teachers, that might be retiring, teachers that might go to open market for whatever reason. So we just wanna be anticipatory and prepared for that. And I also wanna send a reminder that on Saturday,
this Saturday, April 26, we have our spring. This, DSL is doing the spring twenty twenty five citywide conference for school and district leadership teams. This is something that is done annually. It's from eight a. M. To three p. M. At the Manhattan Center for Science and Mathematics. It's at 280 Pleasant, Pleasant Avenue in Manhattan. The focus will be achievement of New York City Public Schools' mission to ensure that each student graduates on a pathway to a rewarding career and long term economic security
equipped to be a positive force for change. Also remember, May is our National Teacher Appreciation Week. We want to give a shout out to our teachers, that they're the ones in the forefront of all of this. So let's just make sure that we we see them. We remind them of how appreciative we are for the for what they do for our children. May 31, if it hasn't changed. We have our disability company fun day at IS one forty five in Jackson Heights. So I'm excited about that. And I just wanna say June,
please. We don't have the date yet, but we will have our third. New York City reads, Together Empowering Families as partnership in literacy from 05:30 to 06:30. Our engagement has improved. So every time we have a meeting, we have more parents. So that's good to see and good to know. So we are pushing and we are marketing it a little bit better and more so parents are showing up. So I'm happy about that. Keep on coming. Okay. Reminders that kindergarten and middle school offer letters. So, families of students who apply online to begin kindergarten in upcoming school year will receive
an email notification of an offer that will be able to accept or decline using their my schools account through May 2. Families who did not apply online will receive their offer letter in the mail. They should have received it already by April 11. And families of students who apply to middle school for fall twenty twenty five by by the by the December 2024 deadline will receive or should have received their child's middle school offer on April 9 after school hours. So these dates are important.
Just a reminder that if, you haven't done so, please make sure to go to my schools and see where you're at in your application. This is something that they do every year as well, register for youth climate summit. So schools are invited to send a group of two to five students, one to two adults to participate in the annual citywide youth climate summit. The in person summit will be held at Governors Island from 10AM to 4PM on May 21 for grades six through eight. So this is for middle school. On May 22 for grades nine to 12,
high school. Schools should register for their school group by April 30. Co planned by students. This event is co planned by students. The youth climate summit empowers students to learn about climate change and environmental justice, network with local organizations, and work with their peers to develop a climate action project or initiative for their school. Summarizing applications. This is important. A lot of dates, but I need you to, please be mindful. And I'm gonna ask the CEC also to put it up on their website. Summarizing applications close April 24.
Results and wait list will be available in my schools May 8. Deadline to accept offers. You need to make sure that you accept or you decline. 07/02/2025, summarizing begins for grades k through eight. New this year. The last day to accept summarizing offers is Thursday, May 8. Make sure you accept your offer and answer any required questions to ensure your child's seat. This year, families will not be automatically enrolled and must accept their child's office by the deadline
as summarizing placements will not be confirmed until families accept them. Accepting an offer will not affect your child's chances of getting a waitlist offered to another program at another at a later date. So for this year, students attending a summer program will receive the same transportation services they were assigned during the school year. Busing will be provided to eligible students attending summer school. Busing is available from 8AM to 3PM with 3PM being the latest pickup time for
the student who requires busing. However, students can stay at the summarizing program until 6PM, and and eligible students will receive rideshare services to leave at that time. Students with twelve month IEPs who receive specialized transportation during the school year will be placed on curb to school bus routes. Students receiving yellow bus services will be assigned a stop based on the summer DBN to which the student is registered.
Students assigned OmniCards during the school year will continue to use them for the summer rising and summer school. Students who are newly eligible based on distance can receive OmniCard at the summer school site determined by some by their summer class OPT code and site distance. And this is something that this is something that you can find at the New York City Public School site. However, one of the things to better support the families, what we're gonna start doing at District thirty, is making sure that you stay informed every month.
And we're going through Gamma, gonna send you so since we're just starting it now, in May, you'll receive it, and in June, you'll receive it. But each month, you'll get one of these, letters that says what's happening in New York City public schools. And that's it. Jordan, sweetie, any questions? Please feel free to ask. Yes. Will those letters go out in the language that in school? No. The letters in your the Well, these, yes. Automatically, you pick the language. Right. Yes. I said one question. Yes. The flyers for the hiring fair, will we get those?
So, yes, the one in Queens North, I could definitely give you those. We have it. I could send that to you. And the the flyer in for our district is in process. Thank you. Okay. Acastio, if you have the flyer, can you drop it in the chat? I'm not sure that she got Yeah. We had somebody email us about working for district thirty. Yeah. I have to tell them we don't hire, so I can send them the flyer. But yes. I mean, if you know anyone that is, you know, graduating someone that, is interested, please, you know, what we're thinking of doing is kind of creating some sort of Gmail or or
some something that they could just send it there so we can have it all in one spot. But we're not sure of the process yet. We're still trying to but, yes, we will need a lot of, teachers, and we're trying to beat the other districts. Mhmm. So we're gonna have first. You know? So spread the word. Yeah. I mean, I I will say that, there's a lot of we have a we have a big community here. You know? Parents there are many parents who are teachers who have connections to education somewhere. And, unfortunately, sometimes, principals do not want to work with their communities when they're hiring teachers.
And it's it's been a little bit disappointing to me when I when I hear that because together, we our networks are just that much bigger, and we can get better candidates if we get more candidates. And in English, like you said, we could more easily Yeah. Meet those other districts to to get the I really I I I'm not sure if that's in all schools because I know a lot of schools that hire from the neighborhood because this is easier. No. No. No. I don't I don't mean all schools at all. I just Yeah. I'm just saying we should encourage Yes. Working together. And absolutely. So we're open. We we want the best qualified person.
So if if if someone, just is in the neighborhood and for whatever reason doesn't make the fifth, there's there's 43 schools in District 30. We could we could figure it out. District district thing? Mhmm. Yes. Yes. It's like a point. Y'all got a table. Yeah. You know? We're we're ready for a table. It's fine. Does anyone else have any questions? Comments from miss Nava? Mm-mm. In the audience? We could go. You guys are troopers. Yes. Yes. You are. Okay. So the last agenda thank you, miss Nava. Yes. Thank you for having me.
So public agenda and speaking time is our last item. It's oh, wait. Oh, Mariela Ortiz. Okay. This is public agenda. That's when I can ask her questions. So we're in the public agenda time. She got two minutes. Alright. Miss Ortiz, you're a panelist now. Can you unmute yourself? I'm trying to send you that. Can you hear me? Yes. We can. Hi. Well, I just wanted to quickly say thank you all for this amazing news. We so I'm with the office of assembly member, Suram Amdani, and so excited to hear about upcoming career fairs. We always have, retired teachers, newly graduates asking about opportunities within our district.
So excited to get those. And happy to see, some of the summer reading sort of incentives for the summertime. We are we will host our own summer reading challenge, this year again, and so we'll be in contact with our local schools to ensure that children can participate in that. And then the assembly will issue a certificate. And so that's always an exciting time for our office. So just wanted to say thank you, and, again, offer our office as a resource for parents and, of course, the the entire school community. I highly appreciate your work. Oh, thank you. Mariela. I appreciate that. If you would love to,
we would love to stay in contact with you, especially regarding this summer reading challenge and in the assembly member's office. If you could, please, you know, send us an email. We would love to hear from you and and stay in touch, especially in relation to we have a few, events coming up. We would love for you all and assembly member Mamdani's team to support, our district day being one of them. So, yes, thank you for that. Thanks, Danielle. And just Absolutely. I'll I'll definitely share that, and I'll drop my, my email and and contract info in the q and a as well. Thank you. Thank you again. ML in the chat says, good evening.
My question is for superintendent Hidalgo. I'm inquiring an update about the p thirty website. So I think this is Melly. And all I can say is thank you for your question. This has been a very big trying moment with this website because I thought we were launching it a few months ago. Something happened with the person, the company that I'm using. They had to go to their country, and then they were having technical difficulties from over there, so they couldn't finish the website. But I have good news. It is finished. Well,
I think it's almost finished or will be finished this week. On top of it having depth technical difficulties, I also, you know, wanted excellence, especially now that everybody is, like, waiting. I don't want people to be disappointed. So it should be out this week. We are gonna do something. And, hopefully, if not this week, by the end of the month, it should be out. So, please, I know I keep looking back, but we are working on it. And and it's been a little bit of out of our out of our control. But thank you for asking and for being persistent. Thank you again, miss Lava. And we dropped the flyer in the chat.
Yes. So thank you. I just have another. Okay. Thank you, everyone. So just gonna give it another minute for any public comment, agenda, speaking time. And, Maria, I'll put her information in the q and a. Thank you so much. Alright. Looks like that'll do it for the April calendar meeting Okay. In in the Interpretation Room. Oh, in the Interpretation Room. Any last, comments, questions in the Interpretation Room? No comments or questions from the Spanish line? Okay. Thank you very much. I'll be interpreting here. As well.
Thank you. Thanks for providing, the service to our community. Thank you everyone for being here. I will now call the meeting. I do wanna announce that the next CEC calendar meeting is Monday, May 12 at 06:30PM, right here in the same room, same location. And there's gonna be a pet meeting on Wednesday, City High School, fourteen dash thirty Broadway. That's here right in our district. And that's Wednesday, the twenty third at 6PM. Great opportunity to elevate any concerns that you have to, to the. Alright. Okay. Okay. So now I'm going to make a motion to adjourn the meeting at 09:06PM.
If I can get a motion and a second, please. Got a second right here. Great. Thank you, everyone. Have a good night. If you wanna stay tuned for our business meeting Thank you. You can watch. You can participate, and we'll be on in around ten more minutes. Thank you. Have a good night. Thank you, Maglease. Thank you. This meeting is being recorded. Alright. Good evening, everyone. It is now 09:21PM. Thank you for being here. I would like to call the business meeting to order. Jonathan, could you please, do a take a role? I got it. I got it. Okay. You got it. Okay. I got the passion type. Closes here. I'll call. I'll say I'm here for them.
They're they're here. Go on. They're here. Yes. Okay. Kelly Craig. Here. Linda Chang Liang. Here. Hunter Gayard. Yeah. He left. I don't think we were present. Juliet Norcagie. Present. She's she's present. Victoria Medellin. Present. Dani Rokas. Present. Arlene Rossi? Present. Marissa Los Santos. Who was not able to make it? We need to, John. Present. K. Thank you, Jonathan. I would like to remind everyone present that this is a business meeting, and we are not accepting comments from the public at this time. However, you are free to email any questions,
concerns, or comments to cec30@schools.nyc.gov. The first item on our busy meeting agenda is the acceptance of minutes. Jonathan sent us a copy of the March meeting minutes. If we have any concerns or edits, please let us know. Does everyone have a copy of the minutes? Were you able to review them before tonight's meeting? Okay. Thank you. If we do not have any edits or updates to the minutes as presented, I would like to just get consensus really quickly.
Does everyone accept the minutes as presented? Just raise your hand. Alright. Thank you so much. So, Jonathan, those are ready to go. As soon as we get the presentations, we can put them on the website. So the next item on the agenda are our member reports. This is if any of our individual members would like to report on their activities for, March and April. Please feel free raise your hand, and we will call on you. Oh, Linda. So I attended PS two twenty two's virtual PTA meeting. So there are a lot of things going on in that school right now.
In April, especially, they had, family fitness night. First grade has their spring concert, and they're getting ready for their second grade play, which is also their, second grade graduates. They because they only go up to second grade. And I've been working with PLC twenty two PTN, the principal for new smart boards in their classrooms and their multipurpose room. So their project was selected for the participatory budget. So fingers crossed with that if they get it. And I think that's it for me. Thank you, Linda. Do we have any other individual,
member reports? Jonathan? I met with, miss Williams from IS one forty one. I don't think I need to report out because most of the things that we talked about, she then reported in for school spotlight. I also conducted a parent coordinator, consultation earlier today at, and it was a successful consultation. I have no no objections to the to the to the candidate. In fact, it was good to good to meet her and and meet with the with the principal. Thank you, Jonathan. Yes. I hate to do this to somebody,
and I should've texted you a minute ago, Kelly, and I'm sorry. But I I really wanna thank you for putting all the flyers up on the, CEC Instagram, and I forgot to ask you to make the announcement during our calendar meeting. But could you briefly talk about the last, flyer that you shared on the IG in relation to that that program? It looked really interesting. Yes. I have it. I will do a a brief a brief read. So our bureau president is hosting a free event. It's a STEM Saturday on structure and design, May third from 9AM to 12:30.
The kids are actually gonna learn how to build a Ferris wheel and the science and the propulsion behind it and the physics. It's gonna be a really amazing event. We actually have it up on our Instagram site, and the document that you have to it's a Google Doc that you fill in to do it. But, again, it's a completely free event. He's hosting the STEM Saturday and, May 3. And, actually, I might actually do this one with my son. So hope to to see you guys there. Thank you so much, Kelly. I appreciate that. If we don't have any other individual, member reports, Victoria and I have some reports to give.
Can I just individual? Yes. Individual before we do our co president. I visited four twenty nine a few weeks back. We discussed, as you guys may remember, that there was, like, the merit trips that were going on. Those trips are on pause for now. The only trips we're gonna be doing are gonna be full school ones. They wanna revisit that conversation, in the fall. They are also I asked about how it's going with motion picture at the school. Everything's been pretty okay. Different lunch times, different doors for arrivals and dismissals. So as for now, it looks like they're planned to go to their permanent site in the fall.
I will be attending p s seventy's show of the year that they do. It's gonna be Finding Nemo. It's next month. And I actually gonna be going on the same day, so that's exciting. I'll report back on that. I'm working on some stuff for 02/12. It's one of those projects that was supposed to be completed two years ago that is not completed not gonna be completed until next year for something else. So trying to figure that out and see if there's a way to have it come to fruition. And then it's not in our district, but I did wanna share that I did attend the funeral of the district twenty
four thirteen year old that died, with the subway surfing incident about four weeks back. It's it's a different feeling when you're at a funeral. I have colleagues that work at school. And, like, hugging his mother and, like, part of her speech was just thanking god for thirteen years of having him in this world. It was just really heartbreaking. And I think we should have some conversations about some of that safety. I mean, luckily, we haven't had any real issues in our k through eight schools,
but something to think about for sure. He had a buddy that was with him that witnessed it. A lot of traumatized students, that I saw walking through in all black, crying, sullen, and, I I think there needs to be a push for more mental health services for those kids. I think the guidance counselors are, have exceeded their bandwidth personally, but it's it just becomes very real when you're in a room with kids that have been affected, the mother, the grandmother, the little sister. So, yeah, that's that's another part of my report. Thank you, Victoria.
So for our co president report, Victoria and I, we had a busy, busy month. We had a lot of meetings, that came about, and some of the items, the action items have come to fruition during this, calendar meeting, so we're thankful for that. We met with the office of district planning to discuss incubation sites. Jonathan, participated in that meeting with us. That is how we were able to secure them to at least come to our next two to three meetings to, engage with the community about these potential incubation sites for the planned Court Square and Hunters Point,
elementary schools. So they are gonna be coming back to our meetings to make sure that they get the information from the community because it is our goal. That was something that we shared with them because we've heard from the community they would like to get these incubation sites sooner than later, for this affected community. So they know that we elevated those concerns. So they are now gonna participate in our meetings and engage with parents to affected parents that are applying to, PS 78 and PS three eighty four, for these schools to get the incubation site. We want them to select the incubation site because this will be their the temporary
school until the the newer ones open, especially given the delay with the Fort Square School that was delayed for a year. But these parents need they need an option for their kids to go to school. So thank you all for participating in tonight's meeting and asking questions. Hopefully, we can, you know, get a site selected for incubation with some of the options that were presented tonight. Because they did they worked very hard and diligent to find the three spaces. I'm glad that PS 150 is still in the running. So we thank you all for supporting the resolution because that was just
I was very shocked and upset to know that we could have lost that potential site due to a charter school coming in. We don't have we we we have charter schools in District 30, but just a new entrant being able to take that space without fully talking to the community. That was just very upsetting. So thankful to all the parents that signed, the petition. Thankful for you all for helping us, get the resolution discussed tonight and all of that. Victoria and I also spoke with, local media about, the resolution that we were, supposed to pass tonight and how a lot of the parents in our district have
felt about potentially losing that space to public school students, in in relation to a new charter school entrant. So thank you for that. We also met with, deputy chancellor Weisberg over the break. That had to do with, a comment, that we well, that I heard from our, city council member in relation to, incubation for, selecting an incubation site for our two new schools in Court Square and Hunters Point. I reached out to him and let him know that we have a lot of concerns, with making sure we get the right information out to the community when it comes to selecting this incubation site,
the order of how it's supposed to happen, and we wanna get the correct information out to our community about, the timeline, how it works, what the potential sites were. He was very amenable to that, so I am thankful that we, discussed that. But not only did we discuss the incubation site for, the Court Square School or the Hunters Point the new Hunters Point Elementary School, we also discussed some of the other zoning items, that are going to occur in our district. One, for instance, is, IS four twenty nine. Right now, their enrollment, is based on a geographic priority in a geographic area.
There's not an official zone for that school, so we just wanted to elevate some of these outstanding concerns that are coming up. Like, parents are gonna ask these questions again. And so I specifically asked him what resources they're going to provide to our council now, for the remainder of this term and what other resources they're gonna provide in getting a new council because we know a new council is coming in in this July, getting them up to speed on what is gonna happen. Because just because we have a new council, it doesn't mean that we need to start from scratch because the community is a community.
So those are the questions that, I asked him in relation to that. And then also another question that I asked was in relation to SCA. If you are not familiar, deputy chancellor Weisberg serves on the board of SCA right now. He's sitting in the the designee slot for the chancellor. There's supposed to be three people on SCA's board. I think it's the CEO, the chancellor, and someone else. That other position has been vacated for I don't know how long, but I told him how parents in our district are frustrated when they refer For a site for a new school building. They have not gotten feedback. We've only had,
like, what, two successful site referrals, and those schools are online now. One one is 398. That was a site referral. And IS four twenty nine, that was a site referral. They were right. They referred those 398 was a site referral from the city council member. Thank you. Oh, wow. Yeah. Thank thank you, Jonathan. Thank you, Jonathan. So it's like they're not we don't know what they're doing. It it feels and I I told them, I said it feels like when parents refer things, it just goes into a black hole, and we want more feedback on that. So he said he will get somebody from SCA to talk to us,
and he mentioned that, he does serve on that board. And so I told him, I said, well, thank you for that, but we thank you. But we wanna see it because we do have a lot of parents who are referring sites. Like and I gave him the example for the school I serve liaison for, like, q three hundred. They have been trying to refer a site to get their one school plan because they're collocated in between two campuses right now, and that's a citywide gifted and talented program that's housed in District 30. And we have an interest to keep it here at District 30, and we've been referring locations or different plans to get them their one school because
that's what they've been asking for, and we just have not gotten appropriate feedback on that. So those were some of the concerns we elevated at the meeting with him. Victoria and I also met with, deputy chancellor Badera in relation to the class size plans. We asked, for and miss Hidalgo referenced it, but Victoria asked really great questions about making sure parents were more involved in the rollout of these plans because it's the presentation or information that we got in the meeting, Victoria, correct me if I'm wrong, it just felt like a lot of the conversations were being held at the administrative
administration and superintendent level that some of the information might not be given to parents at a more consistent basis. So Victoria asked that parents be looped in more frequently and those plans be given directly to the parents. Yeah. Like, those conversations happen at the SLT meetings, which mostly is attended by the SLT, and you don't really have a lot of outsiders tuning into that because, as you know, they can't make comments or anything like that. So I said not everyone may have an idea of what class sizes or have the information, so I recommended maybe some workshops around that because
some parents may not know. So information is key. Mhmm. They also said that they, would if we had any other questions from parents in relation to what's going on with their schools, how those plans are gonna be implemented, you know, we can elevate those to them, and they would, give more presentations or make sure parents are getting the information that they need. They also let us know that miss Hidalgo has been very, what's the word they use? Very involved, with working with the principals in the district, and, you know, she's very knowledgeable as well. So it may be if we wanna have what what they say, meetings or town halls to to discuss this,
something like that, we they will help us organize that as well. Victoria and I also have participated in the CEC president's meeting with the chancellor in March. That's where I asked the question about I, PS one fifty and the incubation sites. We also asked what else did we ask about at that meeting? But that's what that's when we learned about the Oh, yeah. And the last time Uh-huh. Or, like, what? Yeah. And then, also, yes, during that meeting, there was answer voice for told us. Yeah. That's when he told us about the Zeta's proposal being withdrawn.
That's what Victoria and I found about that. We also learned that they were doing the subway surfing event in District 24, and we asked to be included, at that meeting. Unfortunately, nobody got back with us. We were not, looped into that, so we could, reach out, to see if we could have another event in District 30. Because we did ask, and they did send us an email and asked us to send it to the high schools that are geographically located in our district, but we weren't included in, like, the planning or anything like that. But Victoria and I did ask at that meeting, because we're along the seven line too with District 24.
So we did ask. I'm hopeful that we can get something, planned in District 30 or at least have them include us the next time they have something in person in relation to Subway Surfing because we did ask. The next CEC president meeting with the chancellor is Thursday. Thursday, the twenty fourth. If you all have some concerns you want Victoria and I to elevate, please let us know. We will ask those questions in the meeting and get some answers, for you all. PEP is Wednesday. We're all gonna work on that later tonight,
but we do wanna elevate our resolution and any other concerns we have about the charter school proposal and school utilization at that meeting because that's what we talked about with the community, and I think that's right for us to do the PEP. Our borough president appointee and our CEC, president reps for Queens, they're aware of that as well. So we hope we we can get some answers at the PEP in relation to, school utilization and charter school insurance. What else did I forget? Oh, we Victoria and I also met with, Tiffany Gabon and,
a member of her team in relation to funding. They did talk about capital projects for schools that they represent. And then we also elevated again, the state reimbursable grant for, p s two thirty four that they did not get that funding, from the assembly member that was, before, assembly member, Ma'am Dani. So that's why I'm glad his team member put her email in checks. We're gonna ask about that because we do wanna follow-up on those funds. I think it was, like, $200,000 that they were supposed to get from that state reimbursable grant, and we're still trying to find that money for a p s two thirty four
because it was for, a lot of upgrades in the school auditorium, everything. And so, they also talked with us about the what am I trying to say? The participatory budgeting. So we've talked about capital capital projects, participatory budgeting, and then they asked for any, budget items that we wanted to, elevate or put on the council member's radar for these budget discussions. So we did talk about some of the same things that were discussed during the foundation a present sorry. The Coalition for Equitable Funding, those same some elevate some of those same concerns.
And then we also talked about, getting the budget to also include not just, new capital projects, but maintenance and upkeep because hearing from school facilities that they need more money in the budget to, like, maintain some of these large ticket items in the school like AC, cafeteria, things like that, just equipment that needs maintenance and not just always new installation. So we talked about that. And I think the last thing Victoria and I have to say is, please please please please do remember reimbursements.
Forget to do those. Did I forget anything, Victoria? Okay. I think yeah. That was a lot. I'm sorry. I'm taking a sip of water. But so that's what we've been working on. We're planning the May meeting now. So if there's anything that you think we should have on the agenda for our calendar meeting, let us know. And, that's it. See y'all at the PIP if you're coming, and let us know what y'all wanna want us to elevate, for the meeting with the chancellor on Thursday. Okay. The next item on the agenda are our committee reports. So we have two committees, I think, that have some things to report out.
Jonathan, if you wanna say anything about, zoning really quickly, and then we'll go to Linda and Danny for district day afterward. The zoning committee met with the office of district planning. We start basically started this conversation about incubating sites, and received feedback from members of the community. We this was a committee meeting, but we did have, public comment, and I think that was helpful. We did, of course, realize I think they knew going in that it was gonna take a lot more. This is that thus, we invited them here today, and we'll keep inviting them back.
We also had a short, discussion just on general district planning needs. And, I did bring up, now that I I'm thinking about it, I did bring up capacity needs in in East Elmhurst during during that meeting. Mhmm. So, yeah, this is not a a new a new issue, for for us, and and I hope that we can get some some, action on it from the from the DOE. Thank you, Jonathan. And Linda and Danny, four district dates, which is on May 31 at ISA 01:45.
That's my birthday. We're celebrating birthday there as well. Birthday. Nothing to change. I promise. It's actually your birthday celebration in disguise. Yes. Okay. Perfect. My twin will be mad. My twin sister will be heated. Lily, do you wanna do you wanna kick off? I can you can go ahead. Sure. Alright. Question. Yeah. So, the committee met, met in, in March, and we, we had a we had a conflict with the date. It is now May 31, on Saturday. And we are, essentially, have about eight schools signed up. We are going to pick and select the date for the CEC to help with,
just assembling bags and tote bags and goodie bags and whatnot, so please be on the lookout. We'll we'll send a date and see who can make it. Right now, all materials are at P S 212, which is not too far from the school from IS 145. Yeah. We're just gonna continue to promote. We think we have four versions of the flyer ready to fly, four different languages, and that is about it. And Linda and I are gonna connect on just overall layout to be more specific in terms of where tables are gonna be located and how we're gonna use, the the yard space and the and the street space.
That's about it. Linda, anything else? I also wanna add, so the flyers are all translated. I just emailed it to Kelly, to post. I think for the rest of us, I think if we can also email out liaison schools, that'd be great to just kinda get the words out. Just because I just looked at the Google survey, it's only, eight schools that signed up so far. We can. So we definitely need to kinda push until like that. Yeah. Yeah. Mhmm. When you say email the schools email your liaison. Like, basically, like, the PTA, SLT,
like, the principals, the power coordinator, to see if they would like to participate. I'll send out the Google survey and then the flyers. Mhmm. Oh, have we reached out to, the elected officials to see who could come? So I spoke to Shaker. He they're having a table. Velasquez said she wants a table as well. I don't know. So at the legislative brunch, what is it that debate? Mhmm. Oh, American debate league? Yeah. They wanted a table. I don't know. Are we? I don't we could talk about it.
I don't I mean, we haven't opened it up to CBOs and vendors before. Yeah. Well, last year, they were there. Last year, they were there. They did? They had a table last year? Last year, they had a table. And then Ashley said she wanted a table as well. All the UMTs. UMTs are a little different. The teachers. Yes. So I don't know. Because last year, they weren't here last year. That might have been a last minute addition or something. Yeah. I don't know. Opening it up to other CBOs, I personally say we couldn't. Yeah. If we if we're not gonna give it to other CBOs We have a lot of partner CBOs, but if they're not open up to it, I don't think we should. Yeah.
Okay. That's my opinion. $15,000 per table. I'm just kidding. But, actually, I mean, whatever they can donate, but to to your point, yeah, we shouldn't open it up to CBOs. Yeah. If we're gonna open it up to one, we gotta open up to everybody. Yeah. Mhmm. I I agree with that, Zitsman, as well. You can't cherry pick who gets tables and who doesn't. And, Danny and Linda, I'll have, I see it in my inbox. I'll have it posted tomorrow on Instagram. Appreciate it. You. Thank you. But elected officials, yes, because we we'll take your money. And y'all need to hear from your constituents. That's right.
I think that's it for us. Yeah. So we'll we'll send out some dates, and then I'll send out the flyers and the Google form for you guys to send to the liaison your schools. Yep. I think that's it. Yeah. And we we'll and we'll probably we'll just send that, like, an like, a brief email update to the entire CEC by the end of the month, May just to kinda keep everybody informed. We should be bumping up more from eight schools. Yeah, we'll we'll be doing some outreach. We can ask miss Hidalgo to help us, send out their Google form too. So oh, I I forgot to mention.
We did come across a issue with, the NY the community affairs at 115. So the way the layout of 145, it's a little weird. So the street that we wanted to initially block off, it's they wanted us to block off the following street, which is gonna be a they wanted us to block. So, initially, we were just gonna block off 30 Fourth. Sandy, remember 30 Fourth And Northern? So they did ask if we can block off on Eightieth instead, which is the front of the school. Okay. I don't know. So for me, personally,
I don't think there's a difference. The problem what I told them was that because if we blocked off the front of that school, Atlanta is in back, and people would have to go through the school, and there will only be, like, one or two safety agents Oh, no. There. So you it's hard to see who's coming in and out Yeah. First of all. So that was the issue. So we're trying to see if we could block off the second block. So then none of the cars would come through because there's 30 Fourth Avenue that's blocked already that if we go then they would have to pass. Because it helps north of like a I think Danny had a Google map.
Yeah. So then the way they wanted to block off was really so I did speak to Chuck, and Chuck said there are events over the weekends that they just block like, cars would pass by 30 Fourth Avenue, like, very slowly Okay. For us not to block off the next block. I think the next block is 30 Fourth and then 30 Fifth. They wanted us to block off that street as well, but NYPD doesn't want us to block off that two blocks like that. So I think that's what we're coming into issues with. Do do do you see what I'm saying? Yeah. So What's the street they block off for that?
For for the so the the the green market Yeah. That's on Sunday. There's a green market that takes place on that street that you don't wanna block off every every week. Which is Sunday. And the thing is that it's actually kind of nice because that lot is then attached to the play yard of Yes. Exactly. Yeah. Five. So it's so it actually can act as kind of, like, one big area Yeah. Which you're that wouldn't happen if it's on Eightieth Street.
Uh-uh. Well, you can't even enter because what if cars have they have stuff to bring in. You would have to I I don't even know how they would enter. They would have to enter the to the gate, like, in the because Eightieth Street is basically just the entrance of the school. There's no there's no, like, outway to get to the yard. Mm-mm. It's only on 70 Ninth. So my permit is only for 70 Ninth between 30 Fourth and Nor Northern. So they did contact me and asked if I can lock off, the next street from 30 Fourth to 30 Fifth Avenue.
That's locked. But then NYPD basically said they'd rather not because that's a lot to block off. Yeah. And then that means NYPD would have to be on that empty area where no there's no event there. Do an empty empty. I don't know. And then that's why, like, when I was speaking to her, she wanted me to block off that or either that or I do Eightieth Street instead. I don't wanna do that. But Eightieth Street, like, there's nowhere to go through the yard without going into the school. That's the problem. Yeah. I don't wanna do that. And I I I just don't feel comfortable going to this.
What if someone, like, started wandering the school and no one knows? Yeah. I don't wanna do that. I think it's an outside event. Yeah. Yeah. So, I mean, I'll I'll speak to them again Yeah. And see what we can do. So that's our holdup with this apple right now. Everything's done. Everything's all to call our city council member who said we won't have no problems. Yeah. I think I yeah. I think maybe I have to do it. Or or miss Hidalgo. I mean, the the Yeah. Whatever works. I mean Yeah. We we we just gonna have to start. Y'all see it. Y'all gonna help tomorrow now. But, yeah, Shaker is Shaker is the is the party Yeah.
So parts committee. Like, this is his Yeah. So I did speak to him briefly because, his kids go to school. So I just shoot just shot him an email to ask. Yeah. Let's let's see how it goes. His child no longer works in the office. Yeah. Let's just I think they have the new, chief of dog, Chanel. Oh, not right. I think Chanel. Chanel. Yeah. Right? Okay. Well, we might have to reach out to them because they gotta they they can't So I just issued him an email just before, and I'm waiting for that. An email. We'll do that. Okay. So we'll reach out to them. Thank you for y'all's, committee reports. The next item is the speaker series. I know we were working on getting to know your rights,
speaker series. We're still trying to work on that. Victoria and I, got linked up with a group that is doing, like, presentations in other districts. I'm trying to have a call with them soon so we could have, like, a virtual know your rights seminar for our community, like, how to advocate and if ICE comes to your school, those type of things. But you have people? Because, otherwise, I We are trying. Okay. Can I Mhmm? Because we wanna get it done for the end of the school year. So if you if you have somebody that you wanna refer us to, please, thank you. Because we are Victoria and I are still trying to work on that. Okay.
Thank you. I I I actually think that there are schools in our district that will be would be interested in doing Mhmm. These as well. So if we get, you know, information about organizations that Mhmm. Do this, we should we should sign that around. We definitely wanna do that. Like, get them plugged into the schools. I mean, CEC have one, of course, but also get them to do additional presentations at schools because I think some of the schools will have deeper deeper penetration and more high higher attendance. Yeah. And it's I asked two thirty to know your rights. Someone are do you want me to contact them as well?
Because we've been we've been trying to get somebody to stop. Did it, like, twice. I I saw their newsletter. Yeah. They did it twice. Been trying to get somebody at the time. So thank you. I'm gonna also Appreciate that. And work with an organization in Sheffield. Okay. I think those were the only ones that we had, like, we're we're working on. So I'm gonna go to the next item on the agenda, which is a school spotlight. My liaison school is doing in May, so thank you everybody for supporting me with asking. Doctor Wong is gonna do that. So Woodside Community School p s three sixty one, they are gonna do our May meeting. I would also like to say, I don't know,
and I'm asking you all about having someone present in June. And the reason I'm saying that is because June is a meeting where we do the student awards. So we're gonna be awarding our two district awards that we do, the scholarly strides and the community service, awards. So we sent Victoria and I sent the email out. The principals have been nominating, their students for those two awards. And so June is when we're gonna be giving those out. Also, some of the principals have asked if their liaison could come to, like, the graduations and present those certificates as well.
So if your school does ask, we'll forward it to you. So if you can make it to their graduation, please do. If you can't, we'll find another CEC member to go in your place to give, you know, to give the kids their awards at their graduations. So that's what, you know, we're trying to bring up this year. If we haven't heard from, your school, we'll let you know if we haven't heard from your liaison schools, but we did send out the instructions. I'll forward the emails to you all where they're, you know, telling us the children who they want to get these two awards. And we're also asking because we want to get the children's names right if they would also send the pronunciation key for the children's names.
Some schools have been doing it, some haven't, so we've been emailing them because, you know, we want the we wanna say the kids' names right. Yeah. I when I was president Mhmm. I actually had a, a long phone call with FLC. Who? With Adna Mhmm. Who helped me with all of the South Asian Yeah. And I said, we wanna get it right. And so, yeah, I think it it's we've been asking for that. And then, you know, we did change the category because one of them was, like, most improved scholastically. We didn't wanna say it like that. We wanna be like, you know, they've all made scholarly strides for,
improving, scholastically. So those, are two awards. So we're gonna send those out. Really excited to get those done. So we're doing that presentation at our June meeting. So we're gonna be honoring all of the children in the schools in the district. So I'm just asking, do I want to do a school spotlight at the June meeting, or are we okay with giving the time on the agenda to the, the CEC awards? I mean, I don't think I don't really see a conflict. It's not like we're not we're not we're not saying that one school is better than the other.
We're just asking them to talk about what they what they do. Yeah. So but if but if for timing reasons, then sure, we don't need to pay any debt. Okay. But if we have a school or somebody wants you know, a school that wants to do it in June, we could keep it on the agenda. But if not, we'll have the awards in place. And then we also will have the, final check-in from president's council at the June meeting. So do you mean we could do a preschool, maybe? Like, a pre the pre k center? Center. Because we Yeah. Because they don't get awards and, maybe a pre k center. That'd be nice to know a little bit about.
Maybe that's actually I don't know. I think that's a great idea. Like a pre because we've had, yeah, I think. So we can reach out still be Kelly is the liaison. Kelly, aren't you the liaison to the pre the d thirty pre k centers? I was last year, then it went to, oh, Kathy, and then Kathy. Oh, yeah. And then Kathy had to resign. So I'll reach out to, miss Goldstein, the principal at the district thirty pre k centers. I'll reach out to her to see if the she can do, like, a presentation about the pre k centers. Oh, yeah. She's great. Thank you, Kelly, for reminding us. I appreciate it. Sorry. Can I jump back to the reaching out to elected officials about district fund date?
Mhmm. Are we sending the same same template, or do we have something that we can send that I just want to reach out to? I think Danny has Danny has a letter. I mean, he was gonna send it out to the elected officials. Yeah. Okay. Danny has the the the template there. Mhmm. Thank you, Dan. Okay. Thank you, Juliet. Okay. So let's go on to the next item on the agenda. We are going to, we all know that we are looking for a permanent admin for our council. So we do have to establish a hiring committee. I'm gonna briefly talk about what the hiring committee will need to do.
The hiring committee is going to be in charge of, like, the interview process, reviewing the resumes for the candidates that we get, and, conducting the phone interviews. Now the whole council will all, like, choose the person that choose between the candidates that the hiring committee moves forward. So you're still gonna be involved in some level, but the hiring committee will have to do, like, review the resumes, conduct the phone interviews, do a live interview, and discuss what those interviews will look like and what else we're gonna do. So I'm not gonna disclose everything publicly.
That's what executive session is for at the end of this agenda. But if you would like to be on the hiring committee, let me know. Victoria and I are on every committee, so we are there. But if you want to be on the hiring committee Let me know now? Yeah. Let me know now. So Yeah. Okay. So Linda wants to be on the hiring committee. Anyone else? Marlene? Okay. Anybody else wanna be on the hiring committee? It'll be me, Victoria, Linda, Marlene. We need somebody else. And, John, do you wanna be on the hiring committee? I certainly would. I I will be on the hiring committee Okay. If you would if you would like me to I think
you got. You got. I see. I see. I see. He looks interested. Okay. So it's Linda, Marlene, Jonathan, Victoria, and myself. Anyone else? Okay. Gone. Gone. Gone. Alright. But y'all are still gonna be involved because you still gotta we still have to work to select, the candidates that we move forward, and you all are still gonna help us decide what the process will be tonight when we go into executive session. I'll also just say that there is a not small chance that the hiring committee will need to be reconstituted in July Mhmm.
Because these these this may take very well may take more than Very well. Mhmm. Okay. So thank you everyone on talked about that. Now the next item on the agenda are are new business. We kinda talked about the CEC thirty student awards. But, again, we'll work on getting a list out of the schools that have already submitted their students' names. If you see on the list that your liaison school has not submitted, please reach out to them and make sure that they submit, some names before the May deadline, to nominate their students for the awards. Do we have this? Not yet.
I've got I gotta get it together. The next item on the new business is the letter to oppose new charter school collocations. That is something that's based on the resolution that we worked on tonight. I just wanted to speak with everybody because we want to read this letter or the comments that we're gonna work on together at the PEP meeting on Wednesday. If somebody wants to set up a Google Doc, then we can probably put some comments in there together. But the first thing I think that we should include is at least a synopsis of the resolution that we discussed tonight, talk about the support we have in the community and how it came to be.
Does anyone else have anything that anything else they think that we need to include in the comments that we are going to say at the PEP meeting on Wednesday at Long Island City High School? Right. Okay. So the resolution fax is based on and how our community was upset that we were gonna lose a site that we needed to serve our district based on a whim from state of charter schools. And and And update the process. And the demands. Mhmm. And the demands that we have. Okay. Demands that we have. Okay. Now who is going to go to the pet meeting on Wednesday, to make these comments? I I will be there.
Okay. So I'm willing to to to read them, but I I also don't need to if someone else is is gonna be there and wants to read. I'm gonna try to go, but I'm going to be there with my children. So, Jonathan, thank you for being there, Chuck. I'll see if I have to read. I also am available, Chuck. So you're not saying that because my youngest loves him. He will hang out with Jonathan. So that's all. So that meeting will be with the kids then. Right. Okay. So thank you for that. So I will, if any we'll set up the Google Doc just to make sure we have all the talking points that everyone's comfortable with to read at the PEP meeting.
And now I would like to put a motion on the floor that we go into executive session, to discuss the personnel item in relation to hiring our new AA. Do I have a second to go into executive session? Thank you, Linda. So for our our attendees, we have, three attendees. I am now going to ask that you, sign out. We are going to, stop the recording, and then, reconvene after the executive session is over. I'm gonna give you a few minutes to sign out. If you have not signed out, in the next
minute or two, I will have to remove you. And, unfortunately, if I have to remove you, you will not be able to, come back to the meeting once it is reconvened, for the business meeting. So, again, I'm going to give it about another minute because we do have to go into executive session to discuss, the personnel items, in relation to, the hiring of our new, AA. We will be going into executive session. I do see we still have two attendees. So if you do not sign out in the next moment, I will unfortunately have to remove you and will not be able to rejoin.
Alright. Let me stop the recording. We are now in executive session. Yes, ma'am. This meeting is being recorded. Is it different? Okay. Thank you, everyone. We have now resumed the meeting and, concluded our executive session for the personnel item. So we do not have any other business to conduct. So at this time, I would move that we adjourn the business meeting at 10:15PM. Got a second? Alright. Consensus has been given. Thank you, everyone. Good evening, and see you, at our May, calendar meeting on May 12. Good night. Bye. Bye, guys. High school's day.