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. Don't know her. 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 them 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've had to all 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.
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.