Good evening, everyone. My name is Stephanie Bonija. I am a second vice president for CCD seventy five, and I will be introducing miss Tara Coniglio in order to present for, citywide safety director, a presentation for safety plans. Good evening. Give me one second. Oh, okay. No problem. We will first start off with our interpretation announcements. The time is 06:05. I will ask our Arabic interpreters to make their announcements.
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Thank you for joining us tonight. Thank you. Good evening, everyone. My name is Tara Coniglio. I'm the citywide safety director supporting District 75 and dial. This is for the city council for District 75 presentation on safety. Our agenda tonight is chancellor's regulations a four fourteen regarding safety plans and safety team meetings. I'm also going to cover, GRP actions, reviews, and review and drills, as well as our BRT, and then talk about our New York City, account schools account for families.
From, our chancellor's regulations a four fourteen, our safety plans are typically, developed and revised and submitted in the fall. They are certified by myself, the BSC, and NYPD in October. The requirement is that the principal is developing the plan while the new school year is beginning, and then it's revised and submitted. I review it, and then I send it back with edits. And then, we go back and forth until I send it to NYPD, for that
certification piece. That's typically in October, by the time that all safety plans are entered. And they're using their previous safety plan from the previous year to support while they're developing a new safety plan. Parents can request a parent version of the safety plan. You do have to do this, to the administrator directly to the principal and request a parent version. Our safety team meetings occur monthly. So administrators are responsible for, having their members, which include the U of T, chapter
leader, the custodial engineer, the SSA. A principal should be there as well as their or and or their designee. A PA, whether it be your PA president or your designee, is a member of the safety team, so so we want them to be, part of those meetings. It also can be, the dietitian, community members, FDNY, NYPD. And then currently, just new in the last year or two has been the transportation
coordinator, which is amazing for us as district seventy five since more than 95% of our, students are using the school buses. So that gives us an OPT safety lens, through their transportation coordinator on the school based. The school safety committee must hold one annual meeting, which is open to all parents in that school, and that's part I took that from, chancellor's Regs A 414. So with the monthly meetings, they occur with an within the safety team, but then
what they have to have is also one annual meeting called a town hall. A town hall can be virtual or in person and includes community members such as families, organizations, first responders. Sometimes I'll be invited to come and introduce myself and share some information. And so then this is available for every school building and organization as a town hall. Topics can be suggestions, like, based on, data, based on any security and safety concerns,
events that will be coming, things, of such. This is some of our emergency readiness tools that we use on a in the school building on a daily basis. And I just wanted to share that with you to show you this is the new Safer Access, which is a, intercom device outside of the school building, allowing our doors to be locked after arrivals and being able to press a button and a video call, is sent to the safety agent at the desk where they greet you
and invite you to, to the school saying, good morning. Welcome to eight eleven x. Please, how can I help you? And most of the time, I'll say, Tara Coniglia. I have an appointment with the assistant principal, and they buzz you in. So this is really helpful, in our new, safety and security emergency readiness tools. This is an example of our door locking systems where we have an alarm, and the alarm is, locked, and then their light is on. And so, therefore, it's on or off.
All alarms are on, and then it's a responsibility of the school safety, team as well as the SSA and the custodial engineers to check-in and make sure that these are all alarms in our buildings. If there is a twerping noise or, the light is not flashing, the custodian knows that they need to change the battery. GRP, I'll be going over. Those are our protocols, our general response protocols. You'll see, schools with, orange vest. It might not say BRT team. It might not say BRT, but it does say, it might just have a a
big orange vest. The reason why we wear that is so that somebody can know that they can go to that person in case of an emergency and or that person is handling, is part of the BRT or handling an emergency or a GRP action at that time. So it's really helpful for, those people to be identified clearly, and, we suggest that the BRT wears the wear these vests. Lot of the times, you'll see them outside during arrivals or dismissals, wearing the vest so that this way, we can, dismiss and arrive, safely.
We have little radios in the school buildings for, for emergency response, but also for crisis, for, conditions of the building. These radios are used in real time very quick, much better than using cell phones or a chat, on a computer because we're not sure how the cell phone, sometimes it'll be delayed or something like that. So communication is key using the radios. All members of the BRT should have a radio. Usually, the safety agent has one. They also have an external NYPD radio on them.
And then we work with our safety plan, of course, assessing the entire building with a custodial engineer, myself. Sometimes there's space planning, all different levels of support going through and into that safety plan that will be certified by NYPD. Of course, we always use the info hub. That's our way, our tools. And I'd like to highlight that our District 75, I think we're in, had made four of the GRP action videos for safety this year, and I'm very excited, that
that is something that our school was a huge part of. And, our students were, advocating for safety in schools and, reviewing the GRP actions. So that was really exciting, and those are available on the info hub for every school to use. So it's a wonderful thing to see, and those are the videos and lessons around safety. We also have what we call it's an IPDVS system. It's a camera system. If you see cameras like this outside or inside of your building, at the school
building, there are, ways of zooming in and zooming out. School safety has access to those cameras as well as an administrator. So these are all tools that we use for our emergency readiness to be ready for, and be proactive in case of an emergency. So GRP actions, we have evacuate, lockdown, shelter in, and hold. This is what you'll see in the classrooms. Classrooms. They should be posted when you hear it, do it. And I have another slide that's a little more clearer.
I just want to show you the actual poster board that I provide to all schools to put into their classrooms, all district 75 schools. These are a example. And another slide, I have a more clearer that a letter that should be going home for drills, and it gives the parents a letter understanding that a drill would be, happening on the action. And then it describes each g r p action so that this way you can support and prime your student, your children, excuse me, for maybe a drill the next day or within a week.
They have to the school does have to give you a notification within one week, and we'll talk about that in a minute. But this helps you as families support us in the, GRP actions that students take. And we know that our, our children have a very difficult time transitioning, and so this helps support that, that transitioning to maybe, out of sight and just you're letting your child know and be ready that there's gonna be a drill and that they
don't need to be worried that this is, a real action. So this is a GRP review, and that was on that, this poster over here where it's, in classrooms, it's in offices, it should be in the PA's room, it should be everywhere. A hold is initiated when there's a condition inside the school building, and there's an immediate need to address the condition, and it's safer to wait inside each room or office until the hold is lifted. So let's say there's a medical condition that's happening, a seizure, and it happened in
the, stairwell or, like, on the the base of the stairwell. Right? And the, and we have to we can't use that stairwell. So we put that section of the building on a hold so that this way that, the attention could be directly to that student or staff member having a seizure and, business as usual in the other areas of the school building, but staying inside the room and still, having instruction until the hold is lifted.
If there's a condition inside a school building where it go there's a hold, it can also go into a soft lockdown where we would change into getting away from the door if something, presents itself as a threat. So we wanna make sure, that we know all of these GRP actions, and this is why we review. The shelter in is used when the danger is outside of the school building. So, that's where we get notification from the community through NYPD and through the safety
agent or and or, notifications from other BSDs or other schools that there's a danger outside. So something that might be a danger outside is a crime scene or shots fired, and we have to go into a shelter in to protect our our children and our staff and our entire community. So we wanna make sure that when the danger is outside, we go into a shelter in. And, people have posts at the doors to make sure nobody leaves the school building. And we also have schedules that are available so we know that if students or
staff are outside of the school building, let's say, in a vocational, let's say they work in a Applebee's, or they they are, on a field trip, then this way, administration can notify them immediately to not come back to the school building. So this is, shelter in is when the danger is in the outside of the building. Evacuation, everyone must exit the building. An evacuation can become a relocation if need be. But, typically, an evacuation, is not long term, and, usually, students are able to come
back in safely once we, clear the building. And who clears that building? Could be NYPD. It could be Con Edison. It could be NYPD. It could have been a false alarm. And so everyone exits the building, except for those who have mobile, limit limits to their mobility. And so that can include staff as well as students that are in, wheelchairs and or have limited mobility for any other reason. Maybe somebody had a surgery. Maybe a child broke their foot. And, they'll be in a holding room and or a f t m y, retreat
room identified by either f t m y or by the school, which is on every floor above the 2nd Floor. From the 2nd Floor up, there's two rooms on each side of the hallways so that this way we can safely support the students. And then this way, when FDNY arrives, they can help exit, those staff members and students from the building. A softer hard lockdown, we will remain silent and quickly move out of sight and away from the door. So the students are trained to do this.
A lot of our students from district seventy five, our our teachers use tape to say, like, step behind the tape, so we wanna move out of sight. If they're not out of sight due to any con any room conditions where they can't be out of sight, they will pull down a shade, and the shade, covers that window panel in the door. Lights are out, and we're not moving. In a hard lockdown, there is no staff sweeping. So in a hard lockdown, everyone everyone is, behind the door and remaining silent.
We drill and exercise, programs. We do exercise programs, many, ways to practice this, and that's, the AED. They are drilled. Emergency skills comes in, and, they'll do a code blue. They'll make sure that AED training I get that notification as well. I notify the schools prior to the next school year that it might be expiring and that they need that training and or if, the AD needs to be replaced or, serviced. These are examples again of having the, shelter in, the lockdown.
Your BST is obviously, a great program to exercise and drill. So, very often, I will come assess drills or and or help with tabletop activities, which look like, these people on the on the right, bottom over there and, looking at bus drills as well. So bus drills are a way to, practice to practice our GRP actions or, to practice with our BSD and be trained by your BSD and then also, having that
tabletop activity, which is really amazing. And then, again, those AED tools and resources to support, emergencies. So this was a letter. I I had a hard time getting a clear picture of the letter, and this is the only way that I could do it. So it's a little weird slide, and I apologize for that. But this is GRP drills and notifications. At the start of the school year and reviewed during the year, staff must review the GRP lessons with students. They get this from the InfoHub. There's lessons on the InfoHub for, staff to review those lessons with, our students and
and staff. Assess student behavior during each drill and deep brief about class performance after each drill and support any individuals observed who may need additional trauma focus support. So these are called trauma informed drills. Again, you have your lockdown, your evacuation, and your shelter in. At the time that drills are conducted, students and staff shall be informed that the activities being conducted are a drill. What does that look like? Over the PA system, there's an announcement, and they'll say that this is a lockdown.
This is a soft, hard lockdown drill. Please, everybody. This is a soft, hard lockdown drill. And they'll get into their, positions. They'll shut the lights off, and they'll be out of sight. This is a drill, evacuation drill. So maybe they're setting the fire alarm off, but they are announcing that it's a drill. So that this way, again, our students are not, being alarmed by the thinking that a a GRP action is happening. It is a drill. Also, parents or persons in the parental relationship shall be notified at least one week
prior to that drill. So I wanted to share this letter where on school letterhead and or campus letterhead, a principal will write to you, letting you know that based on the New York State law, we are, notifying you that we will be, conducting a minimum of 12 drills this year, and this is when the next drill will be taken. So within one week, there are, principals that like to kinda plan that out. It's a little difficult, especially with our weather this year.
It gets it got really cold. It's still cold, and, we're in spring. So it would be beneficial that they send it out within that one week, and they they are supposed to send out within a week a week prior to the drill. Please be flexible. Things happen. Sometimes there are real emergencies happening and or weather related issues that they wouldn't be able to maybe do the drill on the specific day, but maybe they'll follow the next day. But as long as you get that letter notification and, again, this is a summary sheet for teachers and students, but it should come home it should come home, to
you with the letter, at least once for the first one, and you would have that on, to be able to refer to and or, each time that you receive the letter. Okay. So this is what our, oop. Sorry. I just want to go back here. This is what our BRT looks like. Our BRT, is led by our leader, and that BRT leader is trained, typically every
year. I've had, three trainings this year, and I'm going to have another one. We've had a lot of, changes this year in our leaderships, for principals and APs, and, typically, they are not the BRT leader. If they're in a collocated, they might not be considered the BRT leader for District 75. We often hold this special needs coordinator, which is right here. And then sometimes we need an additional d seventy five special needs coordinator where applicable. So if there's a high population of special needs, students maybe from our programs through
dial in a community school as well as a district seventy five, there might be more than one. But very often, district seventy five staff are our special needs coordinators. And these are our roles, that help with life centers, with our students with special needs. Then we have our emergency officer, our incident assessor, our assembly point coordinator, and our recorder. And all of these people are assessing a situation and an emergency in real time and supporting staff and students and communities through what the teachers, staff, and students need
at that time. So the BRT is activated when a GRP action is taken. So very often, even when, there's an event, you'll see our BRT is ready to go. Right? They wanna be able to support and assess every situation to make sure it's safe. What they are doing is internal support, and they're on a team. But what you don't have is that internal subject matter experts. They are are school safety agents, nurse, and custodial engineer. They're not part of the team, but they are subject matter experts because they deal
with the facilities, the building, health, crime, and safety related. But, again, they are not part of the BRT, but they are supporting in a command post in real time with the administrator. If you're if we're in a collocated, there will be several, administrators in one command post to make a decision based on the assessments of the team. They are trained. Again, I've had multiple trainings. I think for each role, I've had at least four, maybe six, role trainings this
year. Again, a lot of changes, to our staff, so we wanna make sure that everybody each year is receiving that training. I'm going to have another one for those leaders and for those members to make sure that I've hit every single d 75, and then I do it again right before, the summer, programs begin. So I wanna make sure that we have, everyone trained. The external supports are, myself, the borough safety director, and or the borough safety directors
who are on my team, who I rely on as well, in the different boroughs. Since I'm citywide, if I am in a situation or I am somewhere in another borough and there's something that presents, I, rely on my team who each borough has at least, two borough safety directors. Brooklyn has four, and Staten Island has one. But for example, if I'm in The Bronx and something's happening in Manhattan, I can rely on my, BSDs, Frank Jordan and John Monahan, to support the community.
So I just wanna make sure you know, that I we do have those supports in place, based on chief Ramperson. He is, our chief, and he will deploy, whomever we need to support as an external support to the school. For director and deputy of deputy of facilities, those are the people that work with custodians. And then we have the superintendent and the support teams from district seventy five. We have our new superintendent, doctor McCoy, doctor Hoggard, the assistant, the deputy superintendent as well as, Shelley Kleinberg and, all the support teams, which is great.
And we have a new student service manager who's wonderful. So we're really excited to, be able to have all those supports in place, and be proactive before an any concerns do occur. Now I just wanna talk to you about your, NYC DOE account for messaging. So the New York City schools account is a valuable tool for parents to stay informed about their child's education and school activities. The messaging system allows for the school to notify you in real time about conditions
and GRP actions taken in the school, and it keeps families informed. Why does this have to do with my presentation? Because getting back to where you were you are informed as a family for your GRP drills and notifications, there is also a responsibility that the school sends out a message when a GRP action is taken. So for example, if a GRP action such as a shelter in was taken, you should be getting a notification within five minutes, then again within twenty minutes, and then
a post condition action that was taken the GRP action that was taken. Very often, you might receive just one full letter to let you know what happened in the school day because, of legal, reasons if there if it's a a particular incident. But, typically, the messaging system allows the principal to blast out a letter to the community so you know what's going on in real time. We don't want you to come up and present yourself and get yourself in a
situation, but we also want you to be informed of what's going on and with your child in school. And very often, all these platforms such as Citizens app and different apps are not the way that we disseminate our information, and we wanna make sure that you're getting real time information on, what's going on in your school in the school building. So in order to set this up and receive messages from schools, because I know very often, people kind of think it's spam, and it really is the school calling
or sending a text message or sending an email, you wanna visit the New York school New York City school's account website. You wanna click on the manage account and, select stay connected to opt in for school communications. And if you need to reset your password, use the forgot you password link to sign on. For any issues with your account or information, contact your schools your child's school or call 311 for assistance. So with that being said, my resources are from the chancellor's regulations, particularly a four
fourteen, also a 412411, also with the, EOC, which is our emergency center, as well as our emergency preparedness, readiness preparedness. So I sometimes talk quick, and I apologize if I did. But I'm willing to stay on and answer any questions that anyone has. Thank you so much for having me, today. I appreciate your, you all being here, and thank you. Thank you, miss Taro. We appreciate you being with us here as well.
If anyone has any questions, you could please raise your hand. I I see a couple in the chat. Let's see. Oh, the greeting protocol. Okay. So, miss Angel, you had said, is the greeting pro is the greeting protocol? I've never been greeted that way. That would be amazing. So we hope. The idea is that we do say, hi. Welcome to two nineteen. How can I help you? Sometimes, safety agents are dealing with other things where they they might be, they may
be, like, signing somebody else in or maybe dealing with another issue on the phone or things like that. But I would hope oh, I'm sorry. Go ahead. To interrupt you. I said I'll be honest. The majority of the time, even with the school visits, I think they check the camera and then they buzz. I know. Probably know you. No. No. Okay. I'm just being honest about about, just, what happens when I go. And I've been to some schools. They're more high schools where the building is not locked. And I've been advised that at some different points throughout the day that the doors
are allowed to be unlocked and so on. True. Or about what that schedule look like, so I wanted to ask you. But the greeting, I don't know. You guys may need to push out a massive email to say, hey, god. That would be wonderful. I'm not If you're not getting that greeting from the safety agent, please let the administrator know, and, they'll let me know, and I'll talk to their supervisor. Okay. It is it is nice to get that greeting, of course, and not always do we get that. But they should be, welcome you welcoming you to the, building. For the hours of the doors that can be unlocked, it's really up to the
building principals. And I'll be honest, a lot of the times they are, leaving the doors unlocked during arrivals and dismissals because there's just hundreds and thousands of students and staff in and out. And it also could be that there's an event going on, and so they'll keep it unlocked. But, typically, usually, from what I see is between, like, let's say, the hours of nine and one. But then, again, you have to think of those high schools that might have been
let out for lunch, and they have that independent lunch. And so they might unlock it for that half an hour to forty five minutes that students are leaving and coming back. So there's different, different ways of, deciding on the hours, and that's really up to the principal's discretion. I'll be honest. It makes me a little fearful because I know in some buildings, once you get past that front door, it's open field before you even get to the scanner. So being able to just walk into the building, my preference would be that the
door stay locked. People can leave freely, but you still need to be buzzed to be back in the building. But that's just, opinion. I'll I'll get back to meeting you. No. No. That's fine. I understand. It's just that it was regular visitor protocol. If you remember, before c for access, we had visitor we had one door unlocked at least for visitors to come in. So now with the additional of that support, it gives us, a camera. It's it's, motion detector. You could hear and talk over it so they can still be part of that conversation.
But, like, keeping that unlocked is going back to old visitor, protocols. Also, you have to, take into consideration. There's, like, a weather strip on there where it is a magnetic strip, and sometimes because of the use, it might become disabled. So that might be why it's unlocked as well. But regular visitor protocols are in place, regardless. So I just wanted to let you know about that. These flyers are also given, but I'm not sure Stephanie, you said, but are these flyers also given by the district safety director?
Which flyers? You showed the it was three three flyers. It was the letter. Oh, yes. So oh, the district safety director You mentioned that you that you give that to your d 75 families. I just wanna Oh, no. No. No. I give the also give in to the, gen ed. No. Sorry. I, the poster for the GRP actions, I give to the school buildings. The principals are responsible for sharing, the letters and the and the flyer, I would
say, and the informational sheet with the letter to the families. So that's their responsibility to for sending that out. I, I give boxes of GRP posters to school buildings, and I again, working with my colleagues depending on if we're collocated or not, we share that role as well. So we can add that as well. Oh, thank you. Sure. Is it still required to notify the parents notice? So, Thompson, do you can you just verify your question or confirm?
Hi there. Yeah. You have answered you kinda answered it. I was That's fine. When you're talking, and I just wanted to make sure that we all knew that we are supposed to still get notifications of when the drills are happening at least a week in advance. Yes. That that is that is a that has to be done. That is a requirement and that, you know, if you're not if that's not happening. And it's kind of it's it's a little easier with Gen Ed because, you know, our students are gonna tell us, like, hey. I had a fire drill today, but you may not get that in the D
75 space, although we have a lot of collocation. And so it's just, just make sure that your PA or PPA president, who is attending the safety meeting, is ensuring that notice you know, kinda, you know, just hold accountable that those notices are actually going up because we have been having like, it was happening in the beginning, and now it seems like schools are not, are not notifying parents again about, drills. So there was actually thank you for that. Yes. So it is a requirement, but there actually you have to think about in, the
dates that are in compliance are usually, there's a gap between in the winter, just because it doesn't, it's not beneficial. So there was one lockdown that was done by I wanna say it was March 14 this year, or March 13 was, a Friday, right, I believe. So I think it had to be in by then. Typically, it has to be in by March 15 on a yearly basis. So what happens is very often, there's might be a gap in time, so you might not be receiving those letters because they're not doing, evacuation drills right now, or
maybe they're not doing the shell they did their soft lockdown. So there might be a gap in time with the schools, sending those letters. But, yes, they are required to send those letters one week prior to a drill, a drill of a GRP. And if they're not, please let me know. BRT stands for building response team. I'm sorry if I did not say that. Thank you, miss Angel. I appreciate that. You will not as of now, you will not receive a copy of the presentation. Unfortunately, I have not approved I don't have approval for that from central, and I
will double check. I could do that on Thursday, and then I would send it out to the council member, members, and, they could share that if allowed. And thank you, miss Dowling. Yes. I, this information is very important, so I'm glad you appreciate it. Miss Johnson me. May I jump in really quickly? Council member, Bonilla Cherbonilla, may I ask a quick question? Yes. And ask We are recording to ask her a question. We're recording this meeting, so we have to wait until we have permission, with the
slides to post it. So is that okay with everyone? Because we wouldn't be able to post the meeting until she has approval of the slides. Yes. Thank you. No problem. Miss Dowling. Yeah. Hi. How you doing? I I put in the chat, but maybe I didn't I I was thinking maybe, I didn't I wrote it the right way. But, are the, a agent are supposed to ask the children that, they have the uniform on or the, who is it? And, are you a student?
You know, are they especially with this child? They've been going to the school for so long. Children have been going to school for so long. Hi. How are you? So How are you doing? I'm just getting to your question, actually. So, I see it in the chat. So there's one question first you had. Are they supposed to lock kids out during 8AM and 9AM? I would hope that's never happening. So no. That's and so maybe we can talk offline, because that's a concern, unless the school doesn't open till 9AM.
But, I don't know any districts I don't know any school building that opens at 9AM. So I would love to talk to you further about that. Please do. And then typically, ask asking questions to, at Safer Access, If they don't recognize the student or recognize, the visitor, they might ask questions, but they cannot require, like, ID, and they're supposed to buzz the person in. And then, again, do those, visitor protocols, which are check ID, ask where they should
be going, call up to the, to the bill, to the main office and or the floor, whatever school that is, and say, I have Tara Coniglio here. She said she's visiting her child's classroom, or she has a meeting, an IEP meeting, in what room should she go in. And they would say, oh, we're gonna come down, and we're gonna escort, which is the best safety, protocol. Sometimes we don't have the staff to be able to come down, but the agent will say, okay. So, Tara, you're gonna go up to the 4th Floor. You take this staircase, and they're watching typically on the camera to make sure that
we make the I make their make it there okay. And, they're verifying with that that main office, so we wanna make sure that that's part of the protocol. And then they're also getting excuse me. I'm sorry. They should be getting a visitor sticker after you sign in with the ID and then, and then also escorting them back down to leave the building. That's best practices. The safety agent is not responsible for doing that. It's school staff. But in regards to asking if you're in the proper uniform, that's not a safety agent's question and should not be done over safer access.
And if that's happening, please, again, maybe we can talk offline. I will provide my phone number, with any questions, and, you can ask me. We can talk about that. Please do. Okay. Thank you, miss Dowling, for bringing that up. I appreciate you. It says thank you for educating us in the security process and protocols for school safety. This gives us parents peace of mind, especially parents like me who have children with special needs. You're welcome, missus Gonzalez. Thank you. And, I I take every, every child's, a safety home with me every night.
I think of all ideas and being very supportive. I'm if you know me, I'm very actively in schools. I am not behind a computer all day long. I am citywide, and sometimes I hit three boroughs out of five. I haven't had hit four yet, but maybe I have. But, anyway, I I definitely, appreciate that, and I do come from that special education lens and understanding my background, obviously, my education, and understanding our school our our students, and your children. And so, I'm happy to be your citywide safety director.
As a PA president, how do I bring this up with parents, like, educate on them? So, miss Sanchez, I appreciate you asking that. So as a PA president, how do I bring this up with parents, like, educate them on this? So, you should be part of your safety team meetings, in your school. And so I would share some ideas with, I wish you'd ask your team some ideas. But I would definitely, yeah, share the information they gave you today, receiving drill letters,
understanding the GRP action. When you see, you know, an evacuation outside of the building, you should be getting a notification from the building administrators. We shouldn't be looking on Citizens app for information. There's various ways to support the parents. And if that's something that you need, we can talk to the school and maybe have something, in the town hall, and, that would be supportive as well. Invite them to those the town hall. And I'm trying to think of other ideas engaging parents. Any events that, the school will share with you to bring parents in and educate
them? I host a lot of, parent trainings and informational, about subway surfing, about bullying. There's so many different, programs. So if you're interested in any of those, you can reach out to me. And if you're a district seventy five school, if you're not, then you can reach out to your borough safety director, and we can get some people in there to educate, parents. It's particularly about cyberbullying and cyber safety, human trafficking, and all, many other safety topics.
So if you need something like that, I'm I'm happy to help you. And we have a question. Miss Gonzales has her hand up. Oh, okay. Hi. How are you? And Hi. Good evening, miss Camilo. Hi. Can you hear me okay? Yep. I can hear you. Yes. My question was, I came in later in the program, and maybe I missed the the proper, like, explaining or, you know, when you went into details of what it was a soft, lockdown and a hard lockdown. That's my question. Sure.
I'm not gonna share the screen. So a soft lockdown is, when there's danger, but, when the hard lockdown is, is done there is a is somebody with a weapon in the building. It could be, a firearm. It could be, seeing a a a machete, a knife, things like that, where something is presenting, a danger to the school community. So we wanna make sure, that everyone is, safe. Whereas a soft lockdown, you have the BRT and you have the searchers and the
wardens, and they're going through the hallways, and they're making sure that all staff and school and and students are are in room safely, they are doing that while they're also going to hide, very quickly. So a hard lockdown is everyone is is hiding at that time. Does that answer your question? Yes. It does. Thank you very much. Okay. You're welcome. Miss Ramirez, do you have a question? Yes. You were talking about, other type of of safety as, like, digital safety, cybersecurity, things
like that. Would you be, willing to come back and talk about that? Sure. Of course. That's something that is very important more for our community. I think we need if we can, you know, have another workshop about it, it will be great. Sure. I would I would love to, present. I would, suggest that, possibly if I could get a speaker who is well versed in expertise on certain topics that, you're interested in.
Maybe we could take a survey, your chair, your president, and your co presidents, and your chair, and your members of this, CCD seventy five, for the city council. Maybe they'll take a survey and see, what you request, and we can go from there. That will be great. That will be wonderful. For sure. Oh, I see emotional safety. Yes. Agreed. Agreed. So there's a lot of, lenses and understanding around safety. We cover many different areas. So, So, again, if we can maybe come together and we'll, the next time I
present, I could be specific on one specific topic. And today was on safety plans, GRP actions, and the BRT. Thank you for that. And I appreciate your time and sharing all those other topics that I was I wasn't aware that you guys are able to assist. So I truly appreciate that and looking forward to having some workshops on those topics. For sure. Anytime. Thank you so much for having me, and I hope you all have a wonderful evening. No problem.
Safe. Take care. No prob I would like to ask it before you leave if there's any other questions in our interpretation lines. Miss Giselle, do you have a question, council member Giselle? No. She she answered already. Thank you. Okay. No problem. I have no question from the Bengali line. Thank you. No problem. Man's in line? No question from Mandarin line. Thank you. Spanish line? No questions so far. Thank you. Thank you. I also shared in a in the chat, it's a small survey can match on
me up and tell him well. I also share in the chat a small survey on asking some questions that we went over today. If you are a PTA president or a chapter leader and you never had access or would like more information on safety plans, you could reach out to us, and we could be able to assist you with that. And I would also like to thank you all for joining us tonight out of your busy schedule, and I will release interpreters now at 06:55PM.
And thank you, miss Tara, for joining us and your time. Good night.