Thank you. >> Thank you so much. I will now um Christine Angel, president of the citywide council for district 75, turn this over to our second vice president and chair of the committee, Steph.
Hello. Good evening everyone. My name is Stephanie Bonija, CCD75 safety chair for the committee. Thank you for joining us tonight despite us having remote learning
and dealing with everything that we have all the changes we had to deal tonight. Um if we could please start with the presentation. Gabby Thank you everyone for joining tonight. Today we will be reviewing the role of school safety committee and how safety
meetings, safety plans, and safety town halls can work together to support safe school communities. Next slide, please. The purpose of the presentation is to strengthen an understanding of school
safety structures and clarify expectations and promote consistent communication between schools, families, and district leadership. Next slide, please. Why school safety matters? shared
responsibility, prevention, communication, disability, inclusion. School safety is shared responsibility and it's not only about responding to emergencies, but about preparation,
prevention, and communication. When procedures are clear, everyone feels more confident and safer. Next slide, please. What is a safety committee? It reviews
safety plans, identifies concerns, tracks follow-ups, support families. The safety committee is responsible for admitting sorry is responsible for reviewing safety plans, identifying
concerns, tracking follow-ups um actions and supporting transparent communication with families. It should be an active ongoing body, not something that meets only once a year.
Next slide please. The safety committee membership. Safety committee is held with many stakeholders. Some of them are the principal or the exigne safety agent
staff. It could be from parent coordinator, your chapter leader, nurse and also parent representative which is your PTA or PA president. Next slide please.
Safety meetings should not occur I mean safety meetings should occur regularly and include agenda, minutes and followups. Meetings should lead to action.
Discussing issues without resolution does not improve safety. I'm just going to Can we go back to the two slides, please? With safety committee membership. I I just wanted to state this that a
strong safety committee includes school leadership and it also includes the voices to ensure concerns raised by the families and staff and are heard and being
addressed. Thank you. Next slide. for safety meeting topics, arrivals, dismissals, entry procedures, intercom systems, emergency drills, a lot of um can we stay on that? Thank
you. Um a lot of those are some things that we need to ensure that are happening. Um some of them are not happening yet. We do not have all of our intercom systems and all of our schools.
>> If I can jump in a little bit, not to supersede um Second Vice President Bonia. >> No problem. >> Um every school that we go to, the doors need to be locked. >> Yes. >> And and for myself, I'm going to say they better be locked. If I come and
they're not locked, then then it's going to bebody else come with you. Our children need to be protected. We are not going to debate about when your doors are open, not open and locked. They're locked. Period. And so we're
going to release Second Vice President Bonia to make sure that everyone on our council who is in agreeance of lock the doors. Um we have gone to different spaces and this isn't any place to beat people up.
We're not going to beat you up. we only want to support. Um I've been in places where we've been to schools that are in churches or other places and they are also apartment buildings and we walk in and they just let us in. You better not
ever let me into any building you have. Check me. Vet me. Don't let me in. Don't let anyone in. These are our children. Um I won't harp on that. I won't soapbox that. I'll say that when we come to
schools, the doors should be locked. Do you agree, Vice President Bonia? >> Lock the doors. >> Um, and so whatever spaces that we can support this committee, where we can support safety, where we can support
capacity utilization in our children, we will do that. This is not a fight. This is not a space to shame people. It's a space to make sure that our children are protected because we as parents need to be comfortable and okay as we move
through our days and support the people that we voted into spaces to make sure that our children are okay. Stephanie, back to you. >> Thank you, President Angel.
And yes into that um I would like to if anyone has I will put the safety email in the chat with D75 council email as well. And if anyone has knowledge of a
school that does not have locked doors or does not have their intercom system in installed yet and you would like assistance like President Angel said, please reach out and we could assist you
with that in order to ensure all of the children are safe and stop in the building. Um topics may include safety meeting. Topics may include arrival and dismissal, building entry procedures,
intercom systems, hallway supervision and emergency preparedness. These discussions help identify patterns before problems escalate. Another thing I forgot to add in the slide, but I
would like to mention is your um intercom systems in the schools, the ones that um make the announcement, not the ones outside of the school when you go in the building. Sometimes your
intercom systems in your school are not all fully working which I was able to um go in our school and we were able to try to run a survey to see what is wrong with the intercon
system to see how can we assist. Second, Vice President Bonia, is there a way that we could pull in um Gabrielle, myself, and make a um survey for what you're speaking of now so that we can make sure that we have numbers to support what you're what you're speaking
to? >> Yes, I could share one that I was working on with you both if that's >> Yes. Thank you. I think that will be helpful um in order to assist everyone.
Next slide, please. School safety plans. School safety plans outline procedures such as lockdowns, shelter in place, and evacuations. These plans must be reviewed annually to
ensure they reflect current building conditions. If we could um can you open the second slide, please? It has to do with the emergency lockdowns. These are some
definitions that I would like to share with everyone for you to all have knowledge especially when we're in the building and sometimes some of the emergency drills may happen when we're there.
This is emergency drill overview. This is this presentation will explain drills used in the school. This is a purpose for preparation and not to fear is for us >> Vice President Bonia, not to stop you, but can I ask you a quick question?
>> Yes. >> Um just as a mom, my son cannot leave the building. >> Hold on, Christian. Um he can't leave the building. And I don't know if many people know that if your child cannot leave the building in a fire safety etc
space. They will be left in the building they will be um a space that the fire officers know to come and evacuate them etc. So it's a different space of doing that. I believe that that's great. I'm I'm going to make sure everybody gets
out and also my son is is an extracurricular e extraordinary person of personality. he needs to get out. And um people may not necessarily help him train to get out. They may leave him in
a classroom and say, "Hey, there's a fire. Everyone else is evacuated. My son is not a wheelchair person. He's not or is a wheelchair person. He may not be able to be able to move outside of the building. So my son is one of the people
who cannot move." Have you made a announcement or a space or can we maybe create a space for people to know if your child is one that cannot leave the building that has to be left in the building? If they're defined
by a child that needs to be left in the building, this is how you need to save us to get out, what does that look like? >> Um, are you prepared for that? Can I can I support you there? Or can you say more to that space? >> Um, I could I don't want to put you on
the spot. I'm not going. >> No problem. I I don't mind the support there. Um I have been I've been preview to the space that you're speaking of and um what I would like the support there
in is what you're saying. Um not a lot of parents or families know about this space. They just assume that their kids are being taken out the building. And I want to piggy back, guys, while we're recording this. If your child has
special needs or a disability, you can let you can let your fire department know my child is in this building and your family becomes a priority on how to evacuate. If you do not let anyone know
if you don't have a um fire extinguisher or a alarm or a carbon monoxide alarm, those things can be given to you freely. Um uh vice president, second vice president Bonia can let you know how we
can make sure to move those things forward. We're in a space of where it's warm, too warm. We're using things to keep ourselves warm because most people don't help us in our apartment buildings and better and we may use things that may cause hazards. And so we have these
different spaces of listen, we've made these videos to help you out. If you need assistance, let us know. Um the bigger thing is we need you to be okay. We don't care what it looks like. Let us know if you need assistance. If you're
not okay, if you want to be better. Uh, Vice President Bonia, what do you think? >> Yes, >> agree. And to piggy back of what you're saying, um, yes, everyone could be able to go to their local FDNY department and
you could inform you could inform them of your child's disability and when there is an emergency in your building, they are able to assist with um with your child's disability. They understand that when a
child has autism, sometimes they do not come out when they're being called that they hide in certain places. So, they're able to assist with that. Also, they are able to come in person. Um, we had in a
previous school that they were able to come in person with the gear that they wear and they able to do different um presentations with that gear and with the classes. Um,
it it could be done at certain classes at a time. I say that because they want the students to wear the gear. Um, they will put the jackets on them and the hats. Remember when there's a fire, the
fire department, the firefighters look like astronauts, you know, like you they look weird. They um they look scary. So, they try to make it that way when they see them in that situation, they already exposed to what they look like. So, I
appreciated that in the workshop that was done in person. Thank you, Vice President Bonia. Um, if you want to move forward with your slides, I will make sure to push out any of registration, any level of links, any
level of supports that make sure that our know about um fire safety, know about any safety regulations or things that can help them or spaces where we can make sure that they have what they need in their spaces in their homes
because we are a >> village together. So, please let me know how we can continue to support as a community, as a council, and we have your back. Thank you. Next slide, please.
Um, this is soft lockdown. Soft lockdown is when an incident occurs outside of the building. The exterior doors are locked. Instruction continues. The hallways are clear and there's no entry
to or exit from the building. Next slide, please. Hard lockdown used when there's immediate danger. Doors are locked, lights are off, students move away from
the doors. No movement until all is clear. Next slide, please. Shelter in place. Used for environmental or weather related emergencies. Students remain indoors.
Windows and doors are closed. Supervision continues. Next slide, please. Whole drill used for temporary pauses. Hallways are clear. Students stay where they are. Teaching
may continue and is a short duration. Next up, important reminders. Um, stay informed by attending monthly meetings and town halls. Make sure you
have safety minutes for all sites. Make sure you review and sign your safety plan. drills are practice. Safety is everyone's responsibility. Now we could go back to the previous um
slideshow and we will be sharing um these slides as well. I wanted to make sure everyone had a brief understanding on those definitions as we may be in the building and hear
them. I would like um uh to practice what what is being done when those drills are happening. Try to follow place of what you see. That way you could ensure of safety. Sometimes it may
not be a safety drill that is occurring and it may be an an actual situation. So that is another reason why I wanted to share these definitions. Next slide please.
Also, I'd love to Stephanie as a support um not a sidebar. Um we have your legacy member here um showing up to support you um council member, former council member, registered nurse practitioner
um Aisha husband and she has been a silent member helping um second vice president Bonia and I would love to bring you guys together here now and let us know how we can continue to make sure
that remove our past and present together um in a great way. Welcome. Welcome back uh uh Aisha >> and uh Council Member Second >> Vice President Bonia uh in the same
spaces where you're working to keep our work moving forward um from the spaces that we are in. Thank you so much. >> No problem. Thank you and welcome in Miss Aisha Husbands. We appreciate you coming. >> Thank you. I'm here to support. Thank
you. >> With students with disabilities, safety planning must continue must include students with disabilities. This includes mobility needs, medical considerations, sensory sensitivities,
and assigned adult supports. Emergency plans must be realistic and individualized. For family transparency, families don't need sens families don't need sensitive operational details, but they do need to
understand general procedures. Transparency builds trust and reduces fear during emergencies. Please have clear communication, accessible language, and opportunities
for questions for your families in order for them to feel to feel safe. Next, please. Safety town halls. Safety town halls are familyfacing meetings designed to
explain procedures, answers general questions and strengthen partnerships. They are educational, not disciplinary. Families um family meetings are
educational and they build trust. I will also like to add if you are a collocation school, you are able to do town hall meetings together and please have clear communications with your families. That
way they could all attend as well as explaining what a town hall meeting is. Those are the public meetings that are not private to the monthly ones for your
general public school community. These meetings you advise your community on safety drills. You're able to talk about safety concerns in your um that have arised
and other issues. Next slide, please. Some of your town hall topics may include entry procedures, emergency communication systems, drill explanations, and who family can contact
with concerns. These medians help create clarity. Next slide, please. Again, colllocated schools in colloccated building safety responsibilities are shared. Schools
must coordinate procedures and communication so families receive consistent information. So again, I stress this a lot. Um, this is part of why I had this agenda for
today because I was informed that some people didn't know what a safety town hall was or they didn't know, it wasn't clear to them as to who needed to attend.
So I felt this could bring more clarity to that and for you to be able to bring back for knowledge for your school community and how important they are. Next slide please.
Joint safety town halls allow colloccated schools to present unified messaging. This reduces confusion and straightens buildings wide safety culture and also um more than once
notifications. It would be nice to get a notice more than once from the principle about notifications. I would like to raise that miss um President Angel. I myself
did not get to attend my safety town hall due to not getting um enough notifications for it. So or I heard only eight people attended and it was supposed to be a colloccated safety town
hall. Um so that's >> so I so I want to jump in guys. I want to support um Vice President Bonia and I want to make a clear delineation or delineation. We support community education councils.
How you guys move and how our citywide council moves is extraordinary and >> it doesn't matter. We will support you where you are. However, we move very very differently and we want to make
sure that you guys know that there's a differentiation between the citywide and the CEC's. And that doesn't mean that you don't have us as support and or better, but we want to make sure that you understand
that what we need to get done on a citywide council space and what you need to get done on a CEC space is extraordinarily different. We will continue to support you. We will we will we will support you a thousand% period.
Um and we will make sure that you understand the differences because we want to make sure that people that move from CEC's as you may want to move over and articulate into or metriculate into citywide that you understand that what
we do legally and otherwise is very different from you guys and what we need and what you need it doesn't matter. We're your family. we're going to support you and we're going to make sure that our children have a fair and appropriate public education as we move
in this space. Um, second vice president Bonia, back to you. >> Yeah, thank you for that. But this was more as I I'm a parent and town halls are open to all the parents and I don't
feel as a parent. I was notified, you know, able to go. That's why >> Can I help you out, Bonia? When you say town halls, >> town hall, that's the public for the um >> for the communities.
>> Okay. >> For CEC's, >> this is not about >> Okay. Wait, wait. You said town halls and you said >> Right. I'm going. >> Yes. We have a there's a differentiation between
>> CC town halls and for >> town halls, Miss Angel. >> Okay. So, let me I would like to finish my sentence. >> Yes. >> For CEC town halls and for CC citywide town halls, they are very very very
differently. >> Yes. But you're not speaking on that. I'm talking about safety town halls, not CC town halls. >> Okay. So again, what I will say is safety town halls is not something that our citywide council for district 75 manages.
>> What I will uplift what I will uplift and um support is that we want to teach people and give legacies even though you're not moving in our space of what it looks like. Um, second, Vice
President Bonia wants to make sure that you know how to move through this in any capacity that you need to and in the capacity that you get us. So, in these spaces, we want to listen to our second vice president. Um, she's come from a
CEC. We are a citywide council. So, whatever we do is for every burrow. We recognize that people love their burrows and where they come from. And we know that Bonia loves the Bronx. Okay. The Bronx. The Bronx. Hip hop forever. What
we want to know is that you give her the information and she can allow us to make sure that you guys facilitate what you need without boundaries. There's a lot that can go on and we want to make sure that she can support you
and that we can uh move that support on levels um into the burrow into the district into the central whatever it needs to do. She will hear your voice. We will make
sure that you aren't you won't be working in vain. Um I'm going to give it back to you Bonia because I think I'm rambling. No problem. I'm just clarifying. Um, this is a safety town hall. This is doesn't have to do with CC's.
>> Right. Wait. So, for my clarity, I I will say this as the president of the citywide council for district 75. I've never done a town hall safety. That may be something that's very much so below what the citywide does. and we
will continue to support what they need below that. But we don't do we we only do citywides for our >> One one moment. I'm not finished. >> Our citywide council only does town
halls for the chancellor. That's it. I >> there are there are there are spaces below us that we do not manage and our citywide councils manage that. We do not. So we want to be very clear and we
want to make sure that vice president Bonia comes from CC11 and she swings hard and we love her batter swing and what we will do is any space that you need below her above us and how we can
support you we will do but also our council only moves in a specific space and we will continue to support where it means below us citywide and otherwise respect ing the spaces as we move into our council.
>> Thank you. Um again, I will um I would like to clarify this for the audience and maybe you and I could have a conversation behind um because we're confusing the audience
on to what the presentation is. This is a safety meeting for safety plans. I'm going over the safety plans, um, safety town halls and safety topics
that are done in the town hall. President Bon I can possibly make just to Could you speak about what you're talking about with safety town halls for people within the
different districts etc because that's not something we do citywide. Could you please could you please break that down so that we can put it on record and understand what you're trying to bring forward? No problem.
Safety meetings are for PTA and PA presidents. Safety town halls are for the entire school community. According to our regulations, school have to do safety town halls for
the open school community twice a year. So this is what this is about. Safety Town holes informations need to be unified communication throughout the building especially when it's a
collocation school. That way all parent school communities could be able to attend the meeting. This is a public meeting for everyone. It's like SLT. So this is why I'm raising awareness as
a parent that I as well was not notified of certain information with clear communication. So I missed my meeting for safety town hall. And to support um second vice president Bonia, we want to be very clear
>> there are very different spaces that the citywide and the um CEC's function. So in this space we will honor absolutely um how um second
vice president Bonia brings in her space of making sure that we consider people. We will always do that. However, we want to make sure that um in this space we are looking at all five
burrows. We do our um safety committee chair, our busing committee chair, our capacity and utilization which is our second vice president. Bonia, has a lot of love and heart for what she's doing. And so we have to make
sure that we're very specific in how we do it. And so please make sure that you reach out to her, reach out to the council, and make we can support you in the spaces that we can. And as a council, we want to make sure that we
move um accordingly to law and better. And beyond that, know that Bonia has your back. Know that there are multiple um members in our council that have the Bronx, Queens, Staten Island, Manhattan,
Queens, etc. We are very very deep into the five burrows. And as of tonight, um we want to make sure that vice president, second vice president Bonia is highlighted. I want to let you guys know that there was a fire in the Bronx this weekend and
Second Vice President Bonia made sure to >> sacrifice, show up and um do what she was predisposition to do for our families. And I want to thank you um second vice president um Bonia for your
love, for your space, because you were supposed to go to the include NYC fair. You were supposed to be on a community-based organization and you said, "Hey, I got to show up for my people." and all I had was a yes and a thank you. So, I want to thank you for
that space. I want to uplift you in that space. I want to say, "Hey guys, we don't have everything perfectly. Please let us know how we can do things better. Um how we can maybe add in things that we're not thinking of. Reach out to um
Bonia, myself, our our our um council. We're one person doesn't mean one thing. We are all here to help everybody. We over here struggling. It's cold. We got kids at home. We struggling. And Bonia is running a very
great meeting. And if you can and you can say, "Hey, I've seen this. I need help. I've seen this. We need help. I've seen this. We can do this better." All we say is, "Please send it. We will listen to you. We will support you. And
I promise you, Vice President, Second Vice President Bonia, will help you out." and and she doesn't have a choice because we will be on that space to help her out. Bonia, >> thank you. Thank you again, President Angel. I truly appreciate that. And
that's another reason for the safety town halls because in case there's a fire in your school community, you could be able to be informed through your town hall as to what your emergency procedures are for your school.
and you could be able to act accordingly and how to support. So yeah, thank you very much, President Angel. I appreciate your support as well during the time of the fire and your assistance to reach out to the district to support. Thank
you for that. We can move to the next slide, please. And I like this um presentation as well because it doesn't matter if you don't have a title, you could be still
informed of your safety in your school and how to bring safety concerns to either your PTA PA president, your principal, or to us here at the safety committee. and President Angel.
Um, for front door safety, front door safety systems such as intercoms and doorbells are critical safety tools. When they don't work, it creates access and communication risk that must be addressed immediately.
Once next slide, please. Um, President Angel, just quick question. and they have a qu about front door safety who can they reach out. Um we could put both of the emails in the chat. >> What we can do is uh segment Vice
President Ponia if everyone can send us the questions guys. We do this for you. It's it's just you. So put it in the chat. We'll take the transcripts. Any questions you need. Hey, who do we reach out to for this? Who do we reach out to for that? We will highlight that and
also send you any information that you need to make sure that you can fight for what you need and we can bang them in the head on the other side in support for you. Just let us know what you need. Um, Vice President Bonia, let me know how we can um, pull this together as a
one sheeter PDF, send it out and make sure that everyone's voice is heard. >> No problem. Thank you. Um, next slide. If communication system fails, schools must submit work orders,
assign temporary coverage, notify their safety committee, and inform colloccation schools. Waiting without coverage is not acceptable. Next. Oh, this documentation and
accountability. Documentation protects everyone. meeting minutes, repair locks and followups ensure transparency and accountability. So just to um go back on this, repair
locks are not able to be shared with the entire school community but could be shared with the PA president and PT PTA president and minutes meeting minutes can be shared with the school community
through your PA PTA president or your uft chapter leader as well. Another part of documents that I would like you to know about is there is a safety plan parent version and there's a
safety plan safety um staff version of the entire safety plan for the school. As a parent, you're able to ask for a parent version of the safety plan. It
highlights certain things that you're able to know publicly. For those things that are not able to be shared publicly, those things will only be shared with your PTA and PA
president. This is why is very important that they try to attend these meetings or they could also assign a design. I know that some of us have more than one site as collocations. So you are able to
designate a parent either from your executive board to attend the meetings if you can. Remember it always it takes a village. Next slide please. Share responsibility.
School safety is a partnership between administrators, staff, families, and district leadership. Collaboration strengthens all of our outcomes. Thank you all for your partnership and your time. Our shared goal is to be
safe, prepare, and supportive for our school communities. And again, thank you for joining us tonight. If um I would like to leave the floor open to see if you have any questions.
I hope this presentation helped many of you. Yes. >> Yes. Yes. I have a question. >> No problem. Who's who's speaking? >> Yeah. This is Miss Powell Davis. >> Okay. >> So,
>> yes. So, I have a question. So, you know, I don't know if it was a wide initiative for all schools or for D75 schools in particular, but um I see that they kind of changed out the locking system and you know the buzzer system
and getting into the school. You know what I'd like to know? Cuz I I looked and I couldn't really tell. They have the buzzer system where you click the buzzer cuz I think I see it a couple of other schools too. But you click the
buzzer and they and the school safety agent opens the door. Are they seeing prior to buzzing you in who is at the door or is that >> I'mma jump in right now, Stephanie? Vice
President Bonia, we will move this forward as a council after this conversation. What I will say is I'm I'm not happy about what I've seen. I've been to 80% of schools. I But I don't care about the 80. I'm caring about the
20. If I come to your school, oh well, we let our students come and go and I don't care. If I come to your building, the door should be locked. You buzz me in. I don't care. I don't care if I'm Christian's mother or if I'm the president of CCD75. Lock the doors
>> doors. >> Speak in. Stephanie, we will work on this on the back end. Please know that we going to keep our kids safe. >> I can't listen. Look at me the wrong way. Look at me the bad way. Lock my doors. Are they door? If I come into the
door, if I come in, I buzz you. If it's not locked, we got problems. The end. I don't want to hear about it. I'mma call Mark Ramperant. We're going to talk about it. Make sure all of our children are safe. I don't care. Stephanie,
>> thank you, President Angel. I appreciate that. Yes, we will work on it. Um, again, because no door should be open. And about >> Thank you. >> And about the camera, they are supposed
to have a um a desktop. Their desk is supposed to have the cameras on their desk. If you don't see that, that means your school doesn't have cameras. >> If you get into a building and you're not locked as you get in, you better
say, "Lock the door." >> The door. Absolutely. >> Lock the doors. >> Uh Tanya has a question. >> Hi. Um it's piggyback on the secure entry. Um there's a um the schools have
co- sites and there's not a safety officer at the door so the buzzer rings and somebody from staff just gets up and opens the door and I >> just send us send us a space where you don't have a safety officer the school name the school title and better >> who do I send it to your email Miss
Angel >> 75 council I added both of them in the chat for her >> all right thank you >> yes if If when you see those emails come through, I'll forward them to you if you can take point on those.
>> Yeah, I added both emails on the chat for her. >> Okay. Thank you so much. >> No problem. Yeah, that like if you see things like that, that's highest concern. You have to do it. I've brought my son to school. I do DOE trip links. And as
my son and their children, other children were leaving his particular school to get on the bus, someone was at the corner with a machete on a motorcycle trying to hurt a female student at the school. I don't care.
You're not going to hurt her. You're not going to roll up on a motorcycle. You're not going to mess with any child on a bus and or better. If you see something, New Yorkers, say something. We can't do anything without you saying something. But if you say a little bit of something, and I don't care if you're
like, "Well, I don't want anyone to get mad at me. I don't care. We'll never get mad at your honesty and your truth. We will support it and do what's best." Right, Vice President Bonia? >> Yes, President. So, do not feel scared about your truth
and how we can support our students because our babies are your babies. The end. Thank you for that. Does anyone else have any more concerns or questions? >> Yeah, this is not really a qu a concern.
It's more of um how for the rest of the remaining school year tenure from now to when school and um finishes, how many of these busing committee meetings are you guys going to hold from now till when the school term ends? One.
And Sue, is it possible um if there is a busing committee meeting or going forward even into the following school year um if there's any way we can get like the agenda of what it is that's going to be discussed prior to so we can kind of have an idea. Oh, we're going to
talk about the changeover for busing that took place typically in January or February or we're going to have a guest or we're going to discuss about as you say school safety for this trip. Is it possible for that to happen? And like
who al and and as I and as Christy Angel was saying earlier, there's somewhat little bit of a confusion cuz you know we're thinking it's the CCD75 who I think >> Yes. Let me let me jump in. Miss Anna Kpal, we love you. We we we appreciate
her, guys. She is a wonderful advocate. If you guys don't know her, Anna K Pal Davis is amazing. Look her up, tag her, become a team member. Uh, one person teaches other people and we all move together.
However, as she's speaking, she's saying, "Are there spaces where we can do better, where we can build?" Yes, we can. Bonia, let's make sure before Monday that we touch base and we make the different um
links, the different shared files, different spaces where we can continue to support and make everything easily found for people. Um there is nothing wrong that you can ask us. There is nothing that feels weird that you can
ask us. If you say, "Hey, can you guys do our answer will definitively be yes because we are your elected officials." If you tell us what you need, if we tell you what we think we know and we come together and we figure it out collectively, we will continue to help
30,000 children and families as a collective group. And that's all I care about. I don't care about the rest of it. What can we do to make sure everybody's okay? And if one person's not okay, what does it look like to fix it? because we are in this battle together. We are warriors together. We
will win together. Our children matter together. And I'mma get off my soap box. Back to you, Bonia. And thank you, Anna, because we love you and you were supposed to be a member a long time ago, but I thank you for being a parent that continues to show up even
if you're not a member. Guys, look at her. You guys can come to committee meetings. You can show up. There's no prerequisites. All we need is your voice and we will move on that. Thank you. >> Thank you as well, Miss Powell. We
appreciate all of the feedback and yes, we could work better on more things that because this committee is about informing all of you guys and to make sure that you have the information that way you could have the knowledge to be
able to support your school communities yourself. >> I love it. out online. Okay. Is there any other questions or feedback? >> Hi, Stephanie. It's Natasha. >> Hello, Miss Natasha. How you doing?
>> Hi, good, good, good. Thank you guys for having me join this meeting. Um, I just have a question with our school, the dynamics that we have. were in Truman High School and they have metal detectors. We were supposed to start initiating that for our unit and it has not happened.
So the kids even like almost to like almost 8:30, 9:00, General Ed is still lined up outside waiting for metal detector screenings and then the other Lshape of that uh school safety area. You can come in the door is not locked. There's no screen there for them to see
who's coming in. Um, and our parents generally if they're pay dropping off their child, they'll drop them off. They come right in and then someone from our unit has to come down and get them. >> Miss, can I ask you a question? Yes. >> How many um schools do you have in your
particular building? Because I'm thinking this is in the standalone, right? >> No, no, no. It's a big unit. We have BHS and we have a regular Truman High and then it's our unit inside. >> How many district 75 schools do we have there? It is one, but we do allow access to uh
596X to use auditorium. So, we do have in and out from 153 and 178 and then 181 and 180 uses the school as well. >> Can I ask you an additional question? when it comes to bringing the students in in the morning and exiting them out
in the afternoon for my son's school. I mean, he he got hurt really badly and had a warrant on him and other things because student safety didn't know how to work with him. And they've worked that out. And they also made it to where this specific time, maybe 30,
45 minutes in the morning, the door front of the building was only for district 75. The side building was for the other typical students. Do you know that if your building has a specific space for at this time only district 75
children can come in be spotted and made sure that they're moving through correctly and the other students move through a different um um building of egreg uh interest etc. >> So as we're as we're entering the building when we're busing out the kids
it's a total different area. you don't see school safety there. It's just our our support um curriculum support. Our principles are all in that one area. Um again, the kids still have not moved to the metal detector screening. So, there wouldn't be no metal detectors on that area. There isn't. It's grab and go breakfast and they go in and afternoon.
We use the same area as well to bust out the kids. >> Is there a space where you might want um Mark Granford's office to come in and just double check? I know that when you have a space that's specifically just for our kids to come in, it makes a huge difference when they don't have to walk
in with their typical, you know, um, students and better and and honestly sometimes we need spaces that are very sensitive oriented for our children and then ma maybe our typical children, hey, go get your breakfast, go do your things. I know you love our kids, but we
need to be able to move through our busing through sensitivity and better through the front door. Do you know that you have a specific space for your whole school when our children move through? >> Honestly, after that uh 8:45 window period, they have to go through the main the regular main entryway, which is
where the L is the metal detectors. They our kids don't have to go through the metal detectors, which we have to be moving in that direction, but they come in through that one area. Everyone does with >> Can we Can we follow up on this? Mhm. We're going to need to >> uh um um Stephanie Bonia, vice
president, are you there? >> Sorry. Yes. >> Could Can we make sure to note this so we can follow up, please? >> No problem. >> Thank you. >> Send her our emails as well. >> Thank you, ladies. >> And I am adding in the chat the safety
plans regulations for everyone. But thank you, Miss Natasha. Vice President Bonia, I'm going to um resend myself and let you move forward with whatever you need to do in the meeting. Please know I will support you in whatever space you need as the
council will. Please let us know what you need. I am giving the meeting over to you. Do you mind? Okay. No, I got it. I got it. I'm like, it didn't want to download. I'm sorry. I'm just real quick adding
>> If you need any help, I'm still here. >> No problem. I added the safety. Can you see if you're able to see it? The safety plan regulations. And there is >> that Vice President Bonia has added into this meeting. We will make sure to add
to the website, send out via social media, via email, and better to make sure that parents do have this access outside of the meeting. And I appreciate you as well, President Angel for letting me present tonight and
letting me inform the families on all of these things that we could be able to help them with. And as you mentioned, um, there was a fire in district 11 this past weekend
and we were able to support them in that space. Oh, I'm I'm glad to see some of our some of our parent leaders that were
able to assist in this. I want to give a shout out to community board 11, Miss Cynthia Rodriguez um for assisting with the fire. Also, Miss Dickerson
um community board 12 was able to assist. Miss April Parks, Title One Dack was able to assist us as well. Many of you, I thank you for
coming. I thank you for reaching out. We're trying to do a collection of items. We will share that information. Um I'm trying to see with Council Member Riley's office to see if we could be
able to take some donations there or if some items could be collected at the school. Um, I will let Miss President Angel know what they let me know and we could be able to share that information with you all.
>> And guys, please know that we definitely do move with our PTAs. >> And again, thank you for coming tonight and joining us. >> Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to speak over you. Um, I wanted you guys to know that we do work with our president's
council. Our council cannot raise money. However, we can work with our president's council and other PTAs to make sure that we have what I need what we need for our families. And Stephanie Bonia, who is our vice, second vice president, she can lead the charge on
that. And we want you guys to know that there's ways that we can make things work and we will reach out to her and we'll help you as a council. Thank you. Yes, we could be able to reach out to um President Remo is to um see how can they
assist us from President's Council with this as well. And if there is no other questions or feedback, I would like to give you all back your time. And again, thank you for joining us
tonight. We'll be reaching out to um those that wrote some of the questions in the chat. And thank you again. Have a good evening. >> We are letting our interpreters go at 7:08 p.m. Thank you everyone. Stay warm.
It's really cold outside. See you guys again soon.