All right. Once again, this is the citywide council for district 75's January business meeting. We call to order at 6:39 p.m. We are recording this meeting which will
be available on our YouTube which is TCD75 outreach. >> Council member White, may we have a roll call? >> Okay. I'm coming right now. All right.
>> And we would need to turn the camera on, guys. It's not showing um anything on this side. >> Octar, maybe if I speak, it'll turn on. >> Yeah. >> There we go. It looks like the camera's coming back on now. Good stuff.
>> Yes. Muma Octar, Rebecca Alley, present. >> Christy Angel, >> present online. >> Stephanie Bonia. >> Um, Joanna Gomez, >> present. Elijah Hobbs,
Jazelle Ramirez, >> Jessica Rivera, Sharon Stewart, Michelle White present. Okay, >> looks like Stephanie. >> Is Stephanie Bonia still? Um, she's still online. Okay, >> I'm present.
>> Okay, wonderful. >> Sorry. Forum. Yes, we have four people in person, two online. Yeah, six people. That is correct. >> All righty. We do have quorum. Thank you so much everyone that is in attendance.
Again, we do have language accessibility in this meeting. We have uh Spanish, Bangla, and Mandarin. At this time, we would like to go ahead and allow them to give their instructions. Spanish, you have the floor. >> Good evening. Thank you. Um, one thing
at the end of my announcement, if you guys can confirm that you can hear me in the language line would be great. Thank you. Back to you. Thank you so much. Next we have Bangla. You have the floor to give your instructions.
for art. The Bengal announcement is done. >> Thank you so much. Mandarin, you now have the floor to give your instructions. The mentor announcement has been made. You may now proceed. Oops, I was unmuted. We are definitely
going to be working through a little bit of a tight schedule. So, what I want to do is uh see if anyone wants to be our timekeeper. We're working on having a clock displayed on the Zoom to help us in those moments. But, does anyone want to volunteer to maybe use a stopwatch on their phone or whatever to time us as
segmented on the agenda? >> Thank you, Vice President Gomez. Um, all righty. Wonderful. And our next space that we're going to jump into um is our rules of the quorum. Let's run through that really really quickly so that it assists us in moving through our
meeting. So death, I want to just make sure for those um that are in the audience, we do have rules of the quorum that do come from our bylaws just to make sure that we give equity and fairness to our council members with their voices and that a minority voice is always heard.
So every council member, they have at least two minutes to speak. We always want to make sure that you at least speak once and you allow all the other council members to at least have a space to speak. And then we'll always circle back. as many questions we can circle back but we want to make sure to let
everyone speak in fairness so that we make sure all voices are heard. We also want to make sure that we keep discussion even when we have our public comment for those who are in attendance. We always want to make sure that we keep things germaine. That that means
basically keep things in the order of what we're speaking about related to business. Um no accusatory spaces or things. We know that sometimes things can become inflammatory based on just being parents and living life. This this council is always here to support you.
Um a lot of the things that you may hear um should not have your students information. Uh you can feel free to always email us um when you do want to give us information that's should not be given out loud um in the meeting in the chat at all. So we want to make sure
that you guys are um governed. Any of the council members that are in the chat, please make sure to raise your hand or chat so that we can make sure to make sure you are recognized. We want to make sure that you also have your time for Q&A and public u excuse me comment.
You will also have two minutes. That's with your question and with your answer. If you do already have questions that you want to ask of our new superintendent, uh Dr. McCoy, you can put those things into the chat and we'll make sure to make room for that when we do jump into our Q&A. So, I just wanted to jump into that briefly so everyone
knows how we're going to move forward. We have a pretty packed schedule. And let's move on to the agenda. And guys, you see the agenda as is. So, we're going to go ahead and adopt it unless anyone wants to add anything additional to the agenda. Do we have any additions
at this time? >> No. No. >> No. >> All righty. If not, the agenda is adopted. Tonight we do have a presentation from the office of language um I was gonna say acquisition accessibility
>> access I'm jacking the hole listen y'all >> don't judge me >> but we have we have great information tonight because we want to make sure that our parents have accessibility everywhere even with your IEPs documents when you go into meetings that you have
space to be represented so we have it here tonight there's some things that our council can get translated. There's great information. I'm excited for you guys to hear from. Who is our guest speaker tonight? Do we have you um as a
>> Robert, I want to um Gabrielle, can we make him a host? I didn't realize he wasn't >> a co-host. One moment, Robert. >> Let's see. I'm going to spotlight you and I'm going to make you a co-host because I believe you have a presentation as well. >> Yes.
>> Wonderful. Let me know if you're able to screen share. >> Yes, I'm doing it right now. >> Can you see my screen? >> It is starting to Yes. >> Okay. >> All righty, guys. We're going to go
ahead and give the floor over to Robert Williams, who is going to walk us through the office of language and fill in the blank. Good evening everyone. My name is Robert Williams. I am the external outreach specialist at the office of language
access which which basically just means I am the point person for all parent engagement. Okay. So on the agenda we have we're going to talk about the NYC public schools background, our commitment to NYC public school families, raising
awareness in our communities, the schools.nyc.gov webpage, and if there are any questions. So there are over 1 million students in over 1,600 plus schools that speak over
180 languages. Approximately 38% of the New York City public school household speak a language other than English at home. And our non English covered languages are Albanian, Arabic, Bangla, Chinese,
French, Haitian creo, Korean, Russian, Spanish, Ukrainian, Erdo and Usuzbck. So, we provide free language assistance services to ensure all families can access important information and
communicate effectively with school staff. These services include interpretation for all types of meetings and interactions with school staff, whether it's in person, virtual, and over the phone. Translation of critical communications
to ensure parents remain informed in their preferred language. And our office is dedicated to supporting both school staff and families with the resources necessary to effectively communicate in languages other than English.
We have raised some of awareness through ads on the NCTA subways, the buses, um some print and digital ads in supermarkets, laundry mats, salons, barber shops,armacies.
We have also advertised over the radio. Down below is a example of the advertising we have done on the MTA bus shelter and at the MTA subway. We have also done some direct parent
outreach through robocalls, emails, text messages, and we have sent home mailers. So, if you're saying that you have not received one or any of these direct parent outreach, please make sure that all your information is updated at the
school cuz we pull from the same system that schools enter your information in. We tend to change phone numbers or addresses. So, just make sure that all your information is updated so that you can receive all of our direct parent outreaches. So now we're going to talk about the
schools.nyc.gov hello webpage. When you go onto the website, I want to point out at the top right hand corner there is a Google dropdown. You just click which preferred language that you would like and the entire
website will translate into that language. Right underneath that is a short video video. I'm not going to play it now. is just explaining the same thing that I'm explaining to you now. So
I urge people to actually bookmark this website because it'll be easy for you to find um if you want to request any interpreters for let's say PTA meeting or graduation or if you need any parent
documents translated. This this website is a good resource for families. So, I suggest that you guys bookmark this website. If you're online on a computer for those who want to just take out their phone and scan this QR code, you
can do so as well and bookmark and save that on your phone. On the left, there are several tabs. I'm not going to get into all of them, just some key ones that that we feel can better um serve
you. But when you have time, you should just go on to the website and click on each tab to see what's in there. Is a lot of um various important information for you. The first tab I'm going to talk about is going to read helpful resources. Here
you can find the multilink will get help in your language notice snapshot is on the right. You can also find the I speak card. The I speak cards are available in all of our covered languages. You could just
cut that portion out whichever language that you prefer. Bring that portion to the school and the schools must provide communication in that preferred language. So here we provide our translation interpretation service request form. But
before you fill out this form, we ask that you please go to your school first for support. They your school is your direct support for any language services. Now, let's say if there's a new staff member who's not aware of our
services who or we have not trained them yet, then you can come to the website, fill out this form, and once you fill out the form, I'll get an an email notification. I'll forward that to the principal, the
parent coordinator, and whoever is the language access coordinator of the school. Each school should have a language access coordinator that attends our training. Our training is about a two two and a half hour training and they get all the resources that we ask
that they turn information to their school. We also provided a QR code as well for those who like to take out their phone and scan the QR code. And you can find that form under the request language service tab. Um,
schools, like I said, we'll forward that to the appropriate school or office or committee on special education. Families can also call 311 to make a request for language assistance services. Interpretation over the phone is available in over 200 languages. And
please note that language assistant services may vary depending on the school or program that the student attends. The next tab will read how to request sign language interpreting service. This office is separate from our office. We
we are not in the same office and because of that they ask that you contact them directly at oslischools.nyc.gov. gov or you can do so by by calling the 212 number that's on the screen and they also have a video phone number as well.
So here we have our contact the office of language access. If you like to contact our office for any reason um language service related you can contact us by filling out this form. We provide a QR code for those who like to scan
with their phone and you can find that form under the connect with the office of language access tab. Um or you can contact your school's parent coordinator, principal. You you can call 311 or you can just
click on the contact Ola link right here and it take you directly to that form. Here we have our translation and interpretation feedback survey. We want to know how
schools are doing with supporting you in your preferred language, good and bad. And trust me, schools like like to know this information. You can fill out this form with your information or you can fill it out anonymously. It's totally up to you.
If you fill it out um anonymously, then I'll forward it to the school saying, "Hey, um you have a parent who speaks Spanish. They said that they didn't um receive support in their language. Could
you please make sure that all families who speak Spanish receive support?" But if you answer your information, then I could say, "Hey, Robert said when on on this day when he came, he did not receive services. Please reach out to
Robert um with these services, letting them know that the school will support Robert and the school has between five to seven business days to u respond to me, let me know that they supported that parent or I have to escalate it to the superintendent office.
We also provided a cure code as well. And and like I said, we want to hear some of the good things that schools are doing as well. So we can ask that school maybe if they can model for other schools who are struggling to support their parents. And you you can find that form under the
share your language service experience tab. Just click on that link and that form will populate. For those who would like to bookmark this feedback form, you can scan the QR code, save it, um share with other families if they
would like to fill out the feedback and let us know how how their school is doing. And our last tab will read, are you having difficulties obtaining language assistance services? If you are facing difficulties obtaining language assistance, we're here to support you.
You can also submit a claim through our translation and interpretation service complaint form. Your submission will be reviewed to ensure you receive the support that that you need. This is not a formal complaint
with the New York City public schools. This is our complaint form. So with this form, we we become the mediator or the middleman between the school and the parent to get to the bottom of how we can support the school better so that
they can help support families. And with that being said, are there any questions? >> Council members, do we have any questions for Mr. Williams? Thank you so much for this very thorough um uh
presentation. I know council members in the chat were asking if you'd be a able to share the documents as you were speaking. I did make sure to screenshot and share those items um that parents can maybe download with the QR codes and the link to the survey and we'll make
sure to share that out as well um to get that out for you. Council members that are uh present in person, do we have any questions um for Mr. Williams? >> No. No. >> No questions from the council members that are present. Thank you, Mr. Willie.
>> Thank you. >> Thank you so much. We'll look forward to that. Um, you'll send us the documentation. >> Yes. Yes. I I'll for you a copy of this um PowerPoint. >> Wonderful. Thank you so much again. Thank you for sharing your time. We appreciate it. >> No problem. Thank you. Have a good night. >> You too. Gabrielle, can we pull up the
agenda? I believe our next item is we're moving into our interview. >> Yes. Do we have the candidate uh in person? >> Yes. >> Wonderful. Uh council members,
give me 2.5 seconds. I wanted to make sure that we go ahead and move through the different questions and we give the candidate an opportunity to >> uh recording secretary white would you be able to go ahead and make the introduction of I don't want to say her
miss I don't want to say the name incorrectly so let's but let's not butcher it but let's try collectively um to or let her say her name and let's repeat it um correctly I can translate. It's Fedia. The J is Y.
>> Fia. Um, how would you how can we make sure to address you um in this interview correctly? Via put that spell that for us, >> Miss Vidia, >> Gabrielle and council members, we have the information that was given to us
from Face and we definitely want to go ahead and uh if you don't mind, I'd love to let her have an introduction really quickly for the two minutes to let everyone know um about her and the things that she'd like you guys to know that you may not know that's on paper.
And for those of us who are online who may get to know a little bit more about her as well. So Miss Faj, you have the floor for two minutes to introduce yourself. >> My name is Fay. I was born in Brooklyn near Coney Island. I grew up there. Um
my parents actually immigrated from Albania. So I was first generation. And interesting enough, when I went into kindergarten in the public schools, I didn't speak any English. and they uh thought, you know, it was very difficult going into the system. So, I was very very intrigued by what this new program
was because seeing Albanian in my language when I grew up, no one knew that. They're like, "Are you from Albany?" No one knew where that was. So, it's nice to see that they're actually interpreting for people who don't speak the language. Uh for 22 years, I was a head of HR in software companies in the city. And then my son, Vichir, with
autism, uh had to go to private school. and I was involved in suing the board of ed for private school and I had to leave work and I ended up becoming a self-direction broker. So I worked with a lot of people in Staten Island as a broker throughout the burrows. Um and he
is now 15 in high school. He finally joined public school for the first time in B75 in Staten Island. It's part of Hungerford at New York High School. So, it's a whole new world and I was intrigued by what you guys did because I've never been part of such a big
community. I came to your busing meeting, I guess, back in October and I asked you to say like what I had no idea and then someone said, you know, you really should put your name into this. I'm a strong advocate. I work a lot with the parents in terms of not just brokerage, but like right now the thing that I'm focusing on is Medicaid
renewals. For whatever reason, people are losing their Medicaid. And I've gotten escalated to the commissioner of OPWD. I've made a sample application for parents. I'm helping parents because it's never ever been this bad. They're
like taking the code of disability, removing it from the children in the system. They're saying they're not receiving the Medicaid renewals. And as we know, >> not just Medicaid, not just self-direction, but everything is on Medicaid. So like your medication, your
doctor, it's pretty bad. >> And then if you don't do a fair heroin, you lose it and you might not get it back. So rehab, it is a it's it's a it's a it's that. And I've been, you know, that's one thing about me like maybe because I'm a January baby, but I focus
on something and I really give it my all. And I think my HR background helps me understand the benefits part of it. So, I'm really getting involved heavily in things that are not brokerage. Um, I'm also on the I guess IEP team member, so I I get called into IEP meetings. And
it's been a really interesting turn for my son. He's been in p uh private schools his whole life until age 14. He actually went to school in Long Island. It's called Teman. It was a non-public school. Um, and now to see him in public school, it's been a great it's been a great thing. And you know, I think what
my feeling is, I want to advocate for our children because I've seen um how can I put it in a nice way? Uh B75 kids are treated differently. Um they're treated differently for busing. My son never had these busing issues before when he was in private and now he has
them. It's interesting to see that. Um just in general and I just, you know, I'm here just to learn more and add value. >> Thank you so very much for the introduction. I do remember um you joining the busing meeting and being very effective. Um thank you for joining even as a community member because uh
that does matter. Um council members um I did on the back end say uh Vice President Gomez, Recording Secretary White, uh Treasurer U Rebecca Ally, if you guys could ask the one, two, three questions um to our candidate
in no particular order. >> Okay. So question one, are you physically able to attend our public meetings in person even when we are traveling all across the district? The district means what? Like in the burrows? >> Yes, throughout all of the district.
>> Yeah, >> um I feel like you already answered how you have supported your D75 community recently. And question number three is you kind of answered it. How do you feel you need to be and what do you feel you need to be an effective advocate?
>> I feel like I I feel like our children for whatever reason are labeled a certain way. I feel you want to call them high functioning, low functioning, high needs, low needs. And our children deserve a voice. And I want to help with that because I feel like my son, he's in the middle. He could go either way. I
chose to take him from standardized testing to alternate. I chose that even though we standardized because I feel like there still could be a future for him and kids still work. So I really want to make sure that we advocate for him and not let our kids get lost in the system.
>> That's very important to me. >> Wonderful. Do you I want to ask you do you have any questions of us as a council or I mean you answered everything pretty thoroughly but we want to make sure that we also give you space to see if you have any additional questions. When do we actually meet with
people who make these decisions like in char people in charge like are they on the call now? Does anyone else join or is it just parents? >> Um meet in regard to what which we are you referring to the council or >> from the school. Yeah.
>> So for our I will say this for our council and Andy thank you chief Andy there we love you. This is our chief that's also under our deputy chancellor um FOD and they are very accessible. When it comes to our council technically we have a business meeting and a calendar meeting. You are responsible to attend the calendar
meeting and you have to make sure you don't have miss three of them. Then that would end up making you um remove yourself from your seat. So the calendar meetings which we basically at this point for this particular council we merged our meetings. So, we meet the first Wednesday of every month um from
about what 6:30 to about 8 o'clock. We try to get in and out of it. Um as a council, we do have a monthly meeting with our superintendent. We do have working groups and things of that nature where we work with every single level um within district 75. And then I as the
president do get to go to meetings with the chancellor and we uplift any and everything that our council members and community um have out there. So there's a lot of spaces and a lot of meetings that we go to with joint public hearings and things of that nature. So legally by law we are bound to do a lot of
different meetings. So you would have a lot of space where you would actively be um involved and required um to meet with legislators and to meet with the hierarchy of different people within the New York City public schools. You have any other questions?
>> Wonderful. Well, thank you for your time, council members. We are going to transition it over to you. Um, do we have a motion to approve? >> Stephanie has a question. >> I'm sorry. Say it again, guys.
>> Stephanie has a question. >> Yes. Hold on. Let me see where she is in the chat. Miss Bonia, I don't see Did you you have Where was the question? I'm sorry y'all are missing it. I don't see it. >> She has her hand raised. >> Oh, Miss Bonia, please come off mute.
My question. Hello. Thank you, Miss Rebecca. I believe that was you. >> Thank you. Um, my question is, what skills do you hope to develop through this role? >> That's great. I guess in terms of really
understanding the New York City public schools because I don't I've never besides attending myself all the way through puny. I went to Brooklyn College. I don't know how it is to have a child in a public school. It's my first year. So, it's a very interesting change me. I really look forward to learning more about that. It's very
different and it's a lot better than I thought. It's, you know, you always have the stigma, but it's actually really great, very supportive. They have all the related service providers. So, I'm pretty pleased so far. Thank you so much. Council members, do we have any additional questions before
we uh >> There's another hand raised. >> Is it Miss I don't see a hand risen. I'm glad you guys can see that. >> I'm not allowed. Sorry. >> Patricia, is that a is that a council member? If it's not a council member,
this isn't a section that's open to the public. >> Nobody else. >> Okay. Wonderful council members uh with Miss Fad. Thank you so much for your time and with the interview. Do we have a motion that we want to move with the
approval of Miss Fedaj on our council? >> I have motion to approve Miss Fedaj. >> Fia. >> Fia. >> Fia. Feday. Thank you for correcting us. >> Do we have a second?
>> I second. >> Thank you. Gabrielle, can you please notate this as resolution 27 as we are filling the last vacancy with Miss Fedah? Um, we are now going to Is there any debate? >> No.
>> Seeing no debate, recording Secretary White, may we move into a roll call vote. >> Correct. Yes. Rebecca Alli, >> yes. >> Msuma Atar. >> Um, Christy Angel, >> yes. Stephanie Benia.
>> Yes. >> Jessica. No. Um Jazelle. Okay. Jessica's on. >> Yes. >> Jazelle Ramirez. >> Yes. >> Sharon Stewart. >> Yes. All right.
>> So if it was no, I would hear about this right now. >> So that is we have a motion of how many yeses of recording Secretary White? >> Is that eight? >> Eight. >> We have eight yeses. That means resolution 17 with Miss Bahadi coming to
our council is approved. Welcome. Thank you for being able and willing to join our council and being our newest member. Question, Miss Gabrielle, do we have our face representative present where we might possibly be able to let her do her oath of office now?
>> Yeah, I think we have our face representative here. Yes. Yes. >> All righty. If we can do that, we can go ahead and get you moving as a regular council member right now in this meeting. So once again, congratulations. And guys, this is community at work, showing up at meetings, finding out
there's a space and a need and showing up. And she is representing Staten Island if I'm correct. Right. >> We were just there today. So we are very, very happy about that. >> Yes. >> Is it Staten Island? Am I wrong?
All righty. Council members, are there any other questions before we move on quickly? Um, Face can go ahead and get the ball rolling on that end. And, uh, Gabrielle, can you move us to the agenda and to our next item? >> Well, she needed
>> I gave her one. Thank you so much. I'm excited. We have a full council now. The only thing we need is a student member and we will be a full deck. Okay. All right. So, our next space is going into a motion for
the legislative breakfast. Guys, as a quick follow up, >> council member Rivera has been poking in a little bit here too um helping us in the chat to know um what our options are. So we have presented the following which we have to move from our original vote um due to the fact that majority of
March and April uh Wednesday through Thursday is booked out. >> So we want to uh put before the council if we could have the dates of the 2nd, 3rd and the 14th of April as options for
us to find a new location to do our event. Do we have any feedback? And council member Rivera, I know you're on chat. Do you want to put anything in the chat um to say anything? >> You got to work with this. What day is
it? The 14th. >> That would be a Monday and a Tuesday. And I believe the 14th is a Friday. Don't get me wrong. >> Can I take my little? >> Yeah. >> You breakfast? >> Yeah. For parents to come?
>> Uh for the concert. It's a Tuesday. Council member Rivera says the 14th is also a Tuesday. >> I wouldn't be able to attend this with council member >> on any of the dates. >> On a Tuesday, I can never attend.
>> Okay. So then council members, we have March 3rd. >> Doesn't matter. I don't have to. >> So we have 33 and 414. >> Somebody raise their hand in order for the floor. Uh Vice President Gomez. Yes, please. >> Okay. Um passing it down to
>> um on the we also have to keep in mind on March 3rd and 2nd and 3rd is E not E R Ramadan. So there may be you know we do have some Muslim council members that are going to be fasting and they can't >> not even council members community.
Thank you so much for bringing it up. >> Anybody else out? I apologize. >> No do not do not. That's equity mama. That's the right thing to do. So, do we want to look at possibly March 9th or 10th and then the 14th? April 14th,
leaving it on a Monday. >> Miss Christie, it's the full month, isn't it? Yeah, >> it's the 14th is on March 20th when the kids have off. So, anything after that date? >> Yeah. So, anything after 320. >> So, March 23rd. >> Yeah. That after March 20th is fine.
Kids are off. >> Okay. So, guys, we have March 23rd, March 30th, and then April 14th. Do we want to try that as possible dates? >> Oh, yeah. E is the Friday the 20th. >> I could do the 23rd or the 30th. >> Okay.
>> Any other house members? >> March 23rd and 30th. >> Are we looking at um adding the 14th as a third just in case date? >> Can I also say one thing, Miss Christie? Um >> yes, you have the floor. Um, also did we
look at the senators in Congress calendar? Are they in office? Are they going? Are they leaving? Yes, we did look at the calendars. Now, what people do personally is going to be different. So, this is our fourth year doing it. So, normally if a senator is not able to
make it, we either use their chief of staff or we give out um the education staff members. They will send staff to still come. So, we'll be able to fill in the different blanks. We do have a a grouping of different legislators that do show up and then some that do send staff members.
>> Okay. I just wanted to make ask clarifying questions. >> No, thank you so much. Uh, council member >> Rivera. No, I don't have the um >> I don't have it available, but it's pretty much blocked out uh the what the
Wednesday through the Thursday. So, Monday, Tuesdays, and Fridays are the dates that work. Do we have a location? Thank you. vice uh second vice president Bonia. We did have a location. Originally, the district had been working with us for Baroo. And so,
they're thinking of was it Baroo? It was one of the colleges. Don't get me wrong. We had a location and now we might be able to use that interchangeably as our awards dinner location. I think it's the Brooklyn Law School. So, now we will need to find a new location. But we do have partnership with the district to be
able to figure that out and have what we need in a space that actually is conducive to what we need. >> Monday I guess we should >> Friday >> Friday.
President Angel um some of the council members are asking for a Friday date. >> A Friday date. Do we let's um how many calendar how many council members can do the f if we do a Friday a lot of people are going to be traveling >> back from DC but we can still do it we
can still make it happen. So if we're looking for Friday and then >> after the 23rd, >> can you do the 27th? >> I can do Monday, Wednesday, Thursday. >> March 27th, guys. This >> Thursday, Thursday.
>> Thursday. The 25th. >> Yeah, >> guys. They're going to be in session on the 25th. >> Oh, darn it. >> All right. At the >> um Thursday. the 26th. Remember,
>> they're gonna be they're going to be in session on those days. That's why we're trying to do something at the top >> of the month or the end I mean at the top of the week or the end of the week. >> It could be a Monday. >> The 23rd. >> I mean, if we can't do May, it has to be
>> Yeah. We want to get the legislators in before they start making their budgets and different things like that. So, we would we really kind of want to do it before April. May would be extraordinarily late. >> Yeah. 30th
>> 23rd. >> Okay. So, we want to try for Are weing for the 23rd? Is that what I'm hearing council members say? >> Majority for the 23rd on a Monday. >> Do we have a motion to move our
legislative breakfast day to March 23rd? motion in the >> I second the motion for the March 23rd. >> Do we have any further debate? >> None from the council members that are
present. >> Council member Rivera, I know you're in the chat. Did you have any I don't want to overlook you. Did you have any debate? You said I missed it. >> This is a breakfast, correct? >> This would be a breakfast. We normally do it uh from like 9:30 to about 11:30.
We allow people the first 30 minutes to kind of um get to know each other, meet and greet, uh network, and then we move through a series of events and we have different speakers. We have different legislators speak. We have a full template council members. The expectation is that we all work together
with this because it will be a heavy lift. Um so that will be the expectation. Shortly, we'll be figuring out a legislative um meeting so we can get the ball rolling because um as Council Member Rivera knows and a couple of other people, we had a lot of phone
calls we have to make regularly up until we get um toward the end and the date because people will wait to um to confirm. So, with that being said, we're I think we're good with Council Member Rivera. Uh do we have Okay, so we
have a motion, no debate. Council member White, may we go into a roll call vote? >> Rebecca Alley, >> yes. >> Christy Angel, >> yes. >> Stephanie Bonia, >> yes.
>> With consideration of maybe next year doing a dinner, but yes. >> Okay. >> Um, do you want to go back? >> Jessica Rivera. Jazelle Ramirez. >> Yes. In the chat.
Okay. And Sharon Stewart. >> Yes. >> Michelle White and >> FA. >> So, is that a total of nine yeses? >> Yes. >> That's a total of nine yeses. The motion does pass for our legislative breakfast
to be on March 23rd. District members, I hope you're writing that down. We'll be talking to you soon um about that. Uh for sure, Sasha, you already know. Um thank you, council members, very much. Our next motion is Oh, wait. Council member Vice President Bonia, do you have
the safety resolution or can we postpone that to February? I have it, but since I didn't send it on time, we could postpone it for February. >> Are you sure? >> Yes, I'm sure. That way, I could give members time.
>> Okay, wonderful. Please let the record show that we will be adding uh resolution 26 to the agenda for February's uh business calendar meeting. We will now be moving into committee updates. Uh Council Member Bonia, do you want to jump in on anything with busing
safety? your next um committee meetings uh capacity utilization >> for safety updates. Uh I just wanted to thank the FDNY for coming in to speak on fire safety. That was a great information session for
everyone. >> I think everyone got a lot of insight on that. I also um for busing updates, we are still going through emails. There are still students with either no routes
or late routes that are still happening. So, we are going to keep following up on those. And for capacity and utilization, we were able to have a um we have an accessibility
spreadsheet with all the borrows with all the numbers um ratings into what accessibility do each building have. We are looking for the numbers five and below in order to target those buildings
to accommodate the accessibility there. I um do I see coun um sorry one second just trying to see if the co-chair for capacity is on.
They are not on today. Okay. Um those are all my updates for the committees as of now. Thank you. >> Thank you. Don't we have a meeting coming up on the soon like in a week or am I wrong Gab we have the what is that the 26th of January that's blessing
don't we do we have a safety coming up or am I confusing that we get um with Jazelle's inclusion >> yeah including the right >> okay okay >> yes we have capacity and utilization on the 14 and the 28 we're trying to get
building facilities to come in order to do a small presentation to talk about some of the groups that they're working on. >> Wonderful. And guys, I'll make sure um that we keep the website updated so people can go to ccd75.org
and just immediately sign up on the website. Also, Gabrielle does often send out these flyers. We send it through the district to make sure people do have access to our meetings. Thank you so much, uh, Second Vice President Bonia. Um, for myself, for outreach, we're
doing a lot. part of it I can pull into um the president's update, but let me try to figure this out initiative wise, guys. Um we're very proud of the fact that the puppetry and education is happening. Um thank you, Dr. McCoy, for
supporting education further with our council. We know this is something that folks have been pushing for for a while. Um I feel blessed because I know my baby has been using puppets and that was brought to him by district 75. So, thank you for servicing even him with speech and communication. So, uh council
members, we have picked out a list of schools. Thank you, Vice President Bonia, because P10 was actually an excellent uh choice. We have 721, I believe M, and 721
uh in Brooklyn, plus 396K, 277Q, and what was the other one? 7 is it 721Q? It might be Mr. Ringulus' school. But we have a bunch of people really excited, guys. If you guys can come down just to see what's being created that's going to be legacy from our council, that will be
January 27th from 9 to 12:30 p.m. The other part of outreach that we have that you guys know, the CUNI initiative has been doing a wonderful, wonderful job. Um, so we're looking forward to a little bit of media. They may possibly
come in Queens and for our Staten Island and um Manhattan merge location. Guys, as of right now, please write down the 27th or the 30th. That's actually the dates that were being held for that. So, it will be a busy week for our calendar
for our council members, for those who can um show up. >> Am I thinking? Oh, include NYC, of course. You guys know second vice president Bonia and council member Rivera will be showing up for our council in order to make sure that we're tableabling and giving information and
showing up for the council. The other thing is we're very proud to say that we have released our annual report. We're going to be having a annual report meeting to just walk people through it. Um we're really proud of the work that we've done. there's a lot more that can be added and we're proud to say that
because we keep getting to show up efficiently and make sure that we're standing in the gap um for our constituents. So, we'll make sure that we have um a copy of that to everyone. We've also been moving forward sending that out to legislators. Um I do want to make the announcement that recording
Secretary White has said yes to be our legislative chair. So, let's give her a round of applause. we're going to be doing some work to walk her through the steps. Um she has had a wonderful heart talking about, you know, hey, let's get these QR codes in these spaces so we can
go out and meet these legislators boots on the ground, not just making the phone calls. And so I applaud you guys. I'm very very very proud of this council and the work that all of you are doing because it is uplifting the community and they need to know that you guys are are heavy-hitting. So I'm proud of
y'all. Okay, the next part I do believe Jazelle, do you you said um the location for is going to be 7:21 Q. I can put the flyer up uh momentarily for um the Queen's location which will be at 9:30
on January 30th for Queen's location for CUNI. Um do we have any other committee updates? Jazelle, I know that you're going to be >> Yes, Miss Bonia. >> Yes, >> real quick. I just wanted to add um that
we were able um to go and pass the vote for the Bronx Hip Hop School opening in September 2026 and I was able to show up with Dr. Hogard and it was very exciting news.
We're looking forward to opening the school and doing the collaboration for our students. >> Wonderful. Thank you so very much. Now, um I don't want to keep putting you on the spot. Uh public advocate um Ramirez, you have we we scheduled uh Gabrielle,
help me. Is it the 16th that we're gonna >> is the um committee you utilization committee committee? >> I think it's inclusion. We're doing inclusion. Your inclusion. Yes. >> No, I think we didn't get the the date yet if I'm correct.
>> Okay. Okay. Well, then let's let's put a pin on that on the back end and we can always move that forward without um any rush and or worry. Gabrielle, can you make sure that we bump up the thread so we can make sure public advocate um Ramirez is situated and set. Um with that being said, I think that's all of
our committee updates. Um in our unfinished business, I know that second vice president Bonia is the only one that saw an email come through about the wellness advisory council. I think council member Rivera might have as well. However, because Bonia did respond first, I want to honor her request. But
I also want to ask, does any other council member want to join the citywide wellness um advisory council? I do believe they meet only once a month and it is virtual. When I did it, it was still virtual. So, I believe so. Any takers?
>> When When is it? >> We um let me see. They actually will be sending out a more specific calendar I believe when we have Hold on. Let me look up the wellness. Gabrielle, if you find it before me in the email, let me know. But I think I can try to grab it quickly. Hold on, y'all. We forwarded it
to the council members, but let me try to accommodate. Hold up. Wellness. >> Let's see. Wellness Advisory Council 2026. Okay. four meetings on February 12th.
>> Thank you. >> March 26, April 16th, and May 28th from 6 to 7:30 that Thursday. >> No. Is it Is that for the conference for the neurodyiversity conference? >> No, no, no. This is a citywide wellness
advisory council and this works on different um health, safety, wellness type of matters and things of that nature. Um, Gabrielle, can you like um would you be able to like quickly maybe grab that screen grab it or something so that we can make sure council members know or read out loud briefly so that
they understand really quickly? >> That was interesting. >> It says, let's see, this is actually an old email. It's their turn. >> Okay. So, you're going to learn effective strategies to implement the
New York City public schools wellness policy which they will work through. You're going to provide feedback on parent and caregiver facing materials and you'll promote the wellness initiatives to families in your communities.
Those are the three mandates for that particular council. I can say it's not something that's going to be very difficult. You will learn a lot um in there and you'll just need to report back when you come. So, Council Member Bonia would be the main person and then the other person would be an alternate.
>> Uh I would like to participate. >> Uh council member uh public advocate Ramirez. >> Yes. >> Okay. Uh thank you so much Gabrielle. Can we please uh note on record for the wellness advisory we would have um let's put
oh council member Rivera said she wanted to be let's add let's add all three let's have an alternate for the alternate let's put on um Rivera let's put on PA Ramirez and let's put on Bonia as the
main um member that will be a part of it and we'll make sure that we delegate appropriately. I'll make sure that you guys have access. Um I do see you speaking um in the chat, Council Member Rivera. We'll make sure that you absolutely have access. So, let's make sure we have that noted and on record.
Thank you so much, Gabrielle, for pulling that up on screen. Do we have any new business that we want to add to our business meeting? Is that something? >> None. Uh, Council Member Rivera, you
have the floor. Are you able to unmute or should I read the chat? Can we add home instruction to our next meeting to follow the resolution? Thank you for bringing that up, council member. Um
what we should probably do um what my guidance would be we will move as a council of course um because we wrote the resolution and because we have specificity we're asking for amendments. We ask for a town hall and a separate meeting. If we bring them specifically
just into a meeting that would end up kind of shortch changing what we're asking for as a council. So that's my feedback in that regard. If council members are saying, "Hey, let's give them 15 minutes to jump in and say this is what hospital schools are. This is
what home instruction is." And then we also have that separate workshop. I think that's fine as well. Do we have any feedback from council members there? Actually, that's a great part um to bring up. I'll bring up that in my um in
my report. We have had some Let's see. Gotcha. Yes, we would always have to have updates. So guys, it's great that council member Rivera is speaking up on those parts. For everyone that is going to be a part of a working group, please
do know you will be giving updates to the council about your work and what you're doing so that we can all remain in accountability um to what we are doing. Now, I do see the joint public hearings under new business. I almost forgot that guys. So, we do have three
coming up. Gabrielle, are you able to show that really quickly? Thank you. I I Let's see. So, I have my name down there for Queens. Anybody can join this call, guys. We want to encourage you to show up. They're generally maybe 15 20ish minutes.
They're not very long, actually. They're very informative. We do have committee meetings and community meetings. And when those are available, they will also be on this joint public hearing list. So, if we have visits that are having anything to do with a school that's
truncated or merging or things of that nature and it is available, it will be on this list for any of the walkthroughs, any um of the community or SLT um virtual things and for the virtual joint public hearing meetings.
Gabrielle is doing a great job keeping us updated. There is a Bronx proposal that should be coming out this Friday. So please do look for that in your emails. You guys are being forwarded every single email from the council. So
please do try to make a VIP folder so that you can find those items. We will always keep a tracking guide. But in your folders, excuse me, in your emails, you will have the education impact statements. You will have the information that you will need to be
responsible for knowing when you come into the meetings. We can chat on our one to ones when I check in with you guys if you want further information just so you don't feel kind of thrown out of the loop of what is a joint public hearing. I don't know what to say in front of someone. I don't want you guys to feel illprepared or anything of
that nature. So, we can always make sure that we chat offline and that you guys feel comfortable um and knowledgeable as you step into these spaces that are mandated by law for us. So, we want to make sure that we stay accountable. Do we have any other questions? Um, Vice
President Bonia put something. Are we? Yes, that should actually be in our shared drive. Uh, Vice President Bonia. Um, we can double check, but it absolutely should be into the shared drive. Are we able I think those are the last items, guys. I want you to I believe in
the printout that you have under the council member questions that we did originally, there are our goals. It says suggested because this was printed out before we voted. These are the goals that we are responsible for for the end of this year. We're voting
on goals every single year. So, these are the things that we said we want to do. So, we want to make sure that we're still upholding these items and trying to push these initiatives and things through by June 30th. Um, we can always make sure that we, like I said, we move behind the scenes in the email. If we
need to have any working groups, we definitely do that. We invite the public to come in on our committees and things of that nature, but we do have to make sure that as things are speeding up and moving forward, we have to break out in great spaces, delegate, and make sure that we get our work done. With that
being said, I believe we have no more new business under the business meeting. Do we have a motion to adjourn? >> Oh, I motion to adjurnn. >> Do we have a second? >> A second. We are motioning to uh adjourn
our business meeting at 7:41 p.m. We are now moving into the citywide council for district 75's calendar meeting which we are starting at 7:41 p.m. Timekeeper, will you remain for us? >> Yes.
>> Thank you so much. Recording Secretary White, may we go into a roll call vote? >> Correct. Um, Assuma Octar, Rebecca Alli, >> Christy Angel, >> present, >> Stephanie Bonia, >> Joanna Gomez,
>> Ramirez, >> present, >> Jessica Rivera, >> present online, >> Stewart, >> Michelle White, >> Fidi, >> we're gonna next meeting. I'm gonna have it together.
>> She sit on that chair. >> Oh, I'm muted. We do have Corum. We may now move forward into our calendar meeting. Thank you so much for putting the um agenda back on the screen. The approval of minutes. Um council, may we move that over to the February
meeting. I do have an appointment with our AA Gabrielle and with recording secretary White just to make sure that we have everything super tight on behalf of the council and for our records. Would that be okay? >> Yes, >> Gabrielle. We're going to make sure that
we have the approval of the November, December, and January minutes added onto our February calendar. We will now move into our Treasury report. Do we have the budget that we can pull up?
And while we're waiting to pull the budget up, um, Treasurer Ally, I want you to know that I did make sure we talk to the SGO so that he, um, has that line item for our PC card so we know what the remaining amount is in addition to the um, form that Gabrielle's submitting to
us so we can accurately uh, make sure our budget is okay. However, additionally, our money's moved inappropriately from one line from that um local food and travel. Accidentally, our purchase order for include NYC came
out of that versus the um the parent side um of our it's not parent advocacy, but our parent um side. So, we're moving that back to the correct place. And then there'll be some guys some edits that we have to do because we're only going to be able to move our finances one last
time in March. So, we'll make a change of some numbers and things and make a vote about that um in March so we can get all of our purchase orders. That would be stuff that would go for our vendors for our food items for the end of the year event or if we do any level
of event and we need any level of food or any level of item that we can get from a vendor, we would need to have those purchase orders ready to go in March, even if we're using it between March and June. So, that's just a heads up to have. Um,
Treasurer Ally, I give you the floor. >> Thank you, M. Oh, uh, Anthony has something to say before I move on. >> Our face representative. >> Yes. >> Okay. Anthony, you you have the floor. You have a question. >> Yeah. Just wanted to let everybody know
that the equipment line, the last day to modify that line is January 28th. >> Okay. Thank you. I don't think we're buying any more um equipment, but council members, what we can do also, Gabrielle, let's make sure that we let everybody know the full deadlines that
um Mo sent over to us. Just so that you guys aware how we're moving um when it comes to the different deadlines in case one of you guys may want to be a treasurer another day, you know, like these are deadlines. This is how central moves and things of that nature. So, we'll make sure that we provide that to
the full council so you have that information. notes everyone, please. All right. Yeah. >> All right. >> Go ahead, Treasure Al. >> So, for this is the budget for January.
Um, and so, so we committed once again our wick subscription $59. It is taken out of our PE card. Our balance there is 11.64. It's not it's not written here. Uh the balance is I
believe 975. Gabrielle, can you make sure to pull up the pecard information after um Treasurer Ally goes through so that we can see the accurate amount. I thought it had been noted on the document I had before, but I guess it's it's not here. >> Okay.
>> Uh then the 80822 is for the owl as if I recall correctly, right? >> Yes. >> Yes. I just wanted to make sure. So we allocated the $88 80822. To that we have a balance left of
$591.78 for equipment. Then we have the 300 for a New York City nice. That's a standing deduction. And then we reimburse our parents $4,950.
So collectively for the month of January dece January dece December I'm sorry $7,55822 cents was spent and we have a balance of $17,441.71. >> Thank you. >> That's all. >> Thank you so much, Treasur Ally. Um
Gabrielle, did you have the other documents um at least printed out or can we put that up so that council members can see? Yeah, >> that might be a little bit blurry, but that's the this is the December. So, $916
is what's currently >> okay, >> that might I think 916 in the available balance. I'm not sure when the next uh charge comes through for Wix, but we also use this card um for Canva that is going to be a monthly charge that is
coming out. No, no, we paid one. >> We're paying the year. >> Yeah, we voted for the year. >> Thank you. Thank you for that correction, guys. So, then we are situated. Yes. >> Yes. Next month it'll be we'll see all of that. It will be deducted. Okay.
>> Thank you. And that should be um being able to pull up I don't know if we pulled up that statement to show um the members before, but as of right now, we do have $916 remaining on the PECARD out of the 1500 that we allocated. and we'll make sure that uh Treasur Alli
that you have these statements um and other things that you need in addition to the budget uh to do the report. >> No problem. Thank you. >> You're more than welcome. Thank you as well. Um can we pull up the agenda to see what the next item is? >> I have questions about the budget.
>> Oh yes, absolutely. Um Vice President Second Vice President Boner, you have the floor. >> You can unmute. >> Can we put the budget back up, please? Wow. Can we look at the on the left side the
OCPS side where the names are? There was something about Gabrielle. Can you bring in um Sorry guys, we want to keep equity. We need to allow one of our Spanish people back on the team side. They dropped. >> You said allow what? I'm sorry. We're making sure that one of the um
interpreters is is able to get in. They had dropped for Spanish. We want to make sure we still have them there. Okay. Go ahead. You have the floor now. >> I was asking about the transportation. >> Yes. So that line where it says the 300 500 are you which go up which
>> yes it was a transportation line >> local travel and meeting expenses that line 22. >> Yes. >> Thank you. Okay. So that line which was used inappropriately which was I was was what I was speaking about earlier, the $500 is going to be not where the $300
for include new NYC comes from. That line is specifically for travel for our AA if she needs to take a Uber or take the subway or do something different to get to any of our meetings, any of our events, whatever that may be. If she
does not use that, then the meeting expenses, we use that for purchase orders where we can pull in like some extra food or some extra drinks or some extra waters or something here and there if we have meetings. So, that's what that line is for for the $500.
>> No problem. My other question is if we could have the SGO come meet with the council. That way they could um just go over like the deadlines how they do in the beginning of the year since some members are new. I think that would help.
>> We can definitely look into that and then we can also Gabrielle can you go ahead and just drop the um drop it into the actual chat so that we can keep it transparent for everyone. And I really wanted to ask to see if maybe next year we could add a swag line.
>> Uhhuh. No, that um we have that's that's a whole different story. You'd have to look through um the procedures and what we're even allowed um to do. There's we can't >> I know that's why I want the SGO to come because I was allowed to >> Yeah. There's some things that um we
cannot purchase um and there are some things that we use our illustrious district to help us with. Um, but also we can make sure to send you the guide where you can actually see >> bullet point by bullet point what you can and cannot purchase. We can make sure one moment we can make sure that
you do have that information and then we can definitely see if Mo's able to jump on. We do have many on the line now who actually did state that the deadline is going to be on the 2nd, which means many. We're going to go ahead and beg you now for a couple of days because our meeting is actually that first Wednesday
unless the council does a special meeting. So, I'm hoping that you guys can give us a little bit of an extension for those couple of days for our council meeting to make sure that we can get those. >> Thank you. So, Minnie is the SGO. You're saying >> many is not our senior grants officer.
No. um we have another person named Ismael. So we can work through that. But I'll tell you guys now there's a different um kind of flow with things. So we'll talk to face and the SGOs's and just see what kind of level of presentation they can do because I don't want to give the idea that every council
member will be able to speak to our SGO. They gave us issues for the president speaking. So I definitely will make sure to give you guys the level of access that we can with him speaking and helping you guys understand. sending you guys the documents and the um is it a
SOP? Whatever the doc Manny help me out the documents that help you guys understand what we can and can't do, i.e. what the AA can and can't do because we cannot do anything with the budget outside of created and then she goes in and does that part and then
speaks on our behalf with um the SGTO. But I got your back. We'll make >> Christy. Um so >> who's speaking? I'm sorry. >> Can you hear me? Who? Yes, but I can't see who it is. >> Let me put my camera on. Can you see me now?
>> Minnie, yes. Mini Pson, go for it. Thank you. >> So, um, there are guidelines on what the SGO can do and cannot do. So, the SGO normally works with the AA and then the AA gives that information to the parents. And in terms of the deadline, so I let
Mohawk know that you're asking for an exception to the deadline. So, >> thank you. And while we have the district speaking, guys, I'm deadlines and I'll attach it into the Zoom chat so you have it before we leave this meeting. >> Okay. >> All right. Thank you. >> Thank you so much.
>> What was the um we didn't understand what Miss Bonia >> we didn't hear what she was talking about what she wanted. >> Well, Nia just wanted to know basically how do we look at all of our budget lines? What do those lines mean? Can the
SGO explain it? And I was saying that we can definitely give you guys the information because there's forms that the AA uses that says this is what the council has a guideline and how they can use their monies. This is what you can't buy. This is what you can buy. Her initial question was can we make a swag
line and for that my honest answer would technically be nope. Because as a treasure for a few years I know that there were items we absolutely could not buy. Um but we can make different um purchase orders and things with vendors and we can figure it out. Where there is
a will, there is a way. >> And I also wanted just everyone to have a better platform. >> Let's make sure we want to make sure that everybody has the floor appropriately so we can move through the meeting. Um Vice President Bonia, you had something else that you want to add in regard to what we're on topic for.
>> Yes. I just wanted everyone to have a better clarity because usually this there's a SGO presentation done in the beginning of the um when we join a council. So I think that would be helpful for everyone have a better
understanding about is the presentation that Face does. Um we've never presentation of the STOs. >> Well, we'll go ahead. I'll make sure on the back end that we look at what can be uh tangible and available for the council. Thank you once again, Vice President Bonia, for bringing that up.
Can we move on to the next item on the agenda if there are no further questions in regard to the budget? >> All right. And the next item, Gary available >> report.
>> Oh, thank you. I'm trying to make sure we move along and then get the district their time. So, I'm going to try to make this uh brief per usual. Y'all know how um I usually get down with it. So, let me see what So, I gave you guys an update in regard
to the different spaces that we're moving with our initiatives. We want to say thank you again for the district leadership. Um, they've been really wonderful. Again, congratulations to Dr. McCoy. We know over the holidays that she has been affirmed and she is our new superintendent. So, we're really happy
about the partnership in that space. Today, we were able to go to Staten Island where we visited with the chancellor. It was really great because we got a meet um a moment to have some of our district 75 students speak, some of the children that were ambassadors in the school speak and they shared um a
lot of great updates and ideas for what we should look at and prioritize or the chancellor should look at. And he was really wonderful with our children. It was great seeing Deputy Fod there, um, Chief Andy Corso. Um, we actually had Christy uh, Monttovan who is our district 75 representative. It was a
really great um, space and it was wonderful to be in shared partnership again as we have several things that are going to be important in student facing engagements. We want to remember about the include NYC fair and the 27th as we said the puppetry and education and on
the 30th again we have the um excuse me the pipeline with the substitute pair professionals. Now one other thing that we've been talking about with the district is internships. I know some of you guys are like what does that mean? Under outreach I believe that we need to
have interns whether it's our council or the district. There's a lot of spaces where we don't have a lot of bodies and we need them. And if we can bring in students where they are appropriately in the correct field and it matches up with the work that we need all over the district with the office, I think that's
wonderful. They're now looking at mapping out what they could possibly look like um to kind of beef up and find ways to actually teach our different students that may be coming into District 75. So, that's exciting. Along with that, we do have our Queens Library
Initiative. As you guys know, we're trying to make Clean's library inclusive. So, thank you, Natalie McQueen, for jumping on a quick call um with us. We've uh talked to the different people in the library. They have spaces for inclusion, spaces for
transition. They want to be able to have trainings. They want to have sensory meet and greets. Council members, if you want in, please say yes. There's a lot of work that we can uplift. We've reached out to the Queensboro president to see where they can attach into this as well. And we've also reached out to
our district 75 um presidents and the different council representatives that may want to jump in on this because it will be another um undertaking that will help build skills for our families and our children and let them know that they are included because libraries are loud now. So we're
excited about being able to work on that in addition to exploring workforce readiness and community based needs for our students. Um, we're also working on, we know members wanted to create like this different pipeline with OPWDD and we've been fleshing out what that can look like. Thank you, Council Member
Rivera. Thank you, public advocate Ramirez. Um, any other council members that want in on this. It will be a working group. We want to look at how can we follow up better with OPWD to better understand how we track our students um, as they move beyond school.
As we know, when our students graduate, they're adults, >> which means we don't have access to their information. So, that is a great place that we could at minimum start. That can be fleshed out in any kind of way that we want to, but we want to try to make sure that it's something that we
can stand up and with and it can continue as a partnership with OPWD. Lastly, thank you council members that showed up for our coat drive conversation. the district has been just wonderful in partnership and in hearing our voices and working with the council.
Um we are looking to create a co-drive. Um the district may speak more about that. We're looking at short-term maybe annual long-term. There's a lot of different pieces in it. But I want to thank um council member Rivera. Thank you council member um Bonia, council
member Ali uh Ramirez Masuma Akar. Everybody joined in. Everybody raised voices and had great ideas. So, we're grateful for the work that you're doing. We're also working on our school visits, guys. We want to say that through the capacity and utilization, we're going 0
through 10 for accessibility. So, we have a grouping of schools that we're going through. Now, we have already sent that out. We're going to be uplifting those schools. Again, please let me know which um burrows that you want to go through. We can kind of be lenient about
the dates to make sure that you guys can attend, too. We don't just want it to be me and Dr. McCoy. You know, we'll get it done and you're going to be invited to all of those schools that we go through zero through 10. We're still in the zeros and ones, but we're going to go ahead and make sure that we have those
groupings, three to four schools per burrow. It may not work out like that depending on how the scheduling goes with the district. We have to kind of work with Dr. McCoy and work with the district uh and with Dr. Hoger, but we will get those things going and moving with our resolutions, guys. We're going
to make an additional packet that goes through our legislative guide so that people know, I've heard you. I've heard your voices, guys. They're saying, "Listen, we're doing a lot of great work with the council. People may not know about the cutuny pipeline. People may not know about our blog. People may not know about all the great resolutions that we're doing, which means we need to
make sure that we're making that tangible because they're legal documents that help us push through and get the work done with our council and with our constituents. Again, looking ahead on February 7th, we do have another peer group that's happening with the
district. We will be having our digital ambassadors back again. Hopefully, we can have um more council members who can show up. If any of you guys want to contribute, please know you're always open and welcome to join. We want to help our families navigate through
digital systems and across the schools. Finally, again, the council's annual report has been released, guys. We want to make sure that we have if you can join the meeting, we can I'll find something behind the scenes that works for council members so you guys can be familiar with what we're trying to do, what we're trying to report, and any
gaps where you may feel that we need to fill in. Lastly, the council has gotten moving on um the working group for home instruction. We have several members that are in there. We have several um deliverables that we're working on and we will be meeting again on tomorrow at
8:30 in the morning. any members that want to join and continue the work, please do so. And that is my wrap-up. So, thank you guys um so much once again. And I believe we'll now give the floor over to our new superintendent.
>> Hello and good night all. Thank you guys. Awesome job, President Christie. Thank you so much. And thank you to all of our D75 council members who were on. And congratulations to our new member. I don't want to say her name because I
probably will jack it up. I'll try. Um, no, I won't try. But just congratulations and thank you and welcome to everyone else that's on. So, I want to quickly try to share my screen. Let's see if this works. All right.
Can you guys see it? Awesome. All right. Cool. So, we're going to go through some superintendent updates and then I'm going to turn it over to Dr. the hugard and he's going to share some other pieces. Um, so really quick, on Saturday, December 20th, we had an
amazing stressfree Saturday event. It was held in the Bronx. Want to definitely shout out uh President, not President, sorry, not President um Christie. I can shout you out, too. But I want to shout out uh Sasha who did an amazing job putting this together with
Patricia Oliver. They're working on this stress-free Saturday and it was truly stress free. I actually not only did I meet the Bronx Burough President Vanessa Gibson. But I got a mini massage like uh it was and it was really really good.
Like my body was actually aching cuz he used like this machine on my back. It felt really good but it was also very painful but it felt like it was good pain. And I was like this is just so relaxing. And she was in there also and just talking. And we were in there for a while. We also did some dancing, some
yoga. Wanda was present. We had Remma Bonita was there. It was awesome. It was fun. A lot of people. And I know that we are going to be taking it to the other burrows. So definitely want to shout them out. They had raffles going. We had
some art going and it was just a really nice organized community. Um just great people. And they gave giveaway bags of a lot of food that they had. It was just really really fun. They had lunch. Uh the burough president, Bronx Burough President, she spoke. We took pictures.
I know they were all over Instagram as far as I know and District 75 um Instagram page and the District 75 Instagram page. So, it was really, really, really a great time. So, definitely want to shout them out and all who attended. And if you didn't get a chance to attend, we will be again
coming to the various burrows. And I hope you guys can make it cuz it was great. and we had over 115 families attend this event. So definitely again want to shout out Patricia Oliver who's taking the hem of this and leading this work with Sasha. Awesome awesome job. So
we've been on a little road trip with a chancellor. Um we I was with him and and two principles and a few of our um parents on the fir the 5th actually when soon as we returned we were at 168x. It
was awesome. It was a lot of people and it was great to just hear from him and he um met some of our students. We brought our students to him and he was very warm, very welcoming and the students really really take to him and I love the way he speaks to them. Um he
actually showcased that also today at 7:21K. Uh President Christie was present. um and he has his focal area that he's focusing on and the way he interacts with people as a whole and also with our students. I'm just really
really taken back and loving what I'm seeing and observing from him. So, um congratulations to him and I know that he's going to be visiting many more schools. Um so, I'm just hoping more parents we will come out, we will meet him. you'll get be able to, you know,
voice how you feel and what direction, some thoughts and some ideas for him for his direction that he's going with families. Um, but he does have a lot of great ideas. Smart, very smart. And I like he listens. He's listening. He's taking it in and um and building. So,
we're going to be definitely supporting him and his work. Okay. Um, so today I had a lot of check-ins after the 721K visit. Um we know that um one of the deputy superintendents is on a medical leave.
So Dr. Huggard and I have taken that work and really started to spread the work out amongst the district and really starting to look at the district and make you know a few changes of the district organization as a whole. So today I had a check-in with Crystal who
is the director of um literacy and we talked a lot about literacy. We talked a lot about the direction it's going to go. We talked a lot about uh the second implementation visit and basically that's a group of different support staff from the district that's going to be going into the school
systems and going into the literacy classes and making sure that they're doing New York City reads correctly and supporting the schools. I then had a conversation with De'ar who is doing the New York City solves. We had a check-in and it's going to be an ongoing check-in
and we also had the same conversation. they are really stepping up and doing an amazing job and their thoughts and ideas moving this work and pushing this work forward um is really going to be really great for our school community. I also told dear that the chancellor's favorite
subject is math because that was one of our students questions today to him. um he loves math and he's really going to be looking at New York City solves to make sure that our students are really um understanding the math really understanding the concepts in the math
and pushing that work. So I did have that conversation with deer to make sure that we really are supporting schools and making sure that our scholars are really understanding the material. Then I had a conversation with the teacher effectiveness team that's Kim and Kristen. We spoke about um one of our uh
uh managerial directors will be uh retiring um soon uh I believe this week or next week. I think it's the 14th. So um we're going to be looking at her position and not only posting it, but also looking until we get someone for that position, how we can make sure that the principles and the school
communities are still supported. Um, so divvying up that work. I talked to Kim and Kristen and we have a clear understanding of what that's going to look like to support those schools um with anything that they're asking within the realm of that. I will let Dr. Hugger
talk about um our uh father's alliance um which will be resuming January 26. So I think that's all for me. Wait, right. Let me see. Yep. And I'm going to turn it over to Dr. Dr. Harot, are you there?
>> Yes, I am. Yes, I am. Thank you so much, Dr. McCoy. Good to see everybody. Good to see everybody. Good evening. >> Um, just a just a few updates uh to to touch a little bit on what Dr. McCoy talked about when it comes to our STEM office um the year. Um we had uh hosted a family science lunch and learn with
over family 40 families that joined us. Um throughout the science lunch and learn, families explored simple hands-on ways to do science at home using everyday materials. Um activities focused on understanding water, land, and air, and how science connects to
daily life. And um you know, just talking to the team, the families, they came out, they showed up, they showed out, they had a good time. Um they they learned ways in which they could um plant gardens, they did planting and gardening activities. And um and if if you were unable to attend um materials
will be shared soon on the D75 website via a QR code. So as soon as that information is uploaded on on the website, we'll make sure that our office send notification out to you so that you can gather the materials from the from the schools the district's website. We also I'm excited to share that we have
our district 75 Saturday arts academy winter session happening um is back this winter. The program begin it begins and brings students and families together to participate in music, dance, theater, um STEM activities and um families learn
alongside their children engage in activities such as percussion and movement with music. Um we have theater games. We have hands-on STEM projects, building models and neighborhoods, playgrounds and skyscrapers. Um this year the program is expanded to seven
consecutive Saturdays and it includes an additional elementary course option. So um teaching artists will be um available and present um from from our community partners such as Yafa Arts Brooklyn um of music um epic players. We also have this center uh for architect that's
going to be a part of it. Families will also learn about community- based programs. They can continue outside of school. So, is we we're we're really looking to make sure that we embed activities that our families and students could walk away with and actually, you know, um um utilize these
resources and activities when they're away from the school building. Our goal is to help students and families build lifelong connections around their interest and passion. The Saturday Arts Academy dates are January 31st. And again, we're going to share this
February 7th, February 28th, March 7th, March 14th, March 21st, and March 28th. And the locations, we have five locations. In Manhattan, the arts um program is going to be at Kips Bay, um the District
75 district office. Uh we have uh South Bronx 811X. We have in Brooklyn 396K, Brownsville. In Queens, we have Pline Q. And in Staten Island, we have P37R. And the class times for elementary and
middle school are going to be from 11 to 12. And then for uh the elementary performing arts, middle and high school student, the in transition postsecondary planning, the time is going to be 12:30 to 1:30. And with regards to our transition and post-secondary planning,
we have upcoming parent workshops. On January 22nd, we have a workshop on guardianship and future planning. Um, we have on January 27th disability programs and inclusion initiatives. It's going to be from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. And again, this information
will be shared and uploaded to our district website. On January 28th, we from 6:00 to 7:00 pm, we have a workshop on social security and benefits workshops. And on February 10th from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m., we have guardianship
17A um filling out the forms, step-by-step guidance for families on completing petitions independently. So, please look forward um to these workshops. I know Nora, Patricia, they'll make sure that the calendar is uploaded. I'm sure it's uploaded somewhere on um our district website. They'll be sure to share that
information with you. and um summer youth employment program. Uh summer youth employment applications will open soon for youth ages 14 to 21. D75 will share application information. We will also host information sessions for
families and schools. Our goal this year is to serve over 1,000 students. Again, that's our goal. We're going to aim for um over 10,000 students. And this is a great opportunity for students to gain work experience and career exposure. Thank you so much, guys. Thank you,
Nora. Patricia, gonna pass it on to you. >> Hey, good evening, um, District 75 families. Thank you, CCD75. Happy New Year to everyone. Um, I hope we had a restful break with your families. Um, in terms of family engagement, um, I know Patricia will
share more about the stress-free Saturday. Um, but I just want to put on a focus on the New York City schools account. Um, we talk about this every month during these meetings, but it it remains to be one of our focus. Um, we
want to ensure that our families have a New York City schools account. Right now, the numbers the percentage has risen. So, uh, we are at 74.2% 2% as a district of our families have a New York City schools account, but it continues
to be an an initiative and a a point of concern. We want to make sure that all of you have your New York City schools account in Nixa. Um in February, one of the upcoming events is the family peer group on February 7th. It's here at the district
office at 4001st Avenue and all district 75 families across the five burrows are invited to attend. Um this month the focus will be on having f three different workshops. It's from 10 to 1. Um the first will focus on the love
languages and parenting understanding that our children although they may not have verbal communication they express love in so many different ways and you will learn what those different ways are and how we can support our students, our families and um it is an incredible
workshop and and I hope that you're able to participate. We're also going to in uh welcome include NYC as they continue their series with district 75 parent peer group. And this and this day we're going to be talking about advocacy
skills for families. And um this is another great workshop to participate and to learn how we can better advocate for our students and their students needs. And finally and not and and definitely not least is um I'm very proud to partner with uh President uh
Christy Angel from CCD75 and I thank her for her digital ambassadorship program that she is facilitating on behalf of the council on uh Saturday's parent peer groups and it's an incredible workshop. last uh our last meeting parents who
didn't have a New York City schools account were able to walk out with their account set up and those who couldn't um I was I reached out to them later on and was able to support them. The best part of this day is that there will be child care, we will have lunch and we will
have interpretation services in Spanish, Mandarin and Bangla. So we we truly welcome you and we hope that you can join us on Saturday, February 7th. Patricia, >> good evening families. Um, just to kind
of piggyback off of Dr. McCoy, um, and the stress-free Saturday, the first one that we had, it was amazing. Um, I think what was like the best part was coming up to the families, the families coming up to me and saying like, "This is
something that I needed and I never got a massage before." and um just one one mom, you know, she kept saying, "I I've never been away from my my my son." And you know, I I don't really have family support and I she kept coming back to me
and saying, "Is it okay? Like, you know, can I really enjoy this time by myself and just hearing, you know, um the families coming up and she came to towards the end and it was just an amazing moment. and she came and she hugged me and she had tears in her eyes and she said you know I felt very
relieved and you know that that just like you know made me know that um this was something that was needed for the families and uh so coming up me and Sasha we had a meeting with the Brooklyn BP's office we have upcoming dates of
April 14th um I believe it is for the Brooklyn event on Friday we will be speaking to the Queens BP and locking in date for the queen's um event, you know. So, we want to do this bigger and better. And all in all, we want the focus to be on the families. You know,
that we always put emphasis on the students and we know they're going to be taken care of. You know, we looking through all the stuff and all the programs and things that we're implementing and advocating from, you know, being a parent to being in the district office and, you know, just all the the parent leadership and, you know, things that go on behind the scenes. So,
I think it's a moment just to relax and enjoy and sit back. And Dr. McCoy, you know, the pictures I was going through through the pictures and she was really getting it on and she had on heels. She had on heels and she was in that little dance circle and I, you know, I'm pretty sure everybody walked away with a good time. So, um, thank you guys again. Um,
registrations will be sent out shortly and have a good evening. Thank you. >> I I do have one more update um on behalf of Dr. Hogard. He asked me to share um about the father's alliance meeting. Um
the upcoming meeting is uh fe January 26. Um the PBI PBIS coach uh uh uh TWAPA will be joining us. The district 75 PBIS coach uh TWA is going to join us and
facilitate a um the conversation. It's going to be an incredible evening. um she will be discussing um you know the how to care self-care um for fathers and it's going to be specific and it's been a a wonderful topic. It's a dad
care self-care session. Um and so we welcome all district 75 families to join us uh for this father's alliance meeting. Um, I'll put the registration links for uh the parent peer group and the uh f the father's alliance meeting
in the chat so that way uh families can register. Thank you. Have a good night. >> And really quick before we turn it over, I think I said 721K. I meant to say 721R. So, I just want to make that correction.
Thank you. Are those all of the district updates? >> Sure. Uh, let me ask Sasha, do you want to share anything? In the spirit of um the all the amazing work and the collaboration, I just want to say just a thank you to the council,
particularly to our pre president Christy Angel and and her entire team for the openness and collaboration and support. It's just been an really really supportive time and I just want to say thank you on behalf of all of us. Um and thank you all for all that you do and
that we will continue to do together. Thank you. Yes, I second that really quick before I turn it over. Thank you for all of your support, um, all of the ideas that the council brings. I know that the best is yet to come. Um, and I'm just proud to be the superintendent
to work with such a group that we're going to really evolve and push forth D75 to the next level. So, thank you guys so much. Um, I'm not sure if we have any other updates, but council members, for the sake of time, those of you that are there, do you have any questions? I
believe uh public advocate Ramirez, you said you had a question that you wanted to ask, are we able to unmute for uh PA Ramirez? Okay. Um yes. Um Dr. Howard, if um they going to open more staff for the Saturday academy,
um a lot of parents including we we were ending uh waiting list. >> Say that again. You said that they're going to open up more more sites, >> more sites like um when we try to like
um you know go through like register it says that there's no more um opening for the Saturday >> and and what burrow is that? >> The Bronx. >> Okay. Um absolutely. I just want to track and see where the utilization is.
Um and Dr. Hagard and Dr. McCoy. Um I can ask um um the team that runs the the weekendmies um to see what the status of that is. >> Thank you chief. >> Of course. >> Any other questions from the any
questions from the council? >> No, but I do want to uplift again. We need some data from summarizing please. Um I know I flagged it, Eddie, so I'm just flagging it one more time. Um check in um in one of our other check-ins. We want to make sure that we get that
information over to council members. Guys, our district leadership team meeting is tomorrow. If we can share that um flyer, parents, this meeting is open. You are invited to come. If you do need um interpretation, it might be a
little bit late by now, but normally it it is a must that you email um the district. Uh Nora, can you put the email in need to email so that we can make sure they have interpretation if needed, please? Um, additionally, um, council
members, can we pull up the, uh, flyer from CUNI? Um, Gabrielle for the neurode divergent conference. PA Ramirez wants to uplift. Guys, we want to, um, look at two different topics that we may be able to present as a council at the neurode divergent
conference. We just will need to bring up a I think 200word pitch, but that needs to be done by January 20th. Can we pull up that document really quickly? Ah, there it is. All right. Um, screen. Oops. We're having technology fun today. So,
the two items should be listed. Um, I can't see this too clearly. Can you call them out? Somebody who can see the um agenda. I can't see that very clearly on this side. >> It's in the agenda for the
Yeah, I can't see that, Gabrielle. Um um >> can we pull the agenda back up just to uh we want to save time a little bit guys here uh so we can give the parents space to be able to talk. So this should be so we didn't put it neurody divergent
two items righty we did not >> um >> they're under >> I don't yes say neurody divergent but there was two topics that we wanted to consider that should have been listed so we need to go back to
pa uh Ramirez do you have that available so we can try to move a little bit quickly um for the two items that we may try to vote between. >> Yes. >> I think it was inclusion strategies. We can talk about some stuff that we've done and initiatives and we can build
that out um for the conference or maybe we can talk about reflections about um different things that we've experienced neurode divergently with district 75 and we can tie that in where we give different members a voice um within that breakout session. So how are people
feeling about the inclusion strategies? I think that's kind of cool because we can talk about the different initiatives and possibly bring in different partnerships that are available there or maybe the reflections. I want to give it back to PA Ramirez because you did uplift it to the council. So
>> So this year theme is fostering nario divergent joy in higher education. So, I think we can probably if we get selected uh we can probably talk about um the wellness um program also all of
the things that we did last year like the back to school and um also our outreach parents and things like that and how that promotes joy um and in the families because community and most of our
families experience isolation actually 64% of our parents. So um >> inclusion strategies is what I'm hearing you say. >> Yes. So and how they can that help to develop joy in the neighbor to the community.
>> Wonderful. Council members, do we have any feedback there in um trying to get um some wording done which we can definitely get together as I say on the back end. Vice President uh Gomez, you have the floor. Yes, I definitely >> I will I will add to that since it is a
CUTUNI conference, some of the um CUTUNI schools have the CUTUNI unlimited program. It's a pilot program that actually caters to neurode divergent students. So you might want to actually partner with individuals that are already in CUNI so that you can see how
the transition has been working for those students that are already in the university and then um link that up to the kids that are actually in high school. Um so you propos have a relationship with Unlimited so we could easily um make that happen. If
everybody is in agreement, do we have a motion that we um put a pitch forward for the cutuny neurody divergent conference for the inclusion strategies from CCD75? >> We have a motion from PA Ramirez. Do we have a second?
>> I second. Joanna Gomez, >> uh recording Secretary White, may we move into a roll call vote? >> Um I'm sorry. Um, Rebecca Ally, >> yes. >> Christy Angel,
>> yes. >> Stephanie Bonia, >> yes. >> Yanna Gomez, >> yes. >> Jessica Rivera, >> she writes it in the chat.
I don't see anything from Council Member Rivera in the chat as of yet. >> Um, Jazelle Ramirez. >> Um, yes. >> Sharon Stewart, yes. >> Michelle White, yes. >> FA, how many?
>> Oh, eight. Eight yes. >> All right. Eight yeses. The motion has passed. Congratulations to the council. We are going to look to PA Ramirez to give us points on this so we can get something together and get it uh
submitted by the 20th. Also guys, we're going to talk a little bit next month about what we're doing with Foodstream. Rebecca Alli and Jazelle Ramirez and myself and a couple other people are trying to get some work done with the gardening sustainability and hopefully once we pitch it a cookoff with all of
the different burrows. So we are looking forward to the excitement and partnership that we can have with the district. We now want to move into public Q&A. Um if you have any questions and you're in the chat, please feel free to raise your hand so that you may be given the floor.
As always, if you don't have any questions now and you have them later, you may always reach out to d75 counsel at schools.gov and we will make sure to get you to the right council person to expedite and uplift your situations.
Council members, do we have any further questions or considerations from you? I do not see anything in the chat as of right now. >> None from the members that are present. >> Wonderful. Okay. So, our next meeting will be, if I am correct, February 7th.
Is that correct, Gabrielle? February 7th. Um, we will have our next meeting. We will have that on CCD 4th. >> Yeah, >> I stand corrected. February 4th, that is a Wednesday. at 6:30 p.m. We will be back here same place, same time, and
with great technology and a new member. We are so proud and very happy of the work that we're doing, guys. We have a lot more to do with um before the next month, but thank you again as always for your work. Thank you, district, for your partnership. We will see you guys again soon. This will be on CCD75 outreach on
YouTube. Uh do we have a motion to adjourn? All right. >> I motion to adjourn this meeting at 8:31 p.m. >> Do we have a second? >> I second. >> Thank you guys so much. Our meeting for the calendar meeting is adjourned at
8:32 p.m. We may now release our interpreters. You guys stay warm, stay involved, and thank you guys for coming. Council members, let us know that you made it home soon and carefully. And again, see see you guys later. You know I'm gonna go on forever if y'all stop.
>> Thank you. Good night. Dave. Hi guys.