Thank you so much, Vice President Bonia. You have the floor. Thank you, President Angel. Welcome everyone. Good evening. Thank you for joining capacity and utilization committee meeting. My name is Stephanie Bonija, chair of capacity and
utilization with my co-chair, Mr. Craig Spencer. Today we tonight tonight we will be reviewing how capacity and utilization impacts our students and why this work is critical.
Thank you. The purpose of this committee is to monitor how to how school space is used and to ensure district 75 students are placed in safe, appropriate and accessible environments. This includes
reviewing new sites, expansions and collocations. Next slide, please. Thank you. Capacity refers to capacity versus utilization. Capacity refers to how many students a building is designed to hold.
Utilization is how full that building is. When utilization goes over 100% it means the building is overcrowded. Next slide please. I get I for um
I just want to add this quick example real quick. is the same as if a if a building is under the 100% that means they unutilize. Why this matters for district 75?
District 75 students require smaller class sizes, therapy rooms, and accessibility. Standard DOE formulas often not capture these needs, which is why our review is
essential. And we could do some of these reviews as I've always told you guys. Um even you don't have to be um title in order to voice what you're seeing in your child's
school. DOE utilization and definitions. DOE uses utilization percentages to evaluate buildings. However, these formulas often fail to include special education
service requirements, which can make buildings appear underutilized when they're not. and D75 is also not reflected in many of the formulas common capacity issues.
We frequently see overcrowded classrooms, therapy rooms converted into instructional space and safety concerns related to student movement and emergency evacuation. Thank you.
Collocation case examples. These examples are generic but reflect patterns we often see when collocations occur without a district 75 specific impact review.
The impact services safety and instructional um safe is impact services safety and instructional time also as share common spaces. The role of the committee. The committee
reviews data. Um, we participate in walkthroughs, collect concerns, and report findings to CCD75 council and district office to ensure accountability.
Our school walkthrough focus areas. During walkthroughs, we look at classroom size. We could look at accessibility, um, therapy space, safety conditions, and how students move throughout the building
and us and that is accessible. Um, one of the things I wanted you guys to have knowledge of is I EIS red flags that could come become
automatic areas of concern. >> As President Bonia, could you please um tell them what EIS stands for? >> Yes, I was looking for it right now. >> You want you want me to give it to you? >> Um, if you can. Yes, please. education
impact statements, >> right? >> These are things that will normally come out from either your CEC, your superintendent. We also will send out copies um but they're statements that explain what um Vice President Bono will
walk you through. >> Thank you for that, Mr. Spencer. >> Yep. Go ahead. Um are you able to read this slide? >> Oh, sure. Yeah. Um the EIS slide
>> of this um and I felt this would be perfect. >> You you still need me to read it or are you good? >> If you could please share this slide. These are some of the red flags that we could look into. >> Yeah, sure. Uh I'm going to go ahead and
read it. Um EIS red flags automatic areas of concern. uh district 75 programs not mentioned or only referenced generally in the document. Uh therapy rooms listed as
flex space or not clearly identified. That's also a generality. We're not we should be more something should be more specific than just uh flex space. Um, utilization data does not reflect specialized class size requirements,
loss or reassignment of existing district 75 instructional space. Uh, students required to travel between floors, wings or buildings, wings, different sections of the buildings. Um,
shared spaces without clear or equitable schedules. um that that needs to we can't assume that that space is going to be ours. It it should be uh clearly stated um accessibility issues not addressed i.e.
elevators or ramps, ADA restrooms. Um, that's uh very important. Uh, safety and emergency evacuation impacts not analyzed. Also important. Uh, no documentation of family or council
consultation. It's not it's not for us if it's not without us. And uh proposal uh relies only on utilization percentages without functional review. um by the district.
Um ne I guess next slide. Yeah. >> Yes. >> Um EIS red flags the committee review summary. What this committee reviews uh district 75 is barely mentioned or generalized. These are things we want to
these are things we want to make sure we check off that is not the case. Uh therapy rooms labeled as flex space. We don't want that. Specialized class size requirements ignored. Existing district 75 space reduced or reassigned.
Students required to travel excessively between floors or buildings. Shared spaces uh lack of equitable scheduling. ADA accessibility not addressed. Safety and evacuation impacts missing. families
or councils not consulted. Uh DOE relies only on utilization percentages instead of functional need. Committee determination. This proposal requires further review before moving
forward. So basically uh if any of these bullet points that you see uh um appear in a in a educational impact statement, it's the committee and the council's role to uh flag that and say this isn't
properly uh for our community. >> Um may I pause this for a moment? I see in the chat that we may be having a issue with the Spanish line. Um, can we double check? I I think that the parent might be saying they cannot hear on the
line or it's not functioning. Um, interpreters, are we able to have a little bit of feedback? >> I'll try it right now. Let me just test it again. >> Please. Thank you. >> Thank you, Miss Esther.
my my Spanish partner is able to hear me. Well, >> is the um parent that is in the chat able to log into the language line to listen? I think that they're unable to participate.
Are we able to um check with her on the background to see how we might be able to support? >> Okay, I will repost the phone number for her so she could connect. Probably she's not connected. >> Thank you so much. >> Thank you.
>> You're welcome. >> Um that we went too far. Think >> we were on 11? >> Yeah. Did you want me to restate that or are we good? We're going to move on to the
next slide >> before we go to the next one. >> Okay. Um EIS review questions uh district 75 focused. Does the educational impact statement EIS address district 75 program specifically?
Uh, are there therapy rooms, OT, PT, speech, counseling, preserved and clearly identified? Does the proposal reduce or reassign existing district 75 instructional space? Um, and then I guess with that question,
we we would need a particular explanation in depth why that has occurred or what's the alternative to that. Um, are accessibility features, elevators, ramps, ADA bathrooms sufficient for all students? Will
students be required to travel between floors, wings, or buildings in excess? Uh, I think um we don't want in excess. Uh, are shared space spaces scheduled equitably for district 75 students? Does
utilization data reflect specialized class size requirements? Has family and council um has family and families and council members input been documented? And our
sa are safety and emergency evacuation impacts clearly explained. Next slide. this matters um clear clearly documents >> sorry >> do we okay I think we're on uh 13
uh this matters uh clearly do clearly documents automatic concern uh well the if it's not clearly stated this what the first bullet point is if it's not clearly stated then it automatically triggers concern concern.
So if those things from the last slide aren't clearly stated, it's a concern for us as representatives of the community. Um provides uh defensible committee language. Um
uh yeah, I mean in in just in terms of our ad advocacy um will will speak up toward those deficits uh that we see. um allows the committee to formally state this proposal requires
further review before moving forward. Um ex extremely important because it protects um council members CCD75 members uh supports formal face escalations. It's within the uh the the
proper process to um address these concerns. Creates a clear public record during hearings. um and prevents concerns from being labeled as informal or swept under the rug or ignored. Um uh
committee statement uh these are our documented red red flags as a committee. So if we those those bullet points that we saw in the last uh couple of slides we'll uh we'll you know as a committee we'll present that to the council and then as a council they'll vote to say
these are the flags that we saw and this is where our stand is as representatives of this community. So the next steps we continue monitoring the utilization data, schedule school walkthroughs, collect concerns from families
mainly through the committee. This committee since we we could meet um more often than the actual whole council. will present those family concerns to any council meetings, prepare reports and recommendations from the committee uh to the council and advocate for
equitable space plan. Next slide. Uh that's that's the wrap-up in terms of the nuts and bolts and how we represent you guys and how we answer we we speak up for you and answer back to you. Um,
is there any questions or concerns that you guys have? Um, please put it in the chat. And I guess we want to check with the interpretation to see if any of our um, folks in an interpretation lines have any questions.
>> No problem. While that occurs, I just want to share real quick some items that I put in the chat. And I want to make acknowledgement that Spanish line. >> I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.
Don't listen. Okay. >> Okay. Spanish line. >> Hi there. Yeah, this is the Spanish line. mentioned it's possible that people are being admitted into the Spanish line, but maybe they there's an additional step where they need to click
like and where the organizers have to click admit or something because they say that they're on the line, but that they still can't hear the audio. So, I don't know if they need to be admitted further. >> One moment, let me double check for you guys. >> No problem. Thank you.
>> Thank you. Apologize for that technical issue. We want to ensure that everyone is able to get the information or able to ask the questions that you need. I believe we're set now. Can we double check?
Thank you so very much. >> I see that she says yes, she can hear now. >> Okay. I asked uh on if to respond for folks on the chat or on to unmute themselves on the language line if they hear but if you confirm then we can
proceed if that's all right. Yes, I see >> and see I believe if that's correct um Bonia uh that the member um can hear. If you're confirmed, you may um continue with the meeting.
>> Yes. >> Was the only issue with the Spanish line? Was it any other was the Mandarin and the Bangl? >> No other issues were yet the only issue was the Spanish line. Did you want me to pull the slides back up for the very end? >> The screen.
>> I just wanted to share with um some of the joint public hearings that we've been attending and some of the schools. Um there was one yesterday. Would you like to speak on President Angel?
And it was for 438Q at Q445. Hello. Are you guys able to hear me? >> I can hear you. Um, uh, Vice President Bonia. So, um, on the screen, um, these
are the, um, what you what's been attended. >> Yeah. >> Oh, sorry guys. I had I got dropped off. Um I believe what you're um seeing and what you were asking me to speak to is our joint public hearings. As you know
um as a council we are mandated legally to show up as representation for the voices of our community. What you've seen so far um we've had joint public hearings that have happened since November of last year and they will be moving um into the spring uh forward. So
myself and uh second vice president Bonia have been going to them and encouraging other members to also attend. The most recent one that we went to was the P43Q at 445 which was um Annette Bill's
school. I'll say something that's um very interesting that we'll need you guys at the panel for educational policy because as we move to make sure our students are within their communities, they have a right to be within community. They have a right to not have
to go burrow to burrow or long extended periods of time on a bus to get to a school. There are families who feel like even though buildings are underutilized, they're scared of what their children will lose just because our babies are in
the building. So, I know that Second Vice President Bonia can speak more to that. We want to know um we're going to put in that PEP meeting that's going to be coming up. We really want you guys to show up where you can to speak on behalf of our children because we deserve space in any place where there's space for our
children to be accommodated. And we as a council will continue to fight for that. It's uh saddens me sometimes that people don't understand or they need a lot of repetition. Even though our um division of inclusive accessible accessible
learning, our superintendent, they go on multiple meetings and multiple community sessions. As you can see at the bottom of this form, we also have community um sessions where each school can come and speak to the district and listen and hear with um ODP, the office of
developmental planning what's going on. Additionally, there are sometimes walkthroughs through some of these buildings. Um they are generally after school uh because they want to see how busing is or flow of students um or
things of that nature after school. So, these are the items that you're seeing um that Vice President Bonia is uh sharing at this time. Would you like to um say more? Vice President, >> um I would just like to res reciprocate
what you stated about um everyone joining and participating in these meetings on how to advocate for our students in being in their own community that they're entitled to be. And as you
said as well, um it saddens me at times that it's 2026 and we have to live in these times, but that's where our advocacy could come in. And also showing um working with other partners in the
school communities cuz sometimes it may just be just a certain group but not the entire school community feels the same way. So that's sometimes also what we could be able to see. And it's not that
we're dismissing their feelings, but we could um it's like how our kids maybe they they need to be exposed that way. We could show them what D75 is about and how community we are and that they
shouldn't be scared of our children being in their building. And Mr. I would like to give the floor to Mr. Spencer as well um cuz he has some knowledge about these meetings and he he didn't get to attend yesterday but he's attending
other ones um with us and we're able to speak into not every I want to clarify this not every meeting not every school community it's it's like this um we were at district 9 and
reopening the hiphop school merging with district 75 and they are very welcoming to us being there and working with the students and how to engage with different programs through them. So I just want to keep that in mind as well.
It's not everywhere but it does happen some places. >> Thank you Vice President Bern. Yeah, the only thing I can add is just uh in my experience um we have to augment um that's why we have interpretation here.
We have to augment the voice that that's not the common voice. That's why we're here. We're taking our own we're volunteering our time. um were for unfortunate instances such as these because >> why did why did I have
>> one? We just got a message that they lost the Spanish line again for Miss Esther and I don't want her to miss on it now for you. >> No problem. Thank you.
I don't want her to miss what you're going to give what you're going to give to us. Somehow I was on a roll. >> I'm sorry. I'm sorry. >> I get up. I get up in front of this the Zoom camera. I start rolling.
Anyway, um the the we have a form in the chat. Uh while we're waiting, um Vice President Bonia, that's is that the which form is that? >> That on the Spanish line. >> Okay, we're good. >> Continue.
>> Oh, yeah. I I was we have a form in the chat. You put in the chat, Vice President Bono, what was that before I continue? I just want to >> that we could share um is to share with the communities that way they could re
they could reach out if they have any concerns of their school community of things that we talked about like accessibility um share space ADA bathrooms things like that.
So I I I'm I'm uplifting that now while we were waiting for the Spanish uh interpretation uh issue uh to to supplement what I was trying to say. We we're here uh spending our time uh for those unfortunate instances where we
have to speak for those that can't speak that that are trying that are unfortunately being drowned out. Um it's a big city. We'd like to make it as uniform as possible. And this is why we're spe we're we're specifying um those particular aspects that we
check off. Uh and um because we we need to speak for those um we need to speak loudly when when we get because it's our it's our right. It's our right for our kids to have it just like any other GenEd kids. It's our
right for our kids to have it. And we're not when we we're here to uplift and make sure that um that that community doesn't fall between the cracks. There's a system in place which we advocate for
to make sure and we we want to galvanize that support through these forms, through these committee meetings, through our council meetings. It's not it's not it it it's only for us when it's by us. you gota, you know, and when we're there, we're going to be
we're going to be there strong and we, you know, regardless of the of the burrow, that's what we're here for. Um, that's that's what we we're spending time here for. So, um, yeah, I wasn't there yesterday, but I want to do my my
best to to um to make my voice heard for those um that need it because it it offended my daughter. Um, she's a junior in college now and I want to pass it back. I want to make sure the next person could get could could get their
next parent could get their kids through what they deserve. Um, so please yeah, just um uh keep in contact with our council uh with our committee and uh come out and uh like President Angel says when um the PEP meeting comes out and please come out and support and let
them know they it can't walk offers. They can't. This is not no not in 2026 and forward. Thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Spencer. I added again the form in the chat. Um, I just want to share some of the concerns you could
share in the form is external accessibility to the buses or in your pickup areas, the school entrance and exit areas, internal accessibility like elevators, ramps, etc. Shared spaces
like your playgrounds, your lunchrooms, um, bathrooms, gym, auditoriums, related services areas. And I want to emphasize this because for some of those that have
not been in the buildings, please check out where your related services are being done cuz sometimes is not done where you think it is. Is is in a secluded space. it doesn't
have ventilation um and is not adequable for our children. Um it shouldn't be like that even if we're colloccated. It should be even for everyone. Another one is physical
infrastructures like ceilings, floors, paints. We don't want it to be raining outside and it rains inside of the building. Please bring those things up. If you see it,
please um just bring up your concerns. And also just to emphasize, this is not a we're bashing the school principal or we're bashing the administration. We are reporting these concerns to see
who in our committee could assist in getting us the um the partner that we need in order to fix some of these issues. like some of these issues go with building facilities. So, we're able to partner with those that work in these
issues to see how we could better the school community in the building. Another one is electrical infrastructures, digital infrastructure, um or phone infrastructure. I don't know if sometimes you guys get a
message that your internet is down in the building so there's no phone lines so you can only text through or class dojo or parent square your teacher. Um I want to help to work on those things. I
know our buildings are very old. That's why I say on how to get with the partners to get the things improved. Another way to get partner I want to highlight I was able to attend the resow
workshop with principal Lewis Torres in the Bronx for district 9. It was done at district 11 in Golden Corral. He sat there with other principles with CEC's with PTAs, SLTs and nonprofits to talk
about how to apply for these grants that we have um deadlines. we could ask for extra funding for our schools in areas um that we want fixed and we're able to not only send it to just the burough
president of the burrow that we're in since we're citywide. It could be the bor president of Manhattan, the burough president of Queens and we could also collaborate with our city councils in our burrows. That way we could partner
with the funding. They also have something called participatory budget that they are able to partner with their borrow presidents and we could help to advocate why do we need this in our
school. One example I'm going to share with you guys was invite them to your graduations. Graduations is the hottest month of the year in our school buildings.
I say that because when they come and they come speak sometimes our auditoriums, as I mentioned in the form, they need renovations. Maybe we need a AC in there. So if they doing their speech, this is something Mr. Torres
said he did with the borough president of the Bronx. He she did her speech and after she was sweaty, she said, "Next year, we're going to make sure this auditorium has AC." And it was been it it was able to
work out for the school. So that's why I emphasize invite them to your events. That way they know who you are instead of just that application name. They put a name to the application. They know when they get your application, they
say, "Oh, we've been there. We know them. We know who they are." So, I just wanted to emphasize that. I will try to do that in our next meeting to try to um bring us a list on who that we could
reach out to partner. Is there something else you would like to add, Mr. Spencer? >> Yeah. Um we're structured such that um uh it's important that this you guys uh can take this in and then pass this on
to your parents and your community. Make sure your PAS uh are up to speed in the in in terms of how they can if they're if they're hitting a wall, how we can how we can support them based on these
questions that we ask of you based on these standards that we present to you. Um also just to reiterate um um regular education councils have D75 parents. I don't believe all the and correct me if
I'm wrong. I'm not sure if all those seats are filled, but this is empower our D75 parents to I if there's a spot on a on an education council or D75 parent spot, you know, use use what the
the the the standards that we're presenting here to fill that space and be that extra voice for unfortunate instances where we find discrepancies. So we can be have that that that extra voice and be that much more vigilant
like I said not it's if it's it's not it's not for us without us you know so um yeah please it's if you if you you have our email ccd75capacitygmail.com for more detailed um you know we have
the form here as a you know just as a primary and then you you can go into detail at the bottom of the form and we'll do you know, we we're here for you to to uplift um any discrepancies, any any any walls you come across.
>> Thank you. And we'll share a flyer of the form. We will email it to you all. Um because it also goes with numbers and voices, right? It takes a village. So sometimes something you didn't see,
somebody else saw. So you could share the form with your school community cuz it could be sometimes you there at the afternoon pickup so you're able to see certain things the morning pickup parent can't see
and you're able to work together on how to fix those concerns that you're seeing um in the different times of the day in your school too. But
I would like to moving forward we would like to continue as well to do walkthroughs and collect feedback. If you want us to come visit you could also email us. We could try to figure something out
and um advocate for adequate space and planning. I would like to check on the SP interpretation lines to see if there's any questions, any comments first. >> No questions from the mand.
>> Thank you. No question in Bangla. Thank you. >> I do see on the chat this is asking if there's any way that you guys can share the upcoming workshop dates.
>> Okay. Um yes, we could share the we could email the updating the updated workshops coming up. I see one hand up. Council member Masuma Actor. Hello. Good evening. Um this is Council
Member Masuma Aur. First of all, I would like to thank you to uh President Christie, Vice President Bonia, and Mr. Spencer. You guys are doing amazing job. And uh also I want to appreciate the
form. This is uh very unique. This is very useful. I mean um I just want to know how can I take it to more parents because I feel like everybody needs to have a copy of this form like to share a link or something like that. How can I
assist in that? And also with that I had two questions. Uh so one of the question is like how do you determine when uh a school is considered like under or overutilized and the second question would be what
kind of data source are used when making uh utilization decisions. Uh if any of you can answer that and again I want to thank you and please if you can share the form with me again because I got disconnected and I lost the in the chat.
Thank you. >> Do you want to jump in or do you want me to jump in? >> No problem. >> Yes, I'm gonna share the I'm going to jump in real quick. I'm going to share the form with um >> I'm going to share the form again in the chat. >> Right.
>> I'm going to do a flyer to be shared out to all the participants and you could share it um with a scan code and you could share it like that with your community. Does that work, Miss Masuma? I want to which can I ask which just
because I'm not clear which form are you talking about um sharing >> yes okay thank you >> which form vice president Bonia >> we had spoken about doing a form their concerns >> wonderful wonderful wonderful okay so
then I'll answer the other half of that when you were speaking about um how do we know about the utilization of a school the office of development and planning does send out the EIS which um President Bonia had went over which is the education impact statements that
will break down the percentage of the school that's used if the school is being truncated being made smaller if it's being merged into another school um colllocated etc. It will break down all of that. It's usually several pages long that is forwarded out to all council
members. It is also forwarded out to all community education councils. What we've been trying to do on our council is put them at minimum on our social media or share them out in that manner um to make sure that people at least in those burrows have the information just trying
to assist in that space. But we can always make sure maybe Stephanie we can have someone from ODP come and maybe speak to some of what you're talking about um so that parents can get a little touch base on that um as well. And I think the other part that I was
going to say um I walked through with D um Vice President Bonia before there is one link in the page that she showed you with our joint public hearing tracker. There is one link with learning times into are you able to pull that back up
um to share really quickly? There is one link that is the same always. If you see here it says learning doe.org/distplanning. That link will never change. When you click on that link, whatever is happening for that day, the paperwork
will be there, the information will be there, and you'll be able to join the meeting, and then you'll be able to sign up to give um voice to that um joint public hearing comment if you would like to. Um I'm hoping that might have answered all the questions. If not, let
me know. >> Yes, it did. Thank you so much. more than welcome. >> Thank Thank you. And I was just going to give the floor um to Mr. Spencer to see if he had something to add as well.
Yeah, I to piggyback on President Angel just um th the that document is updated yearly um by the um district planning um and um
um and yeah, I think yeah, that that's the only thing I want to add. and and also with that that DOE that the that learning times link um that's a good way to to see what and through our committee
and through the council meetings you'll you'll find out because we're citywide you know if you want to know specifically for a particular area you know um we would we would address that during the committee meetings and and then you can attend via those links um
when when it when it's active. So that's what I want to add. Just the it's a it's a yearly process like President Angel says it's presented to us at the uh yearly by district planning. We we uh the the council presents that to our
community and um and then it's an ongoing process based on the availability of the the communication between the schools um what the need is um the space when the space can be available if it's new
or it's being colllocated. Um, so there's several factors involved, but that's a nuts and a bolt. >> Thank you. >> Does anyone else have any more questions? >> Hi, good night. I just get on. I was
traveling. Um, I don't even know what the what was the topic about. How could I get a rundown? Mr. Spencer, I >> I'll jump in a little bit too for those um if you ever come to a meeting late,
sometimes we might be a little late putting it up on YouTube, but our council does record our meetings and they are posted at CCD75 outreach on YouTube as well. So, if you miss a little bit of a meeting, you miss none of the meeting because you always can go back online and catch up with those
items. if you guys can help her out in brevity um we can um also support here. >> Yes, no problem. >> So, what I was Thank you, President Angel. I was going to say um because we have the agenda as a PDF in the chat.
>> Um we have the our u we have our form in the chat in the chat as well. um just basically how this committee represents our district in reference to spaces uh that's needed for our community and
utilization that's used properly. Um uh and yeah, and email us. Yeah, those are the three things I want to say. Check out our agenda in the chat. It's a PDF. Check out our form um in the chat. Um and um email us with any additional
questions um that you may that you may have. Um this is basically in a nutshell if it's not it's not for us not by if they don't check with us. if if they're cutting spaces, if they're not putting out
schedules in terms of when we could use the spaces, if it's taking longer for our kids to get to a particular place in the building, um any dangers, any things like that. Um this is what we're here for to make sure that that to to put a red flag and say that's not going to
happen. So, that's just it in a nutshell. Take a look at the PDF in terms of the bullet points. take a look at the our form uh also in the chat in terms of things that we would like you guys as a community to look out for and report to us and keep in contact with us
via our email uh ccd75capacity@gmail.com or d75ccounsel uh email address. >> Thank you for that, Mr. Spencer. And also if you ever have any questions even
after you watch the video, um, Miss Taylor, you could also, um, reach out to us in the email and we could have a day, um, where we could just go over a couple things with you if you would like as well.
And we appreciate you joining. We appreciate everyone joining. So, I just want to say at this time if there are any any more questions, I'm sorry. What do I search on YouTube to
see this again, please? No problem. Miss um President Angel, can you please share our YouTube link on the chat for the parents? And please um also join our website. We have a a newsletter and we have there's
an app link as well. Um, does the app work now, President Angel? >> Yes, the app works. >> Okay. We have an app for CCD75 aside from the website and it also could
join into the newsletter and you're able to also follow our YouTube videos there. But the YouTube direct link is on the chat. Please become a subscriber and we're not advertising, but we would like you to watch our
videos. >> Thank you for your time at Yes, Mr. Spencer. >> Yeah, I want to just go back and circle back um to the the need that we had from yesterday's joint public hearing um for
438Q at Q445. President Angel, what um the PEP is when when are they gonna review that? >> I don't have that um permanently in my head. Let me look it up really quickly. >> Yeah, no worries. >> Are you Do you know how do you have the
date off hand? >> You want me to Is it in the form? Do I put back the form? >> It isn't in the form. Let me double check. Give me a few seconds. >> Okay. >> Yeah. So, um just for those that are new to um we we did bring that up in
reference to a concern because the community um has given some push back regarding um space that we are required to have um and that we have a right to have. Um and there's just some more work
that needs to be done to educate and u we just want to galvanize um uh folks in you know because it can happen in any burrow. Um but when it happens, we need to we need to close our ranks and make sure we support and make sure our kids get what uh what they what they deserve.
So, um once we have that information, if uh please uh if you can come out um uh to the panel for education policy um regarding this site and what's needed for our community at this site, um I
guess would I while the remaining time, do we want to um because we know winter break is coming up. Um is this a good time to just just in terms of upcoming Um, Vice President Bonia,
this is a good time to bring it up now, right? >> Yes. I just wanted to add real quick about just to about the joint public hearings even um this is new to everyone. I would like you to just come in to just
listen. That's your first advocacy. Come in to just listen. see what is about see and and from there you can see okay so maybe next meeting
I'm going to write some notes I'm going to look over the proposal of I'm going to look over the EIS and we look at some notes so I think that that's the first thing I will ask from all of you let's
go to a meeting together let's just go listen in let's Um I asked Miss President Angel said Miss President Angel has gone to advocate. I have gone to advocate. So Mr. Spencer and you could guys could
hear us on what on how we're advocating for these proposals and that way you could also be empowered for you to do as well. and council member Masuma, you already know I'mma reach out to you,
>> but um Mr. Spencer, your question, I'm sorry. >> Right. So, um as we um wind down a bit here, uh so we're mindful of the winter break. Our next meeting is scheduled for
February 11th, two weeks from today. >> Yes. Um um so did now we had um tentatively um put I don't know if it's
>> I guess the safest thing I think to say this um I'm not sure if we're going to have a second meeting in February because it's short >> but we'll update you on the 11th regarding that um uh after uh February
February will be uh March 11th and March 25th before Passover and Easter. And um I'll just leave it at that. And you know at these next three to four meetings um you know we'll we'll we'll
pass down you know joint public hearings things that that pop up um for you guys like uh Vice President Bon said just come in and and you know listen in listen to how how advocacy works. um for the most part,
you know, they they love they they love expanding the community and for the most part um joint public hearings is look, we we know there are district 75 parents that need this and for the most part they're happy to have us um they're
happy to to accommodate um for the most part. Um, so I don't want to point paint with a broad brush, but you know, when there's a situation that isn't as smooth, we need to we need to close ranks and and iron it out. Um, so yeah,
please, please, uh, come in and listen in and pass that, you know, pass, you know, maybe there's an issue at a joint public hearing that may be an issue in your community and you go and advocate for that as a parent to your PA, to your SLT, you know, to your education council
and and see what they and then come back to us. Hey, these guys aren't doing anything. What do we what what can you guys do to support? And then you know um like I said the what's the what's the the theme it's not for us if it's not without if
it's not if we're not there. Um it only for it's only for us with us. Um so yeah please be there and be you know um you take a listen and educate yourself and and and become a strong you'll
you'll be that much stronger for it. you'll you you'll it made me a stronger parent, made me a stronger person. Uh and you'll be stronger for it. I highly, you know, just to listen in. I wasn't always just talking to, you know, I had to listen in. I had to
go to different communities and find out where the where where where the commonalities were. Um so, um that that's how I got to the space and and um and and that's how how our community gets stronger. Um so, yeah. So, February
11th, um that's definitely our next meeting. We'll let you know if we have another meeting in February. If not, it'll be then March 11th and uh uh March 25th. And uh we'll disclose some more um in terms of joint public hearings and
stuff that's coming up. You know, like I said, it's a little tricky right now with the uh with the winter break uh in the middle of February. So, um we we'll keep you in the next council meeting is next week um the the 4th. Um so, um sign
up for that and um you'll find other committees that the council that is in charge of uh that that oversees in terms of safety and busing and and all that, you know. Um we're full service for you guys. Full service, you know, because it's a full service job. It's a full
service job taking care of our kids. So, you know, um you know, we we're there. We're there as best we can because we know what it is. Um so, I think uh I think uh I think that's that's all
cuz I can hear um I can hear President Angel. I can see hear see President Angel's eyes right now. >> I'm totally okay. You're giving great information and we appreciate you, Mr. Spencer. So, totally okay.
And for and lastly, I just want to make a last um question to um interpretation to see if there's any questions or any comments from interpretation line.
>> We're checking with the Spanish line. One moment. >> No problem. No questions on the men line. >> No question in Bangla line as well. >> Thank you. >> So far no questions on the Spanish line.
>> Thank you. So I think for today um we did great in our committee. I appreciate everyone's time. I really wanted to inform you in these different topics and these different things that we could do in
order to advocate for our students and thank you for your participation. I hope you enjoy the rest of your evening and I will give you back your time. Have a great night. >> Stay safe and warm everybody. Thank you
for your time. We are releasing interpreters and ending the meeting at 7:06 p.m. Have a great night. >> Have a good night, everyone. Thank you. >> Thank you.