Greetings everyone. Thank you for joining the citywide council for district 75's February business and calendar meeting. We are now starting this meeting at 6:43 p.m. Um,
unfortunately we currently do not have interpretation for our meeting. So Stephanie, what I will ask for you, Council Member Bonia, if you do see something in the chat, let's make her co-host. So if we have people that might need Spanish interpretation, could we
lean into you possibly and into uh PA Ramirez to translate and assist there and maybe anybody else that has a chance to do Google Translate to assist us anywhere else? We want to make sure we have equity. Um, what say you guys? Yes.
Yes. Bonia, are you okay as well? >> Yes. >> Wonderful. Thank you so much. With that being said, we are called to order. We do not have interpretation. However, we
will uh transfer it over to our recording secretary, Council Member White. If you would please give us a roll call. >> Msuma Octar >> here. Rebecca Ally, Christy Angel, >> present online.
>> Stephanie Bonia, >> present online. >> Joanna Gomez, >> present. >> Elijah Hobbs. Bad NMI >> present online. >> Jazelle Ramirez.
Jessica Rivera. >> Sharon Stewart, >> present. All right. So that is seven um present. We may quum. >> All right. Thank you so much uh recording secretary white. That gives us quorum. Do we have anyone that is
willing to be timekeeper? What I want you guys to know is I know it is very cold outside and I do not choose to keep you there longer than you have to be there. So please look at our um agenda. If I ask you to timekeep, that means if it's two minutes, if we have
one minute left, just come off mute or just say out loud one minute. Keep us in sync. Miss Ah, Vice President, thank you so much. >> You got it. >> Thank you for being timekeeper. Uh, without that I Let's see. Do we have Molly Sack here from CNN for our
presentation? Let's see. I do not see Molly. or a representative. That means we can probably move it on to our um Please note in the chat, Council Member Rivera
is present. Please note that for 6:45 p.m. All right, we do not have our presenter. We will keep an eye on her, but we will move forward with time. Can we pull forward presentation of resolution 28?
Uh before we go forward, Council Member Bonia, are you capable to allow people, everyone that's a co-host, are you able to help me on the end of allowing people to do the um joining the room as we move through the resolutions, etc.? >> Yes.
>> Um recording Secretary White, are you prepared to read resolution 28? >> Yes. >> All righty, guys. This is something that CIDNY was bringing forward and it's in support of fully funding the foundation aid formula. This is something that our
council has brought forth before when we were talking about New York City when we're talking about children that may be um unhoused when we're talking about the different ratio of people in our burrows and the needs that we have. there are
spaces that are not being adequately formulated within the formula to give us monies. Um, unfortunately, we do not have the presentation, but what we can do in support is read resolution 28. Um, council member White, you have the
floor. >> Resolution in support of fully funding the foundation aid formula with key changes. Whereas foundation aid is the largest source of funding from New York State to New York City public schools and school districts across the state and is distributed through a per student
funding formula. Whereas the foundation aid formula was intended to ensure school districts have the resources needed to provide students with a sound basic education and to ensure equitable distribution of funding to districts around the state. Whereas following
years of advocacy, Governor Hokll and the New York State legislators fully funded the foundation aid per pupil funding formula for the first time in 2023. Whereas the formula itself is currently outdated, remaining mostly unchanged since it was first adopted in
2007 using certain data from more than 15 years ago and failing to account for growing student needs and costs. Whereas the limited changes made in the final New York State fiscal year 2026 budget resulted in New York City schools
receiving 314 million less than they would have received had the state had made no changes to the formula at all. Whereas the shortfall is largely due to an update to the poverty weight without to the poverty weight without updates to
other key measures. a poverty weight that relies on the grossly inadequate federal poverty guideline measuring poverty same way in every school district across New York even though costs look very different in different parts of the state. Whereas the formula's regional cost index is
supposed to account for the varying costs throughout the state but the values for most regions have not been updated since 2006. Whereas it is becoming increasingly difficult for families to be able to afford to live in NYC and the formula has not been updated to help school districts pay for
increased wages and growing costs and expenses. Whereas last school year more than 154,000 in New York City students experienced homelessness. Students experiencing homelessness as well as students in foster care face significant barriers to education. But the formula
provides no additional funding to help for school districts to help school districts meet their unique educational needs. Therefore, be it resolved that the citywide council for district 75 calls on Governor Hokllo and the United States legislature to fully fund the foundation aid formula
with key changes including an update to the rci and an added per pupil weight for students in temporary housing and students in foster care. Therefore, be it resolved that CCD75 calls on Governor Hogel and the New York State Legislature to make additional updates and changes
to the formula to ensure that it meets the needs of today's schools and students, including students who need additional support to succeed for school. Therefore, be it resolved that CCD75 will continue to advocate and keep our community
informed of events and opportunities for advocacy. Council members, I hope you had the opportunity to read this before. Thank you, Council Member uh Recording Secretary White for walking us through this again. Do we have any questions? Of course, we do want to make sure that we
leave room for public comment before we vote, but for those of us that are here, do we have any feedback on the resolution as it stands? none from the members present. >> Would council members like to um
postpone this on to next month's meeting so that we may have the presentation in addition to the resolution to have further understanding? >> Do we have a consensus? >> Yes. >> Yes. From all the members that are present.
>> And I see uh two uh one two three four. Yes. Okay. So then we have a consensus. Um um Council Member White, please um note that we have a consensus to postpone with all council members as a vote to put this on the agenda for next
month's meeting. Thank you so much. We will still leave space for um the public to add any feedback that they would like to on resolution 28. We will now move to our town hall location. Do we have anyone
from the district here? If not, >> okay, >> I'm going to move here. >> Who said I'm here? Who said >> Patricia? >> Hey, Patricia. Okay, so quick question. You may or may not know. I was speaking with Satcha >> and we were looking at
>> we're moving into the next bullet point for those who are here and for the recording. We're moving into our section of our town hall vote of location. Our town hall with the new chancellor will be on April 20th. And right now the town the council had voted to have it between
Queens andor Manhattan. Right now we could do it at Q233 which is in Queens and accessible and then can also do um 79M the Heran School which is in Harlem. >> Okay. >> I will say is that the same information
that you have? >> It is. >> Okay. Perfect. So then council members it's been confirmed. I will say that I lean a little bit toward the Harlem space. I know that our new chancellor comes from that space. We normally do things in lower Manhattan. We haven't
done anything in Harlem before. So, between 233 and the Heran School, do we have any feedback or debate regarding those two locations? I see council member Rivera says Harlem.
>> Any other members with feedback? >> I would say Harlem too. I would say I heard I uh who was that? >> Jazelle said it. Okay, Jazelle. I see um Masuma. I see Rebecca. Uh Joanna, did you agree for Harlem as well?
>> Harlem is Yes, we all agreed um for the Harlem location. >> All right. So, um Michelle, uh I don't think that we need a consensus. Uh we don't need a roll call vote since we have a consensus vote and everyone has verbally or electronically did it. But um council members, are you okay to mark
this as a consensus vote or would you like to do roll call just in case? >> Do roll call just to be on the record. >> Uh recording secretary Michelle White, could we please have a roll call vote in regard to having the April 20th
chancellor's town hall at the Haran School 79M? Okay. Rebecca Alley. >> Um, Msuma Oxar. >> Yes. >> Christy Angel. >> Yes. >> Stephanie Bener. >> Yes.
>> Joanna Gomez. >> Yes. >> Elijah H. >> Oh, yeah. Absolutely. >> Yes. >> Badia NMI. >> Yes. >> Jessica Rivera. >> Yes. >> Dazelle Ramirez.
Sharon Stewart. >> Yes. >> Michelle White. Yes. >> Elijah Hob. Yes. Nine votes for yes. Nine votes for yes. The motion has passed to have our April 20th town hall
with the chancellor at the Haran school 79mm. We will push that forward. Thank you, Patricia. Please flag for us with Satcha so we can get our permits the ball rolling. Anthony um as well, I know we do have a walkth through and different things of that nature. Thank you council members for getting this
vote and moving this forward. our next space. Um, if we're able to share, um, this seems like, uh, one of the impossible things, but let's look at our motion to approve the purchase of technology. We wanted to move in transparency in regard to buying
laptops. Um, the last time the council was able to do this, it was during the pandemic and all reimbursements were given forward to do that. In this case, um the our AA, which most people may not know, um she has resigned unfortunately.
We do appreciate the work that she did do while she was here and now we're using the work that she had prior before um to inform us in regard to the technology that we can purchase as we're coming to the deadline in our budget.
What I've noticed is most of the laptops are between $400 to $800 and that would pretty much wipe our entire budget out. I'm not sure how we could find ways to support the council. We do know that we can do laner computers and
things of that nature to make sure that members have what they need when they show up. However, we may need to do a little bit of um creative research or partner with the president's council or somebody to figure out how we can possibly make sure that every council member does have technology. With that
being said, can we just share the screen and transparency so members can see the numbers that were prepared um for us? Oh, wait. Excuse me. I'm on the wrong screen. That's me. So guys, as you can see, um, for acers, it's between
$484 to $577. And we would be multiplying that times 11, >> which anybody does anybody have a computer? I mean, a calculator in front of them. 57711 is what?
>> Let's see. >> 6347. Right. So that's how much money we would have to initially give to purchase this. The thing that you may or may not see, I'm not sure in
what Gabrielle gave us, is that the DOE requires you to have insurance on these. So you would not only have to purchase this, purchase these items, you'd have to then have it shipped over to the DOE. Once it's shipped to the DOE, we have to
pay on one, two, or three tiers for additional monies per unit to have insurance and then we could have them back. So, it's even more than $6,000 um to do that's in transparency. So, do
we want to continue the conversation there or look at additional alternatives or what say you council members? I have a question. >> Who is the question? >> Elijah. >> Elijah. >> Eli. Okay, I can't see you. Hey, Elijah.
>> Hey. So, I looked this over. I mean, the first question is, why are we choosing only Chromebooks? That's number one. >> Oh, yeah. Okay. >> Okay. That's that's number one. Because I noticed all the options were Chromebooks. None of them were Windows
devices. for the same price with a little bit more power and specs you can get the same thing. I do understand that we need to get 11 of them. Are we still bound by using a vendor? >> Yes, we are bound by using a vendor and
we only can use who we have a contract with and when we initially tried the contract was gone. The contract just came back and this is the only place that we can get devices. It is not fair. It may not be right and it's not cute.
>> Yeah, that that kind of ties our hands for being as feudal as possible. >> It's kind of monopoly. It's a little bit of monopoly right now. >> I mean, just my opinion. >> Your your opinion wouldn't be incorrect in my space. I agree.
>> Um, yes. >> Good question. So, like, so like if you have your own computer, you wouldn't have to purchase one for certain council members, correct? like I use my own MacBook or the to be for everyone. >> Yes, we if you do have your own devices um yes, however, we want to make the
space for if we can support those who do not have devices. Yeah. Um as a council, we currently are meeting in the district office, but we are able to meet in every single burrow rotating. And so people would we would have our owl, we would have our devices. For those of us that
are online, we do need to be on camera. for those of us that are in person, we do want them to be able to read the chat and to be engaged. So, we want to make sure if you don't have a device that we can support you. So, in transparency, we're saying, "Hey, this is what we can do and this is what it looks like at least for right now."
>> Got it. Why why don't we do like two or three so that if someone needs to borrow one for some type of business or if like we were somewhere and like how you like doing real time um sign up stuff like maybe we could take one for like things
like that but I don't think we need 11. >> Yeah. Like um I don't know if I can >> I'm I'm sorry. Who am I talking over? I don't want to talk over anyone. Who's speaking? >> Me Jazelle. >> Oh J Oh. Hey Zale.
>> Hi. Um, yeah, I think I I agree uh with Elijah and uh with Miss White that why don't we just buy a couple of them and then if we see that we need more um then we want more but I don't think we need 11.
>> Okay. So, let's say this. Thank you. Thank you. Uh PA uh Ramirez. Um we do have the capacity to use loaner devices. That's one. But if we're gonna buy a couple or a few, let's move into um not semantics, but let's get very tight with
it. A couple means two, few means three. And you guys know that we're going to pay $500 plus dollars. So, do we want to pay $1,000 or $1,500? >> Can we President Angel, can can I be acknowledged? >> Yes, please. You have the floor.
>> Okay. Um, so I understand some members might need um access to these devices. However, why don't we table this at this moment and then um inquire with the members of the council
how many um exactly need access to these type of devices in order for them to be able to um function from wherever station they're at. specifically right now we all have access to phones but also we don't want to inconvenience those members that are in a payment plan
or whatever. So I think we should do another um inquiry and then decide what's the best plan because we already moved some things around in order to purchase like the owl which was a great investment. So if it can't be done at
this juncture then I propose for us to do it for the next um fiscal year but also keeping in mind that we need to make sure that all members have access. Okay guys, I would like to uh give the floor over to recording secretary White
>> and I want to know is it possible that we could get somebody like donate us some laptops? Like maybe the school has something the the the um board of ed maybe have something that they can you know. >> Yes. So the loaner devices we absolutely can use when we do our digital
ambassador workshops. We do have support with those and we have devices that can follow us along the way that are available to us in the district office. Um question, can we get a motion to postpone this indefinitely until we get
further information to put it on an agenda? >> Yes. Yes. Yes. >> It's moved by >> I make a motion to postpone this until we're able to put it on the next agenda. Do we have a second? >> Seconded.
>> Elijah seconded. >> All righty. It has been rightly moved. May we move into a roll call vote. Uh regarding Secretary White. >> Yes. >> Um I need one more. Um um
Rebecca Alley. Msuma Octar, >> yes. >> Christy Angel, >> yes. >> Stephanie Benia, >> yes. >> Joanna Gomez, >> yes. >> Elijah Hob, >> yes. >> NMI, >> yes.
>> Jessica Rivera, >> yes. >> Yazelle Ramirez, Sharon Stewart, >> present. >> Yes. >> Yes. >> Michelle White, yes. >> Sorry, did you get yourself? just
>> but she's not she's absent. I don't think she's open. >> How many do we have for the >> nine votes for yes? >> We do. We have nine members for quorum. >> Yes,
>> we do. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. >> PA Ramirez's vote today. >> PA Ramirez. >> Yes, she's present online. >> No, I don't have >> She didn't counter.
>> Oh, my bad. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong. >> I will let the recording secretary stand correct. The motion has passed. We will postpone this indefinitely until we have further information for the technology vote. Thank you, council members. Our next space that we're moving into is
our committee updates. I want y'all to know I'm so proud of the work that is being done. Um, we have some working groups that are moving along. We have our home instruction principal extraordinaire Todd Allesandro with us. We are loving the work. We're loving what they're doing, how they're showing
up. It is making a major difference for our students. With that being said, I am going to give the floor over really quickly to uh council member Jessica uh Rivera to talk about our home instruction working group. We did have Aaron and Christian's resolution which
is my son and her son. Um we have both I am a former pres uh former parent of a student in home instruction. She is a present parent of a student in home instruction. And so we are collaboratively working with the district, with the council, with the
division of accessibility and learning. Um, and just great members of the team with home instruction to pull a lot of work forward to make sure that some of our students and parents that are invisible are seen and are counted. With that being said, Rivera, you do have the floor.
>> Good evening, everyone. Thank you so much, President Angel. And I apologize my camera is off. Um, I have a little bit of tech difficulties, but nonetheless, the show will go on. Um, thank you so much and again, so happy everyone that you're here. Um, and I'm
so happy to be sharing the updates with regards to our home instruction initiatives. Um, so as of February 12th, we aim to finalize our parent guide and also the orientation video for home
instruction. Again, these are going to be parentf facing materials. Um, with regard to the home and hospital instruction program, home instruction. Um, another thing that we will be going over for tonight are the protocols, the escalation protocols. So I am going to
read the escalation protocols as follows. Allow me one moment. Yes. So with regards to escalation protocols, they are as follows. Escalations may be received through multiple channels including parents,
phone calls, 311, and other sources. Upon receipt of an escalation, the family support coordinator, that's Patricia, or the family leadership coordinator, that is Nora, promptly reaches out to the school to gather
relevant details. Patricia or Nora, again, family support coordinator or family leadership coordinator, also contacts the parent to understand the nature of the concern and the incident. They will also work to clarify the issue and seek opportunities
for immediate resolution when possible. If further action is required, the escalation is routed to the appropriate department for followup and resolution. So, we wanted to touch on that with regard to our protocols for escalation
with regards to home instruction. Um, another update, um, we are aiming to have a town hall, um, to go over chancellor's regulation A170, which is basically, um, the oversight of home instruction. Um, and again, we are
aiming for February 19th, um, potentially. And also another thing I would like to add while we are in here, um, so this applies to home instruction families. on Wednesday, February 11th. There will be bingo from 5 to 6:00 p.m.
And the deadline to register for that is February 9th to register for that for bingo. And another exciting piece of news is myself and second VP Stephanie Bonia will be co-chairing a parent
committee within home instruction. And our intention, and this is actively in the works, we are working towards raising a PA, PTA within the home and hospital instruction program. Um, and we are currently working through the
logistics and legalities of that. Um, before I end as well, I just want to say thank you so much to Todd for the amazing work that he's been doing and just really really really whipping everything into shape and and you know,
really making this program new, you know, it's it's it's looking so much so so much more new. Also, um, thank you. I see AP from Brooklyn in home instruction. Me, thank you so much for joining us. I see you in our chat as well.
And I also see um my son's home instruction teacher in the chat. I saw him somewhere. Um Mr. Pedro. Um he's been doing a great job with my son. I don't know if he's still on, but if he is, thank you so much for the work that everyone here does. Um and again, thank
you so much to um President Angel again and also um second BP Bona as well. Just thank you to everyone. A big thank you and thank you to the district leadership. And just to piggyback that because we are doing wonderful work. I want y'all
to know it is a distinct difference in what's going on in home instruction. And I'm going tell you if something's bad or wrong, I'mma call it out. I'mma work on it and we're going to make it good. We're not going to dog you out. But when it's great, we're going to show up and say it. And Todd Alessandro and his team
has been showing up and showing out and moving in excellence for our children. And you guys need to know that. Thank you. um Rivera for giving us the update. Please do know we are currently working in our resolution. We are already down
to section six. Um our chief of special education, Andy, is working on the oversight and reporting. We are literally in the space of section eight for community integration for our students in home instruction because we want them to integrate and to remain
connected to their schools and to have virtual peer events and academic supports and engagements. So we want you to know that we as a council, we're going to show up to make sure that our parents and our kids are not invisible. So, we're going to be working with the district and with uft and anyone else
that's involved to make sure that our babies get what they need and everybody is moving the program because faith matters. >> All right. So, with that being said, we're very proud of the forward motion. Thank you to the working group. Um, as
Miss Rivera said, and I won't, you know, y'all know I be running long sometimes, so let's get back on board now with our agenda. The next space is thank you again uh uh Rivera. We're moving to second vice president Bonia for your
committee update safety busing capacity and utilization. >> Thank you. I will start with um safety update. Um I will um good evening everyone. I would like to inform that our safety committee continue its work to
straighten the schools with safety oversight in alignment with their DOE policies and chancellor's regulations. Pursuant to the chancellor's regulation A414, every school is required to maintain a functioning school safety committee and
a current school safety plan that is reviewed individually. I mean review annually. Sorry. um and documented safety meetings and followup. The safety committee reinforced exclusive emergency planning
for students with disabilities and highlight highlighted require stakeholders participation including school leadership school safety agents uft representatives PTA representatives staff custodial facilities personnel and
colllocated leadership where applicable committee also addresses secure entry system compliance. Something that President Angel also um stresses on making sure that our schools
are making um making sure that our schools are safe, noting the expectation for immediate reporting and temporary coverage for um for the for all of these um securities. Additionally, the
committee is working to schedule a meeting with Oh, sorry. I'm sorry I lost my place. Okay, the next meeting um we're working on to schedule the next meeting to include safety director Tara who will be invited
to present on safety oversight practices and how safety data reporting tracked across all schools. This presentation will support transparency and understanding of monitoring and accountability systems
cons um thank you that's all for safety committee um I was mention the update for capacity and utilization for capacity and utilization that committee and we have been finalizing a
structure framework to review DOE capacity and utilization and proposal impacts affecting district 75 programs. The framework includes DOE definitions, identifications
of common the 75 space challenges, educational impact statements, review questions, also known as EIS, and documenting red flags that trigger further review. The committee continues
to monitor collocation and expansion proposals, assess functional space conditions, and advocate for equitable space and appropriate learning for environments that reflect the specialized needs for all D75 students.
Our next meeting for capacity and utilization is next week, February 11 at 6 PM. for busing committee. The update is that we have um a meeting scheduled for February 23rd at
6:00 p.m. We have not been able to meet um for past couple months due to certain unforeseen reasons, but I am happy to be able to see you all again for February 23rd.
Thank you. Thank you so much, Second Vice President Bonia. Um I'm going to be very brief with um outreach last month. We did have our include NYC fair. We're going to go ahead and give it up to uh Council
Member Rivera who showed up and she held it down alone. Now I'm going to say why she did because there was a fire in the Bronx and Second Vice President Bonia showed up and showed out in the Bronx. She made sure that the district knew what the people needed. She made sure
that the council knew what the people needed and Rivera made sure that our outreach continued in the middle of it. So I want to say thank you for how you showed up for the community and how you showed up for the council. So thank you both there. I do want to say that we are moving forward for the outreach
committee to do um a workshop on seizures, a workshop on OPWD, a workshop on placement, and a workshop for bullying. One of our council members brought it up. Um, we need to make sure that you guys know what respect for all
is that you guys know that you have a resource and outlet for your babies. If somebody's doing something that shouldn't be happening or you need to know who to talk to, everybody has a representative for respect for all in your schools. We will be moving through that to make sure that the parents are aware and the babies are protected. So,
thank you guys for bringing that up. Anything else? I want you guys to look for ccd75.org. Um, we have our next upcoming meetings that are on that. If you are on our mailing list, you did receive an email this morning from ccd75.org
from Wix. I will put that link or uh, Vice President Bonia if you can copy it over for me. If not, I got you. Um, it'll let you sign up to every meeting that we have either via the link or via our website. We want to keep you guys informed. Every meeting is recorded and
it is on CCD75 outreach on YouTube. All right guys, I think we have the updates there for our um committees. Do we have any level of unfinished business? >> Not from none from the members present.
>> Thank you so much. Hearing none. Do we have a motion to adjoin adjourn our business meeting? I make a motion to adjourn the business meeting at 7:19 p.m. >> Do we have a second?
>> I second it. Council member Masumi. >> All right. The motion has been rightly moved. At 7:19 p.m., we are adjourning our business meeting. And at 7:19 p.m., we are pulling to order our CCD75
calendar meeting. Um, recording Secretary White, may we have a roll call? >> Msuma Octar, >> present. >> Rebecca Alli, >> Christy Angel, >> present. >> Stephanie Benia,
>> present. >> Joanna Gomez, >> present. >> Elijah Hobs, >> present. >> NMI, >> present. Jazelle Ramirez. >> Jessica Rivera >> present.
>> Sharon Stewart present. Michelle White present. >> Thank you so much. Um >> that is nine members present. That is quorum. Um Vice President Gomez, are you willing to remain our timekeeper? >> Yes.
>> Thank you so much. We are now giving it back over to our recording secretary. As you guys know, again, we did lose our AA. However, we did get our minutes. And I want y'all to know, recording Secretary White has been doing an extraordinary job. Um, she is our chair
of legislative committee. She has been working with me on that, which we have a lot of stuff that's going to be coming up this month down the pike. But additionally, the way that she is studying and working to make that she has our records down and on lock for
audit, y'all better pat her on the back, give it up, clap it up. She is literally moving in a space of excellence to make sure that our council moves in a adequate level and we do appreciate you and thank you so much. >> With that being said, we do have the
work that uh council member White has been doing on our minutes. anything that we do need to edit that you do see that's incorrect, we can make those edits on the back end, I will give her a minute to quickly um speak about the minutes. And then with that, if we are
all in consensus to approve the minutes as received with edits, we may be able to move on. Council member White, you have the floor. >> Yeah. Yeah. Um I'm ready to um >> move forward. >> Yes. >> All right. Do any council members have
any edits that we need to make to the uh November, December, January meeting notes? >> None from the members present. >> All right. If not, you always can email us, let us know, and we will make those amendments on your behalf. Thank you so
much for approving the minutes as received. We're now going to move into our Treasury report. Uh, Council Member Ally is out today with approval. We want to put that on record. She did have an emergency with family. Um and we did
also get uh feedback from council member uh PA um Ramirez. So we do want to make sure that we have that on record that they did reach out appropriately um with excuses for the council. All righty. For the budget, let me
switch over. I don't think I can see two things. With our AA being gone, there is a vote that I would like to remove. Um, she did not send over the last update for the purchase card. What you guys
need to know is our PC card is tied to a Department of Education employee. So, now that we no longer have an AA, we no longer have a purchase card. Luckily, we did pay for what we needed for the year. This is something that we will have to
consider by June of next year, July, excuse me. So, um, with that being said, there will be a vote that I do want to put up to move every dime that's left in the PECARD back into the budget. Um, I would actually like to move it into the
annual report line. I'll say this, guys. Um, it says $2,000. We've normally paid our writer who has been here consecutively for three or four years that we've been doing the report. She does have a doctorate. She is out of LA.
She has a child that does have special needs and she moves through the data on our behalf like a swordsman. I love her. With that being said, we also do get to vote on who we use as an annual report writer. However, knowing the level of
work that goes into it, $2,000 is not going to do it. $5,000 is actually a very cheap ask. So, I'm looking to try to get that line at least back up to that number. So, my request would be that we could at minimum move the pecard line
into the annual report line. If not, it's something we can discuss. We can look at numbers and bring it back up in the March meeting. Also, the equipment line, we still have monies left over there. If we're not going to purchase
computers, that $591.78, we can also move that to another line. So, those items are in play. What I do want to ask is that I know Anthony um Aguilar is there. Uh he's our face uh liaison. Thank you very much. He's been showing up and supporting us greatly in
the spaces without Gabrielle. We want to make sure that we support his workload now that he does have to put in our purchase orders, our reimbursements, and things of that nature. If you are behind, I have time to help you. Let's go ahead
and get your monies. You deserve the the reimbursements for the work that you're doing. It may not be a lot, but it's yours. So, let's make sure the emails that Gabrielle did sit out with the months that you need to go ahead and pull forward that you do. So, if you need help, please let me know um before
the end of this week. Do we have any questions on the budget as it is so far? We have a $17,316 so far with change to use. Now, mind you, we will be adding a caterer for our
awards dinner and other things that'll be happening. So, we will get to break those items out, but we want to make sure that we use every dime that we get since we don't get many. Any questions? Yes, Vice President Gomez. >> Oh. Um, no real question other than a
statement just because of what we said earlier um during the business meeting. Since we held off on the purchase of the um Chromebooks or the technology, the computers until we better assess the needs of the council members, I wouldn't
um recommend us touching the equipment um balance at this moment. Um, but I do recommend us shifting the PECARD funds because we won't have access to it anyway um for our general use or to
immediately reimburse Anthony Aguilar. So that you know >> I do thank you for that. But I do think um and I don't have it in front of me, but I think that we're in this month where we would have to make a decision for the technology which will happen
prior to our March meeting. So we might need a special meeting if we decide to do technology but we can decide that on the back end. >> Repeat that again please. The deadline for technology is this month which will happen before our March meeting. So we
may need to have a special meeting. >> Go ahead. >> So, so no. So understanding that shift those funds immediately if you have the votes right now and then later on we could talk about shifting the funds again. So So the monies,
>> right? So, what I'm hearing you say is, council members, we would like to move the technology line and the pecard line into the administrative consultant line for our annual report writer. >> That is correct.
>> Do we have a motion for that? >> I have motion. >> Um, let's see. Is that a is that a council member with their hands raised? >> Which council member? Is it Bugonia? I'm sorry. I couldn't my hand up. Yes. >> Yes, Bonia. Go ahead, please. You have the floor.
>> I I don't agree. I agree with not moving the equipment line. I don't agree with moving funds into the administrative line cuz I I want to look more into it. It's my first time knowing about our annual consultant
and I want to know if we could use the funds for something else. So, I feel like if that line could wait until March, but the computer line, we thought I thought that we said that we were going to look into the computers to see
if we needed two or three. >> Can I say >> all right? We do hear Second Vice President Bonia. And I do want to make a point. We're not going to get an annual report writer under $5,000. So, trying to make it less would kind of be a moot point. It would be us writing that
document. And that's way too much of a ask. I'm going to be honest because I've been the main person running a point on it. I'm not going to lie. With that being said, I will make a point of making a annual report committee this month, the meeting to walk everyone through what it looks like, what our
priorities are, what are the goals that we voted on, what that looks like in rounding it out. What do your committee endofear reports look like? What is it that we ask of a annual report writer? I have no problem walking everyone through it. Just be under the understanding that
we're gonna at minimum need to vote in the writer by April. Worst case scenario, how do people feel about that? >> That makes me feel more comfortable. >> Wonderful. Anyone else? >> We have questions over here because I think what is it? Don't we lose the
money if we don't allocate it now before? >> If we don't allocate the money now, we will lose the money for technology. However, there is someone in the chat, Miss Vega, that says she has a corporation that could help us get laptops for free.
>> Okay. >> So, that's the understanding, guys. If we don't go ahead and move, we may have to have a special meeting to make the deadline if we choose to buy one or two laptops. We can find that out via email, etc. But if we don't do it now, they
people are lenient with us. I think Mo, is Mo here in the audience? our SGO I thought. >> Yes, I'm here. I'm here. >> Can you help us out with that deadline, Mo? >> Yes, absolutely. So, the deadline to do the budget mod basically is today. And
the deadline, >> yes, the deadline for equipment to generate purchase order is February 11. So, we must have if you need to buy those Chromebooks, we must you must submit the purchase order no later than
February 11 >> because DOE will remove all equipment after February 11 and none of them will be available. >> All right. Thank you, Mo. So, hearing that information and being informed, council members,
>> do we choose to move $1,000 out of parent engagement into the equipment line to supplement for devices, or do we want to move 700, make it $1,000? Hold up, let me see. I'm sorry, I'm on the wrong screen. The equipment line
currently has five. Oh, so do we want to move like 600 dollars over from parent engagement? >> Yeah, 600. >> I don't know. >> You mean 591.70? Hold on. Parent engagement.
>> Yeah, we can round up unless I mean if y'all want to be specific, I'll be specific with you. >> Okay. parent involvement $4,700 >> like $510 or something like you know do we want to move like 500 and something
whatever we don't use we can still technology um line that we need to have um supplied now >> is anyone married to a number >> we want to shift whatever we have to do to shift the money now is what we want to do >> whatever money that we can shift over to
make it $1,000 equally is what purchase. >> I hear you, Bonia. Thank you for your Yes. Uh, Gomez. Yes. >> Okay. So, um, my opinion may not be popular, but understanding all of the deadlines and seeing where we're at. So, the 11th is next Wednesday and we're
already like past in terms of the deadline for this thing. I think that we should move the 591 with 78 cents to another line immediately as opposed to putting shifting more funds into that technology line because we're still in the same
predicament and whether we purch >> Okay. So, wait, council members, are we in a wait, let me hear you clearly because there's a couple things going on here. Um Joanna, I'm going to need you to go back and amend your your motion for us to postpone indefinitely until we got the numbers for technology because
we're now shifting into a vote to move money on the line for technology. So we'll um resend that vote so that we can move forward into moving monies. >> No, we >> go ahead. Do you want to clarify for me?
>> I'm so sorry. We don't want to resend the vote because I think some of us here do not want to shift monies into the technology line at this time. The vote that we earlier would be for the next fiscal year to consider putting funds in
the next >> line year. Okay. So then what I'm hearing is >> okay that we don't want to move money into the technology line. We do want to move money from technology into the numeric form
>> administrative consultant line or into what? What line are we moving the 591 out of? >> I I would move it into the administrative consulting line. Um we are like whoever works like in administration knows that you can't get a consultant um for that price range. Um
at least a good one. Um $5,000 is lowballing it. Um so that you know so I I'm just putting it out there. Um, and it is an incredible amount of work um, where you need other eyes other than the council members eyes in order to put this document together to account for
all of the great work that's being done by the subcommittees. >> I would stand in agreement. Do we have a motion to move the $591.78 from the equipment line into the administrative consultant line? Um office I mean council member white I
motion to move to 591. >> Do we have a second? >> I Stephanie Bon just second. >> May we move into a roll call vote. >> Msuma Octar. >> Yes.
>> Rebecca Ally Christy Angel. >> Yes. >> Stephanie Bonia. >> Yes. >> Joanna Gomez. >> Yes. >> Elijah Ha. Yes, >> Demi. >> Yes, >> Jessica Rivera.
>> Yes, >> Sharon Stewart. >> Yes. >> Michelle White, yes. >> Nine votes for yes. >> All right, the motion has passed. We are moving the 59178 from the equipment line into the
administrative consultant line. Thank you all so much for moving that vote forward. We will now move into our president's update. And y'all know I love to save time, so I'm gonna try to move through quickly. So, >> President Angel, >> yes, go ahead. >> Before you before you proceed, I think
um we we we were um we were considering moving the PECARD funds as well, disenumbering them. >> Oh, thank you. Thank you. See, this is why this is why you need extra people. Thank you, Vice President. Can we have a motion to move the purchase card um
remaining funds into the administrative consultant line? >> Does that mean that we're we're the parent involvement line? We're not going to move then until we >> we still we can move anything anytime until we hit a hard stop. So yeah, we're
we're just moving things now because she's gone. question is about the parent involvement line. What we had asked before was >> the $5,000, but we were going to go come back next month or we have until April
to come back for that one. >> The $5,000 is still there. >> It's there. >> No, that >> I know. I'm just saying. But that was >> Will we discuss breaking that part down? >> Yes, >> absolutely. Yes. Yes, for sure. >> Okay. You guys will get emails about
that and when we get we have to do bids, guys, because we're using purchase orders for different things. So, we have to research vendors one through three, find the lowest uh bidder and then we can move forward with those monies. But we absolutely are transparent. You guys will know what we're trying to do. See
the menus or see the vendors for everything. Yes. Absolutely. >> Right. So I what I agree what I would like is to not touch the parent involvement funds until we've >> oh we're not this is parent involvement isn't a part of this discussion.
>> I and I would like I agree with um VP Gomez about moving the V the PC card. >> Okay, perfect. Does anybody else have um feedback? I just want a motion to um for the council to move the pecard 1500 to
the um administrative line for the annual report. Um, just a correction, we want to move the remaining amounts, the 1500 was the initial amount. And I know that we made a few purchases. And since Gabrielle is not here, we don't know to the dollar amount of what's in the PE
card, but what we will ask, and hopefully, Mo, if we're wrong, let us know that the remaining funds on the PECARD be moved into the line item for the administrative consultant. >> Yeah, we're going to try. Yes, we're going to try to move the remaining funds
to administrative consultant. And I also have a suggestion since uh uh Gabriel left. I'm not sure if you're going to need the local travel and meeting expense, the $500 there. That was originally for the AA since you don't
have an AA. You could move that to another line. It's your decision. And also the printing, the $300 printing there. You could move it if you are not planning to use it. >> So that's $800. Guys, do we want us um
amend this motion to move the Thank you um Mo. >> You're welcome. >> Do we want to add the PECard line, local travel and what did he just say? >> PE card >> printing printing $300,
local travel and printing into the administrative line. >> I agree. And then it go also help with the with the amount that we was trying to give in the first place. >> Wonderful. >> Vice President Gomez, are you willing to
amend your motion? >> I I need somebody to second it. I already made the motion. >> You got to edit it. >> No, to amend the motion. To the motion. >> Okay. to include printing and um the PC card, right?
>> Printing, the PE card, local transportation and printing. >> Local transport. >> So, we will be moving PECARD, local transportation, and printing into the administrative line. >> Okay. A motion.
>> All righty. So you have that amendment >> to amend the PE card um local travel and meeting expenses and the printing to the administrative line >> and that's does the second still remain.
>> I second. >> Wonderful. May we move into a roll call vote? >> Msuma Aar. >> Yes. >> Rebecca Ally Christy Angel. >> Yes. >> Stephanie Bonia. Yes. >> Joanna Gomez. >> Yes.
>> Elijah Hob. >> Yes. >> Fia Nimi. >> Yes. >> Jessica Rivera. >> Yes. >> Sharon Stewart. >> Yes. >> Michelle White. Vote of nine. >> Wonderful. The motion has passed. Move
the PCARD local travel printing to the administrative consultant line. Thank you council members for moving that forward. Am I remissed for anything else on the budget or may we move forward? >> I just want to also mention one more thing. Since we're going to be moving
the remaining balance of the PC card, the PC card is going to be stopped as of February as of the time we're going to you know stop it, which is most likely by next week. And if you have any monthly charges for website or anything,
it might you might use one of the council P card or a credit card or whatever since we're going to stop the PE card. I'm not sure if you charge the monthly website to the >> card. I got you. So, so this time what most saying um you guys may not know it
before when we did not have a a we had to pay out of pocket and those of us that wanted to had to keep the council going uh paying $34 a month for our website. So, what we do know is our marketing and our Wix is paid for the year, which means we have to figure out a new plan or have a new AA by June,
July. Um otherwise, um we should technically be okay. Um except for Canva that was something that was going to be monthly I believe but
>> you know we voted for the year >> if it's yearly then I stand corrected if there's any space let me just say this if there's any space >> but I believe >> yeah I can I don't have it in front of me >> okay so we stand corrected it is yearly
so everything that we need is should already be paid for um if there's other stuff. I do graphic design and better, so I have access to a lot of stuff. You guys can always use me. But right now, having her turn off the pecart doesn't necessarily stop anything. It just changes our flexibility of what we can
buy when we could buy it. But so far so good. Do we have any other questions on the budget? >> So, do so we don't need it right now for a monthly for the website? >> No, no, no, no. We're good for >> Okay. Thank you. >> You're welcome. All righty. So, I'm going to Can I jump
into the president's report now, y'all? I'm joking. >> If we're clear, all hearts and minds are clear with the budget, we will move into the president's report. >> So, I'm going to quickly give a few updates. Thank you. On January 27th, we hosted our puppet
tree and education event. And we were really excited, guys. We had 54 attendees from several of our schools all over the burrows, including teachers and school staff. And it was a really great experience. And we want to give a huge thank you to Wonders Sparks and to
Breida Pacion for an engaging and meaningful program. And FYI, we have 10 scholarships that we have to give out. We will be sending that out via the district to make sure that we continue to push forward the work for
our verbal students, non-verbal students, and students that could use any level of extra communication assistance. Um, we are looking forward to our May 22nd showcase. Uh, with that being said, I don't know if many of you are familiar with Megan Fifus, but she
is the first black female puppeteer on Sesame Street, and she will be our guest judge. So, we are very excited to move that initiative forward with the council. Also, on January 30th, we held our third event. We stopped in Queens,
guys. It was so much snow and it was so cold. 465 people registered, but 179 of them pushed through and came and we nominated 173 of them. It was an amazing space. I
want to say thank you to the working group to district 75 HR sub central dial uft Henry Renulus the principal who gave up his space the superintendent and our deputy superintendent because they are CUNY alumni and they show up to show
what is possible and love. So guys I want you to know we are moving to our next stop which will be Manhattan on March 24th. So we know it's going to be a little bit warmer. people are going to show up in numbers and we are going to support and I want you guys to know
that HR heard our council when we said we needed a little bit more support in the retention of people who come and they made a HR room and it changed the game. People got to get questions answered on site and they knew
immediately what they needed in addition to our checklist that we made. So, I'm proud of the work that we're doing with this initiative and thank you again for everyone that's working in partnership. On January 29th, um we were able to go to 993 the motion picture high school.
Thank you uh PA uh Jazelle Ramirez for making this um connection. Council members, we will absolutely make another um um visit. I believe Superintendent McCoy might be going tomorrow. This school is epic. First of
all, kudos to Principal Lopez, Principal Lonin for the level of inclusion that they are doing. Guys, I went to school for media management. These kids in high school are getting what we would get on a collegiate level, and so are our babies. It's beyond impressive what
they're doing. And it's great to see the level that we have district 75 principles and colllocated schools moving in tandem together. and one it I haven't seen it on that level in a very long time and it's impressive and I know that the superintendent is using them in
them in different spaces. Um we have a lot of artists, a lot of companies that are working with them and so as a council if we have places where we can show up just like with the hiphop school, let's do what we can to push this forward because they are moving in a powerful way and the inclusion is
amazing for our children. Also, we're actively working on our legislative breakfast, which is March 23rd. Thank you, Chair U. Michelle White. We're looking into having our legislative breakfast um meeting for the committee, I believe, on the 12th. Don't get me
wrong, that will be coming up. It will be on our website and blasted out for those of you who have joined our list serve. If you have not, please do join ccd75.org so that you can be supported and be on the lookout. As a quick reminder, our school construction authority requests
have gone out to principles. I know a few of you have missed the deadline. It's okay. They stretched it out. So, we're going to send out a few more reminders. We will have uh Vice President Bonia assist us as she is our capacity and utilization person. So,
she'll make sure to do a little bit of followup so that we have what we need so that we can prioritize your recommendations. we do get to pick our top five recommendations per burrow. So, please do make sure to put those items in. We know that you put them into your
community education councils, but please do allow us to still have voice and to support you as well. And to wrap it up again, our home instruction office, thank you guys for the working group. Thank you for the council for the work that you voted on. Thank you for everyone for the work that we're doing.
And again to follow up, don't forget your reimbursements. Let's get this work done and get paid for the money that you're doing. That is my wrap up and we will now move on to our next bullet point, which would be our illustrious
superintendent, Dr. McCoy. >> Christie, do you mind if I share my screen? >> Oh, no. Go ahead. >> Okay. Do you need Do you need me to make you um co-host? >> I think I should be good. >> Okay. going to make you co-host who sing anyway. There you go.
>> All right. Good night everyone. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I see we have some of uh principles on tonight. Just want to show them some love. So, thank you guys for coming on. Um yesterday we had a wonderful meeting as uh President
Christie shared um at with home instruction. It was a great working group. So definitely want to shout out Todd and the work he's doing to make sure that this the uh parents are involved and the work that they're doing together collaboratively.
I always steal this line from Dr. Hogard when he says the power of collaboration. I just love how he says that and it's so true that you know when we have collaboration and we work together as a team um as one voice it's nothing but greatness that happens. So, just want to
shout them out. And I know John, I believe, is also on. So, I want to say hello also to all the parents. I hope everyone's enjoying this cold weather and staying nice and warm and getting that hot cocoa if you need it or coffee or tea, whatever it may be. And to
everyone else, I know some district staff is on. And to my partner in crime, Dr. Hogard, thank you for coming on. All right, so I'm going to start with some updates um and then we will flow through the rest of the deck. So, um, on the
12th of January, uh, 79mm, 138 m, um, oh, 138 m, it's twice. 79mm, 138thm, and actually it's 721m, so that should be changed. Came together and participated in a future
collaborative wellness event. It was on a Saturday. It was great. Dr. Hugard and I came, I mean came went and it was just a great time. Parents were there. There was great food. There was great
activities, music, um and they had um just great wellness things happening for the families. There was also some resource resource agencies that were there that the parents were able to engage with. on the 13th of January um
visited 37R with Dr. Corey and the entire school community and they're doing some amazing things at that school in Staten Island. Very deep in literacy, very focused on literacy. Um and at that school she has an Ames classroom. They
have a boy scouts. The parent leaders are very strong, very involved. Um and it was just a great great visit and a great time. On the 14th of January, spent some times with Deputy Chancellor Rucks, um one of the chiefs um from DSL,
Chief Demango, uh Miss Renee Clagger, and we visited 373R program, which is a coll-located school with PS48, and we observe uh student engagement and some impactful small group instruction.
on the 22nd alongside with FOD Andy uh the superintendent for that district done and principal D and the gen ed principal her name is principal Danielle we participated in a wonderful inclusion
visit and we had a beautiful studentled panel the school is actually MS915 and just to hear the way the students speak in regards to what they would like their future to be part what they would like to do in their future and just
things that they love about the school and how the school was so helpful and impactful and just to see how those two principles a D75 and a Jennet principal work together in an inclusion setting it was just remarkable. So, I know yes, as uh President Christie said, tomorrow I
will be going to 993 um Q um to see another amazing inclusion program, but definitely this one also was just thumbs up for it. Great job. Next slide, please. Um on the 23rd, visited 256Q
um with CCD75 President Christy Angel. We we visited some Wait, go back. My memor is good but not that good. Okay, we visited um I went with Christy Angel and we toured classrooms. We had a wonderful um
conversation with the uft chapter leader. His name is Mr. Hans um Mary Show. He spoke so highly of the school. He's been around for a really long time. And just how he spoke about Principal Lopez and the great work that they
together have been doing. And sometimes there is contention between CSA and UFT, but to for them to have a common denominator of student progress and student success and really pushing the school community, it was just great to hear um to hear that language from both
of them. And also he has an amazing AP. Her name is Gorski. Um she's very very nice and we had a great great visit at visiting that school. On the 24th, Dr. to hug her and I visited 771K with principal Vanette another Saturday um
and her AP Noel and they had another wellness program. We got I got a wonderful massage that I did not want the young lady to stop. Um and they had yoga happening. They had really great food and just positive energy. Hung out with some of the parents. We took some
photos and we had a really really good time. Next slide please. These are some of the schools that I visited. um so far just for um these few week few well I say a month um and more
to come I'm trying to get to all of them I'm on my own little tour next slide please so attendance so you know attendance is very very important um to district 75 I do work very closely with the um attendance director to make sure
that we are really really pushing that attendance in all the schools currently the attendance is 81.9% um and we are just pushing it to go higher and higher. Schools do a lot of great work um of having attendance team meetings and really reaching out to the
families to see why they're not attending and what's how they can um support them to attend. Of course, if if OPT is an issue, we have the two liaison at the district, Minnie and Jackie Ortega, that support that work to get ride share in order and or to support
the parents in regards to getting a route for OPT. Um, and those are the two that the the principles are currently aware of of who to contact if there is an issue. We they must keep the district um you know within uh keep the district knowing what's happening so that we can
support them. Next slide, please. So this is one of the bravo moments. Um some of the principles are always sending me some great great things. So this is actually 369K principal D. Um she actually had a visit from one of her students who um successfully was
descertified from D75 doing an awesome job in high school and will be attending will has earned a full scholarship to Hunter College and a half scholarship scholarship to Stony Brook University. So, I love when they send me these
awesome things. Um, I tell my principles, send them to me so we can show off and just see what's happening in the schools. Like, we can't be there, but this is one way that I'm able to keep a pulse of what's happening in the schools. So, I love when they send me this great stuff. Next slide, please.
So, this is an amazing cute story. Um, this is from 75Q. Uh, President Christie um and I went to visit a school. We ended up going to the wrong school, but it was a D75 school, which was at 775Q.
As we get into the school, um the lady, the actual inclusion sets provider, D75 teacher, looks at us, we look at her, we're like, "Hi, we came to visit your school." She says, "Okay, I had no idea you were coming." So, we says, "Okay, well, we're here. So, we want to walk
around." So, as we're walking around, we're visiting all the classrooms. We're having conversations with the Jen. We saw the GenEd principal. We saw the Gened teachers. And then we bump into this amazing student who's a D75 student. His name is Alex Alvarez. He's
on the honor roll. They spoke so highly. He is one of our D75 students in inclusion doing some awesome work. And what was really touching to me is that we went to the wrong site. Although it was a D75 school and it was popping and
and I know Christiey's probably laughing right now because we were cracking up, but it was just so good. We saw the real work and the real work was truly happening and it was great to meet Alex. We talked about Alex and then we happened to see Alex um as we were in
the hallway and they said this is Alex. We like come here. We were just talking about you and that's how we got this photo. So, it was just a great time of laughter and then of just great news of what's happening in uh inclusion at 75Q and that's James Thorp School. Remember that Christie Christie?
>> Next slide please. >> That that's one of the best places when they're not prepared for us and you still see greatness that that >> we're not going nowhere. It's pouring outside. We're staying right here. So, it was really a great visit. Okay. So, another Bravo moment. Um, Pathway to Graduation,
District 79 and District 79 and District 75. We have a new collaboration happening at 993 um where they're going to be doing a partnership. This is the first one in Queens and they're going to be providing students with the potential
to earn a high school a GED pretty much. And we have it in Staten Island at 721R. We have it at three schools in the Bronx, 754X, 176X, and 17X. So, it's just great work that the principles are out there
hitting the ground and doing some awesome things. Want to shout them out. Next slide, please. Okay, I'm done. It's all yours, Dr. Hogard. >> Thank you. Thank you, Dr. McCoy. Good evening, everybody. It's always good to
be in this space. Always good to see everybody. And I just want to echo Dr. McCoyy's sentiments and just give a shout out to uh President Angel and and um Miss Bonia and and Miss Ria and Todd for the work that they did with home instruction. I mean, just to just to be
able to be in that space with you all yesterday at the home instruction office and just to see the the framework that you built around parentf facing documents. I can't wait to see what else you bring as you continue to build practices and put systems and structures
in place to support our families with throughout the home instruction process. So, I just want to give you all a shout out and say the work and the different things that y'all did to create that transparency for parents is just is just unbelievable and I appreciate it being in that space yesterday. All right, that
said, let's jump into the slides. We've been um visiting schools. We've been spending a lot of time in schools over the past few months. And in the month of January, I'm excited to say that I was at uh this past week at 643X, one of our newest DBNs in the Bronx, Principal um
Parish. And um I just had an amazing time at her school. I was able to spend time in the classrooms with the students. I was able to sit with Principal Parish and her team to talk about some of the different things that they have going on within their school community around assessments, around the
curriculum. I saw students engaged in HMH. I saw students engaged in Rtopia, Rtopia GO. So, I just want to give um Principal Marron Polish a shout out for the amazing work that's happening at her school. And then we made our way from the Bronx to Brooklyn over to Principal
Courtney Ratenberry school. And at her school, I had the opportunity to participate. I mean, the the things that she has around transition is unbelievable. I was able to participate in in a podcasting studio with the students. I went into the podcasting
studio um studio. The students asked me questions about my position, questions about how did I get into education. They asked me um um what what did I start off as in educ in education? They asked me where was I from. So it was a great experience to be with Miss Ratenberry's
students in that podcasting studio. And then in one of the other rooms, the other spaces, she had like a print shop where they had like Cricut machines. And the students were showing me, teaching me how to create sweaters and shirts and and different things with the Cricut machines. I enjoyed it. I mean, I really
I had an amazing time. So, I learned a lot. I knew nothing about how to utilize the Cricut machine. And after I left that room with the students, I said, "Wow, it was an amazing experience." So, I want to give her a shout out for that. And then I visited 4K, went to another school in Brooklyn with Principal Ashley
Smith. And um at principles Ashley Smith school, they were utilizing Rethink. Rethink is a a platform that's geared towards social emotional learning. So I really enjoyed seeing her students and staff engaged in the Rethink platform.
It was it was amazing to see. It focuses on social emotional learning, how to deal with conflict resolution, how to deal with behaviors, and just to see the students engaged in that work was amazing. And at 469X back in the Bronx,
we have at um um at the Taff High School, the 10th graders are are actively engaged in early college credit earning coursework with BCC. So, just want to give a shout out to Janine Tubio for the work that she's doing with Future Ready. And that work is happening
through the future um ready work that's happening at a few of our schools across district 75. Dr. McCoy and I were invited to an amazing event at P77K main site on January 28th. Um DC FOD was also at the event. Last year, one of
Principal Russell's student received an award for a film contest hosted by Mo Mo Mosak. Can you lift that up for me? Hold on. Something is in the way. Experiment. And it was sponsored by Newman's Own. And I just want to say it
was amazing. And it was amazing. The student mother came out. I mean in the gym gym. The gym was packed. There was students I mean probably I think all sites came out to this event just to see one of the students honored and receive
an award for winning a film contest. And they also had um Bronx Green Machine present. Bronx Green Machine came out. They donated some more materials to the school so that students could do some like some some food growing within the school community. It was amazing. Next
slide. And I wanted to and I know President Angel spoke to this. Um the sub parun event was amazing. I mean it's it it's just just being in that space was near and dear to me because when I came into
district 75 I started off as a power professional at 754X and when we walked into 721Q and when we saw the number of candidates that filled that gmatorium up that was there looking to become a par
profofessional for district 75. It was amazing. I mean a lot of people showed up and showed out. A lot of candidates they had the opportunity to visit classrooms, meet the students, meet the teachers. There was a paraprofessional panel where other paraprofessionals sat
on stage and spoke about the work that they do or did as a parah. And actually some of the paras that sat on stage were paras that turned teachers. So it was amazing just to be in that space and listening to the staff members talk about what it is and what it means to be a parro professional for D75. So,
President Angel, I just want to shout you out for that vision and for making sure that that vision came into fruition. It was just and it was it was just amazing to see. I had a great time and I can't wait to see what you bring to the Manhattan Manhattan subpar community. All right, can we go to the
next slide? We we're opening up new sites across the city. Um, new D75 sites. Just to start, we have sites opening up in Brooklyn. Um, we have um we colllocated schools. We have uh 15K428
that's going to be opening which is K4. We also have K280 which is going to be in Brooklyn. 15K442. We also have a site at uh K004 the DBN which is going to be at 18K 235. 141K is
going to be opening up a new site. 396K is going to be opening up a new site. And 372K is going to be opening up a new site. So, if you look at the chart right here at, you know, next to each site, you see the DBN um 371K, they're going to be opening up a site with six sections.
053, they're going to be opening up a site with eight sections. So, and then um 141K and 396K, they're going to be opening up a site with 12 sections. You go to the next slide. And we also have in um Queens, we have um 811Q that's
going to be opening up a new site. 177Q, 438Q, >> 438Q, and 751 M schools that are in the process. And just so you know, Mini Paul and our executive director is on the line. Um, a
lot of schools receive their Chromebooks. A lot of schools and um I know schools have been reaching out to families to come to the school buildings to pick up their Chromebooks. As I visit schools, principles are telling me that families are coming in. They're picking up the Chromebooks, family workers,
parent coordinators, they're doing a lot of outreach. They're reaching out to the homes to make sure that our students get the laptops that they've been allocated that's at the schools. Thank you so much. Can you go to the next slide? >> Last but not least, we have our 10th
annual STEM fair. We are back at the American Museum of Natural History and we cannot be more excited. Last year we were at the Museum of Natural History and it was amazing. It was just an amazing space to be in and it was we had an amazing time. A lot of the schools
showed up. Students came and I mean they just came and they presented their projects. Uh a lot of staff members walked around to to to kind of view the projects that the students put together. We took pictures. the students were able to explain and speak to the work that they did throughout the school year. So,
we're excited. Just be on the lookout for that. And um we support the STEM team. We have a lot of district staff members. You go back. We have a lot of district staff members that are going to support the STEM team by volunteering for the event. So, there's going to be a lot of hands- on deck. We pretty much on this day, we empty out the district
office and make sure that all staff members, all district staff members are on deck to support the students. Thank you so much. I'm going to pass it over to Nora and Patricia. >> Thank you, Dr. Hogard. Um, I just want to say uh good evening to everybody. I'm
really excited. I'm I'm looking out into the the crowd and I see a lot of our uh parent leaders um on the call. I just wanted to say thank you. Um in terms of family engagement, we have a lot going on um within the next few months. Um for
me in particular, I just want to share that, you know, parent associations and parent association elections is definitely um at the forefront. Um and to support that process and to make sure that I'm available for um our parent leaders, um I've scheduled a series of
family leadership coordinator office hours where parent association leaders or potential leaders can meet with me. It's a pilot. Um, the intention is to provide an opportunity for parent leaders to meet me in this link at these
times with any questions or concerns. It's just an informal space so we can have those conversations. Next slide. Um, on March 28th, we will continue Oh, wait. Uh, we will continue to clean for
the stress-free Saturdays. Uh the initiative was designed to reduce stress, promote wellness, and give back to families. It'll be in partnership with the burough president Donovan Richards Jr. Uh the event featured a variety of activities. Um the if you
went to the uh present to the stress-free Saturday in December in the Bronx, it's going to uh definitely be on that same level. and Brooklyn will be the next stop on April 18th. On I I do see a few fathers here who
joined us for our last uh fathers alliance meeting um uh in January. I just want to say that we had over 80 fathers join us throughout this meeting. It was a powerful meeting uh supported by uh Twapa and uh Johnny Bradford, one
of our assistant principles. And I want to say thank you and a shout out to them um as it was an incredible and powerful session where par uh fathers had the opportunity to talk about their experiences and make those connections. In alignment with that, our next
upcoming fathers alliance will be held on February 23rd. Um, it will be on on Zoom, but guest speaker Peter Coleman from Care Design will be joining us as the initial speaker to share about OPWD
and the care management process with care design, giving fathers the opportunity to learn about resources, the importance about learning about resources, and how they can help their children at home. Next slide.
on February 7th, actually this Saturday coming up is the family peer group. Um I'm very excited about this piece. Um as it is an opportunity for families across district 75 to come in person and to
join together. Um it's a the the the way the flow of the day is that it's a three-hour session. We provide um metro cards, we provide child care, we provide lunch, we provide a space for you to learn. Um we have a presentation on the
five love languages and parenting where you know sometimes love needs no words and our children communicate that in so many ways and this is an opportunity for you to learn how to see that within your own child. um include NYC. Ruth Jerome
is going to be joining us and facilitating an advocacy skills for families workshop. And of course, we have the CCD75 President Christine Joe facilitating a uh a a program based on
technology and ensuring that our families are digital ambassadors. So, it's a digital ambassadorship uh program and it's incredible. The laptops will be there and um we will be there as well to support you. We will have in-person
interpretation in Spanish, Mandarin and Bakle as well as child care lunch and some really fun raffles. Next slide. All right. So, New York City schools account continue to be a um a hot topic.
We want our families to have those NIXA accounts open. Um, without those New York City schools account, you can't see your child's transportation. You have access to so much. And we want to support you. And we're going to do this
on March 3rd at 12:00 p.m. and 6 p.m. I'm going to be facilitating a very short NIXA um, workshop. I'm going to show you how to open up your NIX account. And what I'm really excited about is that we're going to have all of our parent coordinators on these calls
at 12:00 p.m. and at 6 p.m. And the intention is if you come and you do not if you join us in these meetings and you do not have a New York City schools account, your parent coordinator will be put with you into a breakout room and they will support you in your account creation. So um definitely join us. If
you have any mix of questions, this is an opportunity for you to ask. If you need your account creation code, this is an opportunity for you to get it. This is an opportunity for you to open up your account. So, definitely come and join us. I'm going to make it really fun. I'm going to try to make it corny
by putting on New York City songs and and um just make it a little party, a little festive. Um and at the end of it, my hope is that you would walk away with your New York City Schools account. Um, and going back to parent associations,
um, again, I see our parent association parents on this call. Um, I actually met with a few of them throughout the past few weeks. So, I'm really excited that they're here. Um, again, very appreciative of your support, your collaboration, and your support of your
school communities, of course, representing your families and your children. Um, but the work is isn't isn't over. And I want for us to come together on March 17th. Um, I am going to hold two sessions at 12:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. And I'm going to go back to
basics. We are going to do a parent association, parent teacher association elections overview, PAT elections 101. And we're going to go over the process. And the idea is that I want us to get to June with all of our school
organizations with an established parent association executive board. And I want you to join me in that process. So I hope to see you then. And interpretation of course will be available in Spanish, Mandarin, and Bangla in all of these forums. So, I'm really looking forward
to connecting with parent leaders and with potential parent leaders um so that way we can dive into this work together um to support our school communities. >> Thank you so much. And I pass the baton over to family support coordinator Patricia Olive.
>> Hello. Good night. Um so, um as Dr. McCoy and Dr. Hagard um echoed. It was um actually very much like an eye openener and a good time just being able to spend time with um you Christy um
along with Jessica and Miss Stephanie Bonia yesterday and and Todd um with home instruction um just to be able to like work towards and and you know tweak certain things that you guys have um wanted to adjust and work on in the
system. So I'm going to speak on behalf of transition. Um these are just a few things that's taken place and a few updates. Uh so they had the guardianship and future planning uh where they did the guardianship process and were able to look at the overview for the able
accounts on 127. They did the disability program and student inclusion initiatives at the city university in CUNI. I actually had the opportunity to be on that zoom. uh Natalie McQueen um headed that the director of transitions
and it was amazing. It was a I think it was over a 100 plus families that was on that Zoom call and you know they discussed different programs like CUNI leads unlimited project reach and adaptive sports and you know it it
allowed families to say okay like my student has a life outside of district 75 and just to see where they could go. it it was just an amazing um workshop to be on. Uh, additionally there was a student earned income inclusion and uh,
the 301's upcoming is the guardianship and 17A. Once again filling out um, filling out the forms just piggybacking from 122 and uh, on 120 the summer youth applications were open and is set to close on 227.
So, please uh be on the lookout for that. Go through your emails and you know, if you need any assistance with that, feel free to reach out to me on Nora. Um, additionally, they have the um food handler certification program going on and uh Chef Patrick actually let me
know that the students were set to take um their exams in February. So, that was actually um amazing to hear to be honest. I had the opportunity to be in on one of the peer-to-peer and see the students come in and you know they they really um took the the program very serious. So it's nice that they were
able to get their food handlers. Moving on into the arts. Uh so they have summer art the sorry the Saturday arts program is back. Um so the arts academy they started February 7th. Uh it goes on
February 28th, March 7th, March 14th, March 21st, and March 28th. Um Amanda, who is the the director, wanted me to verify that is not weight listed. So all families are free to join um join in. If they mention that is weight listed, just
feel free to reach out to Amanda and she will um go ahead and get you guys right in. uh 37R had the Saturday enrichment program which started on 124 and um Amanda also wanted me to share that
March 24th there is the film festival happening at MoMA. So this is the superintendent uh student advisory. So they've been collaborating and you know I've been seeing them they're getting their voices here heard. um you know they've been fundamental
with their leadership and collaboration and teamwork and more so like with the communication and and being able to to get their needs and wants out at total there is at current there's 50 uh 52 student representatives. Uh additionally uh tonight was the start
of the cultural career force. Uh it's a virtual program. It's 16 weeks and it supports career readiness and career classes for artbased programs and it works along with museums and nonprofits. Additionally, it includes field trips with art-based organizations and
careers. So, as you can see, there's a lot happening at district 75 as always. So, thank you. And um I will also be um sending out this um overview of of this and uh to register for the links. Thank
you guys so much. All righty. I want to say thank you to the district. As you guys can see, we have a wonderful team doing wonderful work, and we are so happy to be in collaboration and partnership as you continue to do the work for our 30,000 children, families, and students. As you
hear Christian in the background, he said, "Thank you guys." >> Praise the Lord. All righty. So, we're going to go ahead and move into public comment. This is where you attendees have uh two minutes each to state your questions um ask comments etc to uh the
council and to the superintendent if you would please raise your hand uh to be recognized and we will give you the floor if you do have any questions or concerns. Council members if you have any questions or concerns that you would like to uplift to the district please
let us know as well right now. Mr. Mahoney I see your hand is raised. you have the floor. >> Good evening everyone. I want to thank you all for meeting and I have a quick question for Dr. McCoy. Um, will you
Well, it was nice to hear you had such a great surprise visit by mistake and sometimes the things that we don't plan for turn out really great. >> Yes. How you doing? >> My question I'm doing good. So my question >> I owe you I owe you a phone call. I know >> that's okay. But I'm curious. Were you
able to make any headway concerning uh with Dr. Pto on collaborating on on getting some of our district 75 children at least a little taste of music because to see all all those general ed schools when I I'm doing my visits and they got
a music room. Um but uh district 75 kids they get odd but they they don't get a little taste of music and all our children um 75 and gen ed all have a way to use music as communication and
to express themselves. So I'm very curious if uh you're having success with that. >> So I haven't spoke to Superintendent PTO but I will. I know I owe you a phone call so we can chat. Um, so I will reach out to him and ask him and it's his program, right? It's the Jed program
that we want to get them included in just for me to remember. >> Yeah. >> Correct. Because I I spoke with a district 75 principal uh so she's uh the site on 13th and 63rd. It's a new school and once again I noticed these instruments and it's
thinking outside the box. I don't know if it's feasible because I know the teachers al also have to be special ed certified um for our district 75 kids, but why not 80% of the time with general ed and 20% with our district 75 kids. So at least one day a week they have
something. So I don't know if that's feasible. There's contract. There's all sorts of rules. Um but to at at least to see to whatever extent possible where there is a programming general ed like let's see if if that's doable you know
and um and that's basically you know like I don't know the the nuts and holes you leave it to people like yourselves our administrators um and I know contractual rules like that's that that at times is a hurdle but just like I heard somebody share with a uft leader
there a long time you know our teachers just got our kids special hot too and it's just trying to do in a collaborative manner to make it work for everybody. >> Yes. Okay. Is that is that um principal Rosa's school or principal Ruda the this
D75 principal? >> That that's principal road uh Rose's school. >> Rosa. Okay. and but but I I can't speak for Principal Ruda, but I'm sure that uh she would be delighted um you know, as as all our 75 schools and and kids would
with um you know, but it's a one little step at a time, you know. So, I I just noticed it there, but as I visited like I'd say at least half a dozen sites, I hit one today and I'll be at another one tomorrow. So, uh I'll be up there on Avenue P. So, that's just something um
you know that I I tend to notice um that our kids get art, but sometimes with music um they don't they don't seem to have that same uh experience. >> And I I I won't get into the metro card, but listen, our kids get bus service,
yeah, back and forth to school, but they should be entitled to the same benefit that the kids that have it. And even if you're a general ed kid and you walk to school eight blocks on your summer vacation and after school and weekends, you should have a metro card to go to a
cultural event, go see a play, um something with your family, you know, cuz a family with three kids, mom or dad is paying $24 to take those kids if they don't have a metro card. The same way we give all our kids free lunch to feed the belly, give them a metro card to help feed the mind.
>> Absolutely. and our council and the district are working on the behalf of our students to make sure that we hear your voice and parents' voices and we do the most and the best um not just the most the best for our children. So your voice is heard and we will continue to um uplift, communicate with you and keep
you heard as we move forward. Do we have any other attendees um who may have feedback, a comment or a question? Then I would like the motion. >> Bonia, Vice President Bonia, >> I would just like to share that PEP
meeting is this month and if anyone could join us to please support all of our Queens proposals, that would be very helpful. And that's all. Thank you. >> Yes. And please know that we have a a district that's bad swinging. Know that
our children are a part of anywhere that we are. They're a part of our community and there are some people who don't understand what that may look like. They may be scared of what that may look like and it's not for us to make them less scared. It's for us to make a space for our children and community. And
sometimes we have to show up and add an extra voice so that they understand that we are a part of the community. We deserve to be served by the community and we ain't going nowhere. Okay, that that being that um council members, for next month, do we have anything that we want to add to the agenda uh for next
month? If not, we can add it to an email. It can be sent in later. Um thoughts and or considerations. I know it's cold. I know y'all want to go home. I I tried to get you out. We've done great work. So, if you guys want to email me the options for the agenda, I don't see any other considerations or
concerns. Uh member Rivera. >> Yes. Yes. Um, I wanted to add I think I see Brooklyn Public Library in the chat and I also see one of the vendors um, Mark Wood from um, include NYC. Okay. >> That were present and I think they
wanted to um, share on a comment but I I think I'm hearing that the having trouble with the mic or something >> and if not we can always make space for them to come into workshops and or speak on our next meeting. I wasn't aware that they were going to need the floor for
this particular meeting. I know we have about four minutes before we have to let our members uh free. Thank you so much for the engagement. I know you did some great work at include NYT, so I don't want to not give people the floor, but we don't have a lot of space. Did you guys want to briefly um speak in this meeting and then we can make a little
bit more time in an additional space? >> We have two minutes before we have to leave the building. Yes, but I can we can accommodate. I don't want to make anyone I know for my members, I want to make sure that they get out of the building. But it's it's it's cold and they travel very far. So, we want to be
um appropriate for them. However, for our vendors, if you'd like, we can make a separate email, separate space, and make sure that you have the full time that you would need to um have a discourse with our communities and workshops. How does that sound? you,
>> Christian Angel. Um, Rivera, I can't >> Yeah, I I think that's fine. I would have liked to give them at least a minute or something. Um, >> I just asked I I didn't get any feedback, so I do want to those of us that are at home, we have to have the consideration that half of our council is in person, and they will be traveling
getting home after 10 p.m. tonight. So, we do want to make the consideration of um accountability um to them. So, um are they I didn't hear anyone come off of mute. Is anyone able to unmute quickly um from >> Yes. I'm sorry. I I had trouble unmuting
myself. Um my phone froze because I'm in the cold. Uh but I would love to um be more involved with District 75 schools. I work with the Brooklyn Public Library inclusive services department. I'm sure many of you are familiar with that. That's the department that serves
children with disabilities and teens as well. And we're always looking to visit more schools and come, you know, we know it's not always accessible to come to every library. It's not easy. So, we would love to come to more schools. So, if you're interested in having us come to you, get the kids registered for
library cards and the teachers as well. We have educator cards. Um, we would love to come and also do story time visits and work at your affairs. >> And I want to add this in either you didn't know, but um, Natalie McQueen is going to be reaching out to you. We are trying to duplicate what you're doing in
the Bronx and what we're doing in Brooklyn to make Queens Library more inclusive. It's actually a part of our goals for our council. We've already been in conversations and we would love to talk to you to see what we can duplicate for Queens because our kids matter. Libraries are loud and our babies should be able to participate.
So, we are looking forward to further collaborations with the library. Thank you so much for >> wonderful. Thank you so much. >> You're more than welcome. Council members, do we have any other feedback or Thank you. Can we unmute Mark? Um, President Angel, I know he couldn't do
it himself. That was the other person should be able to. We don't have anything that would stop. Let me attempt for one minute and then we will have to let our council members I don't think Mark is on the call anymore. >> I see Mark. Yes. Go ahead Mark. You have one minute.
>> Hi there. Thank you. Thank you council member Rivera for time. It was great meeting you at the fair. Uh I'm Mark Wood. I am the president of sock rock soccer coa kids of all ability soccer program. We offer uh soccer classes for
kids 4 to 21 um for kids with autism uh ADHD and down syndrome. Uh we'd love to come to any of the schools to give demonstrations so that any of these kids can enjoy the the joy of soccer movement
inclusion uh confidence building and with the World Cup cup coming up this year in in the USA, Mexico, and Canada, it's a great opportunity for the kids to get involved in a team sport that really builds the confidence and self.
>> I'm sorry, Mr. would could you um repeat the name of your organization and could you also forward us an email with um information about you guys? >> Absolutely. >> Yes, it's stockrock. S O C R O C
>> all right. >> Okay. At Okay, it'll be in the transcripts. I will actually uh reach out to council member Rivera so that we can continue these conversations. Thank you guys so much. Um >> thank you. >> Thank you for showing up. We will make
sure that we give you uh more time. Um it's very cold. Council members, I do want to make sure you make it home and get in warmly. We know your students do have school on tomorrow. Do we have a motion to adjurnn? >> Um I have a motion to adjourn. >> I second it.
>> Elijah. >> It is 8:31. Our council meeting for CCD75 February calendar meeting is adjourned again at 7 8 excuse me 8:31. Thank you so much council members. Thank you attendees. Thank you district. Looking forward to our next meeting
which will be the first Wednesday in March. You may sign up on our website. See you guys. Stay warm. See you soon. >> Thank you Christie. You did great. Have a great night.