all sh thank you so good evening everyone this is um chair Daniels also the um co-president of the cc75 council but today I'm the chair of this committee I want to get um first I
want to thank Sarah for coming online to help give some updates as well from the organization cor piss um so welcome Sarah so me and Sarah will be giving some updates and some useful information tonight to you
parents that may need it as you know the first day of school is um September 5th by now you should have have if if you have a NX account which I'm hoping everybody do but if they don't have a NX
account that's another thing that needs to be discussed that's the only Reon the only way you to get your bu information and other information for your child and not to also not to mention the
CC elections are coming up this upcoming spring so you also will need the Nick to account in order to vote for those elections do we uh do we need translation for that they're translating along with you
in real time okay good okay so I wanted to give update that by now most people should have had um if they have the next account as I just previously stated you should some parents should have started getting
their routing information I know I received in my bus route information two days ago from my daughter when I checked um if anyone hasn't received their bused information hopefully you
will receive it before the first day of school excluding Monday because Monday is a holiday um but school starts next Thursday September 5th I know the busting information is going out um another thing I know there were a lot of
busting problems over the summer because I experienced that myself with my daughter's route but there is a different way of a different situation in regards to how open te
responds cuz um before we used to have to call and give the complaint over the phone and you would just write the complaint number down yourself or whatever and you wouldn't really have no record of your report unless you did that now on top of you writing down the
the the um complaint number yourself there is a way that when when you give your email for those who have an email which most of us if not all of us should have an email email account cuz you need an email account anyway in order to open
the ni up so that's another thing so if you don't have a email account you need an email account to open your nixer account to my knowledge because that's how I open mine and I had mine since before the pandemic mine for a few years
now so it's very important to get that Nick to account because that's the only way you're going to receive your child's busting information and um when during the summer this is what I had experience to let everybody know that there that when you report the
um complaint about the bus route now when you give your email address they also send you a confirmation email about your complaint and what type of report it is to your email so I love keeping emails because
emails is another form of keeping records so that's your electronic paper that you filed the report and even when they close out the report or they try to close it out they they send you another
email stating that it's closing out and what was the um Rec and what and what Reon did they close it out and was it even rectified in the first place so that's a new thing they started doing this summer because I know all last
school year I had bus and problems throughout the year and I stood complaining even last school year myself and I'm the chair of this busting committee and um that's not the way they was doing it before I had to always write the complaint number down have
that in order myself how many times I called what date I called why I made the complaint the route number whatever the situation was so I was also told when I called um opt over the summer a couple
times that you could also to get an update on your complaints within your Nix account I have not fully verified that yet because I wasn't able to do that yet on M but that's what they had told me
another thing too if you have problems with busing they do have a option now that you could um get the r share I think it's called and my co-president Christy Angel she got some stuff that she could pull up about that some
information and then Sarah is also going to share some um updates she have on what they've been doing in regards to busing I'm not sure about the current busing contract but maybe Sarah could
shed some light on that when she speaks in a few minutes so co-president chrisy Angel just pulled up the stuff about R here so if you can see in a minute she's trying to pull up the um the information
sh how you have to go explain to them how it is for me like how they have to do it if you don't mind not a problem so um with ride chair a lot of you may have different instances
where your student may not be able to ride the bus or a route is not available or for some reason you have this code as a backup I know that Sarah can fill in a little bit more of the blanks uh than me as I explain this in regard to that
however if you do have a Nixa account um we can walk you through how to set up the ride share code that you have and or add the new ride share code um I myself have one I realized when I walked through it that some parents may not
know the steps so uh co-president Daniels wanted to have something to provide you guys with that will easily assist you with the steps so we will walk through that let's see now so this is how to register and
update the doe trips link and ride share so do you have your ride share code you will find your ride share code is listed under your transportation in your New York City student account and that would be in this space right here
the third row transportation and when we say Nixa we're stating New York City student account so that's what that means when we say that once you access the ride share code you'll go under transportation now you
will need this code to register for the first time or to update your voucher for the school year and everyone has a new voucher code this year if you have access to it so you'll come down in transportation and then you will see
that there is a ride share code this one particularly started with p are I'm not sure if all of them will but this is where you will find your students ride share code you will want to go to doe. trips
link.com this is where you will find the app to be able to register and to book a trip to go to and or from school the instructions will be to go to the liosis doe booking site you will need to register a guardian now want you
guys to look at the top right here once you're on the app you can change the language so it doesn't have to be English dominant it can change to whatever language that you need to make this easy for you you'll need to
register if you have any questions there is a 212 number at the bottom for technical support however you will provide your voucher information here and then it will give you another page to go go to which will go to next but if you're a returning user you're
going to go here over to the right and you're going to add a voucher I've left mine as an example this was my voucher my past voucher that's no longer valid you can delete that and then you will see your secondary voucher which
shows you that it's active and the time frame that is active from now you will need to get a PIN number number and information to verify this can take 24 to 48 hours for linkis to send this to you which means if you
go and look on Nixa and your child has an availability to use ride share you should be registered no later than September 2nd to be ready for the first day of school now logging in once you're on doets link.com you'll use your user ID
your phone number or your email and the security pin that you create to book a ride when you book a ride if you need more information or even this tutorial that I'm walking you guys through right here there's a hamburger menu these three lines it will bring you here where
you can see how to book a trip booking tutorial contact support and even how to change your language again otherwise if you're set with the page that you're on you will select the date for your trip and then you will select the location
for your school or from school so we're going to have the date selector here we're going to click on the date to book the trip and this lets you go to school or from school and some people thought that this was only a two-way situation what they'll do is
pick you up from home drop your student off and then drop you off at your final destination that works in the reverse also if that's you coming from work to pick up your student Etc um you would be able to add that secondary stop in you will always need a companion with the
child and they do need to be 18 or older The Next Step it will show you how to create and set up a trip the next button will say book a trip to start the reservation process and then it will say click here to create a reservation and once you put
in your addresses of the school or where you are going to you can copy that information without having to type it in over and over so that's where you may see copy previous so this allows you to just rebook your first booking and use
the same information now you will need to pick up time and you need to add a companion now a lot of people may like to book their things earlier Sometimes they come very early when you're not ready and another driver may have to
come and that could create a delay what I have been advised is book your trip 15 minutes before I know that's a little bit scary thinking of traffic and other things but that's the advice I will pass forward um sometimes if you're able to be ready beforehand then that would be
okay as well but you have to also remember I our schools don't let our students in the buildings before 8 o' so judge accordingly so we would uh go back to step three add our pickup time at the adult companion and you can
also add additional companions but they do need to be over 18 you can add the pickup and the drop off addresses and you'll want to schedule at least 15 minutes before you need to be picked up now changing companions once you're
under your profile to book a trip you can see that your name will automatically show up and then they'll be like a joho or adding new where you can add a new person that will with your child in the vehicle step four with the trip details
they'll let you select a voucher now technically this voucher could be deleted if you want if since it's old but you do get to see your new voucher that's present you would click your new voucher you would select the trip type is it a stop at school is it a pick up
from school as you see here stop at school pick up at school drop off at school so you would select what your type is after this final step is your trip confirmation and this can be viewed
according to the dates that you select it will have your details where you're being picked up where you're going to stop and where you're being dropped off so you can see that you can add the additional stop so you want to after completing all
of the details you want to continue to booking the trip so at the top you want to make sure that you do not forget to do this because you might think that you're finished and you are not so you want to book the trip once the trip is booked you will get a trip ID that will have your voucher number and the pickup
time with the address and the places that you're going pickup drop off drop off now if you're adding or removing a voucher just remember if you're creating this for the first time it can take 24
to 48 hours for you to get the creation link so you would want to jump on that now um so that you are up to date by September 2nd if you're just adding a voucher that is pretty much immediate but I would still encourage you to get
that done now so that you're prepared for the first day of school um also if you have any issues with ride share you must call the customer service which is 212 426 8000
for support they do answer very quickly and they're very supportive and give great details and assist you um with getting your student to the building so I'm going to stop sharing that if any parents would
like to have a copy of that we definitely can make sure to share that with you you're welcome do we have any questions in the chat I see can you I'm sorry did you need the school to be open
to give you codes to start the registration this is I I I'll be honest I'm not sure about that one what I do know is if you go into your Nixa account the code is listed if you qualify already your code
is already listed in your Nix account so you would just need to open it so that you would pull that up now if you're this has the summer was once parent driven to the same school some to work um Sarah can you can you explain more
about what you're saying there in the chat okay um yeah I also don't have firstand hand experience um I I just am thinking in terms of people whose first day is thir Thursday and the second is
the holiday and then staff is at the school on the 3 so you know if it takes 48 hours if you happen to need the school for anything um it's pretty tight and also we know that sometimes the um
they take the holidays to do like oh the system is down to do you know Tech work so I'm just getting nervous because even though it's only Friday Thursday is like here so that's all I
meant okay um when they were saying say more about ride share um hold on one second let me go down I'm reading the chat forgive me give me one moment can you please talk about how a
student or parent qualifies for the ride share what I can say is what I know um New York City works with the limosys and they have ride share for specific conditions and for particular groups of students this includes students with IEP
mandates students in temporary housing students in foster care who qualify for busing and Riot share may also be available in the event of driver pair professional nurse and or other staff coverage issues or if there is a delay
in route assignment It also says in the absence of a pair professional or nurse pre-populated code you'll be able um to be available to be impacted with your Nix account so while you're waiting to have a nurse or have someone to go to school with your student You' be able to
take your student it says the school should be contacting you in regard to your eligibility to guide you through the process but we did want to go ahead and start part of this process to link you in Andrea can you take over one moment I have so at my door
apologies sure so the purpose of her sharing that information was so that everybody could have an idea of how to do the ride share because I guess a lot of people even when they had ride share some people didn't know how to go about
doing it or they may not have been doing it correctly so that's what the purpose of her showing the slides to help assist everybody with that to give us an example of what needs to be done cuz she actually been through this herself cuz
she has had R sh my daughter you know constantly gets busting um but her son has had R she so she knows more about that that's why I BR that piece in cuz some people may not be up may not want a
bus or need a bus or can't be on the bus they sted for some reason because of a severe medical condition but they could probably qualify farage so that was Pur this I wanted to thank you uh co-president Daniels I wanted to say I
put in we have uh in English Spanish and Mandarin a howto with the steps to set up your Nix account and there are links where it says www.schools.nyc that is what you would use to set up your n account what I would love while we're here if many of
us or any of us can multitask if you can go on Nixon now to see if you have that code because I'll tell you I didn't need my parent coordinator to give me the code my code was populated that could be just because I've had it before I'm not sure but that is what was there and some
other people their code is populated there too so if it is there you want to take advantage of that and then go and move forward in the process um I think there's another question that came up co-president Daniels let me see
you also yes you can request your code from your pant coordinator but they may also redirect you to Nixa because your code should be populated under the transportation tab for your student um I think that is the rest of
the questions that I have with that so that is the end of my presentation if there are any other questions the council is absolutely here to support you I see um Lupe yes all right you correct Christy angel
I just went on my nixer and even though my daughter has a bus route I this is new this year they never put this on mine it says R Shen and has a cold too even on mine and my daughter has a
bus okay Lupe did you want to um unmute you said may I clarify yes you may you have the floor thank you so much and excellent presentation I missed the first few minutes of the slides but um I'm eager to share when when you share
with us um I just wanted to clarify that the code you need from the parent coordinator and to my knowledge still continues to be the only place you can receive it from is not the voucher for the ride share it's the code you need to
create your Nixa account so someone in the chat asked how do I get a Nixa account yes so you need to get the code to create the Nixa account from the parent coordinator and yes once you have your
Nixa account established within your Stu my students and transportation page your voucher will be there and that and you are correct the the voucher code will be in the Nix account for ride share if you
are eligible I have a bus I know I see it's on mine this the first time I had that ever on mine and they put it this year Miss Andrea yes if I could I thought Sarah as
well let's clarify Lupe thank you so much she is uh one of our uh public Advocates that is on the Citywide Council for special education and also with pissed so Sarah go ahead and cheer her on to Lupe we love you thank you for um for joining and for helping to
clarify um in the spaces where we need uh tonight go ahead you have the Sarah thanks so much um they are putting the codes be to anybody who's eligible and might need it as a
contingency so it doesn't mean you don't have a bus you got to look at your bus like start date the effective start date of the route if that it's all there and it says September F then the um ride
share code is just a backup just in case that's my understanding uh it's it's scaring a lot of people to see that code but you still could give them a couple
more days maybe to put up the the route um especially if your child got a placement later in the summer um but I think that what Christie said in the first place is wise to get
all your registration set up you're not asking for the car to come on Thursday but you're asking to be in a position that if they don't pull it together in the
real world and you know that driver has an emergency and there's no substitute driver you're not totally stuck we will say that you know ride share doesn't solve busing buses Sol busing and
there's always you know glitches so I think um we're all here fighting for them to improve the busing so that this won't be something extra that they got to waste our time and sometimes our money when the driver you know actually
changes their mind and doesn't want to deal with you know driving uh a family with a special need Student I'm going to stop there I hope that helps people should have the code if you would be entitled
when there's a real real problem with the bus um and I want to see for Wanda because she probably knows a lot more but one moment um Wanda before you speak Sarah I saw one question that I didn't answer for you and it said something about parents getting ghosted
does the app show if drivers don't show up it absolutely does because they will cancel on you and it will show it is cancelled it will show when they switch a driver once you sign up it gives you text messages that lets you know everything that's happening in real time
so if something goes wrong you will absolutely have the correct information to file a complaint and they are really quick and efficient um to try to quickly resolve the issue um hope that helps a little bit and now I'll give the floor
back over to Wanda Wanda you have a question uh yeah sorry um I'm actually trying to access my n account because yesterday when I went to uh when I when I went to check Alexa's Transportation it had this um
that you just mentioned just early like a code for something so I clicked on it and it gave me a code for for right share and for Fairy information as well I'm looking I'm trying to Logan
give me a second I am so sorry I yes there is Wanda is corre for those who I'm not sure everyone who would use the fery maybe it would be like Brooklyn or Staten Island there is a discount code for those who use the fairy as well yeah that been there since the summer time
that one okay oh yeah your high school student Maybe eligible for discounted NYC fairy tickets to get your discount code click on the transportation under my student okay here we go I am actually really really happy
that it came so early the the transportation information for our children and the fact that I just hope that they fix the glitches of the B the drivers being offline the bus being offline whenever I went to check I
realiz still heavily on Life 360 because it will tell me exactly every single stuff that the bus make until they get to the school and they tell me oh there was an accident in a r before even the maton actually told me to say anything or if they don't so w do
you look in your next do you have a bus route for your child yet yes I do look I got the same thing and I got a ride cold too yes so yeah I was very very pleasantly
surprised usually it would have been the day before the school started so hope we can ADV is magnificent exactly they did it a little earlier this year yeah let me lower my hand but I came really late because I'm having some
glitches with zoom I don't know why so I appreciate you doing this please do share the whatever information you share before the join in I will appreciate email and it's shared in the Mee and to some of the stuff in the in the chat as
well okay thank you okay you're welcome Wanda so um we didn't um I know Sarah has some stuff to say from the organization piss in which Lupe herand hernandz is also a part of so Sarah what
information do you have for us tonight wow uh okay I was still um there was actually still a couple of questions here about about how to use ride share and not use it okay um yeah so I
um I was trying to tackle guys by the way is everyone able to access the how to use PDF I just added that just in case I'm gonna check right now hold on and I shared the oh no I shared the wrong wrong thing there is a there is a
part of the doe website that has their wording for rer and that's probably what Christie was using but people can like make sure their school staff know about it too I guess and your PTA um yes I'll tell you the information
that I used um I pulled what was given to me as a one through five kind of Step from my own parent coordinator and then I went through the app just personally using it and screenshot every everything step by step because I'm a visual learner so for us that need to see some pictures to say okay this is where I
need to press a button I wanted to make sure that it was easier for us before you know school started you know we already know how oh stressful school can can be by itself so we have a little mixture of a
collaboration of things go ahead Sarah okay all right so um as far as the contract um we had a concern uh in the in the previous school
year that they were um going to be deciding about school bus vendors companies which ones to keep extend which one you know that they would that they would start over with new five-year contracts or maybe three-year contracts
with those with those companies um however according to our layers on at the drivers and attendance and mechanics Union um there's
no there's nothing scheduled um and from their point of view the uh Albany legislature did not pass anything to ensure their employee
protection Provisions into the state law um so the Department of Education and opt are very aware that if they were to hold this bidding process to you know
decide which company gets which routes without that it could trigger a strike so they are not going to put us right back in the position we were last fall with worrying if the um workers were going to go on strike so far things are
calm but the only thing that means is that um we looking at the same companies for better and worse um what uh it does give us an opportunity to do as school
busing Advocates is to gather data and I think one showed me there's a a survey that when you're talking about um your experience with the school bus you can
um uh you can name the company and then this was from the district 75 legislative committee and so they can then pull back out look at the such and such company got 90 you know complaints and the other one only got two you know let's talk
about about this and at the same time that that process happens from our end as the parents on the ground I believe that the city com controller is looking at the budget and it includes money that they're throwing at these companies
money that they're throwing at the ride share that nobody barely knows about hello and money that they're throwing at the call center and money that they're throwing at um the GPS
um and uh ordering right so please please please um you know when I stop talking if it's not already in the chat I will um try to make sure I put the correct survey link
this time um and that's that's you know the the good news about the uh the contract is that there's no change right now but for those who get a raggedy company that's not such good news but
that's where we're at I'll stop for now Fatima has a question Fatima she has a hand up hello can she hear us her hand is up have come back because I don't think she's read um she's close to the T to
the phone or anything I know her I'm going to text her but maybe one she said she's having problems with her mic she wrote in the chat there you go her mic is not working I guess right now okay so do you want me to keep going
just um you reminded me of something else okay you keep going uh Andrea mentioned about the um G the via GPS tracking app and what again the driv explained to us was that
previously they had their work ID cards um just had D digits and over the sum of those changed where there was a letter in front of all of the digits and people were entering the letter to get logged
into the Via and it turned out they did not have to do that so right now we hope um if you know the full um Workforce has been hired so
those who are starting for the fall cuz they didn't work in the summer have gone through some process of getting these new ID cards and somebody told them how to and how to log in correctly so you know they did what they thought was
common sense but of course it it it was else otherwise um so yeah people should also just you know see we'll let each other know um in September how it's actually working out
once you know tens of thousands or more um students are involved and looking at it U the other thing they said was that it's not um exact to where they are on the map
because of confidentiality it's sort of um you know an estimated location estimated time honestly if you be realistic um and
um oh hold on uh the driver has the right to log out during like their lunch break and things like that and because that's their business where they park the bus and then log back on to do the afternoon run and then log back off at the end of
the day that's all I really know about that well I know the via app hasn't really worked for me yet personally I'm always checking but I also heard that you know all bus companies are not
really using it yet either that's what I was also told by opt um and what else um so this ride Shar thing does seem a bit confusing but I but I just took it as a backup because
since I have a bus I know the r share option for me is a backup because I see route I see a bus company I see all that and what day they going to pick her up and everything else so I know that the r
she is a backup in my situation anyway um because I do have a bus and that's the first time I I ever had a r hereit cold so that is something that new they're doing I guess this year too because I have never had that even when
I had issues with the bus I never had ride share I never had a call for it or nothing so I guess they trying to make some things better but we'll see how this go you know so we can see but everybody has to have a n
account in order to even see they busting information anyway so if you don't have a NX account you definitely have to reach out to your school the parent coordinator I believe is the one that gives you the Cod I believe if I
recollect that was she did in my school in order for me to log into the Nix account for the student so Sarah you have anything else to report or to say any more updates Co I jump in for one quick
second sure um on record one of the parents um D Altman students who have turned 21 were apparently deleted from the opt system students can now remain in school until 22 is anything being done to
address this glitch schools now must re-enter each student manually but we are still not routed some schools may not be aware of this co-president Daniels we need to make sure that we um at least Lift us to the district or to um dial so that we can make sure this is
something that we have flagged and eyes on even if they have eyes we should have eyes too um just in Cas AB because I know a lot of kids did stay to their students stood to their 22 years old or they 20 one about to be 22 or whatever
and they chose to stay an extra year in school because we have that option for now um so yeah we definitely got to look into that for the people who might need busing and don't have a route or R share or whatever it is they deleted from the
system somehow also Fatima um Prolo had a question will students get access to Omni app for weekend or after school programs to use with a deside I myself do not know that answer but we can find
out do you are you aware co-president Daniels or Sarah or Lupe I know about anomy that all students who don't take um the bus that they not eligible for the school bus they gonna be issuing on on anomy cards instead of Metro cards
this year so I don't know how that's going right but generally School the school um the cards are for Monday through Friday though even when it was the Metro C to my knowledge I think that part is going to remain the same if I'm
correct um Lupe has her hand up Lupe you can thanks um and just just for clarification I am here in my own parent capacity as a ccsse member um not not the public Advocate appoint you to that Council by the way but just wanted to
establish that for Co still love you l I know no no no it's for koi purposes just yes but um aside from that I do want to share that the Omni was expanded chat is seven days a week I was
about to say so Omni was expanded to all seven days I was just about to say that just to say you know they expanded the hours as well and um to my knowledge because many parents have asked this I think in the I
think here is the um dilemma we as parents with students with disabilities face where I think in the past there have been cases where families that may be participating in an after school program one day out of the week where the bus
cannot um could not take them home on those days I think between the school transportation layons they would issue the family a metro card in the past um this was on a case-by case basis this was not something that was typically offered why because our students have
transportation on their IEPs because they are not able to some are not able to um commute via public transportation so it is um I just say this as a parent you know we want to caution sometimes
what we're advocating for that it may impact or harm students that don't have the option to get a metro we don't we know busing is failing our students daily and so the last thing we want to do is give the doe more leeway to have
these um more barriers and challenges for our students to get to and from school but I think that it's important for us to maybe address that there are times and needs that our students want to participate in after school
extracurricular activities and that busing and transportation should be provided to them whether that be the school bus if they rely on that and or the omn cards if that's what the student typically realize thank you
Lupe so I just wanted to state that um the um when when my daughter well you know after school there W there was no busting for all the kids um for the last couple years but we had after school
program like last year and the year before my daughter was in after school program and it was like two three times a week like Lupe said however I didn't get no Metro C I was responsible for
taking for uh getting her home from the after school program that day when the bus couldn't pick her up in my case and I was never reimbursed for that I did that for two years so she's right it's a case by case basis some a lot of schools
did not do that though to be honest they just left it on the parent well if you want your child and after school well you're gonna have to pick them up you know on your own you know some way somehow and that's how that was so I dealt with that for two years and with
the anomy card um eventually everybody's gonna be using anomy in 20125 I believe so even us adults who don't do that now we will be doing that soon ourselves so this is just a update with the whole MTA
system what they're doing with this anomy card just for the sake of information sorry for jumping the gun without being given permission Alexa my daughter does uh does not go to after school but she does go to the seed program that is also
starting the week after the week the the school year start and it is none of the schools that is nearby me so we take uh public transportation to get there and when I was asking one of my friends that are in the school administration they told me
that she is going to be eligible just for that it's like but the only cards are like this so they're giving conflicting information because um Alexa will only need it on
Saturdays for that matter everybody else have to pay for their fair so I don't know what to make of that because if it's going to be expanded for the seven days of week and she's not using it what is the purpose of having a are we going to put the money into it or are they
going to put some kind of money into it because that's how the Omni Works she has a point de she has a point so it will be if it's funded through through they make an arrangement at the MTA with the schools that means that she's going to get only the the five
$580 that it cost um for whatever we every Saturday because Alexa cannot receive Services during the week and she she does not belong to an after school program oh can I respond sure go ahead okay um that's a
really good point from Wanda and and because um if a team is still having volume problems and she and I have spoken about this on the side and that yeah accessori would be the replacement
but I think think there's um enough to say about this topic and enough questions for people to go and start Gathering that it would be a good topic for like the next agenda you know cuz um
it's a big deal um you know if some kids have opportunities extended to them not for free it was a fight by other students and other um advocates for you know more Transportation equity for our
our Genet students you got to remember even the ones on the yellow bus that catch it at the bus stop are not going to get this Omni because they have the bus and the ones who live too close to school because they walk are not going to get this Omni because they don't need
the Metro cart so it's already a big imbalance but I think um uh there's a few things more for this evening and I would strongly propose that people you know meet and discuss
this on our way to whatever you guys announces the next um d75 meeting like what's the what's the best demand to put that would actually be usable by a lot of District 75 students and not have
them be forgotten in the shuffle of I think this is my personal opinion or not really but it occurred to me they um are making the the subway and the blue bus
the Omni card um very attractive to people who might have their child on a gen Ed general education route on the yellow bus cuz if they can get some of those parents to say oh forget the bus I want to have this card and then I'll
just take my kid places and it's worth the money um um cuz I'm not paying for them to get on the transit on the weekend and after school like I used to some people might trade the bus for
that um and that might help us in a way cuz if there's not as many you know drivers and they need to prioritize the ones who really need um to ride the yellow bus rather than ride
mass transit so let's kind of start seeing what happens but um I think we should possibly um you know pay some good attention to this in a in a whole meeting of its own that's my
opinion just to have record of the um different comments that were in the chat we do want to State um we pushed Lupe said we pushed to have the metro card expansion of hours and days and swipes although we wanted unlimited or six trips as four it's not sufficient for
some students I think this is already funded through the city and MTA Fatima stated Equity means access our students deserve the same access to the NYC doe after school and weekend programs uh accessori for her daughter is available for her she pays for accessori for her
daughter to participate in these programs which technically should not be a thing uh Rema is G though and those who live too far from their gen Ed bus their parents won't get Omni only the student even
though what is that say Rema did you want to unmute even though that does it that doesn't or that does include students K through six does it not is Rema still on the line I don't want to read that incorrectly all right with that being
said either way I will find the correct information and we'll make sure that co-president Daniels and the she put it in the chat again I guess she couldn't unmute I can't see it could you are you able to read it I'm scrolling back down it affects K Y6 yes includes they are
too young to travel alone and so their parents do not have access to the omy which makes no logical sense okay got it understood all right co-president Danel I give the floor back to you
okay so it look like we went through a whole lot of useful information about about busing and Alternate transportation and stuff like that um even though this may be a bit off topic some of our families is still
Transportation some of our families may not have medical trans transportation for the kids to get to the doctors as well I know a couple years ago I wasn't aware of that and now I have that for myself and my daughter actually Medical
Transportation which is something separate from access to ride from school busing and from um ride share but it's a little similar to ride share only in that you could get in a taxi or any type
of um vehicle that you may be eligible for but to go only to medical appointments access Med Transportation I read it um and access a ride you know it takes you throughout the the whole Five
Barrels wherever you want to go but within the Five Barrels that's the difference with that and then of course School busing we're talking about back from school from over home to school or after school if possible and things like that same thing with the anomy card
which will we place Metro cards it looks like this school year which I really don't know how this is going to go because um like like we said we already having some concerns about that as well so um like I said it's all sorts of
transportation out there and all the population needs to know about all of them that's why why I mentioned um Medical Transportation medic that's something that Medicaid pays for if you have Medicaid for your child or for
yourself I use it for myself and I think wand said she uses it um in the chat and I know my daughter uses it my daughter also has access to ride and she has a reduced fear Metro car but soon is no
Metro Car so for do what I wanted to also explain before I let server from piss spe because I see a hand is up that um with the um with the with the Metro Car that um the reduced feir Metro cars
and all Metro cars will not exist soon sometime in 20125 so even for those who have reduced fear Metro cards if I'm correct those people are going to have to get get the combination one like if they got access
a ride and that service there's a combo type card of anomy and then they got the one that's that could discount your rise still but it would be a reduced feir um aomy card instead of the general aomy
card if you get what I'm saying for those who have disabilities that has to have the discount Sarah from piss um go ahead thank thank you um actually let me turn off my face and I I'm going to
share something I put some of this into the chat um but so those who are looking can see it a little larger um we do have a couple announcements okay let me try
this um okay um yeah please save the date in three weeks from tonight um there will be a Citywide Town Hall hold on sorry
um that's okay I guess it's just the save the day yeah um we you know virtual and um Again by then we might know more about this this new matter but
we definitely want to um share some basic information on fixing your bus route issues for those who are new as parents and um School staff and Community people and also have some
updates on the legal and legislative and budgetary ways going on to improve busing um I hope that there would be a good turnout from District 75 this committee and so on um I don't know if
you guys have a a a way to sort of endorse and put your logo on the flyer but that is very very welcome if you want to do that soon Sarah did you send us that in the email
already um only the this little blurb is in the email but as far as something for you to consider um you know endorsing the event that's going to come next week okay so try to send that to us if you
want us to try to put our logo on there and endorse it okay awesome thank you now we've been talking in the chat about how it's a civil right to um have you know the disabled students get the same
thing that the non-disabled students get and if you remember last um October November a group of the education lawyers in New York City did did submit a formal complaint to the National
Department of Education Office of civil rights and um it still has not gone from their evaluation stage into their investigation stage so in order to push
them and all the other powers that be to really take it seriously that busting needs to be done correctly we are um asking people to double down on using
social media with the hashtag wears my bus and so that's on your screen could write it like that if you want to be cute you could put the um emoji with the yellow bus so everybody knows you're not just talking about the bus that adults
take um and it h it's here in Spanish and in the chat I linked um a music video by some children in Louisville Kentucky they have a civil rights uh federal case about racial
discrimination because the buses stopped picking up the kids in the black neighborhoods going to a magnet school somewhere else in the county and it's a very cool song and it's called where my bus at so if you um if you want I could
share it when we're done you know people could just dance along but um it you know we are encouraging people to say look here's my kid here's the clock it's the bus should have been here 47 minutes
ago um you know we hope it this this doesn't happen but if this does happen to you if you don't mind without sharing anything personal about your child and where you live just showing the world
that there's a problem here because we don't know where the bus is and it should have been here and that is the idea hash where's my bus don't me Boo or where my bus at you know all together um
that way those lawyers are going to go through every soul often and see what pops up and as they see those stories they might want to take on your case or they might want to um you know tag the public Advocate or tag the um the the
people in Washington or the people in Albany or whoever you know really needs to know and take it seriously cuz I mean it is a national problem but the problem in New York has a lot to do with the the disability rights um that have people
have already fought for so let's keep fighting I'll stop there um I have to stop sharing too unless you guys want to see this the song in a minute Miss Carter you have a question I have more of um you know I I
I love this meeting I love what you just said that you know the lawyers are going to get together and they need to hear our voices not just one not just 20 not just 100 but they need to hear it that in times of emergency every parent is willing to get
their kids to school whether they have a transportation power or not why because we got to get to work then what the parents just want to know especially in my situation if we work for de already let's just say our parent not working
for deal we shouldn't be penalized or we shouldn't have to worry about you know let me pay $50 and let me let someone else do it so I won't be late and I think that's another big issue that us you know working parents
or non-working parent we all in this together whether you work or not it it costs to get your kid to school if the transportation power is not there or if the bus is late because it is what it is a bus driver could call out and say look I'm not feeling good they have every
right to do that we have every right not to be angry with but what is the backup I think that's what parents want to know that okay if I'm willing to pay out $40 for my child to get to school then I shouldn't be penalized late if I'm willing to drive my child all the way to
Coop City I shouldn't be penalized late to any job I'm working with and I and I think if we could um whoever have the power to do that to present that to the lawyers and say you know what and the parents if they're G to put it in
writing let's put it in writing I'll be the first one there if there's no bus or there's no way my child could get there and I definitely I'm going to put myself in a position to be late for word let me draw there but you know what let us all
go back to workplace with no no employ could look at us and be like oh you're late and the reason is well the school bus didn't come they're not going to hear that when we need the lawyers to do we need all these jobs force people to
un to hear that we're late because the bus didn't come in time or because you know what I had to do an emergency diaper run and guess what he missed the bus she missed the bus they was having ATT temper tantrum so you know if that
whoever got power talking to these lawyers we need that you know to be put in as the thought of some kind of change it got to be some give with that co-president Daniels are you there yes there's some more information being
placed in the chat it looks like too let me check um okay thank you Andrea thank you so much Miss Carter do we have any other parents um or or PE caregivers on the line whomever that may have um questions or comments I'm
looking through the chat uh co-president Daniels to make sure there's nothing that we may have um missed no I don't have nothing else to say but um I saw what you wrote Christy angel in the chat about the faery um the New York City High School
student application form for the discount tickets and then Fatar wrote a comment and then I see a comment from piss in the um chat as well I think um uh sorry to interrupt you I
apology you can see it already what I would like to do is let's put it on record we um for this next meeting so that you have your agenda partially put forward um you want to talk about Mas so that we help people understand what that is how they can
have it and how they can utilize it um with school absolutely we could talk more about that time as well and cards of course and the busting is always an issue every year you know that right and then we can add the opwdd
with the family reimbursement and things of that nature what we can do is also pull up everything that we have in the chat so that you and um co-chair Barrera would be able to um push out your agenda and continue to move forward with pist and with ccsse and with any other parent
members who would like to join um our our CCD 75 busing committee it is open um to anyone so we do encourage you guys to be a part of the movement as we move interconnected to make sure that we get our children what they need um there is
one more comment in the statement uh in the chat last thing the emergency contact card is at tiny url. buus contract in nine languages very important so no child gets left unattended without parent consent signed
and also Nixa we're going to say Nixa Nixa n because you can also put this information online so we want to make sure we have our kids covered both ways every single way so they are not left behind in any capacity um with that being said I'm going to give the floor
back to co-president Daniels thank you all for your time and we will make sure to send out the uh presentation to those who requested thank you co-president Christi angel thank you thank you Sarah from the organization piss thank you um Lupe
Hanan thank you Rema and Wanda and Dan Andrea Andrea can I real quick one minute yeah sure sure Rema so I I did reach out to somebody at opt and they
said that if we identify any families with the situation with the students 21 and over if they decided that they want to stay with the doe that they'll manually add them back that we can just email them um so if you want to get that
information out there and we can try to help before school starts thank you remas par information thank you on a side known and sorry for the noise around you um do any of you will
be attending the town hall with with the chancellor in ABC News on the September 1st I just needed to bring that to information okay I believe called president Daniels is attending that but we can definitely check back on the calendar to make sure
who's going to be in attendance I'll let you know whether or not if I'm attending okay okay thank you with that being said we'll give us out our emails again uh d75 busing
issues at gmail.com and we have pissed P snyc gmail.com and always if you have any considerations Andor needs uh advocacy please do let our Council know at d75 counil at
schools.nyc.gov uh before we end uh we are a little bit remiss did we check in with our interpreters to see if we had any questions on those lines no we did not we have to check in with them now before we
end so the Spanish interpreter line do we have any questions on your end no question on the Spanish line I apologize I didn't check earlier um line do we have any questions no
questions from the Mandarin n okay so it's 7:17 p.m. the Spanish and the Mandarin line are released from the meeting thank you thank you as for everyone else if there's no more questions or
comments um we can end the meeting now and we will email um the um what you call the presentation that we did the little slide thing we had about the ride share because I know a couple people requested that so we could send that in
the email um to help people who need to set up the ride share especially if you don't have have a bus okay um co- president Christy Angel Sarah from piss do you do you guys have
anything else to say or anyone else yes our next meeting is September 18th it's gonna be excuse me on Staten Island if you cannot make it there it is always hybrid we do look forward uh to
you guys coming we'll make sure that we have that available on our website for you to register register uh that will be from 6: to hopefully 8:00 p.m. we will have uh our new Deputy Chancellor fod there to give us some updates as well as
our superintendent and it will also be our annual meeting um co-president Daniels uh I meeting was gonna be um at the district office and the one October was just start now you know what I stand corrected you
are correct it will be at 400 1 Avenue you are correct uh that's what I thought I'm like I'm going crazy here no you're not crazy for I'm I'm a Speedy Gonzalez I have to slow down Christian said Thank you so 400 First Avenue also I do want
to say oh sorry we we have one more um update on September 10th um Outreach will be having a meeting for school avoidance so we can support uh some of our parents who are having a tough time getting their children back into the school building and what it could look
like to possibly you know help expedite and give them resources to be back in the school so look for that flyer to be coming up and uh that's my update thanks and the last update I want to give is about the back to school events for district 75 I will be at both events
and I will have a table with resources there so the first one for September 7th if I'm correct is that one in Queens Christy Angel first um we have one on September 7th
that's in Queens and September 14 is in the Bronx yes and you can go to cc75 ororgani to show up in support thank you if anybody don't have oh does does piss have a question I just put it in
the chat I believe that what chrisy announced was the full District 75 Council so my question is are you still um determining what um would be the day for the bus committee meetings for the
coming school year or do you already have the date for the next one yet you want to set it now co-president Daniels we could but the co-chair is not here but I'll do what I need to do I'm not trying to rush you it's just
no I think it's a good I mean we can be productive and proactive and where I need to stand in the Gap um if she can't be there for you or other members we can all stand in the gap for each other so let's make sure we do what is a forward facing for our parents so let's make the date now if we
can 10 okay so our meeting is on the 18th so you can do uh do you want to do it that third week of September or the fourth week of September what dat is that uh the 16th through the 20th is the 3r the 23rd through the 27th is the
fourth week you know something oh sorry I just remembered and I don't have it in front oh yes I do have it in front of me there's some you know they have those back to school parent teacher conferences the first couple weeks of September too
um and um the last week of September I don't remember I have it in front of me according to what the teachers union said in April but some things might have changed but right then they said the d75 parent teacher conference was on
Thursday the 19th so that's going to be a hectic week for your members um but you know September is long you got all the way until the thir is a Monday I don't know what day you
leaning for as long as it's not conflicting with the 20th to come the 30th that's a suggestion I it's up to you I'll be honest I think it's much easier to do meetings on Tuesdays
because Mondays are kind of rough but I'm down whatever whatever works for everyone else um um I'll show up so what do you do you think that you want to do it on a Monday and on Monday night Tuesday night I mean I don't care I do any
day what Qui Christian s how do you feel um if the 17th okay so the 19th is the Thursday the 17th is a Thursday but that week is CRA 1 is a Tuesday Yeah Tuesday which is what you're going but the
following Tuesday would be the 24th the 24th if you guys aim for that then you know it will be after our uh Citywide so we can be you know comfortable saying that folks are going
to show up we had a number of people here besid on the 20th right okay 24th I think yeah ours is the 20th so as long as it's after that we might even have you know we're all going to know more okay 24th then okay so what's that like
the fourth or third Tuesday how about the 24th then is that a Tuesday it is I think that's the same day that we were going to do the parent support group we can kind of probably mesh those together you're right yeah we can put those
together we could do it the same day yep yep I mean I know I can I mean Wanda says Tuesday works selfishly for her because she swamped the rest of the week all right so let's do Tuesday the 24th okay yes the next bus
committee all right six o'clock still I it's not selfish Wanda yeah the six if everyone's in agreement with 6 PM I I'm in agreement with you as well all right I'm I'm good all righty so we'll make sure to
get the minutes uh from this meeting so that we can have the agenda set up and get our flyer going and get all this great information from the chat together so we can have it for support um thank you co-president Daniels for letting me support you no problem I'll be working on the next
safety meeting next soon too early all right so if that's if there's no more questions everyone thank you have a good weekend enjoy your the holiday weekend because it's Labor Day Monday me personally I'll be at the
parade in Brooklyn Monday so I'mma have fun that day but um rest of my weekend might be quiet have fun everyone and have a great weekend thank you all for coming one second Lupe Lup has her hand up one second see your hand up go ahead Lup I
apologize no no no I wanted to say thank you guys um and then chrisy or Andrea would one of you um reach out to me after if you have a moment a quick moment no problem do I have your number do I have your number and I got your
email I'll I'll direct message you my number okay okay all right thank you everyone have a good evening also this will be up on cc75 YouTube on our Outreach Channel we make sure if you miss it you don't miss
it so we'll see you guys later and uh thank you again for everything thank you do check your phone for those bus driver calls they're doing the drive runs okay bye bye your number L direct
message or what before we log off she shared it I'll text it over to you Andrea all right good night everyone have a great weekend thank you all for your support thank you