D24 CEC24: Is not coming right. So let's say what she said.
D24 CEC24: I don't know.
D24 CEC24: Go with Jamison, but now, before they come
D24 CEC24: well know what we gotta move people here
D24 CEC24: so far here, and I'll move on.
D24 CEC24: Now, I lost my question.
D24 CEC24: Yeah, and then click, save these fans. Don't move correctly.
D24 CEC24: Us.
D24 CEC24: It's like a school.
D24 CEC24: Oh, sorry. Let me get some just because I don't want to sit next to.
D24 CEC24: I want this next. Now you can move your machine down.
D24 CEC24: You're amazing awesome.
D24 CEC24: Where's my phone? No, I put people over there.
D24 CEC24: Well, who do you have here, Adam?
D24 CEC24: Let's finish so you could.
D24 CEC24: Yes, then I have to go with you, so you can help me carry the bookcase.
D24 CEC24: I didn't bring the chocolates.
D24 CEC24: It's all right. I forgot her. You'll you'll see her in a minute. You'll see her later
D24 CEC24: when it's our last meeting.
D24 CEC24: Let's see if I go ahead.
D24 CEC24: Honestly. Yeah, we'll move that all the way down as down as possible.
D24 CEC24: Do we have any folders or not? Everything's packed. Oh, yeah.
D24 CEC24: we can ask this principle to find this.
D24 CEC24: and I come back here because for everything.
D24 CEC24: Yes, so move. Move now before they comment, please.
D24 CEC24: It's so manual here next to no, she's gonna move it down.
D24 CEC24: Don't work.
D24 CEC24: Don't say anything nasty, my kind of
D24 CEC24: no, we don't know who's coming.
D24 CEC24: What he said. Why, he's not coming.
D24 CEC24: What gets? Excuse me, Jonathan, what
D24 CEC24: what excuse? What did Michael say he's joining virtually well. He he doesn't. If we don't have quorum he could just listen. He doesn't vote. He doesn't speak nothing.
D24 CEC24: I guess. Take the minutes.
D24 CEC24: You could just
D24 CEC24: but use that table because not many people are coming. Just move everything over. Okay. I'll be down there in a minute.
D24 CEC24: He's just working at a number.
D24 CEC24: Is this working random?
D24 CEC24: So we we don't have we? We don't have to do nothing on the on the agenda, because we don't have quorum right.
D24 CEC24: that's my question.
D24 CEC24: Can you mute yourself?
D24 CEC24: Oh, Janet.
D24 CEC24: going to say the boat now? I will, but no one will be here like we'll go.
Michael: There we go. Hello!
D24 CEC24: I, Michael, I made your co-host.
Michael: Thanks, all that.
D24 CEC24: Okay, I just, I'm putting you in the text and telling everybody that, too.
D24 CEC24: It's supposed to.
D24 CEC24: Oh, how do I? Oh, I think that it's recording already.
Michael: Yeah, you had it set to record already.
D24 CEC24: Okay, the web portal.
D24 CEC24: So it's it's 6 0, 5.
D24 CEC24: Now, Michael's here. Yeah, he's the co-host.
Michael: Hello!
D24 CEC24: Hi, is Julia online? No, no. Do you know if she's coming or not?
Michael: How many people are there.
D24 CEC24: Johanna, Anna, Connie and and Matt. 4.
Michael: Oh, my God!
D24 CEC24: Yep. So remember when we voted the other day for all those items.
Michael: Yeah, I saw you guys emails like, yeah.
D24 CEC24: I get it. So.
Michael: So who is not coming for sure? Besides me, because I know I'm here so.
D24 CEC24: Veronica, Veronica.
Michael: Wait. She's for sure not coming again.
D24 CEC24: Yeah, yeah, she's not coming, and she's not joining online. Maddie may be coming.
Michael: Late.
D24 CEC24: No, he's out of town.
D24 CEC24: but Will may be a hybrid. He may join hybrid.
Michael: Okay.
D24 CEC24: Junie we haven't heard from. We haven't heard from Junie. Ask him to text her to see if she replies to him.
D24 CEC24: Can you text, I'll check the library. See? Make sure we?
D24 CEC24: And Manisha Manisha is on her way, you know.
D24 CEC24: Hi, Joanna, how are you? It's nice
D24 CEC24: always. Yeah. How are you? I'm okay.
D24 CEC24: all right. I have 14 messages, and that one.
D24 CEC24: how are you?
D24 CEC24: The new building?
D24 CEC24: Hold on!
D24 CEC24: Oh, oh, what was on.
Michael: Yep.
D24 CEC24: Hi will.
Michael: Just admitted him.
D24 CEC24: So and row is hybrid.
D24 CEC24: So did you hear they were? Gonna make you go first, st
D24 CEC24: can you tell Michael? Yes, she's getting really warm.
Michael: I can hear you.
D24 CEC24: Oh, Hi! Michael!
Michael: Hello!
D24 CEC24: It's Connie. What what we're gonna do is the
D24 CEC24: pledge of allegiance and then roll call, and then we're going to go straight to the superintendent.
Michael: Alright!
D24 CEC24: And then, after that, we're going to go to vote of no confidence. We're not voting, obviously, because we don't have quorum, but we're going to discuss it.
D24 CEC24: I'm saying, environment, the dream really is to sell my smoothie.
D24 CEC24: That's George, all right.
D24 CEC24: So I think, did did Juni reply to you, Michael.
Michael: Nope.
D24 CEC24: So I'm gonna assume she's not coming then, unless she walks in alright just again.
Michael: Start with.
D24 CEC24: She says she's coming, she told Joanna. Yeah, so let's apologize. I don't know how many parents are on, but I apologize that we're running late because we're waiting for a member
D24 CEC24: at 6. We're gonna start at 6 15. It's 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. We don't have quorum. We don't have 7.
Michael: In person, or Corman.
D24 CEC24: In person. Michael. Live people on the
D24 CEC24: yeah. Yes, you need 7 here. You need 7 here. All right. She's on her way 15 min. She's trying to find pockets.
D24 CEC24: So we need our address.
D24 CEC24: Okay.
D24 CEC24: can you go downstairs and make sure no one's eating that fruit bowl because it's really municipal and the co-host
D24 CEC24: hope for you.
D24 CEC24: Hope.
Michael: Who.
D24 CEC24: I don't know.
D24 CEC24: No, sir, it's a novel. It's a normal building.
D24 CEC24: testing 1, 2, 3 testing. Here's a look testing. Yeah, thank you, sir, mine doesn't turn off.
D24 CEC24: There you go!
D24 CEC24: Is she gonna announce or not?
D24 CEC24: No, they definitely
D24 CEC24: early.
D24 CEC24: Happy. Teresa, that's after Teresa.
D24 CEC24: Yeah, you're you're right because
D24 CEC24: wait. Aren't you announcing?
D24 CEC24: Oh, she's gonna announce, oh, okay, alright. Okay.
D24 CEC24: I was just asking
D24 CEC24: alright. We're gonna start.
D24 CEC24: Can anybody hear from Manisha? She's barking. She's barking good.
D24 CEC24: I'm hoping they come over. So I said, 15,
D24 CEC24: no worries, no problem. Thanks.
D24 CEC24: She's working with people.
D24 CEC24: Yeah. Do you think of penny banks?
D24 CEC24: Oh, oh, yeah, if anyone wants to speak, please sign up in the front.
D24 CEC24: there's a sheet if you want to speak. Thank you. In the back. I'm sorry it's in front of me, but it's the back.
D24 CEC24: and good evening, everyone. Good evening.
D24 CEC24: And then it says, 6, 15 on.
D24 CEC24: Okay, we'll put 15. Now.
D24 CEC24: Good evening. Everyone welcome to Ps. 3 0, 5,
D24 CEC24: we're gonna start our meeting at 6 15. We are still waiting for 2 members. We're trying to find parking. We do not have form.
D24 CEC24: We need 7 people to be here in order for us to vote.
D24 CEC24: We have 2 members that are online via zoom, anything like that.
D24 CEC24: If we can start, we'll start with the the pleasures of the
D24 CEC24: tell me here
D24 CEC24: I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America to the republic to which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.
D24 CEC24: Michael, if you could please, do roll, call.
Michael: Alright gonna start roll call Veronica absence.
Michael: Connie.
D24 CEC24: Present.
Michael: Maddie absent me presence online.
Michael: Joanna.
D24 CEC24: And.
Michael: Matt.
D24 CEC24: Present.
Michael: Manisha is there, but finding parking right.
D24 CEC24: Yes.
Michael: Anna.
D24 CEC24: Present.
Guo Zhou: Laws, online present.
D24 CEC24: Love as well.
Michael: And Junie is.
Guo Zhou: 2.
Michael: Or finding, parking.
D24 CEC24: He's working.
Michael: Okay, roll calls done. Do you guys, we're gonna jump straight into the superintendent's report.
District 24: Thank you for helping. We definitely can talk tomorrow.
D24 CEC24: It was never the God intended.
D24 CEC24: Michael, did you hear.
Michael: I did not hear what Julie and Manisha are here.
D24 CEC24: That's perfect.
District 24: Like as you need.
District 24: Okay, you click, Jim.
D24 CEC24: There's no connection for the.
District 24: Hi! How are you?
District 24: We need to.
D24 CEC24: Well.
District 24: Okay, we'll talk. We'll talk.
District 24: I'm just sorry
District 24: you'll hear my report. You just all see the pictures. Is there anything we could do about the
District 24: I am I am.
D24 CEC24: Oh, yeah.
D24 CEC24: Think it's interference?
District 24: Thank you.
District 24: Michael. Can you still hear us?
District 24: Yes.
Michael: I can still hear you guys.
District 24: Thank you, so should I start? Yes, yes. But what do we do about the echo?
Michael: It's just gonna be a thing.
District 24: Can you move it more down to the edge of the table, if possible? I'm sorry.
District 24: Hello!
District 24: It's still alright everyone. Can you hear me. Yes, because of that. Okay.
District 24: okay, so I just want you all to know that we have project, open arms
District 24: and project open arms. Partners with Project Roseo
District 24: to guide the response and research around supporting families with the legal aspect of immigration. So you know, there's a lot of conversations right now around immigration.
District 24: The mayor's office because of the echo.
District 24: I'm sorry there was a parent that I walked in with. She needs interpretation if we could direct it properly.
District 24: No, no, and talk on this. I was thinking, yes, okay.
District 24: for me. Thank you. Interpretation. Did you want to do this slide?
District 24: Well, you want me to do this slide?
District 24: Connie? Yeah.
Michael: Everyone's muted. By the way. No. Can't hear anyone talking on your guys side.
Barbara Bierd: Hello, Michael!
Barbara Bierd: I still can't hear anything.
Michael: Yeah, I'm telling them right now.
Barbara Bierd: Okay.
Michael: Either unmute the owl or unmute the laptop.
D24 CEC24: Alright, mute your laptop.
Michael: There we go!
D24 CEC24: Can you hear? Okay.
Michael: Yeah, we can hear you now.
D24 CEC24: Can you hear me now?
Michael: Yep.
D24 CEC24: Okay, great. So the mayor's office of Immigrant affairs has several guides and resources which we will post on the Cdc website, so that you will be aware of it. The no deal rights brochure on the Moia website, Mayor's office can be very helpful, and you are suggested for schools to consider printing it and having it available in several languages. So we're doing that for our principals.
D24 CEC24: A practice shared at project. Open arms meetings is to provide families that you know are currently in a shelter setting
D24 CEC24: or at a high risk of moving with a laminated palm card within your school's address. Phone number for contact
D24 CEC24: at the school's Dbn. This can help. If a family in in of a student in temporary housing moves quickly and changes schools, they have the right to remain and attend your school if they choose to have their card
D24 CEC24: that can assist with attendance and continuity of communication. So that is what we've been asked to message to you. Children are safe in school. And any any kind of
D24 CEC24: unwanted visitors that principals would have, they should let the district office know, but we are also working with the mayor's office to ensure the safety of all the children that are attending school in New York city schools.
D24 CEC24: Okay, we always talk about the district priorities. So you've seen this slide many times, which is the high quality culturally responsive instruction. The data, informed decisions and progress, monitoring the multi-tiered systems of support to support all learners, social, emotional learning and community and family engagement.
D24 CEC24: And all of the things we're doing in District 24 aligned to the New York City Public school system wide priorities.
D24 CEC24: So I want you all to know this was shared at the Dlt. That's our district leadership team, which is which occurs once a month on Friday, and you can also log into that as guests if you're interested, but the Cec. President is on it. Many of the CC members log into it because they want to be in the Know and it and everyone on the team that's comprised of
D24 CEC24: my my team, led by the superintendent, and with principals, 3 principals Uft, DC. 37. All our constituents and the high schools. We work together to write the Dcp. Which is going to be published soon.
D24 CEC24: and it will be available
D24 CEC24: online for you all again to see it. But I want you to know. The really important part of it is that District 24 is on track with progress, monitoring. All the students have been assessed and tested in progress. Monitoring window one.
D24 CEC24: And what we do then, is we look at the data with the principals, and we help. That helps determine the next instructional cycle for the children. So children that need additional services get it. Children that are on track doing well according to their grade level. Get that information shared in progress reports to parents. And we're making sure that we're
D24 CEC24: increasing in progress towards proficiency. So any child in any of our schools that is not at a level 3, which would be the proficient level. They're at a level, one or level 2. We're tracking that.
D24 CEC24: and we're making progress. So we're we're trying to grow the level ones into level twos, the level twos into level threes and the level threes into level fours. And now we do that officially, progress, monitoring 3 times a year with the Dcp. And with the screeners and with the programs that we're using in the schools. That's a really important piece of information.
D24 CEC24: And then the Progress Monitoring windows are listed. Here again, I'm going to share this whole Powerpoint with the cec.
D24 CEC24: something that's really important to us is that all students are physically and emotionally safe. We've had a lot of parents in the I mean, sorry we've had a lot of workshops in the fall for parents
D24 CEC24: of even we are always getting retrained guidance counselors, principals on non local law enforcement.
D24 CEC24: We have district. We're a district priority due to our numbers. And you will see a focus on non local law enforcement rules and a major focus on attendance and keeping kids in school and making students and families feel safe and supported in school. So our messaging isn't
D24 CEC24: that, you know. I like no one could come to the school and take children away. Children are safe in school. We do not allow anyone except the parent that's on the blue card, or anyone that you want to pick up your child. We do not allow anyone else. We have school safety. You see, we have the ring doorbell now. A lot of that is due to the Cec. Working towards those initiatives to ensure the children are safe.
D24 CEC24: So I'm going to ask you to share with your families of your constituents to really encourage attendance. The principals are still going to encourage attendance initiatives. We do believe that children do better academically when they are in school to learn.
D24 CEC24: and we want you all, every family, to feel safe and supported in schools, and if you don't feel safe in your neighborhoods for any reason for crime because of ice, because of any kind of reasons, because there's some, because there's some you know, maybe on public transportation. There's,
D24 CEC24: you know, children are being
D24 CEC24: talked to by adults. They shouldn't be talked to any kind of situation. We want you to let your principals know, and the district will work with your principals to ensure that children are always safe.
D24 CEC24: I just want you to know that on Saturday, January 11, th and I wish that you were in the audience. You can see the pictures. They're online. If people are watching right? We promoted early childhood day in District 24. I want to say that Donna Murphy, our district family advocate, really ran it was her vision, and she really ran the whole thing along
D24 CEC24: with our 3 wonderful pre-k principals. So I don't know if all of you know this. But in addition to 40 schools in District 24,
D24 CEC24: 40 elements, you know, elementary and middle schools we have 15 standalone pre-k. Centers, led by 3 principals, and those 3 principals showed up on Saturday, along with the principal of the early childhood center rob Quintana, just to let you. All the families know your options. And the kids came out and they did different activities. But we wanted you to know what great programs we have, and we're hoping that
D24 CEC24: the children that are in Pre. K. Will choose District 24 schools as their zone schools, as opposed say, to go into charters or private schools. We want to show you the great programs we have here, how we want to work with parents to ensure that the programs you want are sustained. And that was just one of the days that we do. We do many Saturdays, but that was one of the days specifically inviting early childhood families to stay with us
D24 CEC24: and and understand the different programs we have to offer.
D24 CEC24: And then we also have always parent information and enrollment sessions. Again, all the flyers are listed here. It's it's worth to go on. I've seen the Cec website advertise these flyers in the past.
D24 CEC24: and I would invite you all to look at the flyers. But there's high school enrollment sessions. If you have an 8th grader, there's 5th grade enrollment sessions. If you have a child that's going to middle school, and then there's kindergarten enrollment and application process and that was talked about, too, on Saturday. And there's also the prepaid enrollment process. So
D24 CEC24: we we try to advertise to all all the programs through flies. And again, Donna does a lot of that work and has meetings usually has a meeting once in the morning for parents that may work. I mean parents that may be home and make a 10 o'clock meeting, and then a meeting at 6 o'clock for parents who may work. So this that's always ongoing
D24 CEC24: and now you know your CC. I know it's been renamed to the Ccec. But the Ccec election period has opened. So you know, it's time for you to reapply all the year you're eligible and beyond share it, your voice, their future. So parent voice, is so important. And right now.
D24 CEC24: you're in the application period. So spread the news if you're if you want to ship. If you want, talk to these people up here sitting on the dais, do you want to commit? Do you know someone in your school that you think would be great at committee. So you're applying for the Educational council seat that will go on through mid-february.
D24 CEC24: Then in late February to late April, there's candidate forms where candidates will share why they should be elected. So if you've been a Pta President before, and you want to expand your horizons to Cec. If you've been a Cec. Member and you have some great things going
D24 CEC24: already. Like the bell like this team worked for that. This team has worked towards getting more police presence in Corona, where we read our Roosevelt Island, Roosevelt Avenue. There was a lot of crime, and for the past 3 months there's been an additional police presence. That's because of the
D24 CEC24: of a a resolution. This this team wrote
D24 CEC24: if you're on slts in your school and very active. This is a next step. So it's a local governing where we listen to parents, and we hear your concerns, and there's many wonderful things that come out of this meeting with a lot of hard work and different opinions. But that's how we get to resolution for what's good for all kids.
D24 CEC24: Late April to mid-may, everybody has to vote to vote for the people you want. You like people sitting up here. You want to vote for them. If you have somebody else that you want to run, you have to vote for them. If you want to run yourself, you have to talk to your Pta, your Slt, and all the parents, you know, and get them up here. So you know it's your voice. It's your vote.
D24 CEC24: and then in June they announced the results. And then for 2 years we would want you to be a part of this committee. So I would say, if you're interested, you should talk to these people, if you like, what these people are doing, you should vote for them. So it's another place for parent voice.
D24 CEC24: We have 2 exciting upcoming district events. We are having a stem. Expo. Thursday, April 3.rd From 10 to one Pm. At Ps. 1, 53
D24 CEC24: students from across the district are going to showcase their stem projects that highlight, how they use science to solve problems in their community. So across the district. We have many stem, ICT, meaning that it's a program for children that have half the children or 40% of the children have in the class and the rest of the children. Do not, or general education children.
D24 CEC24: But the focus is on stem. So everybody learns and everybody grows, and there's a lot of research that shows that all children learn well when they're engaged in hands-on experience when they're engaged in nonfiction. So creating stem projects allows all children to do this. There's also a lot of dual language programs that are involved in this as well. So
D24 CEC24: we've had this the past couple of years. I want to give a shout out to Ellen Darrensberg on the district 2014. She's our science. Social studies lead and she coordinates this amazing event, and each school has their own science Expo and the winners in each school take a school bus, go to Ps. 1, 53, and present.
D24 CEC24: and Ellen gets judges like, maybe science teachers from high school, or, you know, different people in this, maybe someone from the hall of science, people that
D24 CEC24: would appreciate and be able to judge. Children's stem projects and then.
Guo Zhou: Hi! Dorothy!
D24 CEC24: I like the winners.
Guo Zhou: No, no, thank you.
D24 CEC24: Yes, 153 has 2 gyms in what like this were a gym today? Right? So one of the gyms is where we go. We see all the projects you want to come this year, and the other gym. The kids go upstairs and they get to do stem themselves. So they were flying drones last year and building rockets and building little cars. So it's a great experience. And parents came to
D24 CEC24: the other big event that's coming up is a civics showcase. That's something this committee has asked for, and it's something that DOE is also very committed to civics, leadership, understanding government, and that's going to be on Thursday, May 15, th from 10 to 12 Pm. At is 1, 25, and again, those schools are going to showcase their journeys and showcase student work.
D24 CEC24: So parents are invited to that as well.
D24 CEC24: Ps. 305, which is where we are tonight. They got had a little video here, but they got to attend the Mets annual holiday party at City Field. It was a lovely event. They were on the news. They got to meet Mr. And this is met. They all got a present, many of us, who we work with different organizations to get children presents. I'd like to do more of that. I mean, anybody should want that for children, right? Especially children in underserved communities. Put a smile on everybody's face.
D24 CEC24: And then the Polish dual language had a showcase in January, and I would recommend all our dual language programs do this and so each grade, because the Polish dual language is a newer program, and they have a a kindergarten, first, st second, 3, rd
D24 CEC24: great. Next year they'll go to 4th grade, so there'll be 5 classes. So all these classes performed that night to showcase what they're learning in both English and in Polish, and the parents had been asking for that. It was a lovely event.
D24 CEC24: Ps. 16 has had a lot of student and parent activities new principal there. Principal Rodriguez is doing a great job. She's had parent reading workshops. She had a Thanksgiving food giveaway. She had balloons over. Ps. 16. It was an indoor parade to get the kids to kind of feel like what you know on a smaller scale. But like some of these big parades in the city alike, and an empowering parents workshop so it was really to
D24 CEC24: for parents to think about, ways to create a nice supportive environment at home.
D24 CEC24: Our principals share this knowledge with each other. Many of our principals do similar things at this meeting. I wish to try to highlight everything for you. Also a lot of our schools. If you want to celebrate the holidays you have to ensure that you have representation from every holiday. So some of us who decide to have a Christmas tree, a Menorah, the Kwanzaa candles. You have to show all representation. However, if you don't want to do that as a school, because the community Slt says
D24 CEC24: we we like to learn about holidays in school like 343, but we don't celebrate holidays in school perfectly fine, but some of our schools do a blue and white winter wonderland, and they do igloos and hot chocolate. And you know fun things around Snowman. So it's not religious, and it becomes something fun for the children, and Ps. 81 did a lovely winter wonderland celebration. So did Ps. 343
D24 CEC24: learners and leaders. Here. They had a movie night recently, and that's another fun thing. So I share this with you to say there's always a lot of great things going on in our district. But as Pta. And if you like any of these ideas, you could always say to your principal, Can we do a Saturday, a family event, or could we do a dual language singing event? Or can we do a A movie night? And movie night is just so much fun, right? Because it's pretty
D24 CEC24: for you. I generally they're free. But maybe, you know, there's some popcorn and drinks, and we just celebrate the movie with a bunch of of your friends.
D24 CEC24: I want you to know you'll love this. That is, 5 students were the winner of the 3 Kings Day Banner design concept contest. They were highlighted on Cbs news. They marched in the 3 Kings Day Parade through East Harlem. They went all the way to Harlem, and then all kids won. They did a beautiful
D24 CEC24: They did a beautiful mural, and so just to celebrate their Hispanic heritage. Many Hispanic, all different countries of Hispanic heritage celebrate Greek king's day in a very big way, I've learned, and these children really wanted to celebrate it, and yet they won as well. So that was a beautiful thing.
D24 CEC24: and I just want to thank you. I just want to thank you.
D24 CEC24: you know, for your time every month. And for you know, listening to the report every month. We always have some really great things going on. I've always been really proud of the district.
D24 CEC24: and so I'm looking at. I'm looking around here right? So I have. Like some.
D24 CEC24: You know, I have some of my own personal news to share. Now, which is kind of it's really hard to share. I'm going to retire. Which is, I know, a surprise. I know, especially to my friends, that I'm only just meeting. But you know it.
D24 CEC24: a leader is not any good if they don't build sustainability. So when I think of Superintendent Chan she, she built a lot of sustainability and the strength of our team. And all this great work I talked about tonight is really a tribute to the amazing district 24. The amazing principals in District 24, the amazing Cec of District 24, the amazing
D24 CEC24: staff, all of the staff work very hard and really love children are elected officials that want to support the school so much the amazing parents that really want to get involved. So I have. I'm in public education 40 years.
D24 CEC24: and I started out. Believe it or not, I started out teaching 3 year olds. Then I taught 4 year olds. Then I taught kindergarten, 1st grade, second grade, 3rd grade. Then I ran the after school reading programs. Then I became an assistant principal, and I learned how to run a building.
D24 CEC24: Then I left for a while and became a consultant with Teachers College. I learned a lot about. I worked at Columbia, learned a lot about literacy instruction, not all good, but I learned some good things, and then I missed being part of a community. I missed. My daughter was ready for school, and I came back.
D24 CEC24: and I became a teacher again when my daughter was little, and then I quickly became. I got it wrong with the teacher, and then the assistant principal, and then I became a principal, and then I worked at Central evaluating schools and running the office of early childhood, and then my happiest place for the past 10 years, and I say this from the
D24 CEC24: the bottom of my heart, has been in District 24. I have been really, I think, District 24 is just a special place, and that when I retire I'm asking everyone in this room
D24 CEC24: and beyond to make sure that it stays the special special place that it is because of the community that's here that every single one of the principals worked very hard at our principal meeting. When I announced it last Tuesday the principal said that there was one time in District 24 was a school that not everybody would send their kids to every school.
D24 CEC24: Now, district 24 is a school that in every neighborhood parents want to send their kids to those schools, and we've worked very hard to work together to learn and grow and create programs that make sense for kids to expand our dual language programs in in all languages, because we know that
D24 CEC24: dual language children perform better in life. So I'm going to start with light, not just the test, but in light. And on the tests we know that stem is the way of the future, and steam is the way of the future. So that's why everything. A lot of what I talked about tonight is about stem and steam
D24 CEC24: but you know, as you so I've been really, really blessed, and I have to tell you my favorite place to have worked here with all of these wonderful principals and the staff and the amazing district 2014. And the parents. Because when there's disagreement, that's okay, because that means that it's not one way we all sat around and we all agreed. There's a little bit of a problem with that kind of means that we're all coming from
D24 CEC24: one perspective. And we know in America, with all our diversity, we come from many perspectives. So we're not always going to agree. And we don't always going to agree.
D24 CEC24: It's not always going to be always
D24 CEC24: you know, if you don't always, you know. So when you have difference of opinion, you're going to have dissonance. But you're going to get to good answers, and you have to listen to everybody's voice. That's very important. We're going to be constantly in a changing world
D24 CEC24: and and that's that I want you to know is that you have the smartest, hardest working principals. I believe in the whole city. You have the most amazing district 2014 in the whole city.
D24 CEC24: And I also want to give a shout out to Eleanor, who I've worked years with, and James, who's not here I've worked years with, so you know, it's make new friends and keep the old one is silver, the other is gold, and the new friends like Michelle and Jose, who stepped up. And you see, you see, the leadership grows right because we had Principal Jimenez, who was an amazing principal, and now he's
D24 CEC24: grown into becoming the deputy superintendent. And so we see a lot of leadership. We see a lot of growth.
D24 CEC24: and if I didn't know in October that I was going to retire. And sometimes it happens like that. And so I want to say to you that you know my health. Like as you get older it gets harder to keep the blood pressure low, and you know I have to take better care of myself, and I have to walk, but it's hard to do those things. So you I have to really take care of myself, and if you ask my husband and my daughter. They will tell you that.
D24 CEC24: And my parents. They will tell you my whole life. You put your career first, st you put family second, and you put your health 3rd
D24 CEC24: and no, the family part. But I have to talk my health 1st now, right? Because I'm going to be no good to anybody. I'm not. Gonna it's just stuff I got to take care of. Nothing's, you know. Thank God, nothing bad. But I don't get to the doctor enough, and I don't take care of my blood pressure. So health.
D24 CEC24: And then family. My daughter's getting married. June 5.th I had to do my wedding because I was a teacher. I wasn't going to leave the kids in June. I want to honor her with her June wedding. I have one daughter and I have aging parents. So if I'm always talking about how important parents are, you have to teach your children and take care of you all when you get older. I know you're all young, but guess what? I was sitting right there and right here, and I feel like it was like 5 min ago, like I blinked. And now here I am. So
D24 CEC24: those are the reasons for me like I have to take care of my health. My parents are aging, and they need my support and my family. So thank you for understanding that. I loved all of my encounters with all of you. And I will miss you very much, and I hope that you will invite me back, you know, especially Saturdays and events and graduations. And you know, because I really do I want to get involved in?
D24 CEC24: So for you know, like in the communities, because that's still who I am. I've always wanted to serve people. And I. And I want to end just by saying that I really believe that it's been a privilege to work in the company of children. That's that's why we're all here for the children. The parents want the best for their children. The teachers want the best for the children.
D24 CEC24: the administrators, and all the other people that are helping want the best for the children, and to have 40 years of serving children and hopefully making it a better world because the children are going to make the world better. I believe in them. That's been my joy, and I want to just thank you for allowing me to share my life with you.
D24 CEC24: How long?
D24 CEC24: Yes, I love.
D24 CEC24: So next meeting will be with somebody else. You have to remember that.
D24 CEC24: Right? Like it's it's a community that that makes a district. It's the great hardworking, you know, when someone leaves, people should carry on. We have amazing people. So you're in good hands. Go to 4th grade and teacher, we got the kids. We gotta have the teacher, of course, right?
D24 CEC24: So and the truth is, you won't really have my personal cell number. So if you ever want to talk to me as a parent, you know, want to run something by me. I also feel like I do feel committed, you know.
D24 CEC24: Thank you.
D24 CEC24: As a mom, I'm I'm with you, you know, as as a mom.
D24 CEC24: It's hard, you know, and everyone's like it's. Are you happy? Are you excited? It's I'm not happier like I I think it's a it's it's the right time for me. But you can't like. I can't feel happy and excited, you know I have to feel the transition first.st
D24 CEC24: So that is decades. And I wish you all, too.
D24 CEC24: I want to interrupt for one second, and have Mr. Charlie from Councilmember Holden's office that would like to say a few words. We're going to start with you.
D24 CEC24: Thank you for years of dedication to school District 24 and the great work.
D24 CEC24: Thank you. Very excited to see you go. Thank you.
D24 CEC24: I need someone.
D24 CEC24: It's been quite honest.
D24 CEC24: She truly had to get up for principles. You had your backs every time. She was never a micromanager.
D24 CEC24: You're very similar to value in the last touch.
D24 CEC24: I've come to know her as a person. She's a great person, a caring person. She lives in this district. She truly had her part in every aspect of this district. We're marching in. The couple
D24 CEC24: say very, very small words like, I cry. So I'm just gonna say you appreciate it. Thank you for all your hard work. Thank you for everything you've done, and the response of you pick up the call on the 1st ring, and if I have a parent that calls me for help, and I call the superintendent she picks up at whatever time
D24 CEC24: there is no time I could call at 10 am. So thank you for everything that you do. I don't want to cry. So I'm gonna leave it at that. Okay, I mean, I don't know how to express my feelings right now, because it's mixed.
D24 CEC24: I want to wish her luck for our future. Annivers. But at the same time we will miss you a lot, and I don't know. I I whenever I meet a person I make an emotional connect with people, and so it's very hard for me.
D24 CEC24: and I don't want to. I don't have enough words right now, but I'll I'll just say good luck for your future, and congratulations for your daughter wedding in advance.
D24 CEC24: and hopefully you'll keep us. Keep keep in touch with us, all of us, and I don't know how to. It's on behalf of all CC members, I guess, and all the parents and teachers present here. We just express our gratitude for whatever you have done for the I mean the communities and good luck. Thank you so much.
D24 CEC24: Just want to thank you for supporting us for being for us for being such a good support for our kids.
D24 CEC24: Good luck with your work. Maybe we see you back sometime.
D24 CEC24: We can be optimistic on that note, right. I just want to say thank you. Thank you for everything for all these years. 40 years, considering I'm only 10, but I think that's great. But no, the best of luck, best retirement, and enjoy your daughter's wedding. You're welcome.
D24 CEC24: Hello!
D24 CEC24: We will attend some meetings in the community.
D24 CEC24: It's not easy.
D24 CEC24: I always enjoyed when you had me come to the women's event, where I
D24 CEC24: and I've learned so much about Pelona from Miss Joanna.
D24 CEC24: and also, you know all of the people here, like the service that you give to the communities is just amazing.
D24 CEC24: Thank you.
D24 CEC24: Many platforms.
D24 CEC24: Do you want to say anything or well.
Michael: My time here has been short lived with you. But I just wanna wish you a happy retirement
Michael: I didn't get to know you as well as most of the others, but it was great working alongside you.
D24 CEC24: Thank you.
D24 CEC24: and he's all he's also presenting. If he wants to add anything.
Wendy Caruso: Yeah, 5.
D24 CEC24: Whoa! Do you want me to speak for? You cause you text me?
D24 CEC24: I don't. I don't see.
Guo Zhou: Oh, yeah, I can speak. Yeah.
D24 CEC24: Okay, so he wishes you the best, and to enjoy your your retirement and make a beautiful journey. Thank you. That's beautiful.
D24 CEC24: Thank you, Abby?
D24 CEC24: So, Michael, can we? The resolution number 6.
Michael: Number 6 or 1 74.
D24 CEC24: Item number item, resolution 174.
D24 CEC24: They are included for us, having the Cbos pay for the epic school permits
D24 CEC24: right now there is no fee, and the Grant money system. The Cbo has to pay out of that grant money to pay for the permits for safety agents.
D24 CEC24: Pretty much we do that. It's gonna end the ethical programs for free.
D24 CEC24: And so it's the resolution opposing any proposals to charge. Cbo's so permit fees.
D24 CEC24: They're hosted because they don't have to plug in and
D24 CEC24: 5 60 to 5.
D24 CEC24: Does anybody want to comment any CC. Member on these resolutions?
D24 CEC24: Does anybody in the audience want to comment on this resolution?
D24 CEC24: We don't let's see.
D24 CEC24: So obviously, the schools don't have the money.
D24 CEC24: One good way
D24 CEC24: our parent can get on to talk to the parent. Give me a second. Thank you so much. I'll try to admit, too.
D24 CEC24: Did you see that person's name? Did you join the meeting?
D24 CEC24: We know, does the zoom? Does not we have to have 7 here? And then
D24 CEC24: the rest could be online. Oh, she says, you don't have to link, and her school did not. Okay, we'll just probably message you. And then you can join
D24 CEC24: Center through your this phone number.
D24 CEC24: From this number. We'll message you on this number today.
D24 CEC24: Okay, I'll send you think that 87
D24 CEC24: in case did you mention Matt is the sponsor. The co-sponsors are myself, Melisha and Michael, if anybody else here wants to be a co-sponsor, please raise your hand.
D24 CEC24: You agree you want a co-sponsor. So I'm going to write your name. Michael Johanna wants a co-sponsor Juni as well, Anna as well. Manisha, you're already on. Yes, okay. And Whoa! We'll ask them.
D24 CEC24: Well, yes, I don't know if we can.
Guo Zhou: Yes. Yeah. Okay.
D24 CEC24: Okay? And and Whoa as well. Okay. So the next meeting this should pass.
D24 CEC24: Oh, okay, now, let's go to. I guess we'll sign agenda.
D24 CEC24: I'm gonna well, we don't have a President's report.
D24 CEC24: We're gonna Max. What time is it.
Michael: 7 o'clock.
D24 CEC24: Okay, it's 7 o'clock. So in case anybody wants to go home, so
D24 CEC24: can someone get the sheet for me, please?
D24 CEC24: Pretty much it.
D24 CEC24: What's your bouncy?
D24 CEC24: Well, who signed up to speak?
D24 CEC24: Alright. So go ahead. You have the mic, sir.
D24 CEC24: Thank you very much for the introduction here.
D24 CEC24: right?
D24 CEC24: So can home and they're not working.
D24 CEC24: It's very hard to explain those 6 worldwide that's happening.
D24 CEC24: Okay.
D24 CEC24: we try to ask, then sign up for an application.
D24 CEC24: It's
D24 CEC24: then we get a lot of homeworks.
Maribell Perez-McDaniel, FACE: 6 years old.
Maribell Perez-McDaniel, FACE: We, as parents of that class, believe that they're supposed to.
D24 CEC24: Right.
Maribell Perez-McDaniel, FACE: They don't have to use the ipad.
Maribell Perez-McDaniel, FACE: The comeback from the principals is that it's gonna be easier for them when they go to 6th grade.
Maribell Perez-McDaniel, FACE: you know, 1214, and 15. That's something that we can learn. I learned it when I was 24.
Maribell Perez-McDaniel, FACE: There's a lot more, so I'd rather have my owner spend the time.
D24 CEC24: We're comfortable, but she has to use 2 h and 3 h.
D24 CEC24: Send it. Send it for that.
D24 CEC24: and it has. In few days. I've been watching that some schools want to build iphones
D24 CEC24: or 6th graders and not being middle school enough.
D24 CEC24: And then we're giving 6 year olds ipads.
D24 CEC24: So, in fact, for the 6th graders.
D24 CEC24: This is okay for the 1st graders, but something else.
D24 CEC24: for example, like, just what kind of homeworks are you getting on the ipad.
D24 CEC24: And you're getting all that like within one day.
D24 CEC24: Okay, just add to a public comment.
D24 CEC24: okay, so I'm gonna skip. Some people that are not here.
D24 CEC24: raise up here, raise your hand.
D24 CEC24: We have your meeting in your school next week.
Michael: Quick thing. Whoever's speaking into.
D24 CEC24: Excuse me, wait a minute. Can you come closer, Miss.
Michael: Whoever's speaking.
D24 CEC24: Can you come closer to the L.
D24 CEC24: This we don't care about it. Thank you so much. You're welcome for all that. You did.
Michael: Can you come closer this way still, please.
D24 CEC24: Miss, can you come closer because no one can hear you?
D24 CEC24: So what I want to say thank you for the
D24 CEC24: for the 6 year old kids. Lastly, like yesterday, my husband show me an email that he received from the Governor that she shared her plan to end smartphone use in New York City school. It's about middle middle schools.
D24 CEC24: Tablets is tablets. Ipads are the same thing as as the smartphones. Smartphones are smaller. Ipads are tablets are bigger. That's the the difference for me.
D24 CEC24: And why she's doing that, because this is causing addiction for the for the middle schoolers and high schoolers.
D24 CEC24: and she mentioned in the email that Middle Schooler come to her and told her to, can you help us
D24 CEC24: to help us from from destroying ourselves.
D24 CEC24: I don't think 6 year old coming to Mr. And saying those words to to her. So what are we doing to our small kids?
D24 CEC24: What are you doing for our small kids? Yes, DOE, what what is doing for the small kids
D24 CEC24: 6 year olds will not come and will not say I am coming. He's coming! She's coming. I don't know who is more coming here.
D24 CEC24: So we are saying for our children to do something about tablets every day. Every child in New York City is bringing tablet to the school and from the school to home, remembering to charge it. There is a Minecraft or other games. They have an asset to search engines like Google or similar
D24 CEC24: things. So it's still the same thing as smartphone they can find my daughter. She wanted something to buy on the on Amazon, she told me. Mommy, I can find it on
D24 CEC24: ipod. It's not problem for me. I can find it.
D24 CEC24: And she find it. She showed me 6 year old.
D24 CEC24: I saw some articles that develop developed countries in Europe changed policies there. There are aware of about addiction.
D24 CEC24: because the technology leads to addiction, especially for small kids. It doesn't mean it doesn't mean every child will be addicted.
D24 CEC24: Maybe my opinion hopefully it ends up.
D24 CEC24: But but we don't know, and I was definitely. I'm not happy with it.
D24 CEC24: When we have a meeting with Principal one lady she comes.
D24 CEC24: She had a son, I told her. Please come today, she told me. I I will have long shift today I will not come, but she will be on hope so. In 1 53. She told me that she had a son before before the pandemic, yes, before the Covid, and with the same teacher in gifted 100 plus.
D24 CEC24: and everything was in the paper. Now she has the youngest after the the Covid, with the same feature, and everything is on the ipad. They they're writing poems on the ipad.
D24 CEC24: No, no writing on the paper. I asked other parents from the same class. Do you have homework on the on the paper. No, we have everything. He needs to write down everything on the on the ipad
D24 CEC24: and other from the same class. I asked her, how is it in her face, she told me, oh, my daughter is very smart, but but her test results, the teacher saying.
D24 CEC24: it's not showing the the kids progress.
D24 CEC24: Those tests. Hmh, is not showing before you have the lecture. It was better. It was just one thing to go there, and you can learn grammar and everything. And now you have to like 5 windows to get there. For me. It's complicated.
D24 CEC24: The kids are getting into it, but
D24 CEC24: it's not good for them. They will not achieve so much in the future.
D24 CEC24: and I think, Governor, have a great idea, Governor Hockey. Finally she got some good point with smartphones.
D24 CEC24: Why do not extend to ipads.
D24 CEC24: Please, yeah, extend it to the elephant.
D24 CEC24: because there is no difference between smart phone and ipad is just larger. Thank you so much. And thank you.
D24 CEC24: Alright, man, Michael wants to answer. He's 1 of Cec members.
Michael: Hello!
D24 CEC24: You don't mind.
Michael: I. I understand your frustration with the ipad, and you know where you like.
Michael: Students are using ipads and technology more than we have before.
Michael: I think the way the world is going is we're more technologically based.
Michael: Like, when I was in elementary school, all we did is right. We didn't have computers. We had one computer for a class of 30, maybe 60 kids. And everyone used it. But I think the way we're going with technology. And the way world is, you know, going to the job market. Everything. Computers are pretty much the future.
Michael: And you know, I I understand that you. Your children can get into anything and find anything on
Michael: tablets and devices. But I think it's our role as parents to monitor what they're doing and not give them free range or free access to whatever they're doing on the ipad or.
D24 CEC24: You know.
Michael: Smartphones, or anything like that.
D24 CEC24: 1 min.
D24 CEC24: Okay, I have to keep going.
D24 CEC24: Did I miss that, Sir Michael?
D24 CEC24: Please.
D24 CEC24: one of the guys that had a computer class when I was in high school. That's totally fine. I do monitor my chat. But should I stop the lessons that they're giving us because I have a program of my own, my wife and I. We have our own program that we want our child to learn.
D24 CEC24: I started doing using computers in 8th grade. 8th grade. I started using computers in 8th grade. My child was 6 years old.
D24 CEC24: and surely know some better than me, and I work with them every day she uses Alexa. She uses iphone she uses. I know the future is in in the cloud. I understand we have to use laptops and cell phones and ipads, but I also want my daughter to write her own name, not by clicking numbers.
D24 CEC24: Right? So please keep that in mind that you sound like a guy that had a computer class. I don't know how old you are, but let them use the ipad one once a week for an hour. I'm fine with that. I just don't want her to bring an ipad work to my house. Let them write it down. Let them read it
D24 CEC24: right. Thank you very much. Thank you. I wanted to add something
D24 CEC24: yeah, very quick. But I agree, there should be a balance between the technology. And there should be written instructions also, like you have to write something, because otherwise kids will forget everything like it doesn't make sense. And I agree with you. But we have to keep pace with the technology, and I don't know whether you guys follow stocks or not. Yesterday there was a AI company. I don't want to mention the name from China, which has so much
D24 CEC24: market into it. So
D24 CEC24: the things are changing, and we need to grow with it. So I'm not saying that. But yeah, I agree with you that there should be a balance, and we can how we can create it. Individual schools, if I don't know about how the system works, but yeah, at individual level the school can also work for it like my school. They are providing me paper sheets also written homework assignments. I'm getting from my school as well as we have this.
D24 CEC24: what do you call the instruction through laptops? So I think there is a balance. So each school, if they try, they can create a balance, and we don't have to go far to do, or some other place, you know, we can create our own space.
D24 CEC24: Yeah. So we have 8 classes in our school and multiple sections. Every kid over there needs an ipad. If we do an hour or less, or whatever time we can find the best ipads and best programs, and let them learn the best programs ever for an hour or 2 HA week, but they have specific times. Then give us an ipad that's been used for 3 years, and it
D24 CEC24: takes me 40 min to be alarm.
D24 CEC24: And then, you know, I have to, especially because the Kid knows more than I do. Let them learn. Of course they're gonna learn the best, of course, either give them the best and keep it at school so they can give it to them at all.
D24 CEC24: You're right.
D24 CEC24: I have how long?
D24 CEC24: I just want to remind everybody that we public speaking is only 2 min and a half, unless you need translation, and you must stand over here. Same point. I think one thing I wanted to add to this is that I noticed with my 6 year old is that
D24 CEC24: if she take the test on paper. She's doing great.
D24 CEC24: She takes the test on the ipad. 7, 2,
D24 CEC24: 65, right? I looked at those. Now my question is curriculum. Aside from that situation, the curriculum requires the use of technology. Right? A lot of these curriculums require that.
D24 CEC24: Do parents have any say?
D24 CEC24: And what curriculums are used.
D24 CEC24: It's a question. I just have a question.
D24 CEC24: We can give our opinion right?
D24 CEC24: I have a lot of opinion about keep it to myself, not to say to me, but I think that's 1 of the issues, the way the curriculum is set up. It requires that. So now we have kids who do not socialize, because already in school there is no time to socialize because of the ipads.
D24 CEC24: Teachers. I get that our administrators get a lot of results. These are not correct results. My daughter's Hmh. Fevers are in the nineties and Hmh.
D24 CEC24: Ipads. Results are completely different. Therefore, what results are we given
D24 CEC24: to these administrators like we were just saying that. Oh, we have, you know, we test these kids 3 times a year, or what? Because my daughter then does not look like she's on grade level, even though my teacher is like she's totally on grade level, right? We have to think about this. That's the only point I wanted to add, I think that's an important point. Okay.
D24 CEC24: on that topic, I agree, 100%. My kids experience the same exact thing, the same exact, even dealing with the ipad and going through a laptop. Your scores are adjusted because it's harder to take the test on an ipad.
D24 CEC24: I mean, I can focus on
D24 CEC24: for the day of Youtube. Turn to Youtube off. Hold?
D24 CEC24: Yeah, and you can. Of course.
D24 CEC24: the eyes are supposed to relax. Oh, no, I agree right? No. And I 1st of all, I want to say that I want to thank you for all your comments and
D24 CEC24: as you were all talking, and Charlie and I have had this conversation before, too. Right is like there has to be a balance which, as I'm listening to, you, speak, and I, as I think of the principles that
D24 CEC24: lead the schools, is that there has to be a balance of writing and some work on the computer. So there has to be a balance, and what I hear your concern is that there doesn't seem to be enough of a balance. I do think my predecessor and
D24 CEC24: Superintendent Chan. We have gone through this about handwriting with Charlie, and we believe that all students should learn how to do handwriting every we've said to well, 1st 1st manuscript, and then so the handwriting books go from kindergarten through 6th grade. So they
D24 CEC24: we've suggested that every school do handwriting, you know, some handwriting at home, and even in school, just so that we learn how to handwrite. You know, there's still something about like everybody's a gross part. I mean, I did get a lot of emails. And so these are times when we want to be able to be able to write in cursive
D24 CEC24: in terms of. So that's 1 thing that's I want you to know a balance. The second thing is, technology is only as good as as when it works, and if it's how new it is, right? So that's another concern
D24 CEC24: which I can lift up. And I will lift up that we shouldn't be giving kids old equipment. But I think that that's where I've seen council people give freezer way grants and we work. And we get the the upgraded technology
D24 CEC24: the programs that we are all using. Remember, we're all using a mandated curriculum by the New York City public schools, which has been a directive right? Like we're the mayor's office runs New York City public schools. So
D24 CEC24: the Chancellor has decided of us to pick from those 3 curriculum. So we can educate parents about the curriculums we're using. But
D24 CEC24: even though we had, if we didn't really have a choice either, right? If you're in a big city, and it's you know you have. You again want to think about the reason. When you're in a big city, they're making the decision to use curriculums. That's a decision they're making. But if there's ways of when you bring this feedback, if every, if every, if every CC. Is bringing that feedback to every superintendent, then they have to listen right. The parents want more of a balance, right?
D24 CEC24: Or that programs aren't work based right? Because
D24 CEC24: and then, but every other curriculum like the stem curriculum, the the seat, you know, the computer science. You know the Cs. For all the civics, for all. They're all mandated curriculums. Now, we can sometimes supplement with other books. But right now, in the city of New York, we use mandated curriculum. So that's the answer of who's choosing them? And do parents have support.
D24 CEC24: Who's choosing them is the Department of Education, and we're all being mandated to use them. But within your local level, on your slt you should be able to say to your principals like, how much ipad time, how much writing time. And we want some time for the kids to be able to write essays and write.
D24 CEC24: I mean it is so, I understand, and I do believe what you believe, that there should be a balance. But as they go up the grades. When they get to high school everything is expected to be tight, and everything in college is expected to be tight, and when they take those college. I don't know if you're thinking it's a ways away, but when they take all of those exams they are going to be all online.
D24 CEC24: they're moving, even the teacher certification. Everything is online. So that's why we're going in this
D24 CEC24: direction. But I think again, they need feedback from the community, not just 3 people. But other parents. We need to talk about this, and the one thing I do want to say is that the ipads are a little different than the phones, because on my own personal phone, I can do a lot of different things based on my needs and purposes. So if I'm going to start running again. I have my app to run right. I have my music on my phone and I have my texting of my friends. I can text.
D24 CEC24: I can go to my Facebook right? I can go to ebay and go shopping. Remember, like what you can do on your smartphone is so different than what's on the school
D24 CEC24: ipad. So to your point, kids aren't texting and using email and all that, they're supposed to use the programs. But then, also to your point. If the program is confusing, and it's not really helping the kids.
D24 CEC24: I'm going to give that feedback to hmh, because for parents to say that we don't understand that you need to understand how to, you know. So maybe some of the problem of why teachers, kids aren't learning how to read is because parents don't understand how to help their kids how to read. That's a problem, you know. So I think that we take this feedback. And we and that's why Donna has all those parent workshops for you, but you are raising important issues. But some of it is, as you know, being decided on the city level for the whole city
D24 CEC24: and on a on a state level for the whole state.
D24 CEC24: So you're not alone. Not that that helps, but smart parents have to be able to not only raise your awareness at the CC. Meeting, but at other meetings as well, and know your work and advocate as well, and I never wanted to say that parents should have input into curriculum because we don't know what the heck we're talking about. I realize. No, I'm like. That's not what I'm trying to say. Parents should not be like. I want you to teach this absolutely. Not leave that to the professionals
D24 CEC24: just more about the balance of like, yeah, how they learn it. Right? Because I have no idea how to teach literacy or science or whatever you're getting, has to be user friendly to parents, because to your point and to the kids as well, of course. But I mean, so I just wanted to. Just, I know we're going to move on, but I just wanted to say, I think it's a good. It's a good point.
D24 CEC24: One thing I have the the Middle village.
D24 CEC24: one of our best friends as a child, also same age as my daughter. They never bring the ipad home. They never have homework and an ipad.
D24 CEC24: And also you said they're gonna use it in college and everything
D24 CEC24: high school college. At first, st
D24 CEC24: before the pandemic, we discussed the meetings about the calligraphy or some
D24 CEC24: a similar program for some schools. So maybe this kind of programs can help. Yeah, do you mean, person.
D24 CEC24: yeah, they should have handwriting to do. Person. 3, rd 4, th
D24 CEC24: good evening, guys, how you guys doing?
D24 CEC24: Just briefly about myself. And then I'll tell you why I'm here. Me grew up in queens.
D24 CEC24: Now, basically, I know the area originally
D24 CEC24: pretty much. I can say I am Quince. And that's the reason why I'm here. What we do is we offer engaging activities for for fielding, for team building for we do plenty of
D24 CEC24: staff development days for the Voe. We are voe members we are also certified. Meaning that also you don't have to get. If you are a school in order to get our services and use us for your field days and so forth.
D24 CEC24: So corporate audience building, summer camps graduation. We've been doing it for quite a while about almost 10 years now.
D24 CEC24: And we deal with in every single district, and we try to take a barrier. So
D24 CEC24: if you what what are the key points
D24 CEC24: public. So just bear with me. So we are mobile company. We go to your location and we are able to set up different types of views based upon the age bracket that you guys are dealing with from kids all the way to adults. We've done summer camps. We've done
D24 CEC24: regular fields. And also just staff developments
D24 CEC24: development days. Do you have any questions?
D24 CEC24: No, I don't have any questions. Alright. So a few key points again. We're mobile we go to your location. I will pass out, and then I will stick around if you guys have any questions. But we have over 20 activities knockable because of both that people run into each other. We have archery tags. It's very different than
D24 CEC24: he's using an ipad on this. Vivian is Vivian here?
D24 CEC24: Thank you so much. Thank you, George. Okay, thank you, George.
D24 CEC24: Thank you.
D24 CEC24: There you go. We have it for everyone like you saw.
D24 CEC24: and he has 20 min.
D24 CEC24: My teachers never!
D24 CEC24: I never see them if they do such things.
D24 CEC24: So one day we have reading.
Zoom user: The day after that.
Zoom user: Are you seeing me now? I'm just saying.
D24 CEC24: Thank you so much, Charlie.
D24 CEC24: Yeah. You know, listening to all this is very interesting. I got my 1st personal computer in 1978. And the main thing I learned about computers since then is that a pain in the ass? But okay, now.
D24 CEC24: what you're saying about this is, I'm really fortunate. I'm glad my daughter went to Ps. 1, 53. Before that I'm glad she was going to high school. She took the saturated ap test. You know, number 2. I don't want to take my daughter. She got a 790 math on the sap. She got 5 on it
D24 CEC24: ap calculus BC. But she had some assignments, homework assignment in high school, not on the computer. And she was crying because it was a pain in the butt. I mean it was obviously the computer, because that's, you know, kind of student, she is in math.
D24 CEC24: So some of this stuff is, they're pushing us down the throne.
D24 CEC24: And the most important thing for young kids to learn is content. They need knowledge. People learn by building on knowledge, they already know. And we got to make sure. Kids in early grades are learning real things, not just learning to be lifetime learners. This kind of nonsense thing the DOE throws this technology is being put there by the DOE as a shield to protect them from teaching your kids what they need to know.
D24 CEC24: And I don't think if these other schools aren't doing it. I don't see why. Ps. 153 is forcing it down. Ps. 153 was a great school. My God! And believe me, there was nobody fighting with the principal more than me, but I don't know why, but you know, back then we had a principal. I didn't get along with it, my group out of the school, everything that went on, but
D24 CEC24: she was a good principal, miss. It just seems that everything I'm hearing on 1 53 is
D24 CEC24: this guy's doing like by the book stuff. Whatever the do is telling them. Other principals aren't doing it. They're getting 20 min. Your kids have been there with computers, you know. I know what it's like. My wife, or whatever you know, you don't want your kids trying to learn for the 1st time and dealing with that it shouldn't be forced down their throat like that.
D24 CEC24: I mean, we could look into that, too, you know. I know that I'm leaving soon, but Deputy Jimenez
D24 CEC24: is. Is there a lot at 153, I mean, I could look at the amount of it, because I do agree that we should have consistency across the district. And I want to know why these kids are getting so much more than other kids. When I have testimony here from other parents that are in a totally different place, you know.
D24 CEC24: But she's 6 different classes. Is it the dual language class?
D24 CEC24: Just only English? And the parent told me, oh, we have even match this on the ipad. And I said, Oh, boy, thank you. God.
D24 CEC24: So you know, testing testing is online. Therefore, kids get more online content and other ways to prepare them for the online testing. And we can test them. 1st comment they want to make about the curriculum. You said parents have nothing to say about the curriculum. I totally disagree with that. Parents have a lot to say to the curriculum.
D24 CEC24: The best thing you're going to hear about your child's education from other parents, not from the DOE when I was a Ps. 153. I started the Beacon parents co-chair, and we petitioned the school to do things with the curriculum. You know we got a lot of trouble. But you know, it's I really think it's important for parents to be involved with the curriculum. Very important. Know what to teach you. Suggest things that you teach you and organize.
D24 CEC24: I'm not sure if you know. Join the Slt.
D24 CEC24: And also, you know, Pta, and keep in mind. You could join the Cec. The opening is now another thing I want to say, I support you. Yeah, run, run any questions I can answer any question I've been on for 4 years. I'm going to move on to Mr. Phil Wong. And then, after Phil is Maribel.
D24 CEC24: Oh, you thought that was a sign in
D24 CEC24: okay, you just have to join here. Okay, yes, I'll be really, really brief. I want to say, for the past 3 years I myself have done so much and get to see so much work done by Superintendent Caca Valley.
D24 CEC24: your, your dedication, your leadership, and then, and your positive thinking has contributed so much to district 24.
D24 CEC24: the the principals who miss you. The kids will miss you, but I personally know that for for everything you do, kids come first, st and I'm the witness to that. So I want to congratulate you to start a new chapter in life, and please accept my small token of appreciation.
D24 CEC24: Samantha.
D24 CEC24: Any, Samantha. No, thank you so much.
D24 CEC24: Okay, so I'll cross you out.
D24 CEC24: Now you have somebody wants to talk.
D24 CEC24: Where am I supposed to stand right here? Yes.
D24 CEC24: just in general, I think it is so very important to show up to meetings, because to me it's very, very much sounds like a school, you know questions and issues about my kids. I have twins in 1st grade.
D24 CEC24: That is not her experience.
D24 CEC24: So like, I just really really want to encourage you like, speak up in your micro community and like, get to know people get like, really make your voice heard, see if you can make a difference. Talk to your teachers. Talk to your Pta. PA. Whatever you have.
D24 CEC24: go to those Slt meetings because I I would be willing to bet that some of this is written into your CD, your your education plan and say, like you don't want that, you know. Like the more parents show up, the more parents. Voices are heard the bigger difference that makes, because that is a mile away from her experience of 88
D24 CEC24: and several other schools get involved. Very.
D24 CEC24: Oh, okay, I like that
D24 CEC24: electing those parent members to the Slt. There are an equal number of teachers and an equal number of parent on your Slt, and those parents on that Slt speak for you. So if you don't know who they are, that's that's a problem. So you need to get with those parents. And you need to show up to their meetings those meetings.
D24 CEC24: Yeah. Also, it's consensus based. So if parents don't agree and the teachers agree on something, they can't shove it down and try to intimidate you. Yeah, it's consensus based, no decision made. If you can't make a decision, then goes to the superintendent's office, where both sides complete their case. And the superintendent make a decision.
D24 CEC24: Yeah, thank you. Yeah, thank you. Thank you. That's great. We have a parent from highest 77, Delilah
D24 CEC24: that's on zoom.
Yadhira’s iPad: Yes. Can you hear me?
D24 CEC24: Yes.
Yadhira’s iPad: Hold on. Sorry guys. 1st and foremost. Thank you.
Yadhira’s iPad: for having me today, and also before. Yes, timing me start timing me. I want to say thank you to Miss Cacavalli, and thank you for all you have done for us. I 77, me personally. You know me.
Yadhira’s iPad: I thank you from the bottom of my heart. I am going to miss you so much, so much. I'm not going to have nobody to fight with
Yadhira’s iPad: and from and from the perspective of the parents. Thank you for everything you have done for us.
Yadhira’s iPad: I also want to thank every single member of the
Yadhira’s iPad: Cce that showed up for us at the meeting at the Pep meeting, and
Yadhira’s iPad: thank you very much for supporting us, for all these meetings. Can you hear me.
D24 CEC24: Yes, yes.
Yadhira’s iPad: Okay, thank you for supporting us. I really really thank your support. And everybody there who showed up. I wish more members would have showed up for us.
Yadhira’s iPad: Unfortunately, it went through
Yadhira’s iPad: but the fight is not over. As you know me, I'm gonna I'm not gonna give up because my, our kids are first, st
Yadhira’s iPad: and it seems like the DOE only cares about the seats and not about the quality of education. And now you can start timing me.
D24 CEC24: Okay, go ahead. Go ahead.
Yadhira’s iPad: Oh, God! Here we go!
Yadhira’s iPad: To the board. I know you're coming up with elections
Yadhira’s iPad: asking for your President to resign. I am tired of me as an I-twenty 7. Parent.
Yadhira’s iPad: I have
Yadhira’s iPad: nephews at 93. I have also nephews at 2, 39, and I know for a fact
Yadhira’s iPad: that we have asked for men sometimes for help from her. We have sent her messages, and she has not showed up one time, not one time to support us. Not one time, these past months to your meetings
Yadhira’s iPad: is it that you have a President who doesn't show up
Yadhira’s iPad: me as a President, as a Pta president if I don't show up to my meetings. How do I look?
Yadhira’s iPad: How do I look to my parents if I don't show up? If I don't fight for them. She's your she's supposed to be your representative. Where is she?
Yadhira’s iPad: All these past meetings, and y'all keep postponing and postponing and not voting
Yadhira’s iPad: the proper way. Do you think that's proper that a person who we ask for help still sitting there with a charge that she doesn't do nothing for
Yadhira’s iPad: every information that was supposed to be put up for us. She never put it up.
Yadhira’s iPad: She didn't tell anybody to put it up on on the website,
Yadhira’s iPad: on the media platforms or anything.
Yadhira’s iPad: So I'm asking to make sure that this this upcoming elections she doesn't yell for somebody who's actually going to do something for parents, for teachers, for the community.
Yadhira’s iPad: Thank you so much for your time. And I again thank you for all those members who actually showed up for us.
Yadhira’s iPad: And Miss Cacavalli, I love you have a great retirement.
D24 CEC24: You'll see me around.
Yadhira’s iPad: Oh, you better, you better, my baby!
Yadhira’s iPad: Thank you so much. Love you.
D24 CEC24: Delilah eating bye, Delilah. Thank you. It's good to see you.
D24 CEC24: You're muted. But I'm gonna visit, I promise. And I wanna come to your girls graduations.
D24 CEC24: And she has beautiful girls.
D24 CEC24: Okay? And next is Yadira.
D24 CEC24: That's her.
D24 CEC24: Oh, that is that, sir? Yes, yeah, that's right. Okay. And there's another one.
Yadhira’s iPad: My real name to Dera.
D24 CEC24: Okay. So another one is Teresa cotton? Yes.
D24 CEC24: yeah. She wants to speak also.
D24 CEC24: Is she on.
Theresa Cottone: Hi! No, no, no, no, Alex, you're asking a question.
Theresa Cottone: Hi! Everyone! Sorry I'm a little sick. So I didn't come in person today. I just wanted to say congratulations to Teresa for her retirement, and I definitely want to keep in touch. I also wanted to mention to everyone that I am a representative for Council Member Julie Wong.
Theresa Cottone: So I'm going to be asking a question as a follow up from her office. About following up regarding your your current status of your descent of a charter school opening up in in the district.
Theresa Cottone: If there's any update on that, I mentioned it. At another meeting, but it wasn't the appropriate meeting to add, ask the question.
D24 CEC24: Another Charter school.
D24 CEC24: Do you? Do you have the location of that that you've heard.
Theresa Cottone: I don't know off the top of my head, but I can follow up with an email.
D24 CEC24: More.
D24 CEC24: It is it elementary or middle, you know.
Theresa Cottone: I don't. I don't know. I just I I was.
D24 CEC24: A lot of times. They do them like 6.
Theresa Cottone: I I think I think it's elementary.
D24 CEC24: It's on Queens Boulevard. Right?
D24 CEC24: That's the other plan to expand the group.
D24 CEC24: You know what.
Theresa Cottone: Exactly.
D24 CEC24: Matt knows a little bit more about that presentation was to expand their program to add additional grades at this time. After the exact numbers, but it was, I think, 2 50 per year to Max out more grades.
D24 CEC24: I believe it's called. Yeah. It's on the backside there by the the Asian markets.
D24 CEC24: Yep.
Theresa Cottone: Like.
D24 CEC24: There's 1 on the left side, the pan am hotels in the middle, and then on the right.
Theresa Cottone: Download it.
D24 CEC24: It's.
Theresa Cottone: Like, start.
D24 CEC24: Yeah, I don't know on that one.
D24 CEC24: That means we're gonna get less money for this.
D24 CEC24: Their student funding, right is what they get.
D24 CEC24: Say that again, the fair student funding. So every child in New York City is balanced. So you get $12 for your child. If they go to a charter takes $12 now it takes it and puts them. It's still in there. But, the issue. You do have a charters. I call the Charter School belt. Once enrollment comes up, I believe it's October 31.st So after October 31, st
D24 CEC24: all the money the schools have stays with the school to have so charter schools because that's eliminate kids
D24 CEC24: and keep that money, it's called the Charter School Bill. So then say, if Elm Street goes to see
D24 CEC24: school number 2. They'll dump out. The kids are not performing that have issues with ieps that they can't meet the standards for, because they take the kids with the Ieps, because they come with more funding. They will then take those kids out. October 31st or November 4, th usually around the time that you can do the dump.
D24 CEC24: and they tell, sorry no longer. Welcome here. Go back to the public school. They go back to the public funding now. The public school has to fund that student with no funding which decreases the other funding for students. It's a charter school.
D24 CEC24: It's a way for the big money
D24 CEC24: which should be corrected, the money should follow the child
D24 CEC24: I brought up in the past.
D24 CEC24: I know I
D24 CEC24: I brought up in the past few times. It's something we could do as a CC. This CC, we'd have in this
D24 CEC24: really had any discussions
D24 CEC24: under the current leadership involving children and to protect them. We haven't had that discussion this year. They should be penalized after school programs if they do dump or pay a lot of stuff. Charter schools should also pay for the rights for their schools. We're the only school district in the United States where charter schools do not pay rent. Really, it's free to them. They co-locate or buildings built.
D24 CEC24: They don't pay any rent.
D24 CEC24: We're the only in all of New York City we're a district. Yeah. But we just want to make that clear. We have to have good programs enough all the schools because the other side, what is
D24 CEC24: they want? Parents to have choice. So parents like you are choosing charter schools right? So if people wouldn't choose them, they wouldn't choose so many of them. So we have to create quality programs in public education so that parents don't want to go to go to charter schools.
D24 CEC24: But everything else, Matt said, is true, because every school has an October 31st deadline. So only kids that are registered. You will learn this at the next meeting in the spring. Only up until October 31, st as children are enrolled. Do schools get the money, the fair student funding money after October 31, st we enroll children all year long, but we don't get the money for them.
D24 CEC24: But what
D24 CEC24: Matt. The example Matt is using is that charter schools take everybody and then screen out who they feel are not going to be high achievers. But then, when they come back to the New York City public schools, because we always take everybody regardless. And as I talked about progress monitoring in my report, we look at the data, and we try to help each and every child do better. And that's our job.
D24 CEC24: So, but without the money and the resources, because if we get the child in November, December, January, February, we're not getting any money anymore, because everybody who got the child, whether they were public or charter before October 31.st That's when the money comes with the kids, and after that, as kids move around and they come new. There's no more money added to the budget.
D24 CEC24: Start something. I'll send a picture. I'll be the 1st one to sign. They shouldn't be charged and penalized. They're not paying any rent. They don't pay custodial staff.
D24 CEC24: You don't pay administrative safety agents or deals, I mean, and there's buildings. I know one college, I know one charter school instead of public building. There's a public school, a charter school in town
D24 CEC24: to steal students. They now stay open till 7, 30 at night. A lot of things
D24 CEC24: so the parents can go do what they gotta do
D24 CEC24: from 7 in the morning till 7 30 at night. They're open.
D24 CEC24: That's the for child care, and that's the way they're trying to keep the system. Now, they're just expanding within the building.
D24 CEC24: They don't even need a building, because this is a brand new building, so they probably already included the thought of Hey, we want to expand.
D24 CEC24: Oh.
Theresa Cottone: Thank you.
D24 CEC24: Have 2 questions. The 3rd one is, if we have in the district, maybe has any data about the absences in the students. I wanna know that first.st And the second question is.
D24 CEC24: if they need to have any plan, because I know you told when you when you start your speech. You talk the students and families are safe inside to the buildings. Right? But I want to know if the history of the school has a plan for those families who has
D24 CEC24: in documents because they don't want to send the students to the school because they are scared right? So
D24 CEC24: how is the platform not notified the parents about. If they are neglect. If they don't send the students to the school, the the district has any plan or something
D24 CEC24: is that one the data and the average of District 24 has been 94% attendance, which is very good. It's gone up up from the pandemic
D24 CEC24: and we have not yet seen any decline, I mean, now in the you know. I guess. Was it last Monday? Was the inauguration. So we'd have to look at the end of January and see if we saw a dip. We can get all that information. Can we get Miss Lewis in here. Someone tell her this is her. This is her area.
D24 CEC24: All right. We're talking about attendance, Miss Lewis, so I wanted you to come in. But I'm going to answer the question. I just want to see if you could add on. But we have a whole under Miss Lewis's purview is our June, Barnett. We have all these attendance teachers that follow through on attendance. And like. I said, we've had very good attendance, and especially Roma, like he has 16.
Dan: Soups and salads.
D24 CEC24: Have some of the highest attendance, and the children are doing well.
D24 CEC24: Maybe problems in those schools.
D24 CEC24: We're gonna get guidance from Central. Central doesn't want us making any decisions regarding
D24 CEC24: immigration on a school by school level. However, what we've been asked to do already is make sure that all of the students information on the blue Cards and everything is up to date, that that's very important, which you could share through panels and talk to parents making sure that because we can only release a child to someone who's on your blue card
D24 CEC24: that says we can release that child, too. Now, if per se like, you know, like I'm just doing a what if scenario? What if I don't even know what it looked like? But what if ice is ringing the doorbell. We're not going to let them in. That's why we have doorbells right, and anyone that doesn't belong in the school. We're not going to let them in, but the principal has to let the superintendent know who will have to let the Chancellor's office know, and we will say, Oh, we got a complaint that they saw investigators
D24 CEC24: around this area or that area. Now, remember, it's not only going to be like in Corona. It's also going to be say, like, you know where many of the hotels are, say by the theater district in Manhattan or District 30 in all these areas. But we already have a protocol. We do not let anyone who is a stranger that doesn't have any business in the door.
D24 CEC24: and so we have that now we have that extra security. Second, we want to make sure that parents on the blue part, because if I'm the secretary and and you say you're the you say I'm you say it's your husband, and I never see your husband. I see Miss Joanna every day, and the husband says I'm the father of, and
D24 CEC24: and he's on the blue card. He shows Id. He signs in he comes in, but if he's not on the blue card you can't go with him so, and then we call the mother and say, This man is here, says he's picking up, you know, Jose. And he says he's your husband, and you could say to us, yes, because I know it's Miss Joanna. Yes, it was, and I would say, you gotta come update the blue card
D24 CEC24: but we can't allow anyone to go home with anyone who's not on the blueprint. We're not going to allow anyone strange in, and if government is coming looking for families, which is what the people are worried about. Right? We don't know this as a fact.
D24 CEC24: but if that happens, we are in, we are required to report it, and then the DOE is going to handle it. Did should we add anything else to that? Ms. Lewis? Is there any new updates? Because I spoke to Chief Domingo on Friday, and that's what she told me. I don't know if there's anything else Updates that you said like around making sure that school safety does not let anybody in.
D24 CEC24: They follow with the Mayor Mayoral Directive. That's why you this website that I talked about and you saw it on, and when you were speaking about the Blue Cards.
D24 CEC24: making sure that you have especially individuals that maybe don't have as much family around, but making sure that you have, like a trusted person on the blue card that might be able to pick up your child if somebody was possibly detained by ice right? But really thinking about like what it looks like to make your child. But you know this is it's not too easy. How sounds? Because, for example, if
D24 CEC24: we need to speak about this, because this is a very hard topic in our communities. We know how we discussed months ago about where we get a lot of percentage of the immigrants in our community correct, we are very different to the other districts. So we need to speak about immigration here because we have a lot of students
D24 CEC24: in documentados in our district. So what happened if if the lack of
D24 CEC24: the immigration department came to our schools? The schools are not prepared for that. If they came with one order for one children, they are go in because they have permission. They come in. That's why they're not allowed. But you can understand.
D24 CEC24: It's a Corona. And you knew there were a lot of New New Yorkers like Miss Joanna does. That's her community. That's her family, the fear that people are feeling like we do understand this. So you you could be skeptical, as Miss Joanna, saying, I want
D24 CEC24: even more security in Corona, because there's so many people in Corona that may not have papers. And what do we do if there's a blitz, how are you going to help us. That's really a question which I am going to lift to Chief Domingo tomorrow morning and say, this came up at the Cec. Meeting tonight. Parents are concerned, parents are. My CC. Is asking me to monitor attendance.
D24 CEC24: which we are doing. But you are right to ask for those numbers. Yes, and the next
D24 CEC24: superintendent at the next report, will. The team is here. All these people are going to help the new superintendent, deputy superintendent, Miss Diet. So Miss Miss Lewis, Miss Miss donna, Miss Eleanor, everybody's going to help so but this is what I'm going to say is that parents are skeptical, because they know they may be bullied, or we were also worried more about that. A parent might be detained. And now we have the child.
Yadhira’s iPad: This Kakawali. I'm so sorry.
D24 CEC24: Who is it? Yeah.
Yadhira’s iPad: Delilah. I have a question for her.
D24 CEC24: There is a there is a question for Mrs. Katha Walid.
D24 CEC24: Can you just can you just see out your name?
Yadhira’s iPad: It's me! It's Delilah!
D24 CEC24: Okay. Then.
Yadhira’s iPad: Are. Is there any information that is gonna go out to our students and our parents.
D24 CEC24: Summary. Just wait for a minute.
Yadhira’s iPad: Okay, my love.
D24 CEC24: Members or individuals on the blue card so other individuals could pick them up. If it's just the mom on the blue card, and there's not an aunt, a grandmother, a father, a you know, uncle, whatever, then that limits our options. But if you have individuals who can pick your child up listed on the blue card. Then they can be released to your to to that family member or trusted friend.
D24 CEC24: I shared some resources earlier. I will make sure that the principals are aware of that tomorrow. Tomorrow
D24 CEC24: all the principals were sent, all the information from project and what the student services manager and the social worker have been going through, making sure that everyone is aware of what the rules are. The non local law enforcement is not allowed in the building. The best practice would be every person who rings the bell. One person comes in at a time.
D24 CEC24: If it's non local law enforcement, they're not allowed in the building unless they have a search warrant or a subpoena.
D24 CEC24: And so that's our rules. So even if, like the the school safety officer is taking a lunch break.
D24 CEC24: and there is a school aid at the door. The school aide is supposed to have the same messaging. Most of the council people are sending. Who was I speaking to earlier? They're also sending out the Know your rights information. There's other 19 has already had their family facing workshop. 16 has had their family facing workshops.
D24 CEC24: and if there's any point in time, I think it was last year it was last year that we had our workshop to make sure that all of the social workers, the guidance counselors, have information from the mayor's office where we have immigration information, the know your rights information. So the guidance counselors have everything that they need.
D24 CEC24: But there's a place where the parents have to have the advocacy which is to go and ask for the information whether it's through class Dojo, whether it's through, you know, like going up to the school whenever they feel comfortable because the resources are there.
D24 CEC24: Does that make sense? Yeah, you wanna speak. You have a question. One question.
Yadhira’s iPad: Well, yes. Well, she kind of answered a little bit. She said that the information was going to get to school. I'm worried also for my my parents that we have our school, because, as you know, I 77 has a large
Yadhira’s iPad: community. And some of the parents. You know, they're scared.
D24 CEC24: Delilah. I everybody's here
D24 CEC24: Thursday. That's the Lila right? Yes, he's there on Thursday, and I will make sure to see you and make sure that all of the information has gone out.
Yadhira’s iPad: Okay, are we allowed to post this information also, as well as large posters outside the school, and notice that and a paper saying that only one person at a time can come in into the school because we also have the camera. You know, we have the camera system in the door.
D24 CEC24: For access stores that be like
D24 CEC24: the standard protocol throughout, which is one person at a time. You're not supposed to hold the door for the person behind you. You're not supposed to let others in, you know. Usually it's.
Yadhira’s iPad: Yes, but the problem is that, as you know, some parents don't listen, and some parents do whatever the
Yadhira’s iPad: day one.
D24 CEC24: No, I'm I'm.
Yadhira’s iPad: I noticed, because I noticed for a fact, because I'm there sometimes in the morning, and when I get there, you know I see the door open, and somebody comes in and then holds the door for another person, and we honestly, at this time, as we all know, been noticing. It's a crazy time that we live in right now, and I want to make sure that all our kids are protected and all our parents are protected, because
Yadhira’s iPad: sometimes you have those parents that come in to pick up their children for lunch, or you know they have a doctor's appointment. They have to pick them up early, or whatever they come in. They come in with one more, one person more, so I want to make sure that I put everything in the door, in Spanish and English in every language possible. So our parents know, you know, because let's be honest, some of our parents don't look at Dojo, and some of our parents don't read what is sent home from school, because sometimes our kids don't give it to them.
Yadhira’s iPad: We are a junior high school. We know what goes on with our teenagers. They look like you give them papers, they throw them to the corner, and they don't give them to the parents.
Yadhira’s iPad: I want to make sure that our parents are informed. I want to make sure that our parents know their rights, and I want to make sure that we are able to do everything possible to protect our families, that we have a I. 77,
Yadhira’s iPad: especially with the new school coming in as of next year.
D24 CEC24: Because but Jamie, that's your parent coordinator, right.
Yadhira’s iPad: Yes. Training.
D24 CEC24: All of the information, and the school can post things from the mayoral website. They can't post it from the DOE, but all of the like. Know your rights as per. You know the New York City mayor like this is this resource? And then, as far as like what school safety it's very easy to put a sign at the door for a school that says one person at a time, please.
D24 CEC24: Okay, school safety reinforcing it.
Yadhira’s iPad: Alright. So I'm gonna make sure that I post all the information that you give me on Thursday in our Pta Instagram
Yadhira’s iPad: because we have ones for the parents. So I'm gonna make sure that we post.
D24 CEC24: During the day. On Thursday I'll see you.
Yadhira’s iPad: All right, my love. Thank you so much. I appreciate your help.
D24 CEC24: No problem. Thank you.
D24 CEC24: I want to mention that we're going to take a 5 min break and we're going to go. Then we're going to come back to have a business meeting. We do not have forms, so we don't get to vote. We don't have. I just want to say, on the next month, which is Ps. 1, 53. We're going to do a no vote of confidence for the President.
D24 CEC24: The parents are calling local members from the community are calling for a no vote of confidence. They they want the President out.
D24 CEC24: We do not have a report from the President to tell us what has been done, and she's been missing for several months. So parents are upset. You heard one parent another parent emailed a lengthy letter that you know.
D24 CEC24: you can have my copy and she's and she's saying many, many things. I'm getting a lot of text from parents. They want a new President, since we don't have form, we're going to bring that to the next.
D24 CEC24: But before we leave, I just want to know. Did everyone here completed their school visits. Yes.
D24 CEC24: and also, are you having your parent engagement this month, or you're not sure you mentioned okay? And what day would that be? Well, we don't want to announce, because we don't know if it's okay. All right. So one more announcement before we go on break, we're going to have an Iep committee meeting. It's the second one that I've done with Mr. Matt Gracio.
D24 CEC24: Who's the co-chair of Ieps and it would be at Ps. 2, 39
D24 CEC24: in Ridgewood, New York. And it's February 27, from 6 to 8. And if you come out we have surprises. So I suggest you come out. So we're gonna take a 5 min break. Thank you.
Yadhira’s iPad: Have food.
D24 CEC24: Yes, get our big bubbles out and attack each other.
D24 CEC24: So I'm sorry about that.
D24 CEC24: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, yeah. Oh, all right.
D24 CEC24: Yeah, thank you. Oh, thank you so much. I'll see you. I'm gonna be around Thursday. I don't think I'm gonna totally wrap everything up by Friday, anyway, like. I think I'm gonna you know, come back at some. You know what I'm saying like, I'm not like I'm not leaving yet, like.
D24 CEC24: but I kind of feel like I said. She's going to help me plan my trip to India, but then only if we do swap, because if I go to your place, and you go down to South Carolina with your family, and you stay there only. But I said, I will get something. Oh, thank you.
D24 CEC24: Yeah.
D24 CEC24: Anyway, different states, different languages, different cultures. And if you go to south, it's totally different. If you go to north, it's different. It's go to east, anyway. We're going to connect in person or zoom whatever you need.
D24 CEC24: I'm not going anywhere that like, I'm just gonna try to wrap it up. But I feel like there's gonna be emails. I'm gonna have to send people next weekend.
D24 CEC24: Yeah, thank you so much.
D24 CEC24: You know what? I'll send it to you. Okay.
D24 CEC24: it goes down to this job. No problem school that's supposed to say
D24 CEC24: we should not be telling you
D24 CEC24: didn't give it to us.
D24 CEC24: Missed 3 meetings like to bring money. I like to improve stuff.
D24 CEC24: We're gonna
D24 CEC24: she tries to keep the number at 6. She tries to keep the number at 6, and she keeps she'll have never get that 7 when we try to do something against it.
D24 CEC24: That's what shall I mean?
D24 CEC24: Yes.
D24 CEC24: here tonight and get it over.
D24 CEC24: Let's go. And I know there is some testing center.
D24 CEC24: Think the word, you
D24 CEC24: members. We're gonna start council members.
D24 CEC24: Don't worry. We are.
D24 CEC24: That's okay.
D24 CEC24: You're welcome. I'm good members.
D24 CEC24: Please come to the table.
D24 CEC24: That's true. We had a mic. There was like, I don't even I wasn't freaking.
D24 CEC24: But everybody.
D24 CEC24: Michael, are you still on?
D24 CEC24: That sounds reasonable.
D24 CEC24: It's the same people for for attendance. Present.
D24 CEC24: Cool. Okay?
D24 CEC24: You don't have to do Robo call. You could just say the same. People.
Michael: Technically can't participate. So.
D24 CEC24: Yeah, I know. Just write whatever. Just write it down. I don't want to ignore you. I think it doesn't matter whether you know what I mean.
D24 CEC24: I lost myself.
D24 CEC24: I'm waiting for Janet.
D24 CEC24: I think the owl is also taking this. Yeah. So
D24 CEC24: probably over there in the library. Hopefully, there's something left.
D24 CEC24: That's okay, Janet, can you, Junie? Can you tell Janet? Oh, Janet's there? Yes, you see, there's a fork in there for Manisha.
D24 CEC24: A fork from a quarter of all a quarter of a spoon.
D24 CEC24: Go with you?
D24 CEC24: Oh, Julia, yeah, no. She wants to go check or whatever.
D24 CEC24: No fork has no forks. Okay, do you want syrup in your hands? No, no, no, it's okay. I'll probably eat later bag in the bathroom with my cell phone and my purse. Can you run Maribel in the in? No, no, did not ask me. I'm not going.
D24 CEC24: I got it. I got it. Don't worry about it. She hasn't.
D24 CEC24: For some reason I saw that bag. And I'm like, Wait a minute.
D24 CEC24: Okay, okay, so we can start. Joni's coming soon. Right? She just went to get water and we have everyone else here.
D24 CEC24: Alright. So
D24 CEC24: we're not approving anything, so we can't approve anything so is there anything that anyone wants to discuss. That's whole business.
D24 CEC24: Or is there anyone that wants to discuss anything? Because really this is not? But I have a question about the if we do the meeting. If we do the meeting on Friday.
D24 CEC24: there's no price. We're not coming. Okay, let's do one thing.
D24 CEC24: Thank you. Thank you. I can hear you.
D24 CEC24: No fork. Sorry. No. So what we need is $90. Right now we can take that. Our president here tonight. That's 1 25 right there we had. That's budgeted member reimbursements. We also have our treasurer who's not here tonight. That's another 75. That's $2. We got to come right there, too.
D24 CEC24: Well, no, I need you to say it on the mic, because I can't hear. Well, please give her the mic
D24 CEC24: if anybody's gonna talk.
D24 CEC24: Yep. So explain that. So the and the it's on parents can hear. Yes, so there's an additional additional fee of 4 to $5. We did an investigation. Janet and I, earlier today and explain the charge about
D24 CEC24: it's not charged to the speakers. So we went, each individual item to check to see what would be charged.
D24 CEC24: So the 2 laptops $45 additional total of 9 months.
D24 CEC24: This has to be reallocated by the 4th of December. Oh, I'm sorry. 4th of February, which is something.
D24 CEC24: So that means that you would have to have a special meeting related to Monday.
D24 CEC24: and that would mean like that night before happening.
D24 CEC24: And also further, I don't want to make additional adjustments.
D24 CEC24: Because you didn't finish fully flushing it out right with the number reimbursement line events line all of those things. The deadline for that last modification is after your February leave.
D24 CEC24: Yes, we can do the modification at our February meeting. I'm sorry the meeting is after the deadline. Okay.
D24 CEC24: So now tonight would have been the time to make those. But we can't do it. You can't make the most. So the other option is to have a special meeting before Tuesday. The money, the $5,000 that you all moved over to that equipment line will be lost.
D24 CEC24: And when is the deadline? When is the deadline? Let's say the total is about 6,000. Is that correct? 5,000 5,600. Yeah. So due to
D24 CEC24: the Failure Presidency, Veronica, we're gonna lose close to $6,000.
D24 CEC24: And now she wants to call a special meeting on Friday.
D24 CEC24: We're we're not. We're not available so well. She she has to pull. She's the President. Maribel is face. She's not a CC. Member.
D24 CEC24: I know she's giving a recommendation right? But I know that we'll need to be president. But and and we need 7 people now, this is the second time she's calling a special meeting
D24 CEC24: on her hold on on her time, her day, her and she doesn't even show up the last special meeting. She didn't show up. She called the day and time. She didn't say, guys, what day could you show up? What time can she show up? Are you available?
D24 CEC24: What I'm saying, or someone saying that I'm
D24 CEC24: the Council is not going to be able to reallocate this money because there's not forum here tonight. Correct. But it could only be because you're suggesting that we have a special meeting. So there's no forum here tonight. So all of the members who are not here attributed to that right, and then 3 members can request a special meeting. Either the President calls a special meeting, and there has to be a special meeting, or 3 members say we would like to request a special meeting, but any which way that you do that
D24 CEC24: it doesn't matter. The question is, will 7 people attend that special meeting.
D24 CEC24: I don't think everyone is tired of Veronica not showing up and not doing the work, and tired of calling the special meeting. That is not only the public that wants a new president. It's also us. 6 of us are Members 6. We're 10, only 4 keep voting for her.
D24 CEC24: And now we're gonna lose $6,000. I'm rounding it off.
D24 CEC24: to be exact, at least we lost
D24 CEC24: how much we lose last year. Dana. 5,200. Yes, because the same thing. What we lost am for a bunch in 2 years
D24 CEC24: never happened. The history of CC. Never, ever in the history of we always came down to about $13.
D24 CEC24: The people who've been on the CC. For 4 years is Matt, Johanna, and myself where we were there for 4 years. Did we lose money?
D24 CEC24: Did we get our buildings for capital planning on time and did the work get done, and the spice will get funding. So I'm begging you. Why are you voting for her? She could still remain. She could remain as a member.
D24 CEC24: and she cause. And she's not the President. We elect someone that's gonna do the work.
D24 CEC24: I want to bring. What we all want to bring money to it. All we care about is money. The money's not. Is it going in your pocket? No. Is it going in your pocket? No. Is it going in my pocket? No, the money's for the schools who we represent? Because parents voted for us.
D24 CEC24: That's why I always say in every single meeting, watch who you vote for. Get to know the person before you vote. Don't just vote because there's a name
D24 CEC24: about bringing a nest rule. Nothing has been mentioned. It's been absolute silence we have. I'm tired of it. We have crapped on the kids in this district long enough under leadership. You screwed my kid, you screwed every kid in this district. We have this. We don't look good. We look like idiots. We look like war rots up here running this council.
D24 CEC24: We don't bring any money. We don't do anything for the kids. It's you call a special meeting. The President called a special meeting, and then has the chutzpah to not even show up to the special meeting they call like my time is no good. Your time. Everybody's canceled. Their time is garbage, but her time is very important for her to be with the family. Yeah, I want to be with my family, too. I had to get somebody to take my daughter to Suffolk County for a swim meet that she was competing in
D24 CEC24: because I couldn't go. That's a sacrifice I made, and guess what I am not sacrificing any more of my kids. Time on a worthless president who doesn't have the respect to show me that she won.
D24 CEC24: Parents are pissed. They don't even come to our meetings anymore. American Debate League used to be in our meetings every single meeting for a year. You remember the gentleman? He doesn't even come anymore. He says it's pathetic. Venus Ketchum was here every meeting for years. Venus Ketchum doesn't even come. You know. She says you do nothing for the kids. You're a worthless CC, you're useless because you're not going to change.
D24 CEC24: Something has to change. Here we look so bad it's disgusting. Has your time been respected? No.
D24 CEC24: I agree that she has a winger, but we also have to accept
D24 CEC24: that. You guys have had with facilities, not just sometimes with me, with Joanna, with other people here, and we have to be honest. Sometimes we spend a whole bunch of time because of these internal issues that I don't even know where they came from.
D24 CEC24: Instead of focusing on what is needed
D24 CEC24: in the last couple of meetings. I applaud everyone here. We've gotten more done than either. When I was sitting there it took me 10 months almost to get on this board.
D24 CEC24: No, but this is somebody. These are the things, personally speaking, when you have people who are involved that want to participate, we can't be doing. If someone is showing up more than once. They're showing up more than once. That's their time. That's how I felt. And even when I joined I felt like I was wasting my own time.
D24 CEC24: So I appreciate what you guys are saying. I do believe that we should be spending. Our time is valuable, but we should be mindful in every meeting to respect that time, and to try to be as proactive as possible. Let's just move on with this. I have a question for Maribel.
D24 CEC24: But I'm just saying something every time I become the President.
D24 CEC24: Haven't everybody participated? Yes, have we done? We have we accomplished more when I'm President? Yes, even the minutes are going on. There's so many things that we accomplish when I'm President and you got Johanna knows I don't want to be President.
D24 CEC24: Why? Because in any position I take. Vp, I get to be more on the ground with parents helping students answering questions on the ground. I mean, on the ground is I can do with schools. I can help parents. I could go anywhere, any part of District 24.
D24 CEC24: So that's what. And and she knows that you think I want to. I don't want to be the President. I never ran for President. I always do.
D24 CEC24: Yeah, I know. I know you don't wanna be afraid because you all the time tell us
D24 CEC24: good moments of the group, because you know that women, the women and the group. You don't want the spot, and you call some people in the district and tell the people you know wrong. For one C. Because we need to do this we need to do that we don't need. We don't want to be a President. That was the the word that you use all the last year when you are in our group.
D24 CEC24: So you told the group when we we when you are in our room, because we know that is the reality. We got 2 groups last year, right? More than this year. So only last year you told us bad things about the people, about Matt, how President.
D24 CEC24: and how do. How do you think we can believe in him if you told us bad things about him.
D24 CEC24: Joanna, are you back? No, no, hold on! Hold on! Hold on Matt's gonna answer.
D24 CEC24: Yeah. Publicly say that I'm a violent person. Will somebody attack people in the parking lot and beat up fellow members? That's what was said about me. Guess what I'm over it.
D24 CEC24: If you make you a parent, you may feel bad
D24 CEC24: at the end of the day. Am I back talking to. Kind of. Yes, I am. You're not right.
D24 CEC24: but I want this district to succeed. I don't want to sit up here with looking like stupid, and do nothing for our kids. We're all here, Johanna. You work me for years
D24 CEC24: I'm here for that. You have to vote for man.
D24 CEC24: I've worked with you in the past. You just call. I don't follow my shoe. No problem. Tell me what it is. We'll take care I can sit down and say.
D24 CEC24: oh, it's too bad!
D24 CEC24: You know what I'm not doing, for
D24 CEC24: never, never came out of it. I would always do it in, for we were all friends. We've always been good. Let's just go back to the old days.
D24 CEC24: Whatever is it on? Whatever happened? Happened? I was on.
D24 CEC24: They set up counseling meetings for me, Veronica, when she 1st joined, because every week I'd be on the call for an hour and a half, sacrificing my time. Speak! I want to speak about me, because this is the time I want to speak about me. For example, in the last meeting
D24 CEC24: I feel very abused in which people and explain them about something, and when I try explaining the people there, when we are there for helping them.
D24 CEC24: you will start to yelling me because you're telling me. I don't know if you see you, or later in the camera, but you start to yell at me and telling me about no, with the Constituent something like that. I said, Oh, my God, I'm I'm feel very abused on that day. Because again, we can think different. And it's it's okay, because it's like, it's like that.
D24 CEC24: guys. I have to say something right now. I have been raising my hand for a long time. So my thing is, Ladha, we should not get ourselves involved in this thing and think upon. If we lose this money it would not be for the betterment. I mean, I know there is no quorum right now, but I think we just have 2, 3 days to fix this up. It's not about our personal
D24 CEC24: things. I think we should come as a come, as a group and work together. It's not for personal things I will still suggest we just have, if everyone can make. I know it's very difficult for me as well, because I come from work and then join you guys, everyone. But I would just like right. Everyone is doing the same thing right?
D24 CEC24: But I would just say, I know. I know, Matt, what you are saying is correct. I know what Joanna is also saying, but I would still say it's not. Let's just keep our keep our personal things aside and just work as a group, because this funding will help Janet, or maybe our CC, you know, we don't have tech that much good tech. Right?
D24 CEC24: If we want technological improvements in our CC, then we have to come out as a group.
D24 CEC24: Right? I know.
D24 CEC24: We have attended the special meeting previously, also right? And I I know. And there were like some people who were not there.
D24 CEC24: But I would like that. These people come this meeting if they are, because, you know, it's not just. Few peoples are showing up every time. Right? That's not fair for everyone. And and I'm just saying this. We have to do it because it is not like your individual aim, you know. Oh, I don't want to do her individual thing. It is as a group. We should come together, and we should make this happen. Otherwise. We lose this 5,000 $6,000
D24 CEC24: last time. Also, I came just for this sake, because I have to make this as a group, so
D24 CEC24: my thing would be like we should keep our personal, whatever is aside and just.
D24 CEC24: and we make we make nothing of everybody.
D24 CEC24: you know. Certainly in the future.
D24 CEC24: And, Maribel, I have a question from you like Maribel. Is there any way like, I know this quorum comes very. You know. It's very difficult to get a quorum. Is there anything?
D24 CEC24: I have a question from her, and then I know I have a question. My thing is Mary. Well, I know we it is very difficult to form a quorum when you have difference of opinion right now. But I will still, because it's for our Cec. Right. This money goes to Cec. Is there any way there is any alternative like any written? If we all write and we can write or something, and then Juris passes
D24 CEC24: to your elected officials. Okay? And they would have to change these laws.
D24 CEC24: So it won't happen in like 2, 3 days, right? Because if it always happens like this, you don't form a quorum, you cannot pass this, and then you have callers. You have to call a special meeting, and it's mere waste of time for just 5 min. You're going. You're coming to a place
D24 CEC24: just for, you know, 5, 10 min to get approvals.
D24 CEC24: Yes, that's what I'm saying. Why can't we do that, you know, if everyone agrees. What's the point? I know. But they should change it. Yes, we should, because it's like, not every time we can do a special meeting for every small petty thing, and we already approved everything. Are you willing to save us.
Michael: Yeah, let me just get on a train from Baltimore.
D24 CEC24: Oh, no, okay. I thought you were home.
Michael: No, if I was home I'd be there.
D24 CEC24: Right.
Michael: I'm only not there because I'm in another state.
D24 CEC24: Michael, when are you coming back.
Michael: Tomorrow night I get back.
D24 CEC24: Good night. Okay, 6, 30 as far as the holiday
D24 CEC24: between the morning, the meeting, or in the afternoon. I would do Monday morning if it's possible. Monday, Monday morning will not work for me. No, I can make it. That morning. Will not work
D24 CEC24: is coming tomorrow night, Michael, can you come? Thursday, 30.th
Michael: I can do. Thursday.
D24 CEC24: Thursday, Michael said. Thursday. It's Thursday right now, right now. The 30th they have.
D24 CEC24: Yeah, because upset. I can have chemo, and I can come?
D24 CEC24: No, no! Oh, so that's that's an average 48 h.
D24 CEC24: It can't be done Thursday at all, not even if it's 5 o'clock at night. Are you kidding me send a notice now, is it 48 h.
Michael: When you send a notice. Now, you would have to do the meeting at like 9 at night.
D24 CEC24: But you have to wind up this meeting right before. We cannot do that right now.
D24 CEC24: 9 Pm. Connie. It will not be. It would be weird. Maybe either we do it on Monday, Monday, if everyone agrees. Monday works for everyone. Evening, Monday evening.
D24 CEC24: Monday, I could do 6, 30. No earlier. Okay. Monday evening after 6 30. Everyone agrees.
D24 CEC24: No, not one Friday. You can do Friday. And what is the last day? Tuesday, right?
D24 CEC24: What day can you get 7 people. Yes, that's what we are trying to get in right? So we are trying to. He could do. Monday at 6 30.
D24 CEC24: No.
D24 CEC24: I can do Monday and Friday both, I can. No, we're just saying Monday now, Michael, you can do Monday or no, but she cannot come then, or how. How will you make the call? You don't have 7. Okay, so Monday is cancelled. So Friday, Friday.
D24 CEC24: rowdy, I can't.
D24 CEC24: Can we do it on Saturday we'll find the
D24 CEC24: if it's in the lobby of 2, 2, 9, if you're in a playground bench at 2, 2, 9, what time? What time.
Michael: Tell me when, and where.
D24 CEC24: Yes.
D24 CEC24: you have to show up. Eleanor
D24 CEC24: does Friday work for everyone. Friday is not Friday
D24 CEC24: time. It's not Friday or Monday. Saturday evening. Thursday.
D24 CEC24: Thursday is early Monday, and no after 6 30, because I also can come after that in bus. So for me yes, it's important, too.
D24 CEC24: So now where? Where can you get to? What part of queen would you be able, or what part of District 20, in the places where I can go faster in the train.
D24 CEC24: No matter your school, you could get it. Your school could get us late. There's no training here.
D24 CEC24: How about the new building?
D24 CEC24: 71. There's buses and trains me a lot of buses, and I don't even think we could get 71. There's no train. There's buses. Michael. Can you get? Ps. 7. Authorization.
Michael: He has 7. For what day?
D24 CEC24: Friday night.
Michael: I can text right now.
D24 CEC24: So forget about the building. I'm looking for Friday and Monday, but if you if you make a forum, then it then the point of coming. When is this? Friday or Monday? 7, 15, 7, 15 Monday. Who can do it?
D24 CEC24: I I can do. Raise your hand. Raise your hand.
D24 CEC24: Michael. Can you do? Monday at 7, 15.
Michael: Yeah.
D24 CEC24: He said, yes, yes, he said, yes.
D24 CEC24: hex. Well, if you could do. Monday 7, 15.
Guo Zhou: Easier, yes.
D24 CEC24: So can you come? 7, 15.
D24 CEC24: What is the venue venue venue? We don't know yet. Just tell me. February 3, rd
D24 CEC24: 7, 15, February 3.rd Can you come down.
Guo Zhou: Yes.
D24 CEC24: He can come. Okay, he can come. We just have to queue up for 5 min. All right. Wait a minute. Anna can't make it. 1, 2, 3, okay. Anna can come on Monday. So without Anna, there's 7, 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 6, and Zhao Zhao, can you come on? Monday, 7, 15,
D24 CEC24: 7, 37, 30.
Guo Zhou: Yeah, yeah, okay.
D24 CEC24: Yeah, okay. But then, but then we have to come, because otherwise we'll not make a forum. Right?
D24 CEC24: So if you guys are sure, then only commit.
D24 CEC24: Oh, wait a minute, but then again, but hold on, but we have 7 in person, but we're fine anyway. So
D24 CEC24: so well, yes, yes, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. We only have 7. Yes, but Anna can go. Monday at 7, 30,
D24 CEC24: at 61. They have to come to zoom.
Michael: Yes, I will be there. I'll be in town.
D24 CEC24: Wow! You have to come. You have to come, otherwise we will not form a quorum in person. You have to come. No virtual
D24 CEC24: Michael. Can you come.
Michael: Yes, I, 7, 30 is 61, probably.
Michael: Okay.
D24 CEC24: So they have a parking lot there. So it's easier for so this is a special meeting. I have to do another flyer special dinner because we should get dinner. But then we we guys have to show up because otherwise we lose money.
D24 CEC24: Did we get more sandwiches?
D24 CEC24: Someone has to start. Someone has to start stepping up because I'm not carrying everything. There are other members also. We can ask them also if they want to join
D24 CEC24: like, decide. This is what
D24 CEC24: I was I. This is what I bought 30, highest 61
D24 CEC24: she has to confirm from that.
D24 CEC24: Is it? Gonna be in your office picture today. Then.
D24 CEC24: Mary Bill, it's just a budget modification. Right?
D24 CEC24: It's just the budget modification. Right? That's it. For 5 min we have to meet just in 5 min. We just have to say, Approve, and let's go, then go.
D24 CEC24: But at that same time you're gonna modify the rest of the budget.
D24 CEC24: Yeah. So can you tell in advance? Because then we don't want to come again. And that's the last day.
D24 CEC24: right? Just 1 h.
D24 CEC24: We gotta do the permit. Now, what's Monday's day? I don't even know.
D24 CEC24: Right?
D24 CEC24: So just along with that, we gotta check our budget line. Because
D24 CEC24: when I looked at our budget. Some people got 2 checks and they need to pay us back. Yes. So what are we going to do about that? They have to issue us a check their personal check. How does that work?
D24 CEC24: Oh, yeah, no, that was great.
D24 CEC24: Number 1, 45. Sign 12.
D24 CEC24: That's how much they're allowed to get per year. Yes, if they got 2, 50 in one month, one month they cannot get another.
D24 CEC24: Okay? So then they're missing next month. That's it. So one thing is, though, that's what confusing is. At our last meeting we did the budget modification. Every agreed to take sacrifice. $50. The majority of the people in the room they were to sacrifice 50.
D24 CEC24: Yeah, but we don't have to do that. But no, you don't. You don't have to do because you have to from the reimbursement. You have to have a high school person. We don't. They keep missing meetings
D24 CEC24: it?
D24 CEC24: So we have. So you just pay for this Internet only right that time.
D24 CEC24: So you have that amount, and you can just put in that. But for next meeting we have a tight budget for a member. Reimbursement.
D24 CEC24: Anna, if you notice something, can you just tell fast, like maybe tomorrow, if you can just tell us what is the mistake? And then we fix it. Then we don't have to go through, because we would have that much
D24 CEC24: right. Wait a minute.
D24 CEC24: So we don't spend 5 h in.
D24 CEC24: So the total is 54, 34.
D24 CEC24: I have it. My, I have it in my notes.
D24 CEC24: the bag I don't. I didn't bring it today.
D24 CEC24: I think, I have it in my photos. Yeah, that this Treasury report is not right.
D24 CEC24: because this is gonna show us how much money did we put
D24 CEC24: at our last meeting. Does they remember how much money we give me a second? I'm trying to pull out if I have those, Michael, do you have it.
D24 CEC24: Michael, do you have the budget from last? The modified one?
D24 CEC24: Okay, I have to. I have to look through 5,000 pictures. I just want to make sure we get that number. I need that back. There's 5,800. Let's spend every 20. Yeah, everything.
D24 CEC24: It's completely easy.
D24 CEC24: Okay? So I have it. My.
D24 CEC24: so I have this one, the last one. I took a picture. I took a picture. You had the okay sign up. This was the one. But now it would be modified because of the reimbursement thing
D24 CEC24: 3,997. Basically, we don't have to do much.
Michael: Hey, Matt? Check your text messages. I just sent you a picture of the.
D24 CEC24: So yeah, we have it, Matthew. We have it, Michael.
D24 CEC24: 5,434 h. Okay, Janet.
D24 CEC24: thank you. What's purchased already is exactly 54, 34.
D24 CEC24: I don't care about it, but there was the the carry bag for the laptops. Yeah, I didn't buy that. So
D24 CEC24: then you can buy that now. Well, nothing is purchased yet, because the money won't be reallocated.
D24 CEC24: But we just did the sample like we didn't hit checkout.
D24 CEC24: but we know how much everything would cost.
D24 CEC24: But the card is 54, 34. That's what that's what we're just gonna add up right now. Okay, just just to like double confirm. Yeah, you want to retext you that
D24 CEC24: wonderful?
D24 CEC24: Oh, my God! How do I go backwards in the future?
D24 CEC24: Can't believe it.
D24 CEC24: What is this? 1? 3. 0, 5.
D24 CEC24: It's 15,000. Spend 1,000.
D24 CEC24: But this is how much the things cost.
D24 CEC24: So what is here is the interact. Oh, this is a smart board, right? Oh, this is you mentioned the smart board that on ours was 39, 97, right? But this one came up as 32, 70. So we have more money. Right? So that means there's 700. That's good.
D24 CEC24: 4,806, right? It's included there. Remember, it was included there. Okay, that's 4,806. This does not include the case for the owl that was on the list, but that's
D24 CEC24: outside vendor. That's not a DOE vendor that was Amazon.
D24 CEC24: So we have to do is actually like I can go purchase it.
D24 CEC24: put it in, and then I eat the packs.
D24 CEC24: So you gotta find a way to appropriate that stuff in. But the one smart board does that include installation? Does that include? Does that include the cart and installation? Yes, okay.
D24 CEC24: so this is this is everything. Yeah. So we have 700 extra dollars.
D24 CEC24: And also from the monthly reimbursement extra money this time, because people are 4, people are just given Internet.
D24 CEC24: 4 people are just given Internet now from the member reimbursement. So we have those money. Yes. So you get that money out. So basically, we have to re-prepare everything
D24 CEC24: it will. It won't take much time and the exact cost what she has now, because we had these expected one, and which was like 30 39, 97 for one smart board. Now, it said, come down to 32, something. So 700, we more have more. We can go to another thing if we want
D24 CEC24: visa and are fabulous.
D24 CEC24: Is he working tomorrow? Nice. Very nice. Yeah. Do it now because he needs it now.
D24 CEC24: And we budgeted 3,997. It went down to like 2,297, leaving it to $700.
D24 CEC24: Yeah. So translation for every the members.
D24 CEC24: I there's a new devices out. But it's $798. That one is cheaper. There's a brand new thing that's out little box like this.
D24 CEC24: and all you do is put earbuds in and it automatically translates. It works very, very good. It's like $800. I don't know if you need 20. I don't know that you know. The only thing I brought up.
D24 CEC24: please.
D24 CEC24: You know, I know we're walking tonight is they have these other things. It's a portable voice translator, a lot of schools use this, I would say. Maybe we should buy one this way. Janet has in the office this way. If somebody comes in and speak Spanish
D24 CEC24: and communicate with that person
D24 CEC24: all the meeting.
D24 CEC24: So if somebody comes in your office I'll figure out a laptop.
D24 CEC24: So it's Monday. I was telling you the translator machine if he can see it on a for anyone who is here right? I told you last time also, so he will check if we have it, we can get it on.
D24 CEC24: That's why that's we don't want to waste this money. That's what I was telling you. I understand that. No, no, we all agree. Yeah, the quicker the better. Time is valuable.
D24 CEC24: So, Matthew, you're gonna check on those things, I mean next year, for on Cec. Who's ever on the new system works good.
D24 CEC24: It's good. That's not with a slight delay about 5, 4 second delay. But all you have to do is put the earbuds, and we can make sure they don't go home.
D24 CEC24: Well, I wanna also ask.
D24 CEC24: so is it so? Expensive? No, it's expensive. I have a test one at home that I'm fooling around with my school, the demo. So I was like, if it's like little cheaper than we can order 2 like like 2 boxes, one for
D24 CEC24: polish you may need, or if translation doesn't show up, that's what I was selling.
D24 CEC24: and you can always use it that time right, it's easier. But just make sure you had the earbuds back.
D24 CEC24: and they came with their own machines. Those are little ones like on the phone. You can hear what you want to hear. But what about speaking?
D24 CEC24: You can turn out. Translate that right? Yeah. So that solves one problem. But then you always have this and another one.
D24 CEC24: Can you get that? How much fund we have extra? We have members that don't show up. So that's more money than we're going to have how much additional fund we have. But we can't put any more money in there. We can't add money. We can't take money out.
D24 CEC24: so is there anything that anybody wants wants to discuss, or can I just close them? I can't even close anything.
D24 CEC24: People sign it for a meeting.
D24 CEC24: The next week is the week.
D24 CEC24: Okay, so that's it. So, Jeff, if you just let me know exactly how much we have left in that 700, or whatever the difference.
D24 CEC24: Michael and Zhao the special meeting would be in Ia. 61
D24 CEC24: at 7, 30 on February 3, rd
D24 CEC24: 1, 43, 1, 43. Yes, Miss Lucas, near you. Corona. Yeah, okay.
D24 CEC24: And then April, we need a location. 11, 1, 3. I suggest 1, 1, 3. We never went there, and when we'll be in your office.
D24 CEC24: Oh, wow! Michael and Zo! That we have a special meeting, like all the members, were.
Michael: I heard.
D24 CEC24: You heard it's is 61, 7 30. February 3, rd a Monday.
D24 CEC24: Okay. February 3, rd 7, 37, 30 to 9, 39, 30 is 61. Yes.
D24 CEC24: and there's a parking lot. And then you have to.
D24 CEC24: So here, 2, 14, 8, 6, $628 guys, we have time attendance.
D24 CEC24: Don't forget your I need you. 6, 28. We're discussing your attendance. Wait a minute. Did everybody sign your mail?
D24 CEC24: People here didn't sign the attendance sheet, so you have to give it to them. Where is that for? Yeah, this is Matthew.
D24 CEC24: And who else?
D24 CEC24: Johanna?
D24 CEC24: Yeah, I don't see mine
D24 CEC24: read for the New York State law depending on how they plan to join.
D24 CEC24: It's user honesty.
D24 CEC24: And this is the calendar to prepare what to do here.
D24 CEC24: There was a meeting the other night on January 16, th with bugs used, never told they were coming the meeting before that, and then
D24 CEC24: I never excused them. So when I become President, I never got an email. No, not for this this for signing the if you miss 3 meetings correct. So we'll vote on it next month. But she's not going to get quorum.
D24 CEC24: So what happens if she's not gonna get her? She's not gonna get 7 votes. Excuse me, I'll send it, and then you can sign it back.
D24 CEC24: You see it right now, it's okay. Otherwise let me check. Yeah, yeah, absolutely everything.
D24 CEC24: whether it's a medical or job, what happens
D24 CEC24: and be specific in your bylaws about what are considered health support and childcare.
D24 CEC24: So the same way we have to look at the New York State education law is the nice. Yeah.
D24 CEC24: no, no, no, just leave it because she's telling me she didn't receive November
D24 CEC24: like a little bit more rational. Because if someone email you from their work email like.
D24 CEC24: it's a little excessive. You know what I'm saying
D24 CEC24: when you list real work. You have to submit a letter. They request a letter. So this is real work. You're going to just volunteer. I think that when you have trust on top
D24 CEC24: consideration. But you have to be very specific in in when you are approving or not approving applicants, and every month we've been voting on the applicants.
D24 CEC24: and then we there. So we never do this.
D24 CEC24: So we have to vote, and we already know she's not going to get 7 votes that excuses her, and we'll do a resolution. But no, the easy thing is, it's very simple. The way you vote. Here's the law.
D24 CEC24: Yeah. Does it meet the criteria. Yes or no. If it doesn't meet it, then you vote the way you think, because what's gonna happen is, if we vote no, you don't get 7 votes. It's going to go to the New York State education panel for review. Let them review these excuses, and they'll come up with their own decision, and there will be a violation of law. I want to understand if she don't send an excuse to the face or done it or
D24 CEC24: so. These things I want to know that something that's very important is that council or public?
D24 CEC24: Yes, my role is to interpret regulation and help you understand policy and education law right?
D24 CEC24: But my job is not to determine whether an action is excused or not. That membership. Yeah, you shouldn't be involved in any of this. Yeah. But in the bylaw says, if, for example, any one of us is going to miss the meeting, right.
D24 CEC24: we need to send an email to Veronica, the President.
D24 CEC24: just using myself as an example. If I have a job related matter that for some reason the only reason I would know is that day I wouldn't know. The report is my job.
D24 CEC24: It's not. It's like regardless for me. I think that's unfair. The same day you can tell the people
D24 CEC24: everybody will get a copy of the New York State Education law, the very one, the very, very top of it. So our bylaws don't mean anything right. It depends on what that law says. So let's see what that policy actually says, and that bylaws from the State, says Joanna. When you join, when I join, when Matt joins. What do they say? You missed 3 meetings? You're out.
D24 CEC24: but it's a day, for example, but I think it's also
D24 CEC24: the reason for that is that the Aa. Is expected to share that with the rest of the council members.
D24 CEC24: All the council members have the right to know why a member is for why a member is absent because they have to vote on that.
D24 CEC24: There is a lot to this.
D24 CEC24: That's why I was like, I don't want to eat salad, because oh.
D24 CEC24: I wonder if I have that out of anything?
D24 CEC24: We're gonna go with the state law. Whatever the law is, we're gonna do and
D24 CEC24: want to understand.
D24 CEC24: Okay? And then I'll call you, yeah.
D24 CEC24: okay, you're safe. You have 5 or 6.
D24 CEC24: We are adjourning the meeting.
D24 CEC24: Okay, thank you. Everyone.
Michael: Bye.
D24 CEC24: Bye. Thank you.
D24 CEC24: No, that is not okay. It doesn't matter.
D24 CEC24: Motion to adjourn.