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C. C. 20 S. A special meeting. It's

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Stephen Stowe: designed, as most of you now, to sort of provide an overview of parent involvement in the education system to share some of our experiences

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Stephen Stowe: here tonight. I guess it is a special meeting. I think we probably do have to take Might as well take roll call, and also if, as veto is taking roll call, if everyone could just

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Stephen Stowe: all the Cec members could just quickly introduce themselves. Go on camera for a second, say hello, say your name.

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Stephen Stowe: and we're still admitting people here. This is Great

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VITO LABELLA: Steve. I'm having difficulties with computers. I'm: on 2 separate devices. Is it here to take roll call?

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Stephen Stowe: He is yeah.

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VITO LABELLA: Kevin V. Can you just do that? And and we'll all introduce ourselves, as you call our names

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Stephen Stowe: Kevin Vesnick. Can you hear me?

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Kevin Vizhnay: Yes, I always want him. I was muted. Yeah.

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Kevin Vizhnay: we ready. Now.

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Stephen Stowe: Yeah, you can just do roll call for attendance. Yeah.

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Kevin Vizhnay: So President Stevenson.

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Stephen Stowe: Yeah. I'm here and everyone I'm. Steve Stone, the president of Cec. 20,

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Kevin Vizhnay: You, Jennifer Hugh.

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Kevin Vizhnay: I don't think he's here yet.

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Elizabeth Chen

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Elizabeth Chan: here.

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Elizabeth Chan: CC. 20

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Elizabeth Chan: second assistant, principal president.

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Kevin Vizhnay: and Vita Lobella.

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VITO LABELLA: Here, you, according Secretary

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Kevin Vizhnay: Marie Bulgaria.

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Marie Brugueras: Here.

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Marie Brugueras: Marie Vergaris, I am the treasure, CC 20,

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Kevin Vizhnay: got it. I mean

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Kevin Vizhnay: God is not here. I believe you, and I see if he.

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Sufi.

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jona isufi: Hello! Good evening.

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jona isufi: This is the on i'm a CC. Member

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Kevin Vizhnay: Li Ping yang!

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liping jiang: Hi! This is a lipin, Jian the i'm the CC. Member

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my Rosenblatt.

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Kevin Vizhnay: I don't believe it's on my adjoin yet. Joyce

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Joyce Xie: Yes, how do I want

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Joyce Xie: Joyce.

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Joyce Xie: I'm the Council Member for CC. 20

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Kevin Vizhnay: and Kevin Zau.

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Kevin Zhao: Hello, everyone. This is Kevin I'm, the CC. Member of the

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Kevin Zhao: she's member 28 it's easy 20 member.

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Kevin Vizhnay: and that is roll call

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Stephen Stowe: great. Thank you, Kevin. And just for parents who may not know we have all Cec's have an assistant, an administrative assistant, and that is

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Stephen Stowe: Kevin Viesn, who just did the roll call, and he's incredibly helpful and really helps everything everything works that we do.

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Stephen Stowe: Okay. And then I just want to make a note to for parents that we did. There was a scheduling mix up, and so we don't have Department of Education interpreters here tonight, but we do have a multilingual Cec. Which we're very grateful for. So

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Stephen Stowe: if the and Kevin Vesnay correct me if i'm wrong, but if parents want interpretation, they can still dial into the

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Stephen Stowe: well. We have mandarin speakers on tonight, and so, Kevin correct, they can dial into the interpretation line for Mandarin.

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Stephen Stowe: and they will have, and Kevin, Kevin, Zhao and and Joyce and Li Ping will be there and help interpret. Is that correct? Yes, I will put the phone number for that right now.

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Kevin Zhao: Great. So do you have a need. I'm sorry to interrupt. I do have a little problem here because I dialing already, but it's. Keep the music. Keep going on. I'm not sure if it's for nobody else on a 9, or if

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Stephen Stowe: Oh, i'm joining in a meeting now. Okay, great. And actually Kevin or Joyce or Li Ping do one of you just want to make an announcement in Mandarin how to join the line. If if I,

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Stephen Stowe: someone neat monster.

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Stephen Stowe: just read them, read the number out and explain. You can dial in.

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Joyce Xie: Yeah, what can we find a number?

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Kevin Zhao: Kevin? Did you post that in the chat yet? I

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Camille Loccisano: Okay, there it is. And I'm. Steve just to mention.

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Camille Loccisano: And the parents can note that the phone numbers aren't in the body of the email, but I sent them so they can also refer to that as well.

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Stephen Stowe: Oh, and I see we were. We are just joined by our Arabic Council member. Got it I mean, got it. Do you just want to introduce yourself?

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Ghada Amin: Yeah, hi, i'm a

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Ghada Amin: member

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Ghada Amin: I have. I'm sorry because I asked to come, and and for 2 kids, one of in elementary school and another one. He is in middle school in Mckenley School.

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Stephen Stowe: Great.

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Stephen Stowe: and I've seen I I've seen some names here that potentially are are Arabic speaking, although i'm not entirely sure. So if there are any

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Stephen Stowe: parents

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Stephen Stowe: who would like Arabic interpretation.

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Stephen Stowe: Got it? Are you comfortable

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Stephen Stowe: calling into the the Arabic line and and hosting that room?

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Ghada Amin: Yes.

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Ghada Amin: yes.

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Ghada Amin: so

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Stephen Stowe: so in in Kevin he's name correct like. Got a any like Gada or Kevin's out. They have to call into the language line on a separate device. Right? Yes, if not, they have the audio coming out on one device. So it' be ready to call through a phone to another computer.

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Ghada Amin: So

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Ghada Amin: I have to call this this number for them.

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Say again.

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Ghada Amin: should I repeat the number for

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Ghada Amin: the number in checks?

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Stephen Stowe: Yes.

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Ghada Amin: Should I say it in Arabic?

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Stephen Stowe: Please gotta just explain that if someone wants

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Stephen Stowe: interpretation in Arabic. They can dial into that line, and you will

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Stephen Stowe: you will. You will be in that language room to provide interpretation.

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Ghada Amin: say it, or write it in our recording.

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Stephen Stowe: You can say it.

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Stephen Stowe: You can be short, too. You can just say anyone who wants to listen in Arabic. Please dial into this number

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Ghada Amin: a little

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Ghada Amin: the satellite set up arbal we had. We had a

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Ghada Amin: It's real

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Ghada Amin: well, it's clearly

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Stephen Stowe: great. Thank you. Gotta

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Stephen Stowe: Kevin or Joyce or Li Ping. Do you think an announcement in Mandarin is necessary, or have have people started joining?

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I handle that last month

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at the house?

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Joyce Xie: The e is the

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Joyce Xie: it's a.

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Joyce Xie: You're Neil.

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Stephen Stowe: Yeah, Thank you.

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Stephen Stowe: Thank you, Joyce.

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Stephen Stowe: And then for for Spanish. Kevin Viesnay, our administrative assistant will be in the main meeting room with us, and he can provide interpretation.

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Stephen Stowe: Are there any Spanish? Are there any parents in in the meeting who would like Kevin to provide Spanish interpretation as we speak? If so, could you just post in the chat.

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Stephen Stowe: But otherwise, if if English is fine.

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Stephen Stowe: Kevin won't, interpret in Spanish, so if anyone in the main room would would like Spanish interpretation

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Stephen Stowe: throughout the meeting, please?

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Concepion: The

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Concepion: Yeah, it is.

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Stephen Stowe: Yes, we can do that. And so, kevin these. Nay, do you think it's here? I I just wanted to chat the Spanish line right. No, thank you, Li Ping, except I just don't know if Kevin Vesnay

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Stephen Stowe: I think he should. So Kevin Vesnay, Can you do both? Or is that too complicated to be?

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Kevin Vizhnay: No, I think handle it. I have everything to be written unless I need something unique I can be. I can hear you guys. Well, so i'll just

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Kevin Vizhnay: if you have anything unique, comes up. I have like everything ready to share your screen, and I meet your host.

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Kevin Vizhnay: But I have all the links available, so everything should be okay. I can go that Spanish line

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Stephen Stowe: perfect, Kevin, before you do that just drop. Can you drop all the you know translated presentations in the chat.

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Stephen Stowe: so that that's great. So we will now have 3 language lines, all being interpreted by Cec. Members, which is great, and we're going to put in the chat the presentation in each language. And there's also a Russian presentation by the way, in the chat

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Stephen Stowe: for any Russian speakers.

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Stephen Stowe: So the numbers for your interpretation lines are in the chat. The presentations are in the chat. I'm going to.

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Stephen Stowe: So the the agenda for tonight

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Stephen Stowe: we'll just be we're gonna go over a few different points. We have a a short presentation.

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Stephen Stowe: and then we're going to open it up for questions and answers.

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Stephen Stowe: And that's the agenda, and it's very simple and very straightforward, and the goal is really just for all parents who are who want to learn more about

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Stephen Stowe: education and parent involvement in the district, how you can get involved what these organizations are, what they do, and and and hopefully give you a little bit more knowledge as you you move forward with your children in the district.

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Stephen Stowe: So let's i'm going to share my screen.

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Kevin Zhao: I just have one. I'm sorry to interrupt.

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Kevin Zhao: but I can hear it for deep speaking on the mandarin. I completely

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Stephen Stowe: say that again, Kevin.

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Kevin Zhao: I can hear what you are speaking on the meandering 9,

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Kevin Zhao: the in the practice we need to use our cell on the Zoom Meeting.

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Kevin Zhao: I mean otherwise.

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Kevin Zhao: No, the other night will be all

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Kevin Zhao: we can all hear you speaking.

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Kevin Vizhnay: Okay, what's your number? Kevin? The first couple of digits I can you everybody else but you.

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Kevin Zhao: I mean.

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Stephen Stowe: Kevin, what's your number?

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Kevin Zhao: My number?

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Kevin Vizhnay: Yeah, your number?

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Kevin Zhao: You mean the number I dialing for? The

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Kevin Vizhnay: yeah. What is it I can you everybody else about you.

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Kevin Zhao: The number I dialing is 3, 4, 7,

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Kevin Zhao: 9, 16, 1, 1, 1, 4,

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Kevin Vizhnay: and a PIN number you 3, 4 9. No, no. Your phone number your phone number that you

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Kevin Zhao: That one's 7,

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Kevin Zhao: 8, 8, 9.

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Kevin Vizhnay: Okay. Tell me everybody else about you, and I think someone else didn't meet themselves, so

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Kevin Vizhnay: you can try now to hear anything.

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Kevin Vizhnay: I don't hear anything. So

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Kevin Zhao: except you

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Kevin Zhao: Hello.

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Kevin Zhao: Okay, I don't. Yeah, any good. Yeah, you got anybody in the

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Kevin Zhao: Okay? Thank you.

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Stephen Stowe: Everything Good.

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Stephen Stowe: Yes, yeah, that's all said, okay. And, Kevin, I'll give you a second to go over to the Spanish line.

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Stephen Stowe: no, I see. Let me just post the

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Stephen Stowe: Powerpoint in the chat in England.

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Stephen Stowe: You got that awesome. Thank you.

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Stephen Stowe: Okay.

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Stephen Stowe: I'll just i'll start.

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Stephen Stowe: You know. Again, this is a CC. 20 parent involvement.

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Stephen Stowe: We start the presentation. There's this quote

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Stephen Stowe: from the New York City Parents Bill of Rights and the Parents Bill of Rights

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Stephen Stowe: is a document

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Stephen Stowe: written by the city that specifies it states.

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Stephen Stowe: Parents have rights, you know your children are part of the public school system.

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Stephen Stowe: You can expect the Department of Education to do

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Stephen Stowe: a lot of things for you and you you shouldn't be. You should not feel like you can't ask questions. You shouldn't feel like you can't be part of the education. Be part of the dialogue, and I chose this quote: this is the the beginning of the document, but I encourage everyone to click on the link

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Stephen Stowe: and and the source, and look at it for yourself. And

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Stephen Stowe: this quote is each child's maximum potential can best be achieved through a partnership between parents and the education community to foster active engagement between parents and schools. Parents have certain rights and responsibilities

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Stephen Stowe: and all the organizations we're going to talk about tonight are really organizations that are intended to to to make these sort of protect these rights, to ensure that parents have have a say in in their child's education.

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Stephen Stowe: Number one, the the best representative for your child is always You

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Stephen Stowe: keep that in mind.

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Stephen Stowe: all parents to be advocates for their child.

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Stephen Stowe: all parents to raise issues that they might have with the schools. Please please don't be afraid to ever bring up an issue that that you might be having, or a question or concern that you might have.

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Stephen Stowe: There are lots of ways that communication works. There's there's email. You should be getting from your school. There's announcements that your kids will bring home and their backpacks the websites and then Don't be afraid to pick up the phone and call the school

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Stephen Stowe: get involved with meetings. Of course, parent teacher conferences are the best example, but there are also open houses that schools will have one.

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Stephen Stowe: the number one

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Stephen Stowe: contact person

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Stephen Stowe: for issues is always your parent coordinator.

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Stephen Stowe: And this link here you can click on this link, and it will take you to a page where you can look up your parent coordinator at all of the schools in District 20,

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Stephen Stowe: that that parent coordinator's job is there to help parents

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Stephen Stowe: But we know parents are often very busy. Parents have a lot of things they have to do, and they can't do everything.

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Stephen Stowe: So we have all these organizations that we're going to talk about tonight.

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Stephen Stowe: At every school. There are certain organizations.

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Stephen Stowe: as everyone probably knows. A school is run by a principal assistant principals, the parent coordinator, and then, of course, teachers

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Stephen Stowe: for parents at a school.

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Stephen Stowe: The first organization you should be aware of is the Parent Teacher Association

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Stephen Stowe: or a parent association.

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Stephen Stowe: Then you have a school leadership team, and we'll talk about each of these in a minute.

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Stephen Stowe: and then you have what's called a title, one Parent Advisory Council.

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Stephen Stowe: These are all organizations at the school.

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Stephen Stowe: Then the second kind of organization is at the district.

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Stephen Stowe: So you see here a map of district 20. This is our district here in Southwest Brooklyn.

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Stephen Stowe: You know we have about 43, 44 schools and the whole district for high schools.

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Stephen Stowe: and at the district level you have a superintendent

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Stephen Stowe: Then You also have 2 really important

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Stephen Stowe: and the family Support coordinator.

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Stephen Stowe: And these are people you can always go to

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Stephen Stowe: with with with any requests there it's in a way they are like the district version of the parent coordinator at the school level.

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Stephen Stowe: So at the district level you have. You also have parent organizations. So the first one is a President's Council.

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Stephen Stowe: Then you have the Community Education Council, that's us.

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Stephen Stowe: Go ahead, Jana.

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jona isufi: Okay. Hi. Everyone

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jona isufi: for you that don't know me. My name is I've been a CC. Member

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jona isufi: for about a year and a half. Now, apart from being a CC. Member, I am also the Pta precedent at Ps. 170 route pay for breach of school.

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jona isufi: This is my first year as President, and

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jona isufi: one of the reasons that I decided to be active in the community is to learn more about the education system.

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jona isufi: to have a more active role in different levels of the education, and also to be an advocate, not just for my 2 children, but also for other issues that my affect other kids.

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jona isufi: I have 2 sons. My youngest Noel, is in kindergarten, and my oldest is the third grader

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jona isufi: as a quick snapshot eta for for some schools it's called a Parents Association.

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jona isufi: It involves mainly parent communication activities and fundraising

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jona isufi: automatically. All parents of the school are members of the Pta.

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jona isufi: The structure of the Pta is typically a precedent, the treasurer and the reporting secretary.

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jona isufi: With different meetings

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jona isufi: we help. We hold one monthly meetings, and also one executive meeting. The executive meetings are done with the principal in a way to not only discuss the upcoming

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jona isufi: Usually the officers will serve a one year term. However, they are allowed to serve more than one year, depending on the availability.

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jona isufi: I would encourage all of you parents to be more involved with the school community. It is a great opportunity

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jona isufi: to learn more and to be more involved. Also different schools hold very different and various events to their specific population.

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jona isufi: One of my goals as a Pta precedent is to give back to the community and create as many different activities as I can throughout the year to engage the parents, but also to create a fun and educative environment for the children. And you can do that through art and perhaps night through different workshops.

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jona isufi: and I am lucky and happy to say that Post Covid, we have been able to hold our events in person, which has been pretty exciting to see how the community came together.

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jona isufi: If you have any questions, still please feel free to reach out to me through my CC email address which i'll be putting in the chat.

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Stephen Stowe: great. Thank you so much, Jona: Very good job.

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Stephen Stowe: school organization we want to talk about is the school leadership team, and to do that we have Marie, who is one of our members who serves, who has served on 2 school leadership teams. So, Marie

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Marie Brugueras: Hi, everyone. So the senior leadership team at the school is a really good opportunity to familiarize yourself with the decision makers at the school. The principal is always a part of it. When you

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Marie Brugueras: join the Slt you commit to attending a meeting. The currently the slt that I serve on that meeting is in person. The prior that I served on was during Covid, so the meetings at the time were a virtual.

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Marie Brugueras: I believe you know it can. The principal drives that agenda, and the

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Marie Brugueras: Slt consists of always the principal, the Uft representative, and usually the parent coordinator, attends it, and there is an equal member of parents and school staff.

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Marie Brugueras: Other teachers usually come in, and other professionals come in as guest speakers, so it is definitely an opportunity to meet a lot of school staff.

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Marie Brugueras: It definitely is a great opportunity to see what is important to the principle of the school, and it is a great opportunity to put forth some of the matters that are important to you, and also to other parents. You know that you advocate for

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Marie Brugueras: some of the issues. Well, not the issue, but some of the agenda items that get discussed on slts is comprehensive education plan, which basically has the schools education goals for the year.

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Marie Brugueras: and it you basically have a view on the metrics of the school, such as I, ready assessments and state tests. And you also have a great view of the school's budget.

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Marie Brugueras: They usually discuss budgeting announcements of grants and a discussions of how the grants and different, I guess inflows of money are used

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Marie Brugueras: as well as discussions of serious budget shortfalls, and how they will be approached or resolved. So, for instance, if a school has a budget shortfall, and they need to

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Marie Brugueras: principals usually drive the agenda. But if a topic is important to you or some of the parents that you know. You can certainly ask to put it on. The agenda.

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Marie Brugueras: and the format of the slts can range. The first Sl. T. That I was in was really large and very formal, and the one that I currently serve on is small and informal. So I think you know, it just definitely depends on the school.

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Marie Brugueras: And to become a member of the Slt. You need to basically submit your candidacy at the Pta meeting at the start of the year, and then you will be voted

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Marie Brugueras: Your candidacy will be voted upon. So you are an elected representative at the school, and the terms vary, but they usually are one or 2 year terms, and you know, Obviously, if you could only serve for one year your, you know. At the end of the year you can bow out.

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Marie Brugueras: but when you do become a member of the so you to commit to attending that one meeting a month which usually lasts for about an hour and 15 min.

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Marie Brugueras: and it definitely I would encourage everyone who wants to be involved

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Marie Brugueras: to consider serving on the Slt and just basically familiarize yourself with the schools, leadership and the schools, education, metrics, and what goals are important, you know to the schools that your children attend.

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Marie Brugueras: Steve has. Steve has a link

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Marie Brugueras: that you can go on, and you know, Read more about the

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Marie Brugueras: and Steve. I'm not sure if you saw in the chat. Maybe it was already done. But someone was asking for the English version of the presentation as well.

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Stephen Stowe: Yeah, I think it got posted. I think Kevin V. And I put it in there.

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Marie Brugueras: and I will put my email just like yona did. I will drop my email in the chat. So if anybody has any further questions about, so i'll be happy to thank you, Marie.

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Stephen Stowe: I'm gonna try and see if I can

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Stephen Stowe: So I just put the English version of the presentation in the chat again.

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Stephen Stowe: Okay. So continuing the next.

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Stephen Stowe: and so as part of the the law for title. One funding

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Stephen Stowe: and in many cases this can be a a pretty large amount of a school's budget. And and again it's another chance to get involved directly with the school leadership and and help them understand

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Stephen Stowe: So it's really intended. Spend this title one money, and and help parents get more informed and get more active in their children's education. It's a way of making sure that parents who come from from families of of economic need are not marginalized are not sort of left out of the conversation.

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Stephen Stowe: And so a title, one pack, a Parent Advisory Council. It gets formed at an annual title, one meeting in the fall. There's 2 required officers, a chairperson, and an alternate chairperson.

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Stephen Stowe: Yona, do you want to? Do you want to talk about Presence Council? Since you are a part of that as a Pta president

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jona isufi: Oh, sure, of course. Okay. So the President's console is actually the group of all the President's Cta.

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jona isufi: I'm: so sorry my children are in the background. Okay. So as part of the Pta. You are invited once a month to join the other Pta precedence, or other executive members of the Pta.

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jona isufi: more information. The structure of the President Council is very similar

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jona isufi: to the other types of organization by having required officers as a precedent. The recording secretary and the treasurer.

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jona isufi: Here. There are also 9 monthly meetings, and everybody served in a one year term.

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jona isufi: One of the things that I notice even I am part of 3 different 4 different organizations, including the Slt. Is that in the Precedence Council it's a very good source to get information that you can later on relate to your individual schools.

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jona isufi: received. The messages about the upcoming CC. Election. Then that'll be a good route to go, and again, in encouraging all kindergarten parents to be alert and to be involved in this organization.

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Stephen Stowe: and then Cec's also do a lot of work on capital planning, and that just means planning for construction projects, improvement projects at different schools.

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Stephen Stowe: sort of different from other Iep students that might be more less severe learning disabilities. And then there are 2 members on each Cec that are appointed by the Borough President.

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Stephen Stowe: so we are meeting all through the year, even in the summer, and and then, you know those are the required meetings. That's the required.

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Stephen Stowe: like we said, the the place to start is really the Pta or the or the PA. The Parent association go to the first general meeting, usually in the fall. Right. When school starts you'll you'll get introduced to the current officers. You'll obviously get a first chance to meet with the principal and in the school staff.

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Stephen Stowe: Then, if you want to get involved with the school leadership team, Marie already went through this, but i'll just repeat it. You know the school leadership team meetings. They'll have meetings every month when school is in session. You can always attend a school leadership team meeting anytime you want

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Stephen Stowe: and and then similar to the other organizations at some point before the end of the school year they have elections for the chair and the alternate chair of the title, one pack.

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Stephen Stowe: So as we've been talking about, there is a public election. Actually, it's underway now for all the Cec members.

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Stephen Stowe: But the elections are wide open. You can anyone can declare candidacy for an election on an elected position.

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Stephen Stowe: And then, as Jonas, said, the President's Council.

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Stephen Stowe: and then for the title one Deepak. If you are elected chairperson of your schools title one pack, you're automatically on the District

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Stephen Stowe: and then our CC. 20 website is is linked here.

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Stephen Stowe: and then. Lastly, we've got the Department of Education, the election web page about Cec elections, and please check that out If you're interested in running for Cec.

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Stephen Stowe: You can see everything you need to learn about it there.

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Stephen Stowe: So with that I will stop everyone as well. This email is our Cec email. If anyone has direct questions about

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Stephen Stowe: what we went over tonight, or anything that comes to mind after, please

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Stephen Stowe: feel free. And if anyone would like to ask a question. We have a Google form a comment form.

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Stephen Stowe: I think we can also probably, if you'd like to ask your question using the form, we've posted it in the chat.

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Stephen Stowe: and just looking at the question here, can you be part of the

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Stephen Stowe: Yes. The the answer is Yes, you can be part of the Slt in 2 different schools?

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Stephen Stowe: Someone asked in the chat. Can you be part of the Slt in 2 different schools? And the answer is Yes.

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Stephen Stowe: good question. So I will stop sharing.

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Stephen Stowe: and if anyone wants to ask a question, you can use the form, or, if it's fine, to raise your hand as well.

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Stephen Stowe: If there are any additional questions, and also Kevin and Gada and and Kevin. If there are any questions on the phone lines.

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Stephen Stowe: Some of the things I'll just. I guess i'll

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Stephen Stowe: Go ahead, Vito.

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VITO LABELLA: Hi, everyone! Good evening. Thank you guys so much for for showing up tonight.

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VITO LABELLA: I just want to say I was pta President, one a 7 Chris Mccallup. I I, my wife, and I worked together for 5 years, and it was really one of the most fulfilling things that I've I've done with the school system.

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VITO LABELLA: You know we came from a great elementary school. My kids are in a great high school, but you know the work in the middle school we did, and the school itself was so fabulous it was such a rewarding experience. I i'm actually friends with many of the staff and the teachers there.

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VITO LABELLA: and my daughter goes back there, and it's just so nice. So you you. You can develop these kinds of relationships with your school, and and even, you know other ways to get involved, and it's a it's not just about your kids. It can become so much more.

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Stephen Stowe: Now you are

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VITO LABELLA: evidence of that for sure. Yeah, I mean, you friends with that bearded guy

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Stephen Stowe: anyone else, anyone on the

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Stephen Stowe: Kevin, or or

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Stephen Stowe: choice, or anyone. Actually, if you guys are on the language lines, you can share your thoughts there as Well.

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Kevin Zhao: I can. I can show you

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Joyce Xie: I Still, you know I still in a Pta.

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Joyce Xie: because we have, even in a school today.

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Stephen Stowe: we can hear you go ahead.

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Joyce Xie: Yeah, that's our Pta: that's on the panel on the so many exciting and doing a performance with an administration tonight.

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Joyce Xie: I see. Very important thing is 9, our kids in a school. So I see if Montana is more active in what it

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Joyce Xie: I see our kids. We'll change because they will see our care about the kids. So we being a school

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Joyce Xie: for helping the kids out of kids to

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Joyce Xie: he Also, it's not we. We going on kids together. It's most important thing.

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Joyce Xie: I in here. I was Pta.

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Joyce Xie: I was a lot of panelists language. Very. But they will help

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Joyce Xie: this. How they they will help this go to getting better, because always soon they have a translation. So now I will kind of don't don't be scary about a language problem, because school will provide that we will help you so in the

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Joyce Xie: But the first is we need to in what? To the school, to the community. When you see it, we need a more canon to in what you, our c.

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Joyce Xie: So that's my saw. I will. I'll send.

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Joyce Xie: I would say, what is it for for my kids to to help me growing up to the C. E. So next year I will help more tenants

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Joyce Xie: to growing out in our school, and the

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Joyce Xie: Thank you.

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Stephen Stowe: Good. Thank you. Joyce

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Stephen Stowe: Kevin. Zhao.

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Kevin Zhao: do you want to speak

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Kevin Zhao: under the

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Kevin Zhao: i'm a num.

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Kevin Zhao: I mean to the development of the

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Kevin Zhao: No, you did I? I'm gonna put that

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Kevin Zhao: you to the

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Kevin Zhao: what it looks like.

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you need to.

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Kevin Zhao: You can do it. The whole woman

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Kevin Zhao: don't find that.

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Kevin Zhao: And that's not true that

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Kevin Zhao: we'll not create that again.

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Kevin Zhao: Don't click it fine.

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Kevin Zhao: No, no.

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Kevin Zhao: How are you?

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Stephen Stowe: great thanks, Kevin.

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Stephen Stowe: Do any other Cec members?

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Stephen Stowe: You want to just say a few words.

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Elizabeth Chan: Yes.

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Stephen Stowe: Elizabeth.

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Elizabeth Chan: I just wanna say I like being part of the CC. Because I think I try to fight misconceptions of our district 20, and I

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Elizabeth Chan: like other districts. They're always speaking about us as if we're all a monolith, or we're all the same. But

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Elizabeth Chan: being part of the CC. And being outspoken, I think I hope

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Elizabeth Chan: I change people's other districts perception of our district.

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Elizabeth Chan: So that was good. And one thing bad about it is sometimes when we're talking like we don't have real power

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Elizabeth Chan: so.

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Elizabeth Chan: But Steve is trying to change that and give us more power.

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Elizabeth Chan: so that our thoughts and ideals are really being looked at

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Elizabeth Chan: so hopefully. The new administration will start looking more carefully, and

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Elizabeth Chan: being that time and effort that we put in it that they'll take.

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Elizabeth Chan: they'll see how important we are.

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Elizabeth Chan: Thank you everybody.

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Stephen Stowe: Thank you, Elizabeth.

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Stephen Stowe: Yeah. I think it's an important point that you make, which is.

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Stephen Stowe: you know, Cec's are the elected voice of parents. You know none of these other organizations are publicly elected, and

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Stephen Stowe: so they have a lot of

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Stephen Stowe: respect by the city and the Department of Education. So you you can always get the city to to listen to you. They might not always agree with you, but that's that's just the you know. That's part of life, right.

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Stephen Stowe: you know. One thing that ces that we do is every other month

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Stephen Stowe: there'll be a meeting for with the Cec Presidents and the Chancellor just kind of you know, on Saturday direct conversation with the Chancellor to share

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Stephen Stowe: what's going on in your district so.

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Stephen Stowe: and in Cec's, I should say. Also get involved with a lot of elected officials as well. We have relationships with City Council and State State Assembly and State Senate.

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Stephen Stowe: Okay, anything else, any other?

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Stephen Stowe: Oh, that's a great question. So someone asked in the chat, how much time do you need to dedicate to Ce.

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Stephen Stowe: And the answer is.

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Stephen Stowe: it all depends on you. It's really the the only like, I said, the only thing that is required is

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Stephen Stowe: the meeting once a month.

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Stephen Stowe: You know our meetings are on the second Wednesday of every month.

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Stephen Stowe: 60'clock.

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Stephen Stowe: That's all that's required. Everyone. The the thing I really like about Cec's is everyone is different, and everyone

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Stephen Stowe: wants to.

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Stephen Stowe: Usually everyone wants to work on different things, and so you can. You can bring some. Everyone brings something different to the Cec. Some people might want to, you know. Some people might be very informed on transportation school busing.

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Stephen Stowe: Some might be very informed on students with disabilities, some on English language learners; but the amount of time you spend on it is really up to you, and

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Stephen Stowe: I can tell you, as a president of the Cec. I really just. I I encourage everyone to get involved. But i'm not.

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Stephen Stowe: No, no President of the Cec. Can ever tell their members what to do it. Doesn't work that way. It's not like it's a job. You you don't have to think of it that way. It's a volunteer role.

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Stephen Stowe: I should say we're not. We're not paid. This is all unpaid volunteer work that we do because we care. But I would. I I wouldn't want anyone to not. Please Don't

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Stephen Stowe: decide

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Stephen Stowe: not to run, because you think it's too much work because it can really base. Be based on what? What fits your life?

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Kevin Vizhnay: Anything else, Steve? I have a: I have a questions from the Google Sheet. Yeah, No one from Pk: Parent ask it's a Multi- questions and can ask them one that time where do you go to vote on CC: members.

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Stephen Stowe: Yeah, all voting is online.

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Stephen Stowe: and you'll be both voting through your

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Stephen Stowe: Nixa account and let me

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Stephen Stowe: let me just share.

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Stephen Stowe: I'm going to share the share my screen here.

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Stephen Stowe: So if anyone, if if if anyone doesn't have a New York City schools account.

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Stephen Stowe: this is the web page, and if Kevin, if if you don't mind, can you

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Stephen Stowe: put that in the chat? Are you able to pull that up? Or.

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Stephen Stowe: Yeah, I got it? Okay, so everyone should should register for a New York City schools account, and this has a lot more than this is, you probably know this is, has a lot of information about your child their grades, and you'll use it when you're

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Stephen Stowe: getting information from schools about routine stuff emergency stuff. So everyone should have a Nixon account, and this is where you will either register to vote

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Stephen Stowe: or registered to run, I should say, and it's also where you'll vote.

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Stephen Stowe: and it's all we we could actually do a separate session on on how to vote. It might be a good idea, but the voting you'll you'll see if if I was to log in, and it would show me the council that I could vote for, and all the names of all the all the people.

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Stephen Stowe: And

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Stephen Stowe: you get 3 votes per child in the system.

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Stephen Stowe: So if you have one kid in the system, you can vote for 3 different people.

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Stephen Stowe: What was the next question, Kevin?

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Kevin Vizhnay: Do you have to start in Pta first, to then move up, to run, to be on Tc.

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Kevin Vizhnay: And can you please explain again the progression from those from the last question. So the progression for

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Stephen Stowe: so from Pta.

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Stephen Stowe: If you are a president of a Pta.

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Stephen Stowe: then you become a member of the President's Council.

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Stephen Stowe: If you are the chairperson of the title, one Parent Advisory Council.

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Stephen Stowe: You're a member of the district title, one Parent Advisory Council.

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Stephen Stowe: If you are

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Stephen Stowe: want to run for the school leadership team.

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Stephen Stowe: You have to declare as a candidate at the at the meeting in the spring.

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Stephen Stowe: and the Pta. Will vote.

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Stephen Stowe: Vote you on the Pta will vote on who they want to be in the school leadership team

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that happens in the spring.

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Stephen Stowe: and then that that's the same for becoming an officer of your Pta. If you want to become an officer of the Pta.

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Stephen Stowe: just stay involved, go to the meetings through the school year, and then in the spring there will be a vote on President.

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Stephen Stowe: Recording Secretary and treasurer.

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Kevin Vizhnay: Was that it, Kevin? Yeah, that? Oh, we have another question. So she comments. I'm so glad to this meeting. I think you can do something with my community as well. It's great to hear, so my question is to get involved. I need to go to school meeting Pta and get the information to be elected.

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Kevin Vizhnay: Question. Mark

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Stephen Stowe: and i'm so sorry, Kevin. I was distracted with another question. Can you just repeat that the question is to get involved. Do I need to go to a school, Pta. And give my information to be elected

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Stephen Stowe: you? You don't you don't need to. You don't need to give your information to anyone to be elected until the meeting

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Stephen Stowe: in the spring. Yona, can you maybe talk about how the process, just from a

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Stephen Stowe: personal perspective on the Pta being elected

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Stephen Stowe: President. How that worked

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Stephen Stowe: going up can you hear me?

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Joyce Xie: Maybe I can help to answer that.

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Joyce Xie: Okay. So

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Joyce Xie: Pti meeting is monthly. So they were unlocked when there's no election from the Pta. On board, so on that day

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Joyce Xie: you'll be. You need a be in your business, because you need a nominate yourself

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Joyce Xie: long.

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Joyce Xie: You would get a lot of people to vote. If

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Joyce Xie: only one

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Joyce Xie: is nominate.

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Joyce Xie: then they will be. Say they will say, you'll be select

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Joyce Xie: other people

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Joyce Xie: lemonade, no less a competition you have in talking about yourself.

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Joyce Xie: No, not a parents to vote for you.

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Joyce Xie: So when the nominee

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Joyce Xie: so you need a first in a meeting to nominate yourself

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Joyce Xie: Then they will say, who is being selected on board.

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Stephen Stowe: Got it? That makes sense.

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Stephen Stowe: Sorry. Go ahead.

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jona isufi: Sorry, Steve. I was having some technical issues. Thank you. Okay. So just to add on to her comments

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jona isufi: one of the like one of the ways to make

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jona isufi: to make the parent body aware that you would like to denominate. It is also by being an active member of the Pta. So the way that I started

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jona isufi: last year was by attending the meeting and meeting with the Executive Board, and I started off by being an executive secretary. I know a lot of parents here. Talk about the how much time is involved. So if you.

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jona isufi: if you are in a precedent role, you will definitely be more involved in somebody with a recording secretary or a treasure. By the nature of the things that you need to do

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jona isufi: so. It's always a good advice to start off by running for another executive position, and then, once you have some experience and are more familiar.

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jona isufi: You can, you know, even run for precedent. That's the route that I told, because I do believe that once you commit to something you really have to put in all your effort.

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jona isufi: However, it's. It is a big. It's a big networking opportunity, and it's also, even as part of the CC. I am

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jona isufi: saying that it is also a personal growth that I believe all CC members have gone through just because of the experience and the exposure

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jona isufi: that being involved gets you.

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jona isufi: Thank you.

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Stephen Stowe: Thank you so much, Jonah.

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Stephen Stowe: Oh, oh.

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Elizabeth Chan: actually, Steve.

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Elizabeth Chan: I just want to say when I When I submitted myself during the pandemic I

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Elizabeth Chan: I actually didn't

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Elizabeth Chan: wasn't an active like member of the Pta, like very active member of the Pta. But I think it helps to get both to be an act very active member. But you could. You could apply for the CC. With no experience just as long as you want to be a speaker for your children and for the community.

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Elizabeth Chan: and, like it all depends on like we. We're very flexible in our CC. Because he does a lot of heavy lifting.

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Elizabeth Chan: and if and if you don't have time for it, and sometimes when you're sick, he's very understanding in our CC:

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Elizabeth Chan: So yeah.

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Stephen Stowe: it it really the time the time that you put in is.

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Elizabeth Chan: you know what you can, but

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Elizabeth Chan: that once a month

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Elizabeth Chan: is what what is required, but everything else is extra, and but those extra should be good for our children because we're we're still speaking out, and sometimes

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Elizabeth Chan: speaking out is good.

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Elizabeth Chan: because then you have a voice, because not. Every time you go in some CC meeting you, you might not be able to speak up

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Elizabeth Chan: or or have the platform for your children and your community.

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Elizabeth Chan: So i'm just saying, from my point of view, I I I like it

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Stephen Stowe: great. Thank you.

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Stephen Stowe: There's a question in the chat. Our meet meetings are virtual.

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Stephen Stowe: so each Cec can do their own, make their own decisions. Some Cec's are all virtual.

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Stephen Stowe: Some have gone to hybrid meetings.

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Stephen Stowe: The State law, if there was no pandemic State law requires all meetings. Be in person.

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Stephen Stowe: things have changed, and the city has allowed meetings to stay

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Stephen Stowe: all virtual if you want, and the city has also allowed you to do hybrid meetings. So we do hybrid meetings. We'll meet at a school, but we'll also have people online

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Stephen Stowe: and and members can choose. You can choose if you want to get to the school and see each other in person, or if you can't make it that night, and just want to dial in online. You can do that, too.

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Stephen Stowe: I'm: just gonna. I'm looking at the chat to get other questions.

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Stephen Stowe: I do want to come back to something that parent coordinator Lucasana was. We were messaging about. I don't.

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Stephen Stowe: But let me.

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Stephen Stowe: I'll come back to that one question: what is the timeframe. For when one can run for the Cec. And when does voting begin, and it

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Stephen Stowe: great question

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Stephen Stowe: you, you can submit your application now.

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Stephen Stowe: and you have until February thirteenth

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Stephen Stowe: to do it.

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Stephen Stowe: and just to

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Stephen Stowe: put the information

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Stephen Stowe: in the chat one more time.

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Stephen Stowe: Here is the website on where you go to

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Stephen Stowe: to run.

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Stephen Stowe: That's the main, do we, website

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Stephen Stowe: where you can go to sign up and run for the election? And then the voting happens

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Stephen Stowe: i'm gonna get the exact dates here.

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Stephen Stowe: but it's something like April to May.

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Stephen Stowe: and I just want to get

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Stephen Stowe: the exact

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Stephen Stowe: dates.

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Stephen Stowe: I'm going to find those and put those in the chat.

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Stephen Stowe: But voting voting starts in April, and a very important date to remember is March thirteenth

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Stephen Stowe: is

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Stephen Stowe: the candidate forum for all Cec members in District 20.

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Stephen Stowe: So on March thirteenth

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Stephen Stowe: we will have an online forum like this, and everyone who's running will get a chance to introduce themselves.

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Stephen Stowe: and everyone will answer questions so that members of the public can meet the candidates who are running.

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Stephen Stowe: So that's March thirteenth, and then voting happens in April. Voting ends in May.

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Stephen Stowe: and then the winners are declared in June.

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Stephen Stowe: and you start serving in July.

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Stephen Stowe: Yeah, Yona makes a good point in her school the on the ptas. They're they're doing in-person meetings in her school.

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Stephen Stowe: So you can. Some organizations are going all in person now.

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Stephen Stowe: Any other questions? These are great questions, very, very relevant questions

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Stephen Stowe: any questions. Kevin Kevin's now, or Kevin Viesn any that you've seen from

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language lines.

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Kevin Vizhnay: No, not on my end.

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Kevin Zhao: not from the Anita.

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Stephen Stowe: Okay.

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Danielle Bennett: Steve.

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Stephen Stowe: But i'd be able to speak for a moment.

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Danielle Bennett: We just we just want to really encourage our parents to when they come out of preschool. You have all spent so much time with us, and we have engaged with you during the school day, our pack meetings coming in

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Danielle Bennett: meetings about parent information workshops. So you're really ready to go out there and be part of this. You have a lot of skills and information that you can share for early childhood, and and you know don't be afraid.

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Danielle Bennett: Don't think time is a fact or a language is a factor. Once you get into the elementary school, there are so many supports there, and there's so many more opportunities because it's all it's a larger community. You'll also find a lot of

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Danielle Bennett: parent friends and resources, and you should really get out there and and join. Lauren and I are both parents, and and we understand the importance of it as parents as well as principles. But please don't be afraid. All you have to do is show up.

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Danielle Bennett: and everything else will happen after that

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Stephen Stowe: it's well said. Very well, said

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Stephen Stowe: Great. Well, I think we can probably let everyone go. Cec. Members, please stay around. We we have to do one budget action.

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Stephen Stowe: and I guess if anyone wants to stay around and watch a a Cec members in action. You go ahead because we just have to make up. We're going to use this meeting to make one change to our budget.

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Stephen Stowe: but otherwise thank you so much. Everyone for attending. Thank you, Danielle. Thank you, Lauren and Parent coordinator, Lucasano Camille. This was your idea. Thank you so much. Yeah, of course, I appreciate your work, and I need to thank you all so much. Yeah. Great night. Thank you. Yeah. Have a Good night, Bye, bye, bye, bye. Oh, Steve, will this recording be available?

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Stephen Stowe: Yes, sure. Okay. Great. Awesome.

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Stephen Stowe: Okay. Thank you so much. And Kevin V's name Keep the recording going, because we need to do a a budget item, but otherwise everyone can stay or drop off whatever. So Cdc. Members we just have to, because the

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Stephen Stowe: the way the DOE budget works, Kevin, I think it's like February. What's the deadline? Yeah. So by February 8 we have to make

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Stephen Stowe: sort of finalize our our our expenses.

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Stephen Stowe: And so remember the last meeting we talked about getting a

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Stephen Stowe: a an owl right for virtual meetings, and so all i'm gonna propose we do now is, we have to make a motion officially to add this to the meeting agenda, because a special meeting you, unless you vote to add something, it can only be, for one thing; but if we vote on it, and we add a discussion of the budget

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Stephen Stowe: to this meeting for the purchase of this all we could do that. So is there a motion to add that to the agenda

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Stephen Stowe: motion to add to the agenda.

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Stephen Stowe: all in favor, bye, bye, any opposed.

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Stephen Stowe: Okay.

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Stephen Stowe: So, Kevin, do you want to just kind of quickly walk through like I'm: i'm a believer, and I don't think you need to go into too much detail, but just sort of again pitch the owl and then

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Kevin Vizhnay: talk about the the numbers that we were thinking about.

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Kevin Vizhnay: I want to share my screen really quick.

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Stephen Stowe: and I sent it I I it was a while ago. It was like a month ago, but I sent a link around at some point or Kevin. Maybe you did with like a a Youtube video just showing

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Stephen Stowe: when I watch the Youtube video of how this thing works in a meeting room. I was sold on it like I think it would be amazing.

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Stephen Stowe: because then

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Stephen Stowe: I like having talked about it. Go ahead, Kevin.

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Kevin Vizhnay: Sure, so I know it's that. I'm pretty sure we can continue doing higher meetings. It's the best option. So far we have so many guests

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online.

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Kevin Vizhnay: And so during meetings. We've all been there where someone's computer is not muted. And then you hear echo or audio leaks, and it just we have to stop the meeting. Say, hey, you're muted, hey? You're not muted.

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Kevin Vizhnay: And to fix that this is called an hour meeting Pro.

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Kevin Vizhnay: and what it does is the size of a hydro flask, almost a little water bottle, and it has a 360 to you camera. And the best feature that has is that it auto focuses and P. And they auto focuses with the camera on person who is speaking

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Kevin Vizhnay: and has 8 different microphones. So there's no need to have everybody join through their phone or devices. They can if they want to, but they will never have to meet themselves. They'll never have to worry about their audio coming out. It'll all be here if you wanted to. The best thing.

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Kevin Vizhnay: the maybe most promising features. They say you walk into a meeting in person at a school. All you could do is to sit down and start talking. There's no need to set up anything on your end

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Kevin Vizhnay: that's the best that's yeah, that's information I can give.

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Stephen Stowe: And it it was amazing to me the technology, just how how good it is

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Stephen Stowe: picking up people that are speaking, and and it would like, Kevin said we wouldn't have to worry about our laptops like you. Just

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Stephen Stowe: It's so much simpler at the at the in-person meetings. We'd sit around tables, and

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Stephen Stowe: the the owl would basically be the the the eyes and ears. So

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Kevin Vizhnay: yeah, and I did some more research about technical things like some issues that could arise. I could say we're too close to the owl, but i'll just list some things that I that maybe maybe you guys think of some issues on my rise. I already kind of address them in a way.

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Kevin Vizhnay: Say, you're too close to the camera. It's a wide angle camera, so you can be really close, but it's since it's wide lens it You won't it'll it'll be fine.

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Kevin Vizhnay: since you you might think because it's a a microphones all around it'll pick up audio from behind where we don't want it to.

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Kevin Vizhnay: But this called a, I think it's called a white screen, so basically we can have one side of the microphone, not pick up anything.

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Kevin Vizhnay: So say the microphone is here, and you're speaking in front. You can block this audio off. So the audience. If the audience is talking, it won't pick up anything it'll say focused on everybody in front of you.

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Kevin Vizhnay: maybe other difficulty. I don't

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Kevin Vizhnay: other technical things that I that may come up. I don't maybe that it does have a a control. It has a Ios app control, but that'll be on my end. So I don't have to worry about that.

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Kevin Vizhnay: And then maybe one other issue is the price. But that's for you as you decide.

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Stephen Stowe: Kevin, can you share the latest budget

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Stephen Stowe: I have that

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Kevin Vizhnay: it's. It's on the email. So it might be little hard to see, but it's Wake up a lot.

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Kevin Vizhnay: Equipment budget line is the first one. We're at 1 192, which I actually think, if we're taxes and

678
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Kevin Vizhnay: which we are, I think it covers it, because the owl is 1049

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01:11:53.550 --> 01:11:55.190
Stephen Stowe: great. I wonder if

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Stephen Stowe: I wonder if there's any reason to just transfer a little more money over there just to be safe, because I think everyone like we're. The year is going to be over before we know it, and

681
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Stephen Stowe: everyone your reimbursements. Those are safe. Those are all budgeted for you. Can. You can

682
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Stephen Stowe: claim those right up until the end of the year.

683
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Stephen Stowe: But anything else we don't spend

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Stephen Stowe: just goes back to the DOE. So

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Stephen Stowe: a lot of this

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Stephen Stowe: the a lot of the money here. I'm, You know.

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Stephen Stowe: I'm not sure. We're gonna have.

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Stephen Stowe: you know. I'm just looking at some of the some of the items here supplies.

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I think.

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Stephen Stowe: Kevin, do you have any recommendations like? If we were to just transfer over another couple 100 bucks out of

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Stephen Stowe: one of these areas.

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Kevin Vizhnay: Recommendations.

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Kevin Vizhnay: Maybe actually no, we can leave content contact as we'll talk about the later, but replacements and family. I'm not sure if you guys can have, I don't think if we have another in person event.

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Kevin Vizhnay: And there's also the event line that's 1,800, and the refreshment to families. That's 1,100, maybe something from there.

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Kevin Vizhnay: Supplies and P. Card.

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Kevin Vizhnay: Probably not going to get P. Card, but supplies for the in person beings. I do have to buy ink soon.

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Stephen Stowe: Okay.

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Kevin Vizhnay: yeah, just maybe just leave it's it's it's it's in P card alone. There should be enough to cover it for the rest of the year.

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Stephen Stowe: Okay, I'm: looking at many events and refreshments and family, sure, and we're just, I I think, if we just transfer 200 bucks. Add it to that equipment. I think that's fine. Right?

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Kevin Vizhnay: Yeah, that that should be enough.

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Stephen Stowe: Okay.

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Stephen Stowe: So i'll just make a motion to. I I can't make a motion, is there? I I would like to propose a motion to transfer

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Stephen Stowe: Kevin. What are the amount? What I can't see, the amounts and events, and

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Stephen Stowe: for events. It's 1,800, and then refreshments and family. We're looking at $1,160. So let's take. I. Is there a motion to take $200 out of events, transfer it to equipment, and then authorize the purchase of

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Stephen Stowe: the meeting apple out of the equipment budget that's. Is there a motion to do that

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Marie Brugueras: motion?

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Stephen Stowe: Is there a second?

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Joyce Xie: That

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Ghada Amin: second second.

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Stephen Stowe: and then we should do a let's do a roll call. Vote for this because it's a budget item.

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Kevin Vizhnay: Sure.

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Stephen Stowe: Vito, Are you good to do a roll call vote, or do you want Kevin to

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Kevin Vizhnay: you spot the sheet.

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Kevin Vizhnay: Okay, so Steven so.

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approved

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01:14:38.840 --> 01:14:39.920
Kevin Vizhnay: Jennifer. You.

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Kevin Vizhnay: Jennifer

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Kevin Vizhnay: Jen's not here. Okay? Oh, Elizabeth, Chen

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Elizabeth Chan: Yes, approve

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Kevin Vizhnay: Marie Berger

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Marie Brugueras: approve.

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Kevin Vizhnay: God. I mean

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Ghada Amin: approve

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Kevin Vizhnay: you all know you, Sufi.

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jona isufi: I approve.

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Kevin Vizhnay: Li Ping Yang

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liping jiang: approve

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Kevin Vizhnay: Maya Rosenblatt.

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Stephen Stowe: I don't think my is here.

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Joyce.

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Joyce Xie: Yes, approved.

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Kevin Vizhnay: and Kevin Zell.

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Kevin Zhao: Yes.

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Kevin Vizhnay: Okay, so it passes with

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Kevin Vizhnay: the votes. It's a 9. Yeses

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Stephen Stowe: great. Thank you, Kevin. Thank you. Everyone.

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Kevin Zhao: I'm. I'm sorry I have one question. Can you go back to the budget again.

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Kevin Zhao: The screen that budget screen you showed before.

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Kevin Zhao: So I saw all most of the commit the most 9. The committee is 0. So what's in the balance is, that means we didn't spend any of those money

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Kevin Vizhnay: for Sagan, for which which item I mean, I seen a screen like almost every every 9. The committee column is $0. Doesn't even spend any money yet. That's correct. Yep, it has to be. This is from

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Kevin Vizhnay: this earliest month that they January third. So we did take some money from reimbursement, Remember, I think we're sitting at around $1,300, so they should be updated soon. I have to ask the Sgo for that.

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Kevin Vizhnay: But everything else events.

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Kevin Vizhnay: professions, each talk no, not each X. It supplies everything else is 0, except maybe 2 lines has not been impacted yet.

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Stephen Stowe: so we didn't spend money.

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Stephen Stowe: It's

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Stephen Stowe: it's it's surprising how often that happens, because at the start of the year you you look at the budget, and you think it's not. But the year goes by fast and go ahead. Vito

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VITO LABELLA: Are they still reimbursing $75 for Internet

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Kevin Vizhnay: Yup, you can go ahead and send. I can send you a link again. I think it's an earlier, but since you individually the forms you can submit to me.

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Kevin Vizhnay: I think I have the old phones that you send me the new forms that you need.

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Stephen Stowe: Okay, thank you. I'll just put out there, and we can

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Stephen Stowe: a actually Kevin Kevin Vesnet, Can you remind me like the deadline? So

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Stephen Stowe: February 8 is a deadline to move money in the budget right for equipment

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Stephen Stowe: for equipment only, but we can still

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Stephen Stowe: approve new spending

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Kevin Vizhnay: after February. Yeah, it's just, I think I don't have. I had. I made it going really quickly. But there are a couple of dates where we can move around the budget.

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Kevin Vizhnay: and that's finalized. But then, once that's over, we can. We can still spend money, but we can't move money around.

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Stephen Stowe: because I think we should. I really think we should think about this. This. Events budget and the the food and refreshments budget and about doing something, and we we can talk more about that. What that looks like. I don't. I don't know if we want to spend time

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Stephen Stowe: unless people want to spend time talking about it now. But I think we should try to do that. You know it doesn't have to be. Remember, last year the legislative breakfast, which was amazing. Thank you, Marie. That was a big event that took a lot of planning.

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Stephen Stowe: We may not have the energy to do something like that again right now, but we could do there, there's lots of other ideas, and so we should all think about ideas

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Stephen Stowe: for an event a parent event, and spend this budget money that we have, and and do something that that we think is beneficial for parents in the district.

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Stephen Stowe: So

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Stephen Stowe: if anyone wants to chat about that now feel free or we can. You know we can wrap up this and this meeting, and just you know, do that another time.

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Kevin Vizhnay: Kevin, what's this? Oh, this is the these are the 10, I think the third is the last day for a March period, including the last day for all

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Kevin Vizhnay: by your modification as well confirm with that share with that. But just looking at

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Kevin Vizhnay: what it says, yeah, everything. A bunch of things are finalized. Lastly, for budget modifications.

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Kevin Vizhnay: I can't say what this is, but it's one there and then again here. Lastly, budget medications for non equipment and furniture, and I believe that that's ways to

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Kevin Vizhnay: parent events and refreshments.

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Stephen Stowe: Okay.

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Kevin Vizhnay: So yeah, March Third.

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Elizabeth Chan: Oh, I think we should set up another special meeting for the budget or do it on the next CC meeting, because some people are missing today.

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Stephen Stowe: Yeah.

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Stephen Stowe: yeah. The next 3 key meeting that's a great idea like at the business meeting on February eighth

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Stephen Stowe: Agree? I

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Elizabeth Chan: Yeah, cause yeah, too many people missing. So I I I rather, or we we weren't ready for that.

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Stephen Stowe: And then we could talk about having planning an event and having ideals for events.

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jona isufi: Yeah, all right. And i'm sorry. I only brought it up because I saw the budget, and I thought that

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jona isufi: given that we've been an active CC. To wrap up the year. You know our group here in the in a positive way to the community.

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Stephen Stowe: No, it totally makes it a great idea.

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Stephen Stowe: Okay, I think that's it for the night. I'll let everyone we can. I'll get back to our our families in the evening. Is there a motion to adjourn the special meeting

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Stephen Stowe: motion to adjourn in a second.

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Ghada Amin: Good night.

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Joyce Xie: right.