Education on September 22, 2026
2026-09-22

[3:36] BECAUSE.
[3:58] HERE I'M AN AT LARGE CITY
[4:00] COUNCILOR AND I'M ALSO THE
[4:01] CHAIR OF THE BOSTON SCHOOL
[4:03] COUNCIL COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION.
[4:06] OH MY GOODNESS MY DAUGHTER'S
[4:08] CALLING ME.
[4:09] HOLD ON ONE SECOND.
[4:52] ALL RIGHT I'M GOING TO PICK UP
[4:54] WHERE I LEFT OFF.
[4:56] OKAY.
[4:58] UM SO FOR THE RECORD MY NAME IS
[4:59] JULIA MEJIA.
[5:00] I'M AN AT LARGE CITY
[5:01] COUNCILOR AND THE CHAIR OF THE
[5:02] BOSTON CITY COUNCIL'S COMMITTEE
[5:04] ON EDUCATION.
[5:04] TODAY IS SEPTEMBER 22ND, 2026
[5:07] AND THE EXACT TIME IS 204.
[5:10] IN ACCORDANCE WITH CHAPTER TWO
[5:11] OF THE ACTS OF 2025 MODIFYING
[5:14] CERTAIN REQUIREMENTS OF THE
[5:15] OPEN MEETING LAW AND RELIEVING
[5:17] PUBLIC BODIES OF CERTAIN
[5:18] REQUIREMENTS INCLUDING THE
[5:19] REQUIREMENT THAT PUBLIC BODIES
[5:20] CONDUCT ITS MEETINGS IN A
[5:23] PUBLIC PLACE THAT IS OPEN AND
[5:25] PHYSICALLY ACCESSIBLE UH TO THE
[5:27] PUBLIC.
[5:28] THE CITY COUNCIL WILL BE
[5:28] CONDUCTING THIS HEARING
[5:30] VIRTUALLY VIA ZOOM.
[5:32] THIS HEARING IS BEING RECORDED
[5:33] AND IT IS ALSO BEING LIVE
[5:36] STREAMED@BOSTON.GOV STACHE CITY
[5:40] COUNCIL TV AND BROADCAST ON
[5:41] INFINITY CHANNEL EIGHT, RCN
[5:43] CHANNEL 82 AND FILES 964.
[5:46] WRITTEN COMMENTS MAY BE SENT TO
[5:48] THE COMMITTEE EMAIL AT
[5:52] SEEK.EDUCATION@BOSTON.GOV AND
[5:53] IT WILL BE MADE PART OF THE
[5:54] RECORD AND AVAILABLE TO ALL
[5:56] COUNCILORS.
[5:56] PUBLIC TESTIMONY WILL BE TAKEN
[5:58] AT THE END OF THIS HEARING.
[6:00] INDIVIDUALS WILL BE CALLED IN
[6:01] THE ORDER IN WHICH THEY HAVE
[6:02] SIGNED UP AND WILL HAVE TWO
[6:03] MINUTES UM TO TESTIFY IF YOU
[6:05] WISH TO SIGN UP FOR PUBLIC
[6:06] TESTIMONY AND HAVE NOT DONE SO
[6:08] ,PLEASE EMAIL CENTRAL STAFF
[6:10] LIAISON MEGAN
[6:14] KAVANAUGH@BOSTON.GOV.
[6:15] FOR THE ZOOM LINK AND YOUR NAME
[6:16] WILL BE ADDED TO THE LIST.
[6:18] TODAY'S HEARING IS ON DOCKET
[6:21] 0406 AND ORDER FOR A HEARING ON
[6:23] THE TRANSPARENCY AND
[6:24] ACCOUNTABILITY OF PRIVATE
[6:26] FUNDRAISING IN OUR BOSTON
[6:27] PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
[6:29] THIS MATTER WAS SPONSORED BY
[6:31] YOURS TRULY COUNCILOR JULIA
[6:33] HERE AND WAS REFERRED TO THE
[6:35] COMMITTEE ON FEBRUARY 25TH
[6:38] 2026.
[6:39] TODAY I AM JOINED BY MY
[6:43] COLLEAGUES IN ORDER OF ARRIVAL
[6:44] WITH PERFECT ATTENDANCE AS
[6:46] ALWAYS COUNCILOR FLYNN DISTRICT
[6:47] TWO.
[6:49] UM AND WE HAVE ONE LETTER
[6:52] OF ABSENCE FROM COUNCILOR HAD
[6:53] DISTRICT FIVE A COUNCILOR AND
[6:55] RECAPPING UM SO I AM GOING TO
[6:59] JUST QUICKLY START OFF WITH MY
[7:01] OPENING REMARKS.
[7:02] UH, AFTER MY COUNCIL COLLEAGUES
[7:04] UH, GO FIRST.
[7:06] SO COUNCILOR UM, FLYNN, YOU NOW
[7:08] HAVE THE FLOOR.
[7:12] AND THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
[7:14] I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO YOU,
[7:16] MADAM CHAIR, FOR BRINGING THIS
[7:17] FORWARD.
[7:18] I ALSO WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO
[7:20] THE PEOPLE THAT ARE ABOUT TO
[7:21] TESTIFY THEIR IMPORTANT WORK AS
[7:24] WELL.
[7:24] I'M HERE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT
[7:26] THE SUBJECT AND WILL HOLD OFF
[7:29] ON GIVING A FORMAL OPENING
[7:30] STATEMENT.
[7:31] THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
[7:34] THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.
[7:35] UM, SO I JUST WANT TO THANK
[7:37] EVERYONE FOR JOINING US TODAY
[7:38] ESPECIALLY THE EXPERTS, THE
[7:40] ADVOCATES AND MEMBERS OF THE
[7:41] ADMINISTRATION.
[7:42] AS WE KNOW, THE BUDGET HAS
[7:44] INCREASED EVERY YEAR.
[7:46] YET MANY SCHOOLS AND EDUCATORS
[7:48] CONTINUE TO STRUGGLE GETTING
[7:50] BASIC SUPPLIES IN THEIR
[7:52] CLASSROOMS.
[7:52] THE DISTRICT CLAIMS TO ENSURE
[7:54] THAT STUDENTS HAVE EQUITABLE
[7:56] ACCESS TO QUALITY EDUCATION AND
[7:59] EXPERIENCES.
[8:00] AND YET WE HAVE SEEN AGAIN AND
[8:02] AGAIN HOW BHP'S BUDGET DOES NOT
[8:05] REFLECT THAT.
[8:06] WE HAVE OUR SCHOOLS THAT
[8:07] RECEIVE HUNDREDS AND THOUSANDS
[8:09] OF DOLLARS MORE THAN OTHER
[8:12] SCHOOLS ACROSS THE STREET.
[8:14] AND THIS IS NOT EQUITY.
[8:16] FURTHERMORE, MANY OF THESE
[8:18] SCHOOLS RECEIVE LITTLE TO NO
[8:20] SUPPLEMENTARY BUDGETARY SUPPORT
[8:22] AND ARE ALREADY UNDER-RESOURCED
[8:24] AND HAVE HIGH NUMBER OF HIGH
[8:25] NEEDS STUDENTS.
[8:27] WE CANNOT CLAIM TO BE EQUITABLE
[8:29] .
[8:30] UM, IF IF THESE DISPARITIES IN
[8:32] PRIVATE DONATIONS AND
[8:33] FUNDRAISING ALONE AUTOMATICALLY
[8:36] CONTRADICTS THIS, WE RECOGNIZE
[8:38] THE WAY THAT THE NEW REIMAGINE
[8:40] SCHOOL FUNDING FORMULA HAS
[8:42] TRIED TO BECOME MORE EQUITABLE.
[8:43] BUT IT IS NOT PERFECT WHEN
[8:46] EDUCATORS RESORT TO DONOR SHOES
[8:48] OR A GO FUND ME FOR TEACHERS
[8:50] AND SCHOOLS ASKING FOR SCHOOL
[8:51] SUPPLIES AND KNEEPADS FOR
[8:53] VOLLEYBALL TEAMS.
[8:54] IT'S OBVIOUS THAT THERE'S A
[8:56] SERIOUS DISCREPANCY BETWEEN
[8:58] WHAT THE DISTRICT BELIEVE IS
[8:59] EQUITABLE AND THE LIVED
[9:01] EXPERIENCES OF OUR STUDENTS AND
[9:03] EDUCATORS.
[9:04] TODAY WE HOPE TO GET A BETTER
[9:06] UNDERSTANDING OF HOW THE
[9:07] DISTRICT CONSIDERS PRIVATE
[9:08] DOLLARS IN OUR SCHOOLS.
[9:10] WHEN THINKING ABOUT FUNDING
[9:12] SCHOOLS AND HOW WE CAN BETTER
[9:13] SUPPORT OUR SCHOOLS AND
[9:14] FAMILIES IN UNDER-RESOURCED
[9:16] SCHOOLS.
[9:17] WE ALSO MUST BE MORE
[9:19] TRANSPARENT AROUND PRIVATE
[9:20] FUNDING IN THE DISTRICT.
[9:22] WE APPRECIATE ADDITIONAL FUNDS
[9:24] FROM COMMUNITY MEMBERS AND
[9:26] DONORS, BUT WE NEED TO HAVE A
[9:28] BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF HOW
[9:29] THOSE FINANCES, UM, SUPPORT
[9:32] EACH SCHOOL.
[9:33] TODAY WE'LL HAVE THREE PANELS
[9:35] IN THE FOLLOWING ORDER EXPERTS
[9:37] ADVOCATES UH AND THE
[9:39] ADMINISTRATION AND SINCE THERE
[9:40] ARE THREE PANELS WILL ONLY HAVE
[9:42] ONE ROUND OF QUESTIONS PER
[9:44] PANEL.
[9:44] THE HEARING WILL FINISH WITH
[9:46] PUBLIC TESTIMONY SO THAT THEY
[9:48] CAN RESPOND TO EVERYTHING THAT
[9:50] WE HAVE HEARD TODAY.
[9:51] THANK YOU TO THE ADMINISTRATION
[9:52] FOR BEING HERE AND WE LOOK
[9:54] FORWARD FROM HEARING FROM YOU
[9:57] TODAY.
[9:58] UM, AND WORKING TOGETHER
[9:59] ALONGSIDE YOU AND I'LL JUST SAY
[10:01] AS A GRADUATES AND AS A MOM AND
[10:06] AS A ADVOCATE, UH, I THINK THIS
[10:08] IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT
[10:10] ISSUES WHEN WE'RE THINKING
[10:11] ABOUT FUNDING UM, BECAUSE THERE
[10:14] IS THIS MENTALITY OF THE HAVES
[10:15] AND THE HAVE NOTS AND THE
[10:17] STUDENTS WHO ARE IN
[10:18] UNDER-RESOURCED SCHOOLS ARE THE
[10:19] ONES THAT ARE EXPERIENCING THE
[10:21] GREATEST, UM, NEED.
[10:22] AND SO MY HOPE IS THAT WE CAN
[10:24] FIGURE OUT HOW WE CAN GET A
[10:27] HANDLE ON THIS AND MORE
[10:28] IMPORTANTLY WHAT WE'RE GOING TO
[10:29] DO TO FIX IT.
[10:31] SO WITH THAT I AM GOING TO TURN
[10:34] IT OVER TO THE MEDIA.
[10:35] SORRY MADAM CHAIR, I JUST
[10:37] WANTED TO ANNOUNCE THAT I'VE
[10:38] ALSO BEEN HERE FROM THE
[10:39] BEGINNING AND COUNCIL MEMBER
[10:40] COUNCIL WEBER IS ALSO HERE SO I
[10:42] DON'T NEED TO GIVE AN OPENING.
[10:43] I JUST WANTED TO MARK MY
[10:44] PRESENCE.
[10:45] THANK YOU.
[10:46] SEAT.
[10:46] SAME HERE.
[10:47] CHAIR I JUST WANT TO, UH, FEEL
[10:49] FREE TO MOVE ON TO THAT
[10:51] OPENING.
[10:51] STREAM FOR ME.
[10:52] OKAY.
[10:52] SORRY.
[10:53] I WAS ON MY PHONE.
[10:54] I DID NOT NOTICE I DIDN'T
[10:55] SCROLL DOWN.
[10:56] UM, SO THANK YOU.
[10:57] COUNCILOR WEBER.
[10:58] UM, AND COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE FOR
[11:01] FOR JOINING US.
[11:02] UH, WITH ALL OF THAT SAID.
[11:04] UM, WE'LL KICK IT OVER TO OUR,
[11:07] UM, EXPERTS.
[11:10] UM, SO AND TO BE HONEST WITH
[11:13] YOU, WE HAVE, UM, OUR FIRST
[11:17] EXPERT.
[11:18] LET ME GO.
[11:20] UH, WHERE IS MY SHEET?
[11:23] SORRY.
[11:28] OKAY, GOING BACK TO THE
[11:31] OFFICIAL HERE.
[11:32] UH, SO WE HAVE, UM, MARK.
[11:38] UH OH, LORD.
[11:39] MARK, YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO
[11:40] HELP ME WITH YOUR LAST THING.
[11:41] TRAGER.
[11:42] MARK.
[11:43] TRAGER.
[11:43] RIGHT?
[11:44] OKAY.
[11:45] ENGLISH IS MY SECOND
[11:46] LANGUAGE AND I GOT THAT ONE
[11:47] RIGHT.
[11:47] SO THANK YOU.
[11:48] AND YOU ARE A FORMER NEW YORK
[11:49] CITY COUNCIL MEMBER.
[11:51] UM, AND THEN WE ALSO HAVE
[11:53] TRAVIS MARSHALL.
[11:55] UM, AND WE'LL BEGIN WITH YOU,
[11:57] MARK.
[11:57] YOU NOW HAVE THE FLOOR.
[12:00] THANK YOU.
[12:00] UH, THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH.
[12:02] GOOD AFTERNOON.
[12:03] AND, UH.
[12:04] I HAVE TO SAY AS A.
[12:06] FORMER HISTORY TEACHER.
[12:06] MUCH LOVE AND APPRECIATION FOR
[12:09] THE.
[12:10] BEAUTIFUL CITY OF BOSTON AND
[12:11] ALL THE GREAT, UH, PUBLIC
[12:13] SERVANTS AND FAMILIES.
[12:14] SO MUCH LOVE FROM NEW YORK, UH
[12:15] ,TO BOSTON.
[12:17] MY NAME IS, UH.
[12:18] MARK TRAGER.
[12:19] I AM A FORMER NEW YORK CITY
[12:21] PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHER, UH, AND
[12:23] FORMER.
[12:23] MEMBER OF THE NEW.
[12:24] YORK CITY COUNCIL AND I ALSO
[12:26] CHAIRED THE COMMITTEE ON
[12:27] EDUCATION IN CITY COUNCIL.
[12:29] I WANT TO BEGIN WITH WHY I
[12:31] PURSUED AND ALSO THANK YOU FOR
[12:32] THE OPPORTUNITY TO TESTIFY.
[12:33] I WANT TO BEGIN WITH WHY I
[12:34] PURSUED PTA FUNDRAISING
[12:36] TRANSPARENCY IN THE FIRST
[12:38] PLACE.
[12:38] UH, BECAUSE FOR ME THIS WAS
[12:40] NEVER SIMPLY A DATA EXERCISE.
[12:43] UM UH.
[12:44] THIS UH WAS DIRECTLY FROM WHAT
[12:46] I EXPERIENCED AS A TEACHER AND
[12:48] A MEMBER OF THE CITY
[12:50] COUNCIL WHILE I WAS TEACHING.
[12:51] I WAS ALSO ATTENDING GRAD
[12:53] SCHOOL AT NIGHT AT BROOKLYN
[12:54] COLLEGE TO BECOME A SCHOOL
[12:56] ADMINISTRATOR.
[12:56] AND IN THOSE CLASSES I HEARD
[12:58] FROM CLASSMATES DESCRIBE THE
[13:01] EXTRAORDINARY SUPPLEMENTAL.
[13:03] RESOURCES AVAILABLE IN SOME
[13:04] OF THEIR SCHOOLS THROUGH PARENT
[13:06] FUNDRAISING ENRICHMENT PROGRAMS
[13:08] ,ADDITIONAL CLUBS, ARTS
[13:09] PROGRAMS, FIELD TRIPS, ACADEMIC
[13:11] SUPPORT AND OTHER OPPORTUNITIES
[13:13] THAT EXTENDED WELL BEYOND WHAT
[13:14] THE SCHOOL SYSTEM ITSELF WAS
[13:16] PROVIDING AT THE SAME TIME.
[13:18] THE SCHOOL WHERE I WAS TEACHING
[13:21] HAD TO CUT ITS DEBATE TEAM
[13:22] BECAUSE WE DIDN'T HAVE
[13:23] SUFFICIENT FUNDING TO SUSTAIN
[13:25] IT.
[13:26] THAT CONTRAST STAYED WITH ME.
[13:28] UM, THESE ARE.
[13:29] ALL NEW YORK.
[13:30] CITY PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS.
[13:31] THEY'RE ALL PART OF THE SAME
[13:32] SCHOOL SYSTEM.
[13:32] YET THE RANGE OF OPPORTUNITIES
[13:34] AVAILABLE TO THEM COULD DIFFER
[13:36] DRAMATICALLY BASED NOT ON THEIR
[13:38] ,UH, POTENTIAL OR ABILITY OR
[13:41] AMBITION BUT ON THE FUNDRAISING
[13:43] CAPACITY OF THE FAMILIES IN
[13:44] THEIR SCHOOL COMMUNITY OR BASED
[13:45] UPON THEIR ZIP CODE.
[13:47] YEARS LATER WHEN.
[13:48] I REPRESENTED THE COMMUNITY
[13:50] OF CONEY ISLAND AND SOUTHERN
[13:51] BROOKLYN AND OTHER WORKING
[13:53] CLASS NEIGHBORHOODS IN THE CITY
[13:54] COUNCIL, I SAW THE SAME
[13:56] INEQUITY FROM A BROADER
[13:57] PERSPECTIVE.
[13:58] I SAW SCHOOLS IN MY DISTRICT
[13:59] CREATING GOFUNDME PAGES SIMPLY
[14:01] .
[14:02] TO SUPPORT.
[14:02] STUDENT CLUBS AND BASIC
[14:03] ENRICHMENT OPPORTUNITIES.
[14:05] AT THE SAME TIME I WAS HEARING
[14:07] ABOUT SCHOOLS IN WEALTHIER ZIP.
[14:08] CODES IN NEW YORK WHERE PRIVATE
[14:10] .
[14:10] FUNDRAISING COULD SUPPORT.
[14:12] EXTRAORDINARY PROGRAMING,
[14:13] INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL AND OTHER
[14:15] OPPORTUNITIES THAT WERE SIMPLY
[14:17] UNIMAGINABLE TO MANY OF THE
[14:18] STUDENTS I REPRESENTED.
[14:20] I WANT TO BE VERY CLEAR.
[14:21] ABOUT THIS FROM THE ONSET.
[14:24] PARENT GENEROSITY WAS NEVER THE
[14:26] PROBLEM.
[14:26] IT'S NOT THE PROBLEM.
[14:28] PARENTS WHO ARE ABLE TO
[14:29] POSITION TO GIVE THEIR TIME,
[14:30] ENERGY AND RESOURCES.
[14:31] TO SUPPORT THEIR SCHOOLS.
[14:33] SHOULD BE ABSOLUTELY COMMENDED
[14:34] .
[14:34] THE PUBLIC POLICY PROBLEM
[14:36] ARISES.
[14:37] WHEN PRIVATELY RAISED
[14:38] RESOURCES.
[14:39] BEGIN PRODUCING PROFOUNDLY
[14:40] DIFFERENT EDUCATIONAL
[14:42] EXPERIENCES WITHIN THE SAME
[14:43] PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM WHILE
[14:44] GOVERNMENT FAILS TO FULLY.
[14:46] MEASURE, DISCLOSE OR RESPOND.
[14:48] TO THAT DISPARITY.
[14:49] THAT WAS.
[14:49] THE PURPOSE OF MY
[14:50] LEGISLATION AND IT IS IMPORTANT
[14:53] TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THE BILL DID
[14:54] AND WHAT IT DID NOT DO.
[14:56] WE WERE NOT.
[14:57] CREATING A NEW FINANCIAL
[14:58] REPORTING.
[14:58] SYSTEM FROM SCRATCH.
[15:00] THE CHANCELLOR'S REGULATIONS.
[15:02] ALREADY REQUIRED.
[15:04] PARENT ASSOCIATIONS AND PTAS TO
[15:06] MAINTAIN FINANCIAL RECORDS AND
[15:08] PROVIDE FINANCIAL INFORMATION.
[15:10] THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION WAS
[15:11] ALREADY COLLECTING MUCH OF THIS
[15:13] DATA.
[15:14] MY LEGISLATION.
[15:14] SIMPLY REQUIRED THAT THIS
[15:16] INFORMATION BE MADE PUBLIC.
[15:18] TRANSPARENCY WAS THE OBJECTIVE
[15:19] .
[15:20] THERE WAS.
[15:21] UNDERSTANDABLE CONCERN FROM
[15:22] SOME COMMUNITIES WITH
[15:24] SIGNIFICANT FUNDRAISING
[15:25] CAPACITY.
[15:26] SOME FOLKS ASKED WHAT IS THE
[15:28] ENDGAME?
[15:28] ARE YOU GOING.
[15:29] TO.
[15:29] CAP FUNDRAISING.
[15:30] OR ARE YOU GOING TO
[15:31] REDISTRIBUTE.
[15:32] PTA DOLLARS?
[15:34] UM AND THE ANSWER WAS ALWAYS
[15:35] NO.
[15:36] UH, THE.
[15:37] LEGISLATION DID NOT, YOU.
[15:38] KNOW, REDISTRIBUTE RESOURCES
[15:40] OR FUNDS.
[15:41] IT DID NOT LIMIT FUNDRAISING.
[15:42] IT DID NOT PUNISH ANY TYPES
[15:44] OF SUCCESSFUL FUNDRAISING
[15:45] EFFORTS.
[15:46] IT SIMPLY AND.
[15:48] SOLELY REQUIRED DISCLOSURE.
[15:49] AND WHAT THAT.
[15:51] DISCLOSED REVEALED.
[15:52] WAS STRIKING.
[15:53] IN THE FIRST YEAR OF PUBLIC
[15:54] REPORTING.
[15:55] ,OVER.
[15:56] 24 PTA WAS REPORTED RAISING
[15:57] OVER AT.
[15:59] LEAST $1 MILLION.
[16:00] BUT THE OTHER SIDE OF THAT DATA
[16:01] WAS ALSO IMPORTANT.
[16:02] HUNDREDS OF SCHOOLS.
[16:06] EITHER REPORTED NO.
[16:07] FUNDRAISING AT ALL OR.
[16:08] FAILED TO SUBMIT THE REQUIRED
[16:11] INFORMATION.
[16:11] THAT RAISED.
[16:12] A SECOND AND EQUALLY
[16:13] IMPORTANT.
[16:13] EQUITY QUESTION.
[16:14] DID EVERY SCHOOL.
[16:16] ACTUALLY HAVE AN ACTIVE
[16:17] FUNCTIONING PARENT ORGANIZATION
[16:19] WITH.
[16:20] THE INSTITUTIONAL.
[16:21] SUPPORT NECESSARY.
[16:22] TO SUCCEED?
[16:24] UM SOME.
[16:25] SCHOOL COMMUNITIES HAVE.
[16:25] HAD FAMILIES WITH.
[16:27] FLEXIBLE WORK SCHEDULES.
[16:29] PROFESSIONAL FUNDRAISING
[16:29] EXPERIENCE, EXTENSIVE EXTENSIVE
[16:32] NETWORKS.
[16:32] AND SIGNIFICANT DISPOSABLE
[16:33] INCOME.
[16:34] OTHER FAMILIES MAY BE WORKING.
[16:36] MULTIPLE JOBS CONFRONTING
[16:37] LANGUAGE.
[16:37] BARRIERS, CARING FOR CHILDREN
[16:40] OR.
[16:41] LOVED ONES OR.
[16:41] SIMPLY HAVE NEVER BEEN GIVEN
[16:43] THE.
[16:43] INFRASTRUCTURE OR SUPPORT
[16:44] NEEDED.
[16:45] TO BUILD A STRONG PARENT
[16:46] ORGANIZATION.
[16:47] NONE OF THAT MEANS THEY CARE
[16:49] ANY.
[16:49] LESS ABOUT.
[16:49] THEIR CHILDREN.
[16:50] AND WE.
[16:51] SHOULD.
[16:51] NEVER CONFUSE FUNDRAISING
[16:52] CAPACITY WITH PARENTAL
[16:53] COMMITMENT.
[16:54] THAT IS WHY I PRESSED THE
[16:56] D.O.E..
[16:56] HERE IN NEW YORK CITY WHETHER.
[16:58] EVERY PTA.
[16:59] AND MPA.
[17:00] SHOULD RECEIVE.
[17:01] A BASELINE LEVEL OF.
[17:02] SUPPORT AT OUR HEARING.
[17:04] I ASKED WHETHER THE SYSTEM HAD
[17:06] HISTORICALLY.
[17:06] PROVIDED EVERY PARENT.
[17:08] ORGANIZATION WITH SOME BASE
[17:09] AMOUNT OF FUNDING AND SUPPORT.
[17:11] D.O.E. COULD NOT POINT TO SUCH
[17:13] A POLICY FROM THAT.
[17:14] FOR ME THAT BECAME VERY
[17:16] CENTRAL.
[17:16] ONE OF THE LESSONS FROM THE LAW
[17:18] .
[17:18] THE OBJECTIVE WAS.
[17:19] NEVER TO.
[17:20] LOWER.
[17:20] THE CEILING.
[17:20] FOR PTAS.
[17:21] IT WAS TO RAISE.
[17:23] THE FLOOR FOR EVERYONE ELSE.
[17:24] IF ONE SCHOOL CAN RAISE MORE
[17:26] THAN $1 MILLION WHILE ANOTHER
[17:27] SCHOOL CANNOT SUSTAIN BASIC.
[17:29] PARENT PROGRAMING.
[17:30] OR MAY NOT EVEN HAVE A FULLY
[17:32] FUNCTIONING ORGANIZATION, THE
[17:33] ANSWER IS NOT TO SIMPLY PUNISH
[17:35] WHAT'S WORKING IT'S TO.
[17:36] LIFT UP.
[17:37] AND TO.
[17:38] ADDRESS WHAT'S NOT WHAT'S
[17:39] NOT WORKING.
[17:40] UH THAT.
[17:41] CAN INCLUDE RESOURCES FOR
[17:42] TRAINING.
[17:43] ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPORT, HELPING
[17:44] WITH LANGUAGE ACCESS HELP
[17:46] NAVIGATING THE SCHOOL SYSTEM
[17:48] AND BASELINE RESOURCES THAT.
[17:49] A VIBRANT.
[17:50] PARENT ORGANIZATION DOES NOT
[17:52] DEPEND ENTIRELY.
[17:53] ON THE.
[17:53] WEALTH OR.
[17:54] PROFESSIONAL NETWORKS.
[17:55] OF A PARTICULAR ZIP CODE.
[17:56] THE LAW JUST TO SUMMARIZE.
[17:58] THE LAW.
[17:59] HAD ULTIMATELY.
[17:59] THREE IMPORTANT EFFECTS.
[18:01] FIRST, IT.
[18:02] TRANSFORMED AN ANECDOTAL
[18:04] CONVERSATION INTO AN EVIDENCE
[18:05] BASED ONE.
[18:06] SECOND, IT REVEALED THAT THE.
[18:08] INEQUITY WAS NOT ONLY ABOUT
[18:09] DOLLARS.
[18:10] IT WAS ALSO.
[18:10] ABOUT ORGANIZATIONAL.
[18:11] CAPACITY AND.
[18:12] WHETHER ALL FAMILIES HAD.
[18:14] EQUAL SUPPORT TO.
[18:14] PARTICIPATE MEANINGFULLY.
[18:16] AND FULLY IN SCHOOL LIFE.
[18:17] AND THIRD, IT CREATED.
[18:19] LASTING PUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY.
[18:21] NEW YORK CITY CONTINUES TO.
[18:22] PUBLISH THIS INFORMATION
[18:24] ANNUALLY.
[18:25] TRANSPARENCY ALONE DOES NOT
[18:27] ELIMINATE.
[18:28] INEQUITY, BUT IT CHANGES THE
[18:30] QUALITY.
[18:30] AND THE SUBSTANCE OF THE
[18:32] CONVERSATION.
[18:33] YOU CANNOT SIMPLY YOU CANNOT.
[18:35] RESPONSIBLY ADDRESS A.
[18:36] DISPARITY THAT.
[18:37] YOU.
[18:37] REFUSE TO.
[18:38] MEASURE AND YOU CANNOT HAVE A
[18:39] SERIOUS.
[18:40] CONVERSATION ABOUT EDUCATIONAL
[18:41] OPPORTUNITY WHILE LEAVING.
[18:43] A.
[18:43] SIGNIFICANT SOURCE
[18:44] OF EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES.
[18:45] OUTSIDE PUBLIC VIEW.
[18:46] ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT
[18:47] LESSONS.
[18:48] I CARRIED.
[18:48] WITH ME.
[18:49] FROM THIS CLASSROOM INTO
[18:50] PUBLIC.
[18:50] OFFICE IS THIS.
[18:52] TALENT IS DISTRIBUTED ACROSS.
[18:54] EVERY NEIGHBORHOOD.
[18:55] OPPORTUNITY IS NOT.
[18:57] THE RESPONSIBILITY OF A.
[18:58] PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM IS TO
[18:59] NARROW THAT GAP, NOT TO OBSCURE
[19:01] IT.
[19:01] THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY.
[19:03] TO.
[19:03] SHARE MY EXPERIENCE.
[19:04] HERE IN NEW YORK CITY.
[19:06] THANK YOU MARK AND MY SISTER IS
[19:09] ALSO A NEW YORK PUBLIC SCHOOL
[19:11] TEACHER.
[19:11] SHE TEACHES AT AVIATION.
[19:14] UM AND SO AND SHE'S ALSO A
[19:17] UNION REP AND IS UH DOING THE
[19:20] GOOD WORK.
[19:21] SO THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE.
[19:23] UM, AND FOR BEING HERE TODAY.
[19:24] ALL RIGHT.
[19:25] I'M GOING TO GO OVER TO TRAVIS
[19:28] AND THEN UM, AFTER TRAVIS WILL
[19:30] GO FOR OUR FIRST ROUND
[19:32] OF QUESTIONS SO MY COLLEAGUES
[19:34] JUST GET READY, UM, TO DIVE IN.
[19:37] OKAY.
[19:38] TRAVIS.
[19:39] THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
[19:40] THANK YOU.
[19:41] AND THANK YOU, COUNCILORS, FOR
[19:42] BEING HERE.
[19:43] UH, AND MEMBERS OF THE
[19:44] ADMINISTRATION AND, UH,
[19:46] MR TRAGER, OF COURSE.
[19:47] MY NAME IS TRAVIS MARSHALL.
[19:49] I LIVE IN ROSLINDALE.
[19:50] I AM THE PROUD PARENT OF TWO
[19:52] BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS STUDENTS
[19:53] .
[19:53] UH, ONE OF TWO ENGLISH HIGH
[19:55] SCHOOL, ONE OF NEW MISSION.
[19:57] AND I'M ALSO A MEMBER
[19:59] OF QUALITY SCHOOLS FOR EVERY
[20:00] STUDENT QUEST, WHICH IS A
[20:02] GRASSROOT GROUP OF PARENTS IN
[20:03] THE DISTRICT.
[20:06] I PERSONALLY FIRST CAME TO THIS
[20:08] ISSUE, UH, OVER THE COURSE
[20:09] OF MY SIX YEARS ACTING AS
[20:11] TREASURER OF THE FAMILY
[20:12] COUNCIL AT MY KID'S FORMER
[20:14] ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
[20:15] WE TYPICALLY RAISED MONEY FOR
[20:18] PIZZA PARTIES, FIELD TRIPS, UH
[20:20] ,WINTER CLOTHING DRIVES AND
[20:22] EXTRACURRICULAR PROGRAMS LIKE
[20:24] MUSIC.
[20:26] UM, WHEN SOLICITING DONATIONS
[20:27] FROM LOCAL BUSINESSES THOUGH,
[20:29] IT ALWAYS SORT OF FELT LIKE
[20:31] SCHOOLS WERE IN COMPETITION
[20:32] WITH EACH OTHER OVER THINGS
[20:35] LIKE RESTAURANT GIFT
[20:36] CERTIFICATES OR SPORTS TICKETS
[20:37] THAT WE COULD RAFFLE AS
[20:39] FUNDRAISERS.
[20:41] QUEST FIRST UH, CAME INTO THIS
[20:43] UH, WORK AFTER A 2018 ERNST AND
[20:46] YOUNG AUDIT OF INDIVIDUAL
[20:48] SCHOOL ACCOUNTS.
[20:49] THIS WAS THE FIRST AND ONLY
[20:51] TIME THERE HAS BEEN A DISTRICT
[20:52] WIDE SNAPSHOT OF SCHOOL
[20:55] ACCOUNTS OUTSIDE OF THE BUDGET.
[20:57] QUEST USED THAT DATA TO COMPARE
[21:01] SCHOOL FUNDRAISING LEVELS
[21:02] ACROSS THE DISTRICT.
[21:03] AND WE FOUND THAT THIS
[21:05] FUNDRAISING VARIED WIDELY
[21:07] BETWEEN SCHOOLS.
[21:08] SOME HAD 501 C3 ORGANIZATIONS
[21:11] AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS, WITH
[21:14] A FEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS
[21:15] RAISING HALF $1 MILLION A YEAR
[21:17] AND SOME HIGH SCHOOLS RAISING
[21:19] MILLIONS AND OTHERS SOLD CANDY
[21:21] BARS AND WRAPPING PAPER THROUGH
[21:23] THEIR SCHOOL PARENT COUNCILS
[21:24] FOR A FEW HUNDRED.
[21:26] SOME SCHOOLS FUND
[21:28] ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS,
[21:29] SURROUND CARE UH AND WORLD
[21:32] LANGUAGE CLASSES WHILE OTHERS
[21:33] FUNDRAISE FOR WINTER COATS.
[21:36] AND WHAT WE WE LEARNED AS WE
[21:38] DUG IN WAS WE LEARNED THAT THIS
[21:40] PHENOMENON IS.
[21:41] PRETTY COMMON IN PUBLIC SCHOOL.
[21:43] DISTRICTS AROUND THE COUNTRY.
[21:44] AND WE SET OUT TO LEARN MORE
[21:46] ABOUT THIS WORK IN OTHER CITIES
[21:47] AND TOWNS FROM PORTLAND, OREGON
[21:50] TO NEW YORK CITY AS WELL AS
[21:51] LOCALLY IN NEWTON AND WAYLAND,
[21:54] MASSACHUSETTS.
[21:55] WE HAD CONVERSATIONS WITH LOCAL
[21:56] PARENT GROUPS AND SCHOOL
[21:58] DISTRICT REPRESENTATIVES.
[21:59] AND IT WAS THROUGH THESE
[22:01] CONVERSATIONS IN NEW YORK THAT
[22:02] WE MET MY FELLOW PANELISTS,
[22:03] FORMER NEW YORK CITY
[22:04] COUNCILOR MARK TRAGER.
[22:06] AS EACH YEAR PASSED FROM THAT
[22:08] 2018 AUDIT, HOWEVER, OUR DATA
[22:10] BECAME OLDER AND MORE OUT
[22:13] OF DATE.
[22:14] WE UPDATED WHAT WE COULD FROM
[22:16] THE IRS FILINGS THAT TAX EXEMPT
[22:18] ORGANIZATIONS ARE REQUIRED BY
[22:19] LAW TO FILE.
[22:21] BUT THAT LEFT OUT THE MAJORITY
[22:23] OF OTHER SCHOOLS WITHOUT 501C
[22:25] THREES.
[22:26] THANKS TO UH COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE
[22:29] WE CONNECTED WITH PAMELA LYONS,
[22:31] THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE
[22:32] BOSTON EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT
[22:33] FUND.
[22:35] BEDFORD HAS LONG ACTED AS A
[22:37] FISCAL SPONSOR FOR SCHOOL
[22:38] GROUPS THAT DON'T HAVE THEIR
[22:40] OWN TAX EXEMPT STATUS.
[22:42] AND SHE HELPED US GET A FULLER
[22:44] PICTURE OF THE SCHOOLS THAT
[22:45] THEY HOLD ACCOUNTS FOR.
[22:49] SO THIS.
[22:50] STREAM OF MONEY IS REALLY A.
[22:52] BLACK BOX FOR DPS.
[22:54] UNLIKE THE BUDGET WHICH IS
[22:55] PUBLICLY DEBATED AT SCHOOL
[22:57] COMMITTEE AND VOTED UPON IN
[22:59] PUBLIC BY THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE
[23:00] AND THE CITY COUNCIL, THERE IS
[23:04] NO PUBLIC RECORD OF HOW PRIVATE
[23:05] MONEY WORKS IN.
[23:07] AND WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT THE
[23:08] GRANTS THAT ARE VOTED UPON BY
[23:11] UH BY THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
[23:13] THESE ARE SCHOOL PARENT
[23:14] COUNCILS AND FRIENDS
[23:15] OF ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE
[23:16] AFFILIATED WITH SPECIFIC
[23:17] SCHOOLS.
[23:20] SUPERINTENDENT CIRCULAR FY 21.
[23:24] ON DPS RECOGNIZED 501 C3
[23:26] ORGANIZATIONS STATES THAT ALL
[23:28] TAX EXEMPT SCHOOL ORGANIZATIONS
[23:30] MUST PROVE A STRONG RATIONALE
[23:32] FOR THE NEED FOR A SEPARATE
[23:34] INDEPENDENT 501 C3 AND.
[23:36] MUST UPDATE.
[23:38] ON CURRENT DETAILS INCLUDING
[23:40] BOARD STRUCTURE, STATUS AND
[23:42] OPERATING REVENUE.
[23:44] WE'VE CONTACTED THE FINANCE
[23:45] OFFICE AND AND RECEIVED
[23:47] INFORMATION FROM THEM BUT BASED
[23:49] ON THE INFORMATION THEY GAVE
[23:50] US, WE BELIEVE WE HAVE A MUCH
[23:52] FULLER PICTURE THAN DPS DOES.
[23:55] WE ALSO BELIEVE THAT THIS
[23:56] INFORMATION SHOULD.
[23:57] NOT BE A BLACK BOX.
[24:00] WE RECOMMEND THE DPS CREATE A
[24:02] DASHBOARD THAT IS UPDATED
[24:03] ANNUALLY FOR ALL FUNDING
[24:06] SOURCES AND EXPENDITURES.
[24:08] SO THE FUNDING OF OUR PUBLIC
[24:09] SCHOOLS REMAINS TRANSPARENT TO
[24:12] STAKEHOLDERS AND TAXPAYERS.
[24:15] CAREGIVERS SHOULD HAVE ACCESS
[24:16] TO THIS INFORMATION WHEN THEY
[24:17] MAKE.
[24:18] DECISIONS ABOUT BEFORE AND
[24:19] AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAMS, AS WELL
[24:22] AS WHAT EXTRA FUNDS AND
[24:23] PROGRAMS ARE AVAILABLE AT
[24:24] VARIOUS SCHOOLS.
[24:26] AND THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT NEW
[24:28] YORK CITY DID AS
[24:30] COUNCILOR TRAGER JUST EXPLAINED
[24:32] WITH LOCAL.
[24:32] LAW 171.
[24:34] UH, I APPRECIATE YOU HOLDING
[24:36] THIS HEARING, MADAME CHAIR, AND
[24:38] I LOOK FORWARD TO ANSWERING ANY
[24:39] QUESTIONS FROM YOU AND YOUR
[24:40] COLLEAGUES.
[24:40] THANK YOU SO MUCH.
[24:41] THANK YOU.
[24:42] TRAVIS.
[24:43] UM, AND I'M HAPPY TO SEE PAMELA
[24:46] LANES HERE.
[24:47] UM, DEFINITELY ONE OF THE GEMS
[24:50] IN HELPING TO SUPPORT SO MANY
[24:52] OF OUR BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
[24:53] SO THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE,
[24:54] PAMELA, AND ALL THAT YOU DO.
[24:56] UM, I'M GOING TO GO UH, TO MY
[25:00] COUNCIL COLLEAGUES FOR THEIR
[25:01] FIRST ROUND OF QUESTIONS AND
[25:02] THEN I'LL END WITH MINE.
[25:04] UH, IN ORDER OF ARRIVAL I
[25:05] BELIEVE IT WAS COUNCILOR FLYNN
[25:08] FOLLOWED BY COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE
[25:10] AND THEN COUNCILOR WEBER.
[25:11] UM, SO COUNCILOR FLYNN, YOU NOW
[25:14] HAVE THE FLOOR AND FIVE
[25:16] MINUTES.
[25:17] THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
[25:18] THANK YOU TO THE PANEL FOR
[25:20] BEING HERE.
[25:20] I LISTENED CLOSELY TO
[25:23] COUNCILOR TRAGER.
[25:24] I LISTENED CLOSELY TO TRAVIS AS
[25:26] WELL.
[25:26] UH, I HAVE A COUPLE QUESTIONS
[25:28] FOR BOTH.
[25:29] UM, COUNCILOR TRAGER, YOU
[25:32] MENTIONED IF I HEARD YOU
[25:34] CORRECTLY THAT THE NEW YORK
[25:37] CITY NEW YORK CITY POST THIS
[25:40] INFORMATION EACH YEAR ABOUT
[25:43] PRIVATE FUNDRAISING.
[25:43] IS THAT IS THAT ACCURATE?
[25:45] UH, YES, COUNCILOR.
[25:47] UM.
[25:48] AS A RESULT.
[25:49] OF.
[25:49] UH, MY BILL PASSING INTO LAW.
[25:52] UH, THE.
[25:53] PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM IS NOW.
[25:55] REQUIRED TO ANNUALLY.
[25:57] DISCLOSE, UH, PTA.
[25:59] FUNDRAISING ON AN ANNUAL BASIS
[26:01] AND POSTED ON THEIR WEBSITE.
[26:02] CORRECT.
[26:04] OKAY.
[26:05] THAT'S UM THAT'S PRETTY
[26:06] PRETTY IMPRESSIVE.
[26:07] I I'D LOVE TO SEE SOMETHING
[26:09] LIKE THAT IN BOSTON.
[26:11] UM AND AND DO ALL SCHOOLS ARE
[26:14] ALL SCHOOLS REQUIRED EVEN
[26:15] THOUGH IT IS THE ARE ALL
[26:17] SCHOOLS STILL REQUIRED TO
[26:19] SUBMIT THAT INFORMATION IN THE
[26:22] PROPER FORMAT?
[26:24] SO UH.
[26:24] CITY COUNCILOR UH IN THE PUBLIC
[26:28] SCHOOL SYSTEM.
[26:28] HERE IN NEW YORK CITY.
[26:30] ALL PARTIES OR PARENT.
[26:32] ASSOCIATIONS AND PTAS.
[26:34] WERE ALREADY REQUIRED BEFORE.
[26:36] THE PASSAGE OF MY LAW BY
[26:38] CHANCELLOR'S.
[26:38] REGULATIONS.
[26:39] WHICH ARE REGS THAT.
[26:40] GOVERN THE.
[26:41] PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM.
[26:42] TO REPORT ANY.
[26:43] FUNDRAISING ACTIVITY TO THE
[26:45] CENTRAL OFFICE.
[26:47] SO EVEN BEFORE MY BILL BECAME
[26:49] LAW, THE.
[26:50] CENTRAL OFFICE ALREADY WAS
[26:51] RESPONSIBLE.
[26:52] TO COLLECT THIS INFORMATION AND
[26:54] HAVE IT INTERNALLY.
[26:54] WHAT MY BILL DID WAS.
[26:57] MAKE THAT MAKE.
[26:58] THIS PUBLIC.
[26:59] SO UH.
[26:59] YES, EVERY YEAR THEY'RE STILL
[27:01] REQUIRED TO REPORT DATA.
[27:04] CENTRALLY AND THEN CENTRAL
[27:05] MAKES THE INFORMATION PUBLIC
[27:05] SIR.
[27:06] THAT.
[27:07] THANK YOU.
[27:08] UM, LET ME LET ME GO TO TRAVIS.
[27:12] TRAVIS IS LISTENING LISTENING
[27:14] TO THE COUNCIL OR IS THAT
[27:15] SOMETHING THAT YOU ARE STRIVING
[27:17] TO DO IS IS TO INCLUDE THAT
[27:20] TYPE OF TRANSPARENCY AND
[27:23] ACCOUNTABILITY OVER OVER TO BP?
[27:25] IS THAT IS THAT ULTIMATELY YOUR
[27:27] YOUR GOAL?
[27:28] YEAH.
[27:29] WE THANK YOU COUNCILOR.
[27:30] THAT'S EXACTLY I THINK WHAT
[27:32] WE'RE ADVOCATING FOR UM, IS
[27:35] BECAUSE THERE IS NO CENTRAL
[27:37] DATABASE OF DISINFORMATION.
[27:40] UM IT'S ALL IN.
[27:42] SILOS HERE AND THERE.
[27:43] UH.
[27:44] AND UH YOU KNOW, OTHER THAN.
[27:46] BDF WHICH HELD A NUMBER
[27:47] OF SCHOOL ACCOUNTS UNDER ITS
[27:49] PORTFOLIO.
[27:50] UM, THE REMAINING SCHOOLS.
[27:53] THAT THAT ARE.
[27:53] DON'T HAVE ACCOUNTS WITH THEM
[27:55] OR THE SCHOOLS THAT HAVE THEIR
[27:56] OWN.
[27:56] UH THEIR OWN TAX EXEMPT
[27:58] ORGANIZATIONS.
[28:00] UM, THESE ARE ALL SCATTERED
[28:02] AROUND AND.
[28:03] THE DATA IS NOT PUBLIC AND
[28:05] CERTAINLY NOT EASILY ACCESSIBLE
[28:06] BY, UH, A PARENT IN THE
[28:08] DISTRICT.
[28:11] SO SO TRAVIS, THE THE DATA IS
[28:13] NOT PUBLIC, BUT ARE THEY ARE
[28:15] THEY STILL SENDING THE DATA TO
[28:18] BEEPS OR OR SOME SCHOOLS SEND
[28:21] IT IN SOME SCHOOLS?
[28:23] UM NOT PARTICIPATE.
[28:25] DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA?
[28:27] UM I THINK THAT'S PROBABLY A
[28:28] GOOD.
[28:29] UH, MR.
[28:30] DAVID BLOOM WHO I BELIEVE WAS
[28:31] ON THE, UH, ADMINISTRATION
[28:32] PANEL CAN SPEAK TO THAT BETTER.
[28:34] UH.
[28:34] THE SUPERINTENDENT CIRCULAR
[28:36] DOES.
[28:36] UH, DOES.
[28:38] SPECIFY THAT SCHOOLS SHOULD.
[28:39] BE SENDING.
[28:40] THE 520 THREES SHOULD BE
[28:42] SENDING THAT INFORMATION TO
[28:44] BP'S.
[28:45] UM.
[28:46] BUT THE THE INFORMATION THAT
[28:48] WE THE LIST OF SCHOOLS BIBLE
[28:50] AND C THREE IS THAT THE
[28:52] ADMINISTRATION WAS ABLE TO
[28:53] PROVIDE.
[28:53] US DID NOT HAVE ANY OF THE.
[28:55] ACTUAL FINANCIAL.
[28:57] DATA IT JUST HAD THE LIST
[28:58] OF THE SCHOOLS THAT HAD THEIR
[29:00] OWN TAX EXEMPT ORGANIZATIONS.
[29:03] OKAY.
[29:03] UM AND AND MAYBE ONE
[29:06] QUESTION ONE FINAL QUESTION TO
[29:07] UM THE COUNCIL AGAIN.
[29:09] SO MARK IS IS THAT INFORMATION
[29:13] READILY AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC
[29:14] IN AN EASY TO UM LOOK AT FORMAT
[29:18] ON ON SOCIAL MEDIA?
[29:20] IS IT IS IT EASY FOR PARENTS OR
[29:22] ANY ANY ANYONE IN THE PUBLIC TO
[29:24] LOOK AT IT AND AND FIND OUT
[29:26] EXACTLY WHAT'S HAPPENING IN
[29:26] THEIR SCHOOL?
[29:28] UH, YES.
[29:29] SEE FOR.
[29:30] THE D.O.E..
[29:32] IS REQUIRED.
[29:32] TO POST IT ON ITS WEBSITE UH
[29:34] IN.
[29:35] EASILY EASY TO FIND AND THE
[29:37] REASON WHY WE KNOW.
[29:38] IT'S STILL.
[29:39] UH WORKING.
[29:41] IS BECAUSE EVERY ALMOST EVERY
[29:43] YEAR.
[29:43] THE MEDIA IN NEW YORK CITY WILL
[29:46] GET.
[29:47] GET AHOLD OF THAT DATA ONCE
[29:48] IT'S ON THE WEBSITE AND THERE'S
[29:50] USUALLY NEWS STORIES.
[29:51] THAT THAT COME.
[29:52] FROM THAT BECAUSE.
[29:54] WE STILL HAVE A.
[29:55] SITUATION WHERE YOU KNOW.
[29:57] ABOUT.
[29:58] 24 SCHOOLS.
[29:59] UH, YOU.
[29:59] KNOW, RAISED ABOUT.
[30:01] $1 MILLION.
[30:02] OR MORE UH, OVER 40 SCHOOLS
[30:04] RAISED OVER 500,000.
[30:06] AND THEN OVER 370 SCHOOLS
[30:09] REPORTED NO PTA.
[30:10] INCOME AT ALL.
[30:11] UH, AND SO THERE ARE.
[30:12] SOME VERY DEEP.
[30:13] DEEP DISPARITIES.
[30:14] ALSO SOME SERIOUS QUESTIONS.
[30:16] TO THE D.O.E. HERE IN NEW YORK
[30:17] CITY ABOUT.
[30:19] WHY DO.
[30:19] WE HAVE SO MANY SCHOOLS WITH
[30:21] NO ACTIVE.
[30:21] PA OR PTA AT ALL.
[30:23] SEPARATE AND.
[30:24] APART FROM THE MONEY.
[30:25] WHAT'S HAPPENING.
[30:26] OR WHAT'S NOT HAPPENING AT.
[30:28] THIS SCHOOL AND.
[30:28] WHAT ARE THEY DOING TO TO.
[30:29] PROVIDE BASE OF SUPPORT.
[30:31] TO HELP FAMILIES ORGANIZE
[30:33] THERE?
[30:33] SO YES SIR IT'S.
[30:34] IT'S MADE AVAILABLE ON THE.
[30:35] WEBSITE PUBLIC FACING.
[30:37] WELL THANK YOU COUNSELOR AND
[30:39] THANK YOU TRAVIS AND I I
[30:42] RESPECT THE WORK THAT YOU YOUR
[30:45] COLLEAGUES MARK WERE ABLE TO
[30:46] ACCOMPLISH.
[30:47] UM, IT SEEMS LIKE IT'S ABOUT
[30:51] TRANSPARENCY.
[30:51] IT SEEMS LIKE IT'S ABOUT
[30:53] ACCOUNTABILITY.
[30:53] I I ALSO SUPPORT WHAT TRAVIS IS
[30:56] TRYING TO DO AS WELL.
[30:57] UM, UH, BUT I DO FIND IT
[31:00] REMARKABLE THAT NEW YORK CITY
[31:02] IS ABLE TO DO THAT.
[31:03] I SAY THAT IN A IN A
[31:06] COMPLIMENTARY WAY.
[31:07] UM, YOU KNOW, WE I DON'T THINK
[31:10] WE'RE WE'RE EVEN CLOSE TO BEING
[31:12] WHERE YOU GUYS ARE.
[31:14] BUT I DO THINK IN THE INTEREST
[31:16] OF TRANSPARENCY AND
[31:17] ACCOUNTABILITY, I THINK I THINK
[31:19] FAMILIES IN THE COMMUNITY WOULD
[31:21] LIKE TO RECEIVE THAT TYPE
[31:23] OF INFORMATION.
[31:24] JUST MY OWN OPINION.
[31:25] UM, MADAM CHAIR, THANK YOU VERY
[31:27] MUCH.
[31:28] THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.
[31:29] AND I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT
[31:30] WE'VE ALSO BEEN JOINED BY
[31:32] COUNCILOR CULPEPPER.
[31:33] UH, AND WE'RE DOING QUESTIONS
[31:36] IN THE ORDER OF ARRIVAL.
[31:37] UM, SO WE HAVE
[31:39] COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE UP NEXT
[31:41] FOLLOWED BY COUNCILOR WEBER AND
[31:43] THEN COUNCILOR CULPEPPER.
[31:45] COUNCILOR?
[31:46] UH LOUIJEUNE.
[31:47] YOU NOW HAVE THE FLOOR IN FIVE
[31:50] MINUTES.
[31:50] THANK YOU, CONCILOR MEJIA HERE.
[31:51] AND THANK YOU TO EVERYONE FOR
[31:53] BEING HERE.
[31:53] APOLOGIES THAT I'M NOT ON
[31:54] CAMERA HAVING LIKE TECHNICAL
[31:57] DIFFICULTIES, BUT, UH, I WANTED
[31:58] TO START OFF WITH
[32:00] COUNCILOR TRAGER FROM OPPONENT
[32:01] COUNSELOR TRAGER.
[32:01] THANK YOU FOR BEING WITH US.
[32:03] UM, CAN YOU TELL ME WHEN WAS
[32:05] YOUR BILL ENACTED INTO LAW?
[32:08] UH, THIS WAS, UH, BEFORE
[32:10] BEFORE.
[32:11] THE PANDEMIC.
[32:12] UH, 2028.
[32:14] NOTICE HOW MY MIND WORKS THAT
[32:15] WAY.
[32:15] YEAH.
[32:16] ACADEMIC POST PANDEMIC.
[32:17] BUT THIS WAS ENACTED.
[32:19] BACK IN 2018.
[32:20] THANK YOU.
[32:21] AND AND AND SO WE WENT FROM A
[32:24] PERIOD IN NEW YORK CITY OF UH
[32:26] NOT HAVING TRANSPARENCY AROUND
[32:28] THAT UH, TO HAVING
[32:30] TRANSPARENCY.
[32:31] UH, WAS IT A COMPLETE BLACK BOX
[32:33] BEFOREHAND?
[32:36] SO WE WE KNEW THAT CENTRALLY
[32:39] THE D.O.E..
[32:40] HELD ON TO THIS INFORMATION.
[32:42] BUT IT WAS LIKE PULLING.
[32:43] TEETH AT TIMES TO GET.
[32:45] IT OUT.
[32:46] AND WE HAD.
[32:47] YOU KNOW, SOME TAS.
[32:50] SHARE STORIES ABOUT WHAT.
[32:51] THEY RAISED AND SO IT.
[32:53] WAS LARGELY ANECDOTAL.
[32:55] CITY COUNCILOR AND AND THE
[32:57] PURPOSE.
[32:57] OF.
[32:58] THE BILL WAS TO MOVE FROM
[32:59] ANECDOTES TO EVIDENCE.
[33:00] BASED UH, TRANSPARENCY AND
[33:03] DECISION MAKING WHEN IT COMES
[33:04] TO FUNDRAISING HERE.
[33:05] AND WE'RE ALL THE PARTIES AND
[33:08] ASSOCIATIONS WERE THEY ALL FIVE
[33:11] ORGANIZATIONS 503.
[33:12] .
[33:13] NOT EVERY NO NOT EVERY ONE BUT.
[33:17] ONE OF THE BIGGEST THINGS THAT
[33:18] I.
[33:18] DIDN'T.
[33:19] EXPECT TO GET OUT OF THE.
[33:20] BILL.
[33:21] UH.
[33:21] WHICH WAS.
[33:22] EYE OPENING FOR MY COLLEAGUES
[33:23] AND STAKEHOLDERS.
[33:24] WAS THE FACT THAT WE HAD OVER.
[33:26] 300 SCHOOLS THAT.
[33:28] REPORTED NO.
[33:29] ACTIVITY WHATSOEVER.
[33:31] UM.
[33:32] I DIDN'T EXPECT THAT.
[33:33] WE DIDN'T KNOW THAT.
[33:35] WE HAD GOOD OUT OF HOW MANY.
[33:36] OUT OF OVER.
[33:37] 1600 SCHOOLS.
[33:39] IN NEW.
[33:39] YORK CITY.
[33:40] MHM.
[33:40] THAT'S A SIGNIFICANT NUMBER
[33:41] AND WE DIDN'T WE HAD NO.
[33:43] IDEA THAT WE HAD SO MANY
[33:44] INACTIVE OR NOTHING WHATSOEVER
[33:46] .
[33:46] AND SO THAT PUT PRESSURE ON
[33:47] THE.
[33:48] D.O.E. TO START.
[33:49] ROLLING UP THEIR.
[33:50] SLEEVES TO FIGURE OUT.
[33:51] WHAT'S HAPPENING, WHAT'S NOT
[33:52] HAPPENING AT THOSE SCHOOL
[33:53] COMMUNITIES HOW.
[33:54] TO BETTER SUPPORT.
[33:55] SUPPORT FAMILIES.
[33:56] UH, BUT YOU KNOW, SOME SOME
[33:58] FOLKS HAD.
[33:58] DIFFERENT STRUCTURES BUT THEY
[34:00] WERE STILL REQUIRED TO REPORT
[34:02] THE.
[34:02] FUNDRAISING AND THAT TYPE
[34:04] OF SPENDING TO THE D.O.E.
[34:05] CENTRAL.
[34:05] OUR BILL JUST SIMPLY FORCED.
[34:07] IT TO BECOME PUBLIC.
[34:08] THANK YOU.
[34:09] AND IF THEY WEREN'T ORGANIZED
[34:10] THOSE 523.
[34:10] IS.
[34:11] WHAT WAS THEIR STRUCTURE?
[34:13] SOME SOME.
[34:14] SCHOOLS HAD LIKE PARENT
[34:16] ASSOCIATIONS.
[34:16] YOU KNOW.
[34:18] AGAIN EACH.
[34:19] SCHOOL KIND OF CREATED ITS OWN
[34:20] KIND OF.
[34:21] STRUCTURE WHERE SOME.
[34:24] IT JUST IT.
[34:24] VARIED SOMETIMES CITY
[34:26] COUNCILOR FROM SO LIKE.
[34:26] SOMETIMES VERY INFORMAL LIKE
[34:28] MAYBE A PARENT WHO HAD LIKE AN
[34:29] IT LIKE TOOK ALL THE MONEY AND
[34:31] DID X Y Z FOR EXAMPLE.
[34:33] YEAH.
[34:34] I MEAN BUT I WILL TELL YOU THAT
[34:37] THE BILL.
[34:37] FORCED THESE TYPES
[34:38] OF CONVERSATIONS BECAUSE WE
[34:39] DIDN'T KNOW A LOT ABOUT.
[34:40] THIS BUT WE LEARNED ABOUT IT.
[34:42] AFTER THE.
[34:42] BILL WAS PASSED.
[34:43] SO THIS WILL GENERATE THOSE.
[34:44] TYPES OF GREAT.
[34:45] DIS.
[34:46] CONVERSATIONS AND THAT
[34:47] TRANSPARENCY AS WELL.
[34:48] THANK YOU.
[34:49] AND I LIKE THAT YOU KNOW, UH,
[34:51] TRAVIS HAD MENTIONED UM
[34:53] CONNECTING TO TO PAM PAMELA
[34:55] LANES OVER AT BDF.
[34:57] IS THERE SOMETHING SIMILAR TO
[34:58] BDF IN NYC TO ACT AS A FISCAL
[35:01] SPONSOR FOR SCHOOLS THAT WANT
[35:03] TO DO SIMILAR THAT WANT TO DO
[35:05] FUNDRAISING?
[35:09] I I'M SORRY I MISSED THAT CITY
[35:11] COUNCILOR.
[35:12] IS THERE SOMETHING SIMILAR IN
[35:13] NEW YORK CITY AS A BEDFORD UH
[35:17] UH, PAMELA LANE'S ORGANIZATION
[35:19] WHERE THEY CAN ACT OR THEY ACT
[35:21] AS A FISCAL SPONSOR FOR SCHOOLS
[35:23] THAT WANT TO DO OR ENGAGE IN
[35:26] FUNDRAISING AND DON'T HAVE A
[35:28] STRUCTURE.
[35:29] SO A PART IS I'M NOT FAMILIAR
[35:30] WITH.
[35:31] BDF BUT.
[35:31] I AM.
[35:32] FAMILIAR WHEN.
[35:33] IN THE NEW YORK CITY SYSTEM WE
[35:34] HAVE SOMETHING CALLED.
[35:36] PHASE FAMILY.
[35:37] UH AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
[35:39] DIVISION WITHIN THE CENTRAL
[35:40] OFFICE.
[35:41] IT'S A.
[35:41] VERY BIG.
[35:42] PRIORITY OFFICE.
[35:43] WITHIN THE CENTRAL OFFICE THAT
[35:45] THE.
[35:45] CHANCELLOR OVERSEES.
[35:48] AND THEY'RE.
[35:48] SUPPOSED TO BE.
[35:49] THE THE CENTRAL UH OR MAIN
[35:51] TOUCHPOINT.
[35:51] FOR PARENTS.
[35:53] ASSOCIATIONS PTA, CCS.
[35:56] AND FAMILY.
[35:56] GROUPS TO PROVIDE THAT TYPE
[35:58] OF BASE LEVEL OF SUPPORT.
[35:59] IF THERE'S A.
[36:00] FAMILY THAT NEEDS TO HELP.
[36:02] OR PARENTS.
[36:02] THAT NEED.
[36:03] HELP TO ORGANIZE OR HAVE.
[36:04] ANY TYPES.
[36:05] OF BASIC QUESTIONS.
[36:06] WE HAVE THIS FACE UNIT.
[36:07] WITHIN CENTRAL THAT'S SUPPOSED.
[36:08] TO BE BE A SUPPORT.
[36:10] FOR THEM TO PROVIDE
[36:11] TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE BACK
[36:11] OFFICE.
[36:12] SUPPORT AS WELL.
[36:13] SO I HOPE THAT HOPE THAT
[36:14] ADDRESSES YOUR QUESTION.
[36:15] UH IT DOES IT SOUNDS LIKE IT'S
[36:17] A LITTLE DIFFERENT BUT I HAVE
[36:18] ONE I THINK FINAL QUESTION, UH
[36:19] ,FOR YOU.
[36:21] UH WHAT HAPPENED?
[36:22] SO THE LEGISLATION PASSED IN
[36:24] THE PRE-COVID AREA.
[36:25] WHAT HAVE YOU SEEN AS A
[36:27] TANGIBLE RESULT OF SORT OF UH,
[36:29] THE TRANSPARENCY OF THAT
[36:30] INFORMATION BETWEEN THAT TIME
[36:32] IN 2018 TO NOW LIKE WHAT ARE
[36:34] THE PRACTICAL RESULTS BEEN?
[36:35] WELL.
[36:36] I LOVE.
[36:37] THAT QUESTION BECAUSE MY
[36:38] FINAL BUDGET.
[36:40] UH BEFORE I TERM.
[36:41] LIMITED OUT.
[36:42] OF CITY COUNCIL AND UH WAS I
[36:45] WAS TOLD FOR EXAMPLE.
[36:47] THE NEW YORK.
[36:47] CITY SCHOOL FUNDING FORMULA
[36:48] THAT WE USE IN PUBLIC SCHOOL IN
[36:50] THE NEW YORK CITY SCHOOL SYSTEM
[36:51] IS CALLED FAIR STUDENT FUNDING
[36:53] FORMULA.
[36:53] IT'S A CITY CREATED FORMULA.
[36:55] AND HOW WE RESOURCE OUR
[36:57] SCHOOLS.
[36:57] AND UH, WHEN I TOOK UH WHEN I
[37:00] WHEN I JOINED THE.
[37:02] AS CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE.
[37:04] UH MOST.
[37:04] MOST OF.
[37:05] OUR.
[37:05] SCHOOLS WERE.
[37:06] NOWHERE NEAR 100% OF RECEIVING.
[37:07] THAT THAT.
[37:08] FORMULA UH, THE FUNDING
[37:09] PROMISED BY THAT.
[37:10] FORMULA.
[37:11] ,UH, WHEN WE GOT.
[37:12] SUPPORT FROM THE PANDEMIC AND
[37:14] SOME SUPPORT FROM ALBANY AND SO
[37:16] FORTH.
[37:16] UH.
[37:17] EVERY SINGLE SCHOOL RECEIVED
[37:19] 100% OF ITS FAIR STUDENT
[37:20] FUNDING.
[37:21] AND WHERE WE GAVE.
[37:22] SCHOOL COMMUNITY IS THE ABILITY
[37:24] TO.
[37:24] INVEST WHERE.
[37:25] THEY NEEDED TO INVEST IN AND
[37:27] ONE OF THE.
[37:28] GOALS THAT WE HAD BUT.
[37:29] AGAIN.
[37:29] IT'S UP TO THE SCHOOL.
[37:30] COMMUNITY, TO THE PRINCIPAL AND
[37:31] THE SCHOOL COMMUNITY THERE.
[37:32] WAS TO.
[37:35] INCREASE UH THE BASE LEVEL OF.
[37:37] SUPPORT FOR FAMILY ENGAGEMENT
[37:39] AND THIS IS.
[37:40] WHERE I WILL SAY.
[37:41] THERE'S NO MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
[37:43] BANNER HERE IN NEW.
[37:44] YORK CITY D.O.E. EITHER
[37:45] THERE'S.
[37:45] STILL A LOT MORE WORK TO DO.
[37:47] TO PROVIDE.
[37:48] MUCH.
[37:48] MUCH MORE TARGETED SUPPORT.
[37:49] MUCH MORE SUPPORT.
[37:51] UH, TO ACTIVATE MORE PA AND.
[37:53] TAS BUT.
[37:54] I.
[37:54] WOULD SAY NUMBER ONE, IT.
[37:56] WAS A.
[37:56] MAJOR TALKING POINT IN OUR
[37:57] BUDGET.
[37:57] FIGHT TO.
[37:58] PROVIDE MORE RESOURCES.
[37:59] TO PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
[38:00] AND NUMBER TWO.
[38:01] WE WE NOW.
[38:02] HAVE NO MORE ANECDOTES.
[38:03] NOW WE HAVE EVIDENCE, WE HAVE
[38:04] FULL TRANSPARENCY AND IT'S AN
[38:06] ORGANIZING TOOL.
[38:08] FOR POLICYMAKERS.
[38:09] FOR.
[38:09] PARENTS AND FAMILIES TO DEMAND
[38:11] MORE.
[38:11] FROM THE D.O.E. TO SAY HOW DO
[38:13] YOU LEVEL THE PLAYING FIELD?
[38:14] HOW DO WE MAKE SURE.
[38:15] THAT.
[38:15] ALL OF OUR.
[38:16] KIDS AND THE D.O.E. JUST TO BE
[38:17] CLEAR, IS THIS STATEWIDE
[38:19] DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION?
[38:20] OH MY APOLOGIES.
[38:21] SO UH NO, IT'S A GREAT QUESTION
[38:22] .
[38:23] SO WE HAVE THE NEW YORK.
[38:24] CITY PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM,
[38:25] WHICH IS WE ALSO CALL IT.
[38:26] THE.
[38:26] NEW YORK.
[38:27] CITY D.O.E..
[38:28] UM AND SO APOLOGIES APOLOGIES
[38:30] ON THAT.
[38:30] THIS IS THE LOCAL.
[38:31] SCHOOL DISTRICT.
[38:32] UH.
[38:32] THAT GOVERNS NEW YORK CITY.
[38:34] THANK YOU.
[38:35] I THINK I HAVE I HAVE
[38:36] FURTHER QUESTIONS, BUT I SORRY,
[38:37] TRAVIS, BUT THANKS FOR YOUR
[38:39] WORK, TRAVIS I THINK AS MANY AS
[38:40] TELLING ME THAT I'M OUT
[38:41] OF TIME.
[38:41] THANK YOU.
[38:42] UH, THANK YOU,
[38:43] COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE.
[38:44] UM.
[38:44] ALL RIGHT.
[38:45] SO SO WE WANT TO BE EQUITABLE
[38:47] HERE AND I WANT MY COLLEAGUES
[38:48] TO THINK I'M GIVING YOU MORE
[38:49] THAN I DID OTHERS.
[38:51] UM, BECAUSE I KNOW
[38:53] COUNCIL CULPEPPER IS ALWAYS
[38:54] CHECKING THE CLOCK.
[38:55] I AM I RESPECT TIME.
[38:57] UH, SO I'M GOING TO GO TO, UH,
[39:00] COUNSELOR.
[39:00] I ALSO WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT
[39:01] WE HAVE BEEN JOINED BY
[39:03] COUNCILOR FITZGERALD.
[39:04] UM, SO IN THE ORDER OF ARRIVAL,
[39:06] COUNCILOR FITZGERALD, JUST SO
[39:07] THAT YOU KNOW, IT'S
[39:08] COUNCILOR WEBER THEN FOLLOWED
[39:09] BY COUNCILOR CULPEPPER, THEN
[39:11] YOURSELF AND THEN IT WILL BE
[39:13] ALL RIGHT.
[39:14] COUNCILOR WEBER, YOU NOW HAVE
[39:15] FIVE MINUTES ON THE FLOOR.
[39:17] OKAY.
[39:17] THANK YOU VERY MUCH, TRAVIS
[39:18] .
[39:19] VERY NICE TO SEE YOU.
[39:21] UH, I GUESS UH, SO FOR FOR.
[39:24] FOR MARK.
[39:25] UH, TRAGER, UM, I I'M, UH I'M
[39:28] BORN IN NEW YORK.
[39:29] UH, MY MOM WAS A SPECIAL ED
[39:31] TEACHER IN THE BRONX FOR 30
[39:32] YEARS.
[39:33] UH, AND SO JUST THINKING SO
[39:36] HERE ONE I'M NOT SURE HOW THIS
[39:38] PLAYS OUT FOR PRIVATE
[39:40] FUNDRAISING WHEN YOU HAVE A
[39:42] SPECIALTY SCHOOL LIKE WE HAVE
[39:44] THE BOSTON ARTS ACADEMY HERE.
[39:46] MY AUNT YOU WENT FROM UH, IS
[39:48] FROM FOREST HILLS, QUEENS.
[39:49] SHE WENT TO THE HIGH SCHOOL
[39:50] PERFORMING ARTS IN NEW YORK.
[39:52] LIKE HOW HOW DO YOU THINK
[39:56] OF LIKE YOU KNOW THOSE SCHOOLS
[39:57] I FEEL LIKE NEED YOU KNOW, SORT
[40:02] OF SPECIALIZED SOURCES
[40:03] OF FUNDING UM, IN A WAY THAT'S
[40:05] DIFFERENT THAN THOSE.
[40:06] OTHER.
[40:07] SCHOOLS AND I, I JUST YOU KNOW,
[40:09] IF WE DON'T HAVE WE CAN'T BUILD
[40:10] THE SPECIAL THEATERS AND ART
[40:13] STUDIOS THERE.
[40:14] YOU KNOW, UH, WE WE DON'T HAVE
[40:16] THOSE RESOURCES.
[40:17] I JUST DID THAT COME UP IN YOUR
[40:19] DISCUSSIONS IN NEW YORK ABOUT
[40:20] OUR IMPACT LIKE A SCHOOL LIKE
[40:22] THE HIGH SCHOOL PERFORMING ARTS
[40:23] OR OR OTHER SCHOOLS LIKE.
[40:25] THAT IS THERE.
[40:27] WELL.
[40:27] FIRST SO.
[40:28] YOU CAN SORT OF THANK YOU
[40:29] FOR YOUR AND.
[40:29] FAMILY FOR YOUR GREAT FOR YOUR
[40:30] GREAT SERVICE.
[40:31] UM WHAT I.
[40:32] WOULD SAY IS THAT THE BILL WAS
[40:35] PRETTY SIMPLE.
[40:36] IN THE SENSE WHERE.
[40:39] IF THE SCHOOL.
[40:40] IS ALREADY REQUIRED BY.
[40:42] EXISTING TRANSFERS REGS.
[40:44] TO REPORT CENTRALLY.
[40:46] WHAT THEIR.
[40:47] FUNDRAISING UH.
[40:49] IS WE'RE.
[40:49] JUST SAYING.
[40:50] MAKE IT PUBLIC.
[40:52] SO IF.
[40:52] REGARDLESS OF WHAT SCHOOL UH IF
[40:55] YOU'RE IF YOU'RE GOVERNED BY
[40:57] THE CHANCELLOR'S REGULATIONS.
[40:59] TO DISCLOSE THAT INFORMATION
[41:00] CENTRALLY WE JUST WANTED TO SEE
[41:02] IT PUBLICLY.
[41:03] WE DID.
[41:03] UH, AS I MENTIONED IN MY UH,
[41:06] OPENING TESTIMONY.
[41:07] THERE WERE SOME.
[41:08] UH, CONCERNS OR SOME.
[41:09] FEEDBACK WE RECEIVED.
[41:11] FROM SOME SCHOOL COMMUNITIES UH
[41:13] .
[41:13] PARTICULARLY THOSE THAT.
[41:15] UH WE'RE RAISING.
[41:16] QUITE A.
[41:16] BIT FOR SUPPLEMENTAL UH,
[41:18] OPPORTUNITIES AND AND SERVICES
[41:20] FOR KIDS AND FOR FAMILIES.
[41:23] COMMUNITIES.
[41:24] AND I MADE.
[41:25] IT VERY CLEAR FROM THE GET.
[41:27] GO THAT MY OBJECTIVE.
[41:29] WAS JUST SIMPLY.
[41:30] JUST TRANSPARENCY AND.
[41:32] TO ULTIMATELY USE IT AS.
[41:33] A LEVERAGE TOOL.
[41:34] TO THE TO THE CENTRAL.
[41:35] SYSTEM UH.
[41:36] TO THE TO TO THE MAYOR.
[41:38] TO UH THE.
[41:39] CHANCELLOR TO SAY WHAT ARE YOU
[41:41] DOING TO HELP.
[41:42] LEVEL THE.
[41:42] PLAYING FIELD IN TERMS
[41:43] OF INCREASING.
[41:44] BASE LEVEL SUPPORT ACROSS ALL
[41:46] OF OUR UH ALL.
[41:47] OF OUR SCHOOL COMMUNITIES?
[41:48] WHAT I WOULD I WILL.
[41:49] BRING UP AGAIN CITY COUNCILOR.
[41:51] WEBER IS.
[41:52] THAT WHAT I DID NOT EXPECT?
[41:54] UH WHICH WE CAME VERY AS MUCH
[41:57] IMPORTANT TO ME AS NOT JUST THE
[41:59] MONEY BUT THE PIECE.
[42:00] BUT ALSO JUST THE JUST.
[42:02] NO STRUCTURE.
[42:03] UH, THAT THE D.O.E. WAS
[42:05] HELPING.
[42:05] SUPPORT OR ESTABLISH IN.
[42:07] OVER 370 SCHOOLS.
[42:09] UH, OUT.
[42:10] OF.
[42:10] A.
[42:10] SYSTEM OF ABOUT 1600.
[42:11] WHERE THERE WAS JUST.
[42:12] VIRTUALLY NO ACTIVITY.
[42:13] WE HAD NO.
[42:14] IDEA WHAT'S GOING ON.
[42:15] UM, AND THAT'S UNACCEPTABLE.
[42:17] UH.
[42:18] BECAUSE TO ME.
[42:19] THEY.
[42:19] WE HAVE AN OBLIGATION.
[42:20] AS.
[42:20] A FORMER TEACHER AND I'M SURE.
[42:21] I I'M SPEAKING AMONGST FOLKS
[42:22] WHO.
[42:23] AGREE FAMILIES GETTING.
[42:24] FAMILIES INVOLVED IN ANY.
[42:27] ANY WAY IS SO.
[42:28] CRITICAL TO AN EDUCATION.
[42:29] UM.
[42:30] AND THE FACT.
[42:30] THAT.
[42:31] WE HAD.
[42:31] NO INFORMATION.
[42:32] WHATSOEVER ABOUT WHAT'S
[42:33] HAPPENING.
[42:34] AT HUNDREDS OF OUR SCHOOLS.
[42:35] WAS UNACCEPTABLE TO ME AND
[42:37] THAT'S WHAT FORCED.
[42:38] THAT.
[42:39] CONVERSATION CENTRALLY.
[42:40] TO BETTER SUPPORT THAT THEY
[42:41] STAFFED UP FACE, WHICH.
[42:43] IS THAT FAMILY AND COMMUNITY
[42:44] ENGAGEMENT DIVISION IN CENTRAL.
[42:45] THEY STAFFED IT UP TO PROVIDE.
[42:48] MORE OUTREACH, MORE SUPPORT.
[42:49] AND ULTIMATELY I.
[42:50] STILL THINK WHERE THERE'S.
[42:52] MUCH MORE WORK TO DO.
[42:53] IS WE NEED MORE BASE.
[42:54] LEVEL.
[42:55] SUPPORT TO PASS AND PTA.
[42:56] I KNOW THAT THERE'S SOME TITLE
[42:57] ONE.
[42:58] REGULATIONS THAT.
[42:59] REQUIRE SOME MONEY TO GO TO
[43:00] TO.
[43:00] PARENT GROUPS WITHIN A SCHOOL
[43:02] COMMUNITY.
[43:02] IF YOU IF.
[43:03] YOU'RE A TITLE ONE.
[43:04] SCHOOL BUT.
[43:04] THAT'S NOWHERE NEAR ENOUGH SIR.
[43:05] UH.
[43:06] WE.
[43:06] NEED MUCH.
[43:07] MORE WORK TO DO ON THAT
[43:07] FRONT.
[43:08] OKAY.
[43:09] AND THEN I GUESS HOW DID IT
[43:10] WORK?
[43:11] UH, WITH YOUR BILL AND THE THE
[43:14] EXAM SCHOOLS LIKE THE SKY ISN'T
[43:17] BROAD SCIENCE FOR CONTACT
[43:19] HUNTER I DON'T KNOW DID THEY
[43:20] HAVE THEIR OWN SOURCES.
[43:22] OF FUNDING?
[43:23] YEAH.
[43:24] UH.
[43:24] SO ALL THE SCHOOLS THAT.
[43:25] THAT SUBMIT FUNDRAISING REPORTS
[43:28] TO.
[43:28] CENTRAL HAD TO.
[43:29] DISCLOSE UH.
[43:30] WHAT THEIR NUMBERS.
[43:31] WERE AGAIN.
[43:33] AND AND I GUESS WHAT DID YOU
[43:34] FIND?
[43:35] WELL.
[43:36] UH.
[43:37] I DON'T HAVE THE STUYVESANT
[43:38] DATA UP IN FRONT OF ME, BUT
[43:39] WHAT WE DID FIND IS THAT IN
[43:41] SOME OF THE, UM.
[43:43] WEALTHIER PARTS OF THE.
[43:44] CITY, UM, WE HAD.
[43:47] OVER OVER CLOSE.
[43:48] TO TWO DOZEN SCHOOLS
[43:49] RAISING.
[43:50] AT.
[43:50] LEAST OVER $1 MILLION.
[43:51] IN CERTAIN POCKETS OF.
[43:52] THE CITY.
[43:53] UM, AND YOU KNOW, THAT'S AND
[43:59] THE D.O.E..
[43:59] TESTIFIED BECAUSE.
[44:00] I ASKED THEM WHAT COULD.
[44:01] SCHOOLS USE THAT MONEY ON AND
[44:04] YOU KNOW, THAT FUNDED
[44:06] SUPPLEMENTAL ART.
[44:06] MUSIC THAT FUNDED TRIPS.
[44:08] TO EUROPE AROUND.
[44:09] THE WORLD.
[44:09] UH.
[44:10] CLUBS GALORE.
[44:12] A NUMBER OF ENRICHMENT
[44:13] OPPORTUNITIES FOR KIDS AND
[44:14] FAMILIES AND.
[44:15] AGAIN THAT'S GREAT.
[44:17] BUT WHY.
[44:19] IS IT THAT IN MY DISTRICT.
[44:20] SCHOOLS HAD TO.
[44:21] USE A.
[44:22] GOFUNDME PAGE.
[44:23] TO START A.
[44:23] DANCE CLUB IN CONEY ISLAND?
[44:25] THAT WAS UNACCEPTABLE TO
[44:26] ME AND.
[44:27] THAT'S.
[44:27] WHERE WE HAD TO YOU KNOW, I
[44:28] LEVERAGE THAT IN.
[44:29] THE.
[44:29] BUDGET CONVERSATIONS WITH THE
[44:30] SYSTEM TO.
[44:31] PROVIDE MORE SUPPORT TO SCHOOLS
[44:33] .
[44:33] THAT DON'T HAVE.
[44:34] YOU KNOW, THAT TYPE OF.
[44:36] FUNDRAISING CAPACITY.
[44:37] I GUESS BECAUSE I DO.
[44:39] SO WHEN YOU'RE SAYING THAT BUT
[44:40] THE DATA SHOWED IN LIKE SO
[44:42] YOU'RE ON THE UPPER WEST SIDE
[44:43] AND THERE'S WHATEVER YOU KNOW
[44:46] WHO LIKE THAT SCHOOL COULD
[44:48] RAISE MORE MONEY BUT WAS THAT
[44:50] ALSO HAPPENING AT THE HIGH
[44:51] SCHOOL LEVEL FOR LIKE THE EXAM
[44:55] SCHOOLS VERSUS THE NON EXAM OR
[44:57] RIGHT RIGHT.
[44:58] YEAH I MEAN YOU KNOW.
[45:01] WE SAW THAT THERE ARE.
[45:02] POCKETS OF THE CITY WHERE
[45:03] THOSE.
[45:04] SCHOOLS YOU KNOW.
[45:05] EXIST UH SOME WHERE.
[45:07] SOME OF THOSE SCHOOLS.
[45:07] EXIST WHERE THEY.
[45:08] HAD SIGNIFICANT CAPACITY.
[45:11] TO RAISE.
[45:11] LARGE SUMS OF MONEY AND THAT'S
[45:13] SEPARATE AND APART FROM ANY
[45:14] FOUNDATIONS.
[45:15] SOME OF THESE SCHOOLS ALSO HAVE
[45:17] ALUMNI FOUNDATIONS THAT
[45:18] SUPPLEMENT WHAT.
[45:19] YOU'RE SPEAKING.
[45:20] ABOUT.
[45:20] WHICH IS.
[45:21] ALSO UH.
[45:21] YOU.
[45:22] KNOW, THAT'S A SEPARATE.
[45:23] POT OF MONEY BUT THAT'S.
[45:24] THAT'S.
[45:24] THEIR OWN.
[45:24] THEIR OWN REGULATIONS.
[45:26] BUT YES OR UH THEY WE BUT WE
[45:29] EXPECTED.
[45:30] SOME OF THAT AND THAT'S WHAT WE
[45:32] WANTED TO SEE IN THE.
[45:33] BILL WHAT WE DIDN'T.
[45:34] EXPECT AND WHICH.
[45:36] WAS.
[45:36] CRITICALLY IMPORTANT TO US.
[45:37] AS WELL WAS.
[45:38] HUNDREDS OF SCHOOLS REPORTING
[45:39] NOTHING WHATSOEVER.
[45:41] UH AND THAT WAS EYE OPENING FOR
[45:42] US IN THE CITY COUNCIL.
[45:44] THANK YOU.
[45:45] THANK YOU COUNCIL WITH I'M
[45:47] SORRY.
[45:47] WE NO PROBLEM.
[45:48] THANK YOU.
[45:50] UM, AND BEFORE I MOVE ON TO
[45:52] MY CUT MY THE NEXT UH, PERSON
[45:54] LINED UP UH, I'M JUST CURIOUS,
[45:57] UH, COUNSELOR CHAPTER IS, UM
[45:59] DID YOU AT THE TIME WHEN YOU
[46:01] WERE THAT CHAIR OF EDUCATION,
[46:02] DID YOU OVERSEE THE EDUCATION
[46:03] BUDGET, WHICH IS WHY YOU WERE
[46:05] FAR MORE INTIMATE WITH THE
[46:07] INNER WORKINGS.
[46:08] YEAH.
[46:09] SO IN ADDITION.
[46:10] TO BEING THE CHAIR OF THE
[46:11] EDUCATION.
[46:12] COMMITTEE WAS ALSO A MEMBER
[46:13] OF WHAT'S.
[46:14] CALLED THE CITY.
[46:15] COUNCIL BUDGET NEGOTIATION TEAM
[46:16] WHICH HELPED.
[46:17] NEGOTIATE THE BUDGET.
[46:19] UH, WITH UH WHEN SUPPORTED WITH
[46:21] WITH OUR SPEAKER AT THE.
[46:23] TIME AND WITH THE MAYOR MAYORAL
[46:25] MINISTRATION AT THE TIME.
[46:26] YES.
[46:26] OKAY.
[46:27] SO YOU HAD A SEAT AT THE
[46:28] TABLE.
[46:28] THAT'S GREAT.
[46:30] AND THE DATA NOW TO WORK WITH
[46:32] GREAT.
[46:32] THANK YOU FOR THAT.
[46:33] UM I'M GOING TO MOVE ON NEXT TO
[46:36] COUNCILOR CULPEPER FOLLOWED
[46:37] THEM BY COUNCILOR FITZGERALD
[46:39] AND THEN MY ROUND OF QUESTIONS
[46:41] COUNCILOR CULPEPER YOU NOW HAVE
[46:42] THE FLOOR IN FIVE MINUTES.
[46:43] THANK YOU, MADAM.
[46:44] CHAIR, FOR.
[46:45] HOLDING THIS.
[46:46] UH, THIS IMPORTANT AND
[46:48] INFORMATIVE HEARING AND, UH,
[46:52] COUNCIL I JUST HAVE A COUPLE
[46:53] OF QUESTIONS.
[46:54] UH, DID YOU SEND US A LETTER?
[46:56] DO WE HAVE THAT LEGISLATION
[46:57] THAT YOU FILED AND THAT WAS
[46:59] PASSED?
[47:00] UH, DO WE.
[47:01] HAVE A COPY OF IT?
[47:02] UH, I'M HAPPY.
[47:04] TO TO FORWARD UH.
[47:06] TO THE CHAIR.
[47:07] AND THE CHAIR.
[47:07] ABSOLUTELY SURE.
[47:09] AND SO DID.
[47:10] THE DIFFERENT SCHOOLS HAVE
[47:13] EITHER A PERSON DEDICATED TO
[47:18] JUST DOING FUNDRAISING OR DID
[47:20] THEY HAVE A FUNDRAISING
[47:21] DEPARTMENT OR DID THEY HIRE
[47:23] PRIVATE FOR FUNDRAISING?
[47:25] WHAT WERE THE DIFFERENT
[47:27] ITERATIONS OF HOW THE FUNDS
[47:28] WERE RAISED?
[47:29] WELL.
[47:30] I'LL TELL YOU CITY
[47:32] COUNCILOR, THAT'S.
[47:32] THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION BECAUSE
[47:33] IT.
[47:34] IT THE.
[47:34] BILL REVEALS.
[47:36] THE DIFFERENT.
[47:37] STRUCTURES THAT YOU'RE.
[47:38] SPEAKING ABOUT BECAUSE AGAIN.
[47:40] ALL WE.
[47:41] HAD.
[47:41] PRIOR TO THE BILL.
[47:43] WAS THE.
[47:44] EXPECTATION AND HEARING
[47:46] ANECDOTES.
[47:46] ABOUT SOME SCHOOLS RAISING TONS
[47:48] OF MONEY, SOME SCHOOLS HAVING
[47:49] NOTHING OR SOMETHING IN BETWEEN
[47:52] UH, AND NOT KNOWING ALL THE
[47:53] DIFFERENT.
[47:53] STRUCTURES UM AND SO BUT.
[47:55] BUT IN.
[47:57] THE CHANCELLOR'S.
[47:57] REGULATIONS THAT.
[47:58] PREDATE MY.
[47:59] BILL BEING.
[48:00] PASSED INTO LAW.
[48:01] THERE WAS UH A REQUIREMENT THAT
[48:05] WHETHER YOU HAVE A.
[48:06] YOU KNOW, A PTA OR A PA.
[48:08] UH A PARENT ASSOCIATION.
[48:09] A PARENT ORGANIZATION WITHIN
[48:10] YOUR SCHOOL.
[48:11] COMMUNITY IF YOU'RE.
[48:12] RAISING MONEY YOU.
[48:13] HAVE TO REPORT IT IN WHATEVER
[48:16] THE STRUCTURE IS.
[48:17] IF YOU'RE RAISING MONEY.
[48:18] WORKING WITH THE SCHOOL WITH
[48:20] THE YOU KNOW, THE.
[48:21] SCHOOL COMMUNITY, THIS IS NOT
[48:23] YOU KNOW, SOME IF YOU START A
[48:24] NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION IN THE
[48:25] COMMUNITY FROM THE SCHOOL.
[48:27] THAT'S NOT.
[48:28] WHAT WE'RE TALKING WE'RE
[48:28] TALKING ABOUT.
[48:29] SCHOOL BASED FUNDRAISING.
[48:31] THEN YOU ARE REQUIRED BY.
[48:33] REGULATIONS TO REPORT THAT
[48:34] INFORMATION TO THE CENTRAL
[48:36] OFFICE.
[48:36] WE UH.
[48:37] CITY COUNCIL, CITY COUNCIL,
[48:39] COUNCIL MEMBERS WANTED TO HAVE
[48:41] ACCESS.
[48:41] TO THAT DATA.
[48:42] THE D.O.E..
[48:43] INITIALLY DID NOT WANT TO, UH.
[48:45] SHARE A LIST, SO WE HAD TO PASS
[48:47] A BILL TO.
[48:48] FORCE THEM TO REQUIRED.
[48:49] TO DISCLOSE IT.
[48:50] AND DID A REPORT THE STRUCTURE
[48:55] OF THE ACTUAL FUNDRAISING
[48:58] ORGANISM.
[48:58] YES.
[48:59] WELL, THEY.
[49:00] BROKE IT.
[49:00] DOWN WHETHER.
[49:01] THE PTA, WHETHER IT'S A PA OR.
[49:03] SOME PARENT STRUCTURE.
[49:05] UM, WE.
[49:06] LEARNED AFTER.
[49:08] AFTER WE LEARNED THAT HUNDREDS
[49:10] OF SCHOOLS.
[49:11] HAD NO ACTIVITY WHATSOEVER.
[49:13] WE LEARNED THAT.
[49:14] SOME PARENTS SOME FAMILIES.
[49:17] UH.
[49:17] NEEDED SOME SUPPORT.
[49:18] FROM D.O.E..
[49:20] IN TERMS OF ESTABLISHING WHAT.
[49:22] STRUCTURE THEY.
[49:22] WANTED TO STRUCTURE.
[49:23] SOME OF THEM.
[49:24] SAID WE DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO
[49:25] SUBMIT IT.
[49:26] WE DIDN'T KNOW WHO TO.
[49:27] SUBMIT IT TO.
[49:28] IT GENERATED A WHOLE BUNCH OF.
[49:29] CONVERSATIONS AND AND.
[49:31] AND AND.
[49:32] VERY REVEALING INFORMATION
[49:34] ABOUT.
[49:34] THE STRUCTURES.
[49:35] THAT YOU'RE SPEAKING.
[49:35] ABOUT WHERE THEY NEEDED.
[49:37] TO KIND OF PROFESSIONALIZE OR.
[49:39] GET PROFESSIONAL SUPPORT FROM
[49:40] THE.
[49:41] D.O.E. WHICH.
[49:41] THEY WERE NOT GETTING
[49:42] BEFORE.
[49:42] AND THAT'S.
[49:43] WHY SIR.
[49:44] I WILL SAY THEY HAD TO STAFF
[49:46] UP THE.
[49:47] FAMILY AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
[49:48] DIVISION CALLED.
[49:49] FACE IN D.O.E. CENTRAL.
[49:51] IN LIGHT.
[49:52] OF THIS.
[49:52] BILL BECAUSE WE REALIZED THE
[49:54] EXTENT.
[49:54] OF THE PROBLEM OF HOW MANY
[49:55] FAMILIES IN SCHOOL COMMUNITIES
[49:56] WHO NEEDED THAT THE TYPE
[49:57] OF BACK OFFICE INSTITUTIONAL
[49:59] SUPPORT.
[50:00] DID THE BILL REQUIRE THAT THEY
[50:03] ONCE A BILL WAS FILED AND
[50:05] PASSED, DID IT REQUIRE THAT
[50:07] THEY FOLLOW A CERTAIN STRUCTURE
[50:10] IN ORDER TO DO THE FUNDRAISING
[50:12] OR DID YOU CONTINUE TO ALLOW
[50:13] THEM TO DO IT AS BEST THEY
[50:16] COULD?
[50:18] THE BILL SIMPLY SAID D.O.E.
[50:22] MAKE PUBLIC WHAT YOU HAVE.
[50:24] UM, THAT'S THAT'S THAT WAS THE
[50:26] BEAUTY OF THE BILL.
[50:27] IT WAS SOLELY.
[50:29] A TRANSPARENCY BILL.
[50:30] REMEMBER ALSO SIR.
[50:31] IN.
[50:31] NEW YORK.
[50:32] NEW YORK WE HAD SOMETHING
[50:33] CALLED MAYORAL.
[50:33] CONTROL WHERE.
[50:35] WE CANNOT.
[50:36] FORCE IN THE CITY
[50:37] COUNCIL OF NEW YORK.
[50:38] CITY THEY.
[50:39] CANNOT FORCE.
[50:39] SUBSTANTIVE POLICY CHANGES
[50:42] BECAUSE THE.
[50:43] STATE OF.
[50:43] NEW YORK GRANTS THAT POWER
[50:45] TO.
[50:45] THE MAYOR AND.
[50:46] TO.
[50:46] THE CHANCELLOR.
[50:47] BUT WE DO HAVE THE POWER TO.
[50:48] DO IS TO.
[50:49] MAKE INFORMATION PUBLIC.
[50:50] TO REPORT DATA.
[50:52] SO IT WAS A REPORTING BILL.
[50:54] FORCING THEM TO DISCLOSE THE
[50:55] NUMBERS THAT.
[50:56] THAT THEY ALREADY HAD
[50:57] CENTRALLY.
[50:58] SO IF A SCHOOL BROUGHT ON UH,
[51:01] PRO BONO A PRIVATE FUNDRAISER,
[51:04] THEY COULD CONTINUE TO USE THAT
[51:06] FUNDRAISER TO RAISE THE FUNDS
[51:08] SO LONG AS THEY REPORTED WHAT
[51:10] THEY RAISED TO YOU.
[51:12] MY SENSE IS.
[51:13] THAT THE SCHOOL.
[51:14] WOULD I COULD SPEAK ABOUT NEW
[51:16] YORK CITY.
[51:17] SO FORGIVE.
[51:17] ME.
[51:18] IF I'M IN.
[51:18] BOSTON.
[51:19] BUT MY SENSE IS IF.
[51:20] A.
[51:21] SCHOOL DID SOMETHING LIKE.
[51:21] THAT IT WOULD BE ALSO BEST.
[51:23] TO.
[51:23] CHECK IN WITH.
[51:24] THE ADMINISTRATION
[51:26] SUPERINTENDENT'S OFFICE TO MAKE
[51:27] SURE THAT.
[51:27] AND FACE WHICH.
[51:28] IS THAT FAMILY ENGAGEMENT
[51:29] DIVISION TO MAKE.
[51:30] SURE.
[51:31] THAT IT'S FULLY IN COMPLIANCE
[51:32] WITH ALL.
[51:32] OF THE.
[51:33] REGULATIONS AND RULES.
[51:34] UH, BUT YEAH, I MEAN ANYTHING.
[51:37] I'M SURE.
[51:38] BY.
[51:38] THE WAY.
[51:39] THE JOB OF FACE IS TO
[51:41] PROVIDE THAT TYPE.
[51:42] OF SUPPORT WHERE YOU WOULDN'T.
[51:43] NEED TO.
[51:44] HAVE A CONSULTANT OR AN
[51:45] OUTSIDE.
[51:46] PERSON COMING IN TO HELP AND
[51:47] ASSIST YOU.
[51:48] THERE'S A VERY THERE'S A.
[51:49] THERE'S AN.
[51:50] OFFICE AND DIVISION WITHIN THE
[51:51] CENTRAL AND IN NEW YORK CITY.
[51:53] PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM THAT'S.
[51:54] SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED FOR THIS.
[51:56] TYPE OF SUPPORT.
[51:56] FOR PARENTS AND FAMILIES IN THE
[51:58] SCHOOL COMMUNITY.
[51:59] AND SO WHAT DOES FACE STAND
[52:01] FOR?
[52:01] WHAT DOES THAT ACRONYM STAND
[52:02] FOR IT?
[52:03] IT STANDS FOR FAMILY.
[52:05] AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
[52:07] OKAY.
[52:07] THAT'S THE ONE OKAY.
[52:08] AND SO THE SCHOOLS THAT UH YOU
[52:11] SAW THE HUNDREDS.
[52:13] OF PARENTS THIS WOULD BE YOUR
[52:14] LAST QUESTION.
[52:15] OKAY.
[52:15] THE HUNDREDS OF SCHOOLS THAT
[52:16] YOU SAW WEREN'T RAISING MONEY.
[52:19] WAS THERE ANY INCENTIVE OR ANY
[52:21] WAY THEY NOW SAW THAT MAYBE WE
[52:26] SHOULD BEGIN TO RAISE THE MONEY
[52:26] AND THEY STARTED RAISING MONEY.
[52:29] SO I WILL.
[52:30] SAY THAT THERE WERE A VARIETY
[52:32] OF REASONS.
[52:32] WHY WE WE WERE TOLD.
[52:34] WHY THEY DIDN'T.
[52:35] DISCLOSE ANYTHING OR NOTHING
[52:36] WAS DISCLOSED.
[52:37] UH.
[52:38] AGAIN, IN SOME CASES THEY
[52:40] HAD INFORMATION INTERNALLY.
[52:42] THEY DIDN'T.
[52:42] KNOW HOW.
[52:43] TO SEND IT IN.
[52:45] THEY DIDN'T KNOW WHO TO SPEAK
[52:46] TO.
[52:46] SO THERE.
[52:47] WAS A BREAKDOWN IN
[52:48] COMMUNICATION.
[52:48] SOME SCHOOLS.
[52:49] HAD ABSOLUTELY NO UH FORMAL.
[52:51] STRUCTURE OR ACTIVITY
[52:53] WHATSOEVER.
[52:53] WHICH AGAIN TO ME IS
[52:54] UNACCEPTABLE.
[52:55] YEAH.
[52:56] UM AND.
[52:56] SO THERE WERE A VARIETY
[52:57] OF REASONS WHY.
[52:58] THEY.
[52:58] REPORTED ZERO.
[52:59] BUT JUST I.
[53:00] WANT TO READ UP THIS POINT
[53:01] VERY IMPORTANT FOR ME.
[53:01] JUST BECAUSE A SCHOOL REPORTED
[53:03] ZERO OR REPORTING TO A
[53:04] STRUCTURE.
[53:05] DOESN'T MEAN THE FAMILIES.
[53:06] DON'T CARE.
[53:07] DIDN'T CARE.
[53:08] THERE'S A VARIETY OF REASONS
[53:09] .
[53:09] WHY THAT HAPPENED.
[53:10] MOST OF WHICH IS NOT THE
[53:12] PARENTS FAULT.
[53:12] IT'S THE FAULT OF THE CENTRAL
[53:14] SYSTEM.
[53:14] THAT FAILED TO ADEQUATELY
[53:15] SUPPORT THAT SCHOOL COMMUNITY.
[53:17] THANK YOU COUNCILOR APPRECIATE
[53:19] IT.
[53:20] GREAT INFORMATION.
[53:21] THANK YOU.
[53:22] THANK THANK YOU
[53:23] COUNCILOR CULPEPPER I'LL MOVE
[53:24] ON NEXT TO COUNCILOR FITZGERALD
[53:27] .
[53:27] YOU NOW HAVE THE FLOOR.
[53:30] THANK YOU CHAIR AND THANK YOU
[53:31] EVERYONE TO BE ON THE PANEL
[53:32] TODAY.
[53:33] UM.
[53:33] UH.
[53:34] JUST A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS.
[53:35] I'M LOOKING AT UH UH, THE
[53:38] EDUCATION FUNDS, BOSTON.
[53:39] EDUCATION FUNDS.
[53:40] UH.
[53:41] WEBSITE PAMELA.
[53:41] SO JUST A QUICK QUESTION.
[53:43] TO YOU.
[53:43] AND HELLO.
[53:44] TO MY.
[53:44] HIGH SCHOOL CLASSMATE AS WELL.
[53:45] UM.
[53:45] I'M READING HERE UNDER THE.
[53:47] UM.
[53:48] FISCAL SPONSORSHIP SERVICES.
[53:50] UH, IT SAYS BDF ALSO PROVIDES
[53:53] FISCAL SPONSORSHIP SERVICES
[53:54] INCLUDING GENERAL MANAGEMENT,
[53:55] FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATIVE
[53:57] STAFFING AND FUNDRAISING
[53:58] SERVICES TO PRIVATELY FUNDED
[54:00] PROGRAMS.
[54:01] IN ORDER.
[54:01] TO MAXIMIZE THEIR OPERATING
[54:03] CAPACITY, FACILITATE THEIR
[54:04] TIMELY INVITATION, PROPER
[54:05] COMPLIANCE, ETC. UM PRIVATELY
[54:09] FUNDED PROGRAMS IS THAT IT IS
[54:10] THE MAJORITY OF THAT UH THE
[54:13] PARENT COUNCILS.
[54:14] UH FOR.
[54:15] YOU OR IS THAT ARE YOU
[54:16] FINDING THAT THERE'S OTHER
[54:17] PRIVATE FUNDERS THAT YOU UH,
[54:20] OFFER THESE FISCAL SERVICES TO.
[54:22] WAIT?
[54:23] SORRY, I DON'T MEAN TO
[54:24] INTERRUPT,
[54:24] COUNCILOR FITZGERALD, BUT
[54:25] PAMELA IS NOT ON THIS PANEL AND
[54:28] I KNOW THAT COUNCILOR TRIGGER
[54:30] HAS A HARD STOP.
[54:31] SO WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE
[54:32] GET THROUGH THE FIRST ROUND
[54:33] OF QUESTIONS FOR BOTH.
[54:35] UH, COUNCILOR.
[54:36] FATHER OR TRAVIS.
[54:37] BUT I APOLOGIZE THAT PAMELA, UM
[54:40] I APOLOGIZE SAW YOU ON THERE.
[54:41] SO I THOUGHT IT WAS ALL AND I
[54:42] THOUGHT WE WERE JUST ONE PANEL
[54:43] HERE.
[54:44] UM.
[54:44] I YET NOT YET.
[54:47] SORRY.
[54:48] SO SORRY.
[54:48] COUNCILOR FITZGERALD, IF YOU
[54:49] COULD DIRECT QUESTIONS TO
[54:51] COUNCILOR UH, JAGGER AND TRAVIS
[54:52] FOR THIS FIRST ROUND, I THINK.
[54:54] ABSOLUTELY.
[54:54] THANK YOU, COUNCILOR.
[54:55] THANK YOU, TRAVIS, FOR BEING
[54:56] HERE.
[54:57] UM, LET ME ASK DID IT DID.
[54:59] YOU ACCOUNT IT WHEN YOU TOOK
[55:00] THIS ACCOUNTING IN?
[55:01] DID YOU HAVE TO OR WAS IT, UH,
[55:04] WHERE INDIVIDUALS REPRESENTED
[55:06] ON AND HOW MUCH THEY MAY HAVE
[55:08] DONATED UM, TO A PTA LIKE, UH
[55:11] OR WAS IT JUST THE BULK NUMBER?
[55:12] WAS IT JUST A FINAL NUMBER AT
[55:14] THE END OF LIKE THE SCHOOL
[55:15] RAISED $1,000 OR WAS IT THE
[55:18] SCHOOL RAISED 100 FROM JIMMY,
[55:19] 100 FROM TOMMY HUNDRED FROM
[55:21] BILLY ETC. RIGHT.
[55:23] SO GREAT QUESTION AS A
[55:24] COUNSELOR UH, SO WHAT WE.
[55:27] WANTED TO WE WANTED TO MAKE THE
[55:29] BILL AS.
[55:29] SIMPLE AND EASY AS POSSIBLE.
[55:31] AND WHAT.
[55:31] THAT WHAT.
[55:32] THAT MEANS IS.
[55:32] THAT WHATEVER WAS ALREADY
[55:34] REQUIRED BY OUR.
[55:36] REGULATIONS IN THE PUBLIC
[55:37] SCHOOL.
[55:37] SYSTEM WITH REGARDS TO ANY.
[55:39] UH, FUNDRAISING ACTIVITY.
[55:40] ANY FUNDRAISING ACTIVITY NEW
[55:41] YORK CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
[55:42] HAS TO BE.
[55:44] REPORTED TO CENTRAL THAT'S MY
[55:45] THAT'S MINE IS MY.
[55:46] ORG THAT'S ALREADY THE.
[55:47] SYSTEM RIGHT?
[55:48] MY BILL SIMPLY SAID CENTRAL DO
[55:51] MAKE THAT.
[55:52] MAKE THOSE NUMBERS.
[55:52] PUBLIC PER SCHOOL.
[55:54] ON AN ANNUAL BASIS.
[55:55] THAT WAS IT.
[55:56] PRIOR TO PRIOR TO YOUR.
[55:57] BILL WAS THERE.
[55:59] ARE INDIVIDUALS REPORTED UH THE
[56:01] AND THE CONTRIBUTION THAT THEY
[56:03] MADE.
[56:04] SO IF A PARENT DECIDED TO GIVE
[56:06] $1 MILLION WHAT WOULD THAT IT
[56:07] WOULD IT JUST SAY WE HAVE A
[56:09] MILLION OR WOULD IT SAY
[56:10] SO-AND-SO GAVE A MILLION AND
[56:12] THAT WAS ON THE PUBLIC RECORD?
[56:14] UH.
[56:15] PARENTS AND FAMILIES HAVE AN
[56:16] OPTION TO DISCLOSE WHEN IT
[56:18] COMES TO THEIR OWN INDIVIDUAL.
[56:19] PTA HOW THEY.
[56:20] GET THEIR.
[56:21] MONEY IF.
[56:22] IF IF SOMEONE WANTS TO
[56:23] DYNAMICALLY DONATE $1 MILLION
[56:25] TO A.
[56:25] SCHOOL THEY COULD DO THAT.
[56:27] BUT UM.
[56:29] THOSE THAT THAT TYPE OF UH
[56:31] LEVEL OF DETAIL.
[56:32] IS CONTROLLED BY CENTRAL.
[56:33] WHAT WAS MADE PUBLIC.
[56:34] SIR WAS NOT THE NAMES OF.
[56:36] WHO GAVE IT.
[56:37] WAS JUST THE AMOUNTS.
[56:38] YEAH.
[56:39] NO I JUST WONDERING IF THAT
[56:40] WAS PART OF THE PROCESS
[56:41] REGARDLESS UM AND MAYBE SOME
[56:43] OF THE POSITIVES AND NEGATIVES
[56:44] THAT COULD COME OFF OF UH, YOU
[56:46] KNOW, YOU WOULD HATE TO
[56:47] DISSUADE PEOPLE FROM
[56:48] CONTRIBUTING BECAUSE THEY KNOW
[56:49] THEIR NAME MIGHT BE ON A LIST
[56:51] FOR ALL TO SEE.
[56:52] UM ANOTHER QUESTION WAS THERE
[56:54] ANY UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES
[56:56] OF ALL THIS DATA OUT THERE, UH,
[56:58] OF THE SCHOOLS THAT MAY HAVE.
[57:00] RAISED MORE VERSUS.
[57:01] THE SCHOOLS WHO DIDN'T HAVE ANY
[57:03] UM I DON'T KNOW HOW IT WORKS
[57:04] EXACTLY IN NEW YORK PUBLIC
[57:06] SCHOOLS, BUT RIGHT IN BOSTON
[57:07] THERE'S SOME CHOICES OF WHERE
[57:08] YOU CAN GO AND DID IT.
[57:10] I WORRY THAT DOES IT GIVE ANY
[57:12] FAVORABILITY TO WANT?
[57:13] OH I LOOKED AT THE NUMBERS AND
[57:14] UH THE PTA DOESN'T RAISE MUCH
[57:16] AT THAT SCHOOL AND UH, YOU
[57:18] KNOW, WE CAN SEE WHAT WHAT IS
[57:20] OFFERED AND SO THEY CAN'T DO X,
[57:21] Y AND Z UH, BUT OVER HERE DOES
[57:23] AND ALL OF A SUDDEN UH, THERE'S
[57:25] SORT OF A RUSH TO TO YOU KNOW,
[57:27] ONE SCHOOL HAS THE UPPER HAND
[57:29] OVER THE OTHER AND FAMILIES
[57:30] MIGHT FEEL LIKE THEY'RE GETTING
[57:32] A SHORT END OF THE STICK, SO TO
[57:33] SPEAK.
[57:34] YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN?
[57:35] UH, NO, I APPRECIATE.
[57:36] THE QUESTION.
[57:37] I WOULD.
[57:37] SAY THE THE BIGGEST TAKEAWAY
[57:39] FOR ME THAT WE.
[57:41] DIDN'T SEE COMING.
[57:42] UH, WAS.
[57:43] THE FACT THAT WE HAD.
[57:44] OVER 370 SCHOOLS REPORTING
[57:46] NOTHING.
[57:47] YEAH.
[57:47] NO ACTIVITY.
[57:48] AND THAT.
[57:49] IS UNACCEPTABLE TO ME, SIR.
[57:51] AND THAT'S NOT ON THEM.
[57:52] THAT'S ON THE CENTRAL SYSTEM.
[57:55] UH.
[57:56] THEY KNEW.
[57:57] I MEAN, IT MADE.
[57:59] ME QUESTION HOW LONG DID YOU
[58:00] KNOW THIS FOR.
[58:01] AND WHAT WAS THE GAME PLAN TO
[58:02] TO.
[58:03] TO TURN THIS AROUND?
[58:05] UM AND AND THAT TO ME IS
[58:07] UNACCEPTABLE.
[58:07] BUT AS.
[58:08] FAR AS THE WAY WE RESOURCE
[58:09] SCHOOLS WE STILL RESOURCE.
[58:10] THEM THE SAME.
[58:11] AS FAR AS EVERY KID WHETHER
[58:13] YOU'RE IN SOUTH.
[58:14] BROOKLYN WHERE I LIVE OR UPPER
[58:15] WEST SIDE, YOU'RE FUNDED.
[58:18] THE SAME FUNDING FORMULA.
[58:19] IF YOU'RE A KID THAT.
[58:20] SPECIAL NEEDS YOU MIGHT GET
[58:21] SOME MORE FUNDING AND SO FORTH.
[58:23] BUT I WOULD JUST SAY THE
[58:25] BIGGEST TAKEAWAY FOR ME.
[58:26] WAS.
[58:27] THE FACT THAT.
[58:27] HUNDREDS OF SCHOOLS HAD NO.
[58:28] ACTIVITY WHATSOEVER.
[58:30] YEAH UNDERSTOOD AND ENDED THAT
[58:32] RESULT AND UH WELL I GUESS WHAT
[58:35] YOU'RE SAYING IF ANY PRIVATELY
[58:36] FUNDED BUT YOU'RE NOT SAY IT
[58:37] WAS IT EQUALLY DISTRIBUTED TO
[58:39] EACH SCHOOL IN YOUR IN THE
[58:40] SCHOOL DISTRICT OR UH YOU KNOW
[58:42] BECAUSE WHAT I'M TRYING TO
[58:43] FIGURE OUT IS WHERE THERE
[58:44] DIFFERENCE IN THE RESULTS UH
[58:46] FROM AN EDUCATION STANDPOINT
[58:48] AND HEY HERE IS A SCHOOL THAT
[58:50] MIGHT HAVE HAD SOME WEALTHY
[58:51] PARENTS IN IT AND THEY FUNDED
[58:52] THE PTA GREATLY AND THEY WERE
[58:54] ABLE TO DO SO MUCH MORE.
[58:55] STUFF AND WE SAW RESULTS
[58:56] DIFFERENT IN THE CHILD'S
[58:58] EDUCATION VERSUS THE SCHOOLS
[59:00] THAT MAYBE HAD ZERO ACTIVITY
[59:01] THE 300 SCHOOLS THAT HAD ZERO
[59:03] UH, ACTIVITY AND AND THE
[59:05] RESULTS UH FROM AN ACADEMIC
[59:08] POINT OF VIEW ON HOW IT
[59:09] AFFECTED THEM.
[59:11] WELL WHAT.
[59:12] A QUESTION.
[59:13] I MEAN, I AM A.
[59:15] FORMER I.
[59:16] CAN ANSWER.
[59:17] THAT QUESTION AS A FORMER
[59:18] TEACHER TOO THAT RESOURCES
[59:20] ABSOLUTELY.
[59:20] DO MATTER IN MANY, MANY
[59:22] WAYS.
[59:22] UH.
[59:23] WHEN WHEN I TOOK MY STUDENTS
[59:25] I TOOK GOVERNMENT AND MY FINAL
[59:27] COUPLE.
[59:27] YEARS BEFORE.
[59:28] I JUMPED THE CITY COUNCIL.
[59:30] UH.
[59:30] UH, WHEN I TOOK MY STUDENTS
[59:32] TO WASHINGTON DC UM, THAT WAS A
[59:35] GAME CHANGING EXPERIENCE FOR
[59:36] THEM.
[59:36] UM, THEY WERE ABLE TO YOU KNOW,
[59:39] THE SCHOOL THANKFULLY HAD DUE
[59:41] TO MY ADVOCACY OR A BUDGET TO
[59:44] TAKE KIDS ON SOME SOME TRIPS.
[59:46] UM, THERE ARE SOME KIDS IN MY
[59:48] FORMER DISTRICT IN CONEY ISLAND
[59:50] THAT VIRTUALLY NEVER LEFT THEIR
[59:51] ZIP CODE.
[59:52] NEVER SAW A MUSEUM IN
[59:54] MANHATTAN.
[59:55] RIGHT?
[59:55] UM, THAT WAS UNACCEPTABLE TO
[59:56] ME.
[59:57] SO YES, SIR.
[59:58] I WOULD SAY THAT THOSE
[59:59] RESOURCES MAKE A VERY BIG
[1:00:00] DIFFERENCE IN THE LIVES
[1:00:01] OF THOSE KIDS AND FAMILIES AND
[1:00:03] ALSO THE FACT THAT THEY WERE
[1:00:04] ALSO USED TO SUPPLEMENT ART,
[1:00:06] MUSIC, UM, AFTER SCHOOL
[1:00:08] PROGRAMS.
[1:00:08] IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT THE TRIPS.
[1:00:10] IT'S ABOUT SO MUCH SO MANY
[1:00:12] PROGRAMS AND OPPORTUNITIES THAT
[1:00:13] REALLY KEEP KIDS IN SCHOOL AND
[1:00:15] TO RETAIN THEM AND TO AND TO
[1:00:17] ADVANCE YOUR ACADEMIC SUCCESS
[1:00:19] AS WELL SIR.
[1:00:19] THANK YOU.
[1:00:20] IT I KNOW THAT'S MY TIME TO
[1:00:21] I JUST THINK I WANTED TO JUST
[1:00:23] MAKE THE POINT OF IF WE HAVE
[1:00:24] SCHOOLS THAT ARE PRIVATELY
[1:00:26] FUNDED UH AND ALLOW MORE ACCESS
[1:00:28] TO MORE THINGS IN IN THE WAY
[1:00:30] THAT THE BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOL
[1:00:32] SYSTEM WORKS AS WE KNOW UH, YOU
[1:00:34] COULD UM, YOU KNOW, SOME
[1:00:36] SCHOOLS MIGHT BE MORE FAVOR
[1:00:38] OTHERS AND UM, YOU KNOW, I'D
[1:00:40] HATE TO SEE ANY SCHOOL LAG
[1:00:42] BEHIND BUT UM, I UNDERSTAND
[1:00:44] ALSO IT'S ABOUT THE PARENTS
[1:00:45] INVESTING IN THEIR SCHOOL AND
[1:00:46] IT'S KIND OF LUCK OF THE DRAW
[1:00:48] OF WHO YOU GET AND DO CAN RAISE
[1:00:49] WHAT YOU ORGANIZE AROUND WHAT?
[1:00:51] SO, UM IT'S DIFFICULT BUT THANK
[1:00:53] YOU ALL FOR YOUR TIME.
[1:00:55] REALLY APPRECIATE IT.
[1:00:55] UH, AND PAMELA, I WON'T BE
[1:00:57] AROUND FOR THE SECOND PANEL.
[1:00:58] I'M SORRY.
[1:00:59] UH, I'LL JUST TEXT YOU.
[1:01:00] ALL RIGHT.
[1:01:00] THANK YOU.
[1:01:01] GUYS, WHAT.
[1:01:02] DO YOU WANT TO ANSWER THE
[1:01:03] QUESTION, PAMELA?
[1:01:04] NOW JUST AND NO ONE I'M NOT
[1:01:07] PLAYING FAVORITISM.
[1:01:09] BUT SINCE COUNSELOR FOR SHOW IS
[1:01:10] NOT GOING TO BE HERE.
[1:01:10] THANK YOU.
[1:01:11] UM, I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER.
[1:01:14] SO THE MAJORITY OF THE FUNDING
[1:01:15] THAT WE HOLD IS ALL
[1:01:16] PHILANTHROPIC.
[1:01:17] UM, WE HAVE BEEN SUPPORTING
[1:01:20] PARENT COUNCILS IF THEY CHOOSE
[1:01:22] TO UH, THAT'S ACTUALLY AN
[1:01:24] EFFORT THAT WE'VE REALLY BEEN
[1:01:26] FOCUSED ON DOING IN THE PAST
[1:01:27] TWO YEARS OR SO WHEN WE OPENED
[1:01:30] THE DOORS TO SUPPORT PARENT
[1:01:32] COUNCIL.
[1:01:33] SO THE MAJORITY OF THE FUNDING
[1:01:34] THAT WE HAVE IS REALLY TO UM
[1:01:36] HAS BEEN AT THE LOCAL SCHOOL
[1:01:38] AND DEPARTMENT LEVEL BUT WE DO
[1:01:42] HAVE COUNCILS THAT WE SUPPORT
[1:01:43] AND WE'RE TRYING TO BRING ON
[1:01:45] MORE JUST TO BE ABLE TO GIVE
[1:01:47] THEM THAT UM THAT OVERALL
[1:01:49] FOUNDATIONAL SUPPORT WHERE WE
[1:01:50] SEE THERE'S BIG INEQUITIES AS
[1:01:53] WELL.
[1:01:54] GREAT.
[1:01:55] THANK YOU FOR ANSWERING
[1:01:55] THAT.
[1:01:56] UH THANK YOU CHAIR I APPRECIATE
[1:01:57] THE EXTRA TIME I REALLY DO.
[1:02:01] YOU'RE WELCOME.
[1:02:02] DON'T SAY I NEVER GAVE YOU
[1:02:03] ANYTHING.
[1:02:05] I LET'S GO.
[1:02:06] TO UH IT'S MY TURN, I BELIEVE.
[1:02:08] UH, SO, COUNSELOR TRAGER, I'M
[1:02:11] JUST CURIOUS WHAT CHALLENGES
[1:02:13] DID YOU FACE IN WRITING.
[1:02:15] UH, AND.
[1:02:16] PASSING THIS PIECE
[1:02:18] OF LEGISLATION SPECIFICALLY
[1:02:19] KIND OF WHAT WAS THE RESPONSES
[1:02:20] FROM THE STAKEHOLDERS
[1:02:22] EDUCATORS, DISTRICT UH, LEADERS
[1:02:24] ,STUDENTS, COMMUNITY MEMBERS?
[1:02:26] UH, AND THE REASON WHY I ASK IS
[1:02:28] BECAUSE CHANGE IS NEVER EASY
[1:02:29] AND I'M SURE THERE WAS SOME
[1:02:31] FOLKS WHO WERE UBER
[1:02:33] ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT THIS AND
[1:02:34] OTHERS WERE LIKE WHY DO YOU
[1:02:35] WANT.
[1:02:35] TO BE ALL UP IN MY BUSINESS?
[1:02:37] SO I'M JUST CURIOUS IF YOU
[1:02:38] DON'T MIND KIND OF HELPING TO
[1:02:40] PAINT A PICTURE.
[1:02:41] AND THE REASON WHY I ASKED THIS
[1:02:43] QUESTION IS BECAUSE WE DO HAVE
[1:02:44] A LOT OF FOLLOWERS ON OUR
[1:02:45] INSTAGRAM AND THESE ARE THE
[1:02:46] SORT OF CONVERSATIONS THAT WE
[1:02:47] REALLY WANT PARENTS TO
[1:02:48] UNDERSTAND ARE HAPPENING AND
[1:02:50] THE ROLE THAT THEY CAN PLAY IN
[1:02:51] SHIFTING UM, POLICY.
[1:02:53] SO IF YOU COULD JUST TALK TO US
[1:02:54] A LITTLE BIT ABOUT YOUR
[1:02:55] EXPERIENCE.
[1:02:57] THERE.
[1:02:57] IT'S REALLY GREAT QUESTION.
[1:02:59] UM SO I RECEIVED SOME SOME
[1:03:04] CONCERNS UH, FROM SOME SCHOOL
[1:03:07] COMMUNITIES WHERE UH
[1:03:10] FUNDRAISING WAS PRETTY
[1:03:11] SUCCESSFUL UM, ASKING ABOUT YOU
[1:03:14] KNOW, WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR
[1:03:15] THEIR SCHOOL COMMUNITIES?
[1:03:17] UH, ARE YOU GOING TO WORK TO
[1:03:19] CAP HOW MUCH WE CAN GIVE OR ARE
[1:03:20] YOU GOING TO WORK TO
[1:03:21] REDISTRIBUTE RESOURCES?
[1:03:22] AND THAT WAS THAT WAS THAT WAS
[1:03:23] NOT UH THE INTENTION OF MY BILL
[1:03:27] WAS SIMPLY JUST TO HAVE FULL
[1:03:29] TRANSPARENCY ABOUT UH, PTA
[1:03:32] FUNDRAISING.
[1:03:32] AND I ALSO WANTED TO NOTE THAT
[1:03:36] THERE WAS IT WAS ALREADY A KIND
[1:03:37] OF UH, AGAINST CHANCES
[1:03:38] REGULATIONS TO EVEN DO
[1:03:39] SOMETHING LIKE THAT ANYWAY.
[1:03:40] AND SO NO ONE WAS PURSUING
[1:03:42] THOSE TYPES OF CHANGES.
[1:03:44] UH, WHEN I WAS PUSHING MY BILL
[1:03:46] UM, WE ALSO RECEIVED UM SOME
[1:03:50] INTERNAL UH, I WOULD SAY
[1:03:53] CONVERSATIONS OR SOME LEVEL
[1:03:55] OF CONCERNS FROM THE FROM THE
[1:03:56] D.O.E. AS WELL SAYING THAT
[1:03:58] WHENEVER YOU PASS A REPORTING
[1:04:00] BILL THAT FORCES THEM TO
[1:04:01] DISCLOSE INFORMATION THAT UM,
[1:04:04] YOU KNOW, IT COSTS MONEY FOR
[1:04:06] THEM TO DO THAT.
[1:04:07] MY RESPONSE TO THAT WAS I
[1:04:10] RESPECTFULLY, YOU'RE ALREADY
[1:04:11] REQUIRED BY YOUR OWN RULES TO
[1:04:12] COLLECT THIS INFORMATION.
[1:04:13] ALL YOU'RE DOING IS MAKING THE
[1:04:16] EXCEL CHART PUBLIC ON YOUR
[1:04:17] WEBSITE THAT YOU ALREADY PAY
[1:04:18] FOR ANYWAY.
[1:04:19] SO THIS THIS IS NOT A MAJOR
[1:04:20] COST.
[1:04:21] THIS IS NOT A MAJOR BURDEN
[1:04:22] OF ANY KIND BECAUSE TECHNICALLY
[1:04:23] YOUR OWN RULES SAY YOU HAVE TO
[1:04:25] COLLECT THIS ANYWAY.
[1:04:26] AND SO THOSE WERE THE CRUX
[1:04:29] OF THE FEEDBACKS AND CONCERNS.
[1:04:31] BUT MANY OF MY COLLEAGUES I
[1:04:33] WILL TELL YOU UH WERE VERY
[1:04:36] APPRECIATIVE UH, MANY PTAS AND
[1:04:38] FOLKS IN MY DISTRICT ARE VERY
[1:04:40] APPRECIATIVE TO TO KIND OF WORK
[1:04:41] ON THIS BECAUSE NOW NOW IT'S A
[1:04:44] MAJOR A PUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY
[1:04:45] TOOL.
[1:04:46] NOW PEOPLE GET TO ASK ABOUT THE
[1:04:49] THEIR WHETHER IT'S THEIR MAYOR
[1:04:51] OR CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS SCHOOL
[1:04:52] COMMUNITY TO SAY HEY WHAT ARE
[1:04:54] WE DOING TO MAKE SURE THAT
[1:04:55] OPPORTUNITY IS REACHING ALL
[1:04:56] OF OUR KIDS AND ZIP CODES
[1:04:58] REGARDLESS OF WHERE YOU LIVE.
[1:05:00] SO IT'S A GREAT TOOL TODAY, UH
[1:05:03] ,TO ORGANIZE TO PUSH MORE
[1:05:05] RESOURCES EQUITABLY ACROSS OUR
[1:05:06] SCHOOLS.
[1:05:07] THANK YOU.
[1:05:08] AND JUST BECAUSE I'M ALSO ON
[1:05:09] A TIMER, I HAVE TWO MORE
[1:05:10] QUESTIONS THAT I WANT TO TRY TO
[1:05:12] GET IN.
[1:05:12] UM, AND SO ONE IS AND THIS IS
[1:05:16] JUST CURIOUS CURIOSITY HERE I'M
[1:05:18] JUST WONDERING WHETHER OR NOT
[1:05:20] THE SCHOOLS WHO ARE DOING
[1:05:22] BETTER AT FUNDRAISING, WHETHER
[1:05:24] THERE ANY DISCUSSION AROUND HOW
[1:05:27] WE BUILD EQUITY MAYBE PERHAPS
[1:05:28] THEY GIVE A PERCENTAGE OF WHAT
[1:05:30] THEY RAISE BACK INTO SOME SORT
[1:05:33] OF FUNDS SO THAT THEY CAN HELP
[1:05:34] SUPPORT THE SCHOOLS THAT WERE
[1:05:35] NOT DOING GREAT.
[1:05:37] WAS THERE ANY KIND OF LIKE
[1:05:38] SOLUTIONS ASIDE FROM JUST
[1:05:39] KNOWING WHAT WE KNOW AND YOU
[1:05:41] KNOW, YOUR SUCCESSFUL BUDGET,
[1:05:42] UH, ADVOCACY WORK BUT I'M
[1:05:45] CURIOUS IF THERE WAS ANY TYPE
[1:05:46] OF DISCUSSIONS AROUND THAT.
[1:05:49] YEAH.
[1:05:50] I MEAN AGAIN, UH THE.
[1:05:53] UH IT DID.
[1:05:54] GENERATE SOME CONVERSATIONS UM,
[1:05:56] THE OUR THE CURRENT REGULATIONS
[1:05:58] IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM IN
[1:05:59] NEW YORK DON'T KIND OF ALLOW
[1:06:02] FOR LIKE SOME SORT OF UH THAT
[1:06:04] TYPE OF REDISTRIBUTION OF SOME
[1:06:05] KIND.
[1:06:05] HOWEVER, I WILL SAY THAT UH,
[1:06:08] THERE WERE THERE ARE SCHOOL
[1:06:09] DISTRICTS IN BROOKLYN, UH, IN
[1:06:11] THE COMMUNITIES AROUND PARK
[1:06:13] PROSPECT, THE PROSPECT PARK
[1:06:14] COMMUNITY, THE OTHER HALF
[1:06:15] OF THE BOROUGH THAT FOR EXAMPLE
[1:06:17] ,HAVE AN ANNUAL PROSPECT PARK
[1:06:19] WALK, UH, WHERE THEY RAISE
[1:06:21] MONEY FOR THE ENTIRE SCHOOL
[1:06:23] DISTRICT AND THEY TRY TO
[1:06:25] PROVIDE THOSE RESOURCES TO THE
[1:06:26] TO ALL THE COMMUNITY.
[1:06:28] SO IT.
[1:06:28] DID GENERATE UH OR VALIDATE
[1:06:31] SOME EFFORTS TO KIND OF DO
[1:06:33] THINGS TO KIND OF MAKE SURE
[1:06:34] THAT EVERY SCHOOL WAS WAS
[1:06:35] GETTING KIND OF A PIECE OF THAT
[1:06:36] PIE.
[1:06:37] YEAH.
[1:06:37] THE BIGGEST THING
[1:06:38] COUNCIL MEMBER WAS TO FORCE THE
[1:06:39] D.O.E. TO DO MORE AS WELL.
[1:06:42] YEAH, YEAH.
[1:06:43] AND YOU KNOW, I'M SO SORRY THAT
[1:06:45] WE DON'T HAVE A LOT OF TIME BUT
[1:06:47] I'M GOING TO USE THE PRIVILEGE
[1:06:48] OF BEING THE CHURCHES TO GO A
[1:06:49] LITTLE BIT OVER.
[1:06:50] I'M ALSO CURIOUS AROUND THE
[1:06:53] ORGANIZING WAIT, I MEAN THESE
[1:06:54] ARE THE SORT OF OPPORTUNITIES
[1:06:55] THAT REALLY INSPIRE PARENTS
[1:06:57] ORGANIZE AROUND THIS INEQUITY.
[1:06:59] DID YOU SEE ANY TYPE
[1:07:00] OF ORGANIZING HAPPENING ONCE
[1:07:02] THE PARENTS KNEW WHAT THEY
[1:07:03] KNEW?
[1:07:03] WAS THERE ANY GROUNDSWELL
[1:07:05] OF SUPPORT?
[1:07:06] AND THEN THE MY SECOND FOLLOW
[1:07:07] UP QUESTION IS I'M ALSO CURIOUS
[1:07:09] AS TO WHETHER OR NOT THE
[1:07:11] DISTRICT DECIDED THAT THEY
[1:07:13] PLAYED A ROLE IN HELPING TO
[1:07:14] BUILD THE CAPACITY OF THE
[1:07:16] PARENT COUNCILS THAT WEREN'T AS
[1:07:18] SUCCESSFUL AND WHAT ROLE, IF
[1:07:20] ANY, DID THE D.O.E. PLAY IN
[1:07:21] HELPING TO, UH, BUILD CAPACITY
[1:07:23] FOR OTHER PARENT COUNCILS?
[1:07:25] GREAT QUESTIONS.
[1:07:26] I'LL TRY TO BE AS SPECIFIC AS
[1:07:28] POSSIBLE.
[1:07:28] OUR NUMBER ONE UH, PARENTS
[1:07:30] PLAYED A TREMENDOUS ROLE.
[1:07:31] IF ANYTHING, I WOULD NOT HAVE
[1:07:32] BEEN ABLE TO DO WHAT WE DID IN
[1:07:34] THE COUNCIL IN MY FINAL YEARS
[1:07:36] IF NOT FOR PARENTS AND
[1:07:37] FAMILIES.
[1:07:37] THE REVEALING AND SOBERING DATA
[1:07:40] OUT OF THE PTA FUNDRAISING BILL
[1:07:41] AND THE FACT THAT WE ALREADY
[1:07:43] KNEW THAT MOST OF OUR SCHOOLS
[1:07:44] WERE NOT GETTING WHAT THEY'RE
[1:07:46] OWED BY THE CITY'S OWN FUNDING
[1:07:48] FORMULA KNOWN AS FAIR STUDENT
[1:07:49] FUNDING.
[1:07:49] UH, AS.
[1:07:50] I MENTIONED EARLIER, WE WERE
[1:07:52] ABLE TO ADD HUNDREDS
[1:07:53] OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN MY
[1:07:54] FINAL BUDGET TO SCHOOLS
[1:07:56] DIRECTLY TO GET EVERY SCHOOL AT
[1:07:58] 100% OF THEIR FAIR STUDENT
[1:07:59] FUNDING FORMULA UH, LARGELY
[1:08:01] BECAUSE OF PARENTS AND FAMILY
[1:08:03] ADVOCACY.
[1:08:03] AGAIN, IT'S NOT MISSION
[1:08:05] ACCOMPLISHED BECAUSE WE STILL
[1:08:06] NEED TO DO MORE TO DIRECTLY
[1:08:08] PROVIDE DIRECT AID AND SUPPORT
[1:08:09] TO PPAS AND TAS.
[1:08:11] AND THE SECOND PART IS UH YES.
[1:08:14] UH, NOW UH I COULD TELL YOU
[1:08:17] THAT UH FORGIVE ME COUNCIL
[1:08:19] WANTS TO MAKE SURE I GET THE
[1:08:20] SECOND QUESTION RIGHT.
[1:08:21] IF YOU COULD JUST REPEAT THAT
[1:08:21] VERSION.
[1:08:22] YEAH.
[1:08:22] IT WAS REALLY MORE AROUND UH,
[1:08:23] THE ROLE THAT THE D.O.E. PLAYS
[1:08:25] IF ANY IN HELPING TO SUPPORT TO
[1:08:27] BUILD THE CAPACITY OF OTHER
[1:08:28] PARENT COUNCILS SO THAT THEY
[1:08:30] CAN FUNDRAISE AS WELL.
[1:08:31] YEAH.
[1:08:32] SO TO EXCELLENT QUESTION AND
[1:08:34] TO THIS WAS ALSO RAISED I THINK
[1:08:36] BY CITY COUNCIL THAT
[1:08:38] COUNCILOR CULPEPER WITH REGARD
[1:08:39] IT FORCED THE D.O.E. TO STAFF
[1:08:41] UP THEIR FACE DIVISION FAMILY
[1:08:43] COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT DIVISION
[1:08:44] UH TO ACTUALLY PROVIDE MORE
[1:08:47] SUPPORT TO WE KNOW WHERE TO
[1:08:48] TARGET THAT SUPPORT.
[1:08:50] UM AND WE LEARNED AGAIN JUST TO
[1:08:52] BE CLEAR JUST BECAUSE OF SCHOOL
[1:08:53] WAS REPORTING ZERO IT DOESN'T
[1:08:54] MEAN FAMILIES DON'T CARE.
[1:08:56] IT WAS BECAUSE THERE WAS NO
[1:08:57] INFRASTRUCTURE UH, INVESTED IN
[1:08:58] BY THE CENTRAL DISTRICT TO
[1:09:00] SUPPORT THAT SCHOOL COMMUNITY.
[1:09:01] SO NOW THERE'S A LOT MORE FOLKS
[1:09:03] WORKING IN FAITH BUT AGAIN, NOT
[1:09:05] MISSION ACCOMPLISHED BY ANY
[1:09:06] MEANS.
[1:09:07] OKAY.
[1:09:08] AND THEN I HAVE, UH, TWO
[1:09:09] MORE QUESTIONS.
[1:09:10] ONE IS FOR, UH, TRAVIS AND
[1:09:12] THEN, UM, I'LL GO BACK TO YOU
[1:09:14] FOR YOUR MY LAST QUESTION BUT
[1:09:15] BUT TRAVIS, ACCORDING TO THE
[1:09:16] IRS CONTRIBUTIONS AND APPLY
[1:09:19] 2025 BOSTON ARTS ACADEMY HAD
[1:09:20] OVER 5 MILLION IN DONATIONS
[1:09:23] WHILE UM FENWAY HIGH SCHOOL
[1:09:25] WHICH IS JUST TEN MINUTES AWAY
[1:09:28] RECEIVED UNDER A MILLION WHICH
[1:09:29] IS STILL A LOT LIKE A MILLION.
[1:09:31] AND YOU KNOW IT'S NOT BAD BUT
[1:09:32] HOW COMMON ARE THESE
[1:09:34] DISCREPANCIES, UH, SUCH AS THIS
[1:09:36] ?
[1:09:37] UM AND WHAT DO YOU KNOW?
[1:09:39] UM, AND THE REST OF QUEST WOULD
[1:09:41] BELIEVE IS THE BEST SOLUTION TO
[1:09:43] IN TO ADDRESSING THOSE, UM,
[1:09:45] INEQUITIES.
[1:09:46] AND THEN FOR YOU, MARK, MY LAST
[1:09:47] QUESTION IS I'M GOING TO ASK
[1:09:48] YOU WHETHER OR NOT YOU THINK
[1:09:49] THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WOULD
[1:09:50] WORK HERE IN THE CITY OF BOSTON
[1:09:51] CONSIDERING THAT WE'RE NOT A
[1:09:52] DISTRICT AS LARGE AS UH, NEW
[1:09:55] YORK AND IF SO, WHAT WOULD THAT
[1:09:56] LOOK LIKE?
[1:09:56] AND THEN THAT'S IT FOR ME.
[1:09:58] THANK YOU.
[1:09:59] COUNCILOR.
[1:09:59] UM, BUT I CAN SAY IS THAT THE
[1:10:02] DISPARITIES, UH, ARE ACTUALLY
[1:10:03] WIDER THAN THE ONES THAT YOU,
[1:10:05] UH, JUST USED AS AN EXAMPLE.
[1:10:07] UM, BUT MOST AT THE ELEMENTARY
[1:10:09] LEVEL AND AT THE HIGH SCHOOL
[1:10:10] LEVEL.
[1:10:11] UM, YOU KNOW, SOME SCHOOLS HAD
[1:10:12] $11 IN THEIR UH, ACCOUNTS AND
[1:10:14] SOME SCHOOLS HAD UH MILLIONS
[1:10:17] UPON MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN
[1:10:18] THEIR ACCOUNTS.
[1:10:19] UM, AND WE WHEN WE WENT BACK
[1:10:22] AND RETRACED THE DATA FOR AN
[1:10:24] UPDATE IN 2023, UH, THE BIGGEST
[1:10:27] THING WE NOTICED IS THAT
[1:10:29] POST-PANDEMIC UH, AND POST
[1:10:31] ESSER FUNDING THAT UH, A LOT
[1:10:34] OF THE SMALLER UH FY23
[1:10:36] ORGANIZATIONS HAD FALLEN OFF
[1:10:37] AND WERE NO LONGER REPORTING
[1:10:39] UH, THEY WERE WE ASSUMED
[1:10:40] THEY'RE DEFUNCT IF THEY'RE NOT
[1:10:42] FILING WITH THE IRS.
[1:10:44] UM, BUT THE LARGEST FUNDING UH
[1:10:47] ,SCHOOLS ACTUALLY INCREASED
[1:10:49] THEIR FUNDRAISING CAPACITY
[1:10:50] DRAMATICALLY UH, OVER IN THE
[1:10:52] YEARS FOLLOWING COVID AND SO I
[1:10:55] GUESS BUT I WOULD LIKE TO LEAVE
[1:10:56] YOU WITH IF I MAY, IS JUST TO
[1:10:57] SAY THAT WITH SCHOOL BUDGETS
[1:10:58] TIGHTENING IT'S PERFECTLY
[1:11:00] UNDERSTANDABLE THAT PEOPLE WANT
[1:11:01] TO FIND OTHER FUNDING SOURCES
[1:11:02] FOR THEIR CHILD'S SCHOOL.
[1:11:04] BUT WE SHOULD BE REALLY CAREFUL
[1:11:06] NOT TO CONFLATE, UM, THE
[1:11:08] STRUCTURAL ABILITY TO RAISE
[1:11:10] MONEY WITH ACCESS TO WEALTH.
[1:11:13] UM, OUR ANALYSIS OF THE 2018
[1:11:15] DATA SHOWED THAT SCHOOLS WITH
[1:11:16] HIGHER POVERTY LEVELS, SCHOOLS
[1:11:18] SERVING A HIGH PERCENTAGE
[1:11:20] OF STUDENTS CATEGORIZED AS
[1:11:22] AFRICAN-AMERICAN AND HISPANIC
[1:11:23] DID NOT HAVE THE SAME LEVELS
[1:11:25] OF COMMUNITY WEALTH BUT SUPPORT
[1:11:27] THE DISTRICT'S MOST SUCCESSFUL
[1:11:29] FUNDRAISING SCHOOLS AND EACH
[1:11:31] CITY COUNCIL DISTRICT HAS 1 OR
[1:11:34] 2 OF THESE SCHOOLS WITH LARGE
[1:11:35] FUNDED FUNDRAISING OPERATIONS,
[1:11:37] BUT IT ALSO HAS MANY SCHOOLS
[1:11:38] THAT DO NOT AND THE SCHOOL
[1:11:40] SYSTEM THAT WE.
[1:11:41] CURRENTLY HAVE FOR ASSIGNMENT
[1:11:44] TENDS TO REINFORCE THAT
[1:11:45] DISPARITY ALREADY WHETHER THAT
[1:11:47] INFORMATION IS ON A DASHBOARD
[1:11:49] OR NOT.
[1:11:49] THANK YOU.
[1:11:51] THANK YOU FOR THAT.
[1:11:53] OKAY COUNSELOR TRIGGER AND THIS
[1:11:55] IS IT FOR YOU OKAY.
[1:11:56] YEAH.
[1:11:57] YOU GOT IT.
[1:11:57] UH, I WOULD SAY, UM TO THE CITY
[1:12:02] OF BOSTON TO TO THE COUNSELOR
[1:12:04] COUNSELORS, EVERYONE.
[1:12:05] JUST A FRIENDLY REMINDER THESE
[1:12:07] ARE PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND US
[1:12:10] POLICYMAKERS, UH, FAMILIES
[1:12:12] FOLKS HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO KNOW
[1:12:14] HOW WE'RE RESOURCING OUR
[1:12:15] SCHOOLS AND HOW OUR SCHOOLS ARE
[1:12:16] BEING RESOURCED AND, UH, BOTH
[1:12:19] IN TERMS OF THE PUBLIC DOLLARS
[1:12:21] THAT GO IN AND THE SUPPLEMENTAL
[1:12:23] RESOURCES BECAUSE WE HAVE TO IN
[1:12:25] ORDER TO MAKE THE BEST INFORMED
[1:12:26] DECISIONS, YOU NEED TO HAVE THE
[1:12:28] MOST INFORMATION IN FRONT
[1:12:29] OF YOU.
[1:12:30] HOW DO YOU NEGOTIATE A BUDGET
[1:12:31] IF YOU DON'T HAVE THE FULL
[1:12:32] PICTURE OF WHAT OUR SCHOOLS ARE
[1:12:33] RECEIVING OR NOT RECEIVING?
[1:12:35] AND SO I THINK IN ORDER TO MAKE
[1:12:36] THE MOST INFORMED BEST DECISION
[1:12:37] ON BEHALF OF KIDS AND FAMILIES
[1:12:39] AND EDUCATORS WE SHOULD KNOW UH
[1:12:41] ,ABOUT ABOUT THESE RESOURCES
[1:12:42] THAT ARE COMING IN.
[1:12:44] THEY DO MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
[1:12:45] UH, IT'S NOT IN THE DIFFERENCES
[1:12:47] THAT, YOU KNOW, THE
[1:12:49] SUPPLEMENTAL THINGS THAT WE
[1:12:50] TALKED ABOUT BUT ALSO IT DROVE
[1:12:52] A LARGER CONVERSATION IN THE
[1:12:54] CITY ABOUT OUR BUDGET PROCESS
[1:12:56] AS WELL IN TERMS OF HOW WE
[1:12:57] FUNDAMENTALLY RESOURCED
[1:12:58] SCHOOLS.
[1:12:58] SO I THINK THIS IS GOING TO BE
[1:13:00] AN EYE OPENING AND VERY
[1:13:02] HEALTHY.
[1:13:03] UH, IT'S IT'S TRANSPARENCY AT
[1:13:05] ITS BEST BUT IT'S GOING TO
[1:13:06] ULTIMATELY RESULT IN MY HOPE IN
[1:13:08] MORE RESOURCES PARTICULARLY
[1:13:10] WHERE THOSE KIDS IN SCHOOL
[1:13:11] COMMUNITIES YOU GET THE MOST
[1:13:12] THANK YOU FOR OPPORTUNITY.
[1:13:16] THANK YOU COUNCILOR TRAEGER.
[1:13:18] WE REALLY DO APPRECIATE YOUR
[1:13:19] EXPERTISE AND WE LOOK FORWARD
[1:13:20] TO SHARING YOUR LEGISLATION
[1:13:22] WITH MY COLLEAGUES AND COUNCIL.
[1:13:24] CULPEPPER DON'T BE TRYING TO
[1:13:25] TAKE IT BECAUSE I'M GOING TO BE
[1:13:27] LEADING IT.
[1:13:27] DON'T EVEN UM AND WE WILL
[1:13:31] HOPEFULLY RE REPLICATING IT
[1:13:33] HERE AS WELL AND YOU COULD BE
[1:13:35] MY CO SPONSOR COUNCIL CALLED
[1:13:36] THAT BECAUSE YOU LIKE TO TAKE
[1:13:37] ON MY WORK.
[1:13:38] UM ALL RIGHT SO WE'RE GOING TO
[1:13:40] MOVE ON UH TO THE NEXT PANEL.
[1:13:44] UM TRAVIS YOU'RE MORE THAN
[1:13:44] WELCOME TO STAY I KNOW
[1:13:47] COUNCILOR UH, TRAEGER YOU HAD,
[1:13:48] UH, ANOTHER COMMITMENT.
[1:13:50] SO, UH, YOU ARE FREE TO GO.
[1:13:52] WE REALLY DO APPRECIATE IT.
[1:13:53] WE'LL BE FOLLOWING UP WITH YOU
[1:13:54] AS WE CONTINUE ON THIS JOURNEY.
[1:13:56] RIGHT.
[1:13:57] SO I'M GOING TO GO OVER NOW TO
[1:14:00] THE ADVOCATES PANEL.
[1:14:03] WE HAVE UH, JAMES UH NEWMAN.
[1:14:06] NEW UM OH MY LORD.
[1:14:10] UM NUAN.
[1:14:11] UH YOU WERE.
[1:14:12] PRONOUNCED THE CORRECTLY WHEN
[1:14:13] IT'S YOUR TURN BP'S PARENT AND
[1:14:16] ASSOCIATE UH, PROFESSOR
[1:14:18] OF EDUCATION AND WE HAVE KYLE
[1:14:21] MACLAY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
[1:14:23] OF BGA.
[1:14:24] SO WE'LL START WITH JAMES AND
[1:14:26] YOU WILL, UH, EDUCATE US ON HOW
[1:14:29] TO CORRECTLY SAY YOUR LAST
[1:14:29] NAME.
[1:14:30] JAMES.
[1:14:30] YOU NOW HAVE THE FLOOR.
[1:14:32] THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
[1:14:34] UM.
[1:14:34] I REALLY.
[1:14:35] APPRECIATE THIS.
[1:14:36] OPPORTUNITY TO.
[1:14:36] TESTIFY TODAY.
[1:14:37] MY NAME IS JAMES NOONAN.
[1:14:38] UH, AS YOU SAID, I'M AN
[1:14:40] ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR.
[1:14:41] OF.
[1:14:41] EDUCATION AT THE MCCUNE.
[1:14:43] SCHOOL OF EDUCATION AT SALEM
[1:14:44] STATE UNIVERSITY.
[1:14:45] I'M ALSO A RESIDENT OF.
[1:14:47] ROXBURY AND A PARENT OF TWO
[1:14:48] STUDENTS.
[1:14:49] IN.
[1:14:49] THE BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS ONE
[1:14:50] AT THE NATHAN HALE ELEMENTARY
[1:14:52] SCHOOL AND THE.
[1:14:54] OTHER AT ENGLISH HIGH SCHOOL.
[1:14:57] UM AND I WANT TO START UH, A
[1:14:59] LITTLE BIT.
[1:14:59] ABOUT THIS IDEA OF MONEY AND UH
[1:15:01] AND EDUCATION AND WHEN IT COMES
[1:15:04] TO MONEY IN EDUCATION THE
[1:15:06] RESEARCH IS REALLY CLEAR.
[1:15:07] UM, AND COUNCILOR TRAGER SPOKE
[1:15:09] TO THIS, UH, BRIEFLY, UM, AN
[1:15:12] INCREASE IN PER PUPIL SPENDING
[1:15:15] IS POSITIVELY ASSOCIATED WITH
[1:15:17] NUMEROUS EDUCATIONAL BENEFITS.
[1:15:18] UH, A RECENT STUDY FOUND.
[1:15:20] THAT AN ADDITIONAL.
[1:15:22] $1,000 PER STUDENT PER YEAR
[1:15:23] SUSTAINED OVER FOUR YEARS
[1:15:25] INCREASE BOTH STUDENT TEST
[1:15:26] SCORES AND COLLEGE ENROLLMENT.
[1:15:29] UM MOREOVER, THE POSITIVE
[1:15:31] OUTCOMES WERE LARGER FOR
[1:15:32] STUDENTS FROM LOWER
[1:15:34] SOCIOECONOMIC BACKGROUNDS WHICH
[1:15:36] UH MEANS THAT MONEY THAT IS
[1:15:38] TARGETED AT THE MOST IN NEED
[1:15:40] CAN YIELD THE GREATEST BENEFIT.
[1:15:43] UH, SCHOOL BUDGETS AS AS WE
[1:15:46] KNOW ARE LARGELY MADE UP
[1:15:48] OF ALLOCATIONS FROM THE CITY
[1:15:49] AND THE STATE.
[1:15:50] IN BOSTON, THE NEW UH,
[1:15:52] REIMAGINED SCHOOL FUNDING
[1:15:53] FORMULA LAYS OUT TWO SPENDING
[1:15:55] CATEGORIES UH COMPLIANCE
[1:15:57] FUNDING WHICH FUNDS UH STAFFING
[1:16:00] THAT IS.
[1:16:00] REQUIRED TO SERVE.
[1:16:02] THE STUDENTS IN THAT SCHOOL
[1:16:03] AND DISCRETIONARY FUNDING WHICH
[1:16:05] FUNDS EXTERNAL PARTNERSHIPS UM
[1:16:08] .
[1:16:08] UH AND OR STAFFING.
[1:16:09] BEYOND WHAT IS UM REQUIRED.
[1:16:13] HOWEVER, AS WE ALSO KNOW AND AS
[1:16:14] WE'VE DISCUSSED UH SOME SCHOOLS
[1:16:17] SUPPLEMENT THESE ALLOCATIONS
[1:16:18] WITH ANOTHER POT OF MONEY AND
[1:16:19] THIS PRIVATE FUNDRAISING CAN
[1:16:21] INCLUDE SCHOOL BASED
[1:16:23] FUNDRAISERS AND ESTABLISHED 501
[1:16:27] C3 NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS.
[1:16:30] UM THE AMOUNT OF MONEY THAT'S
[1:16:32] RAISED AND HELD BY THESE
[1:16:34] ORGANIZATIONS VARIOUS
[1:16:35] TREMENDOUSLY UH ACCORDING TO
[1:16:38] PROPUBLICA WHICH UM KIND
[1:16:40] OF GATHERS THE MOST RECENT TAX
[1:16:41] FILINGS AVAILABLE WHICH HAS
[1:16:43] ALSO BEEN REFERENCED THE
[1:16:45] FRIENDS OF THE NATHAN HILL
[1:16:46] SCHOOL WHERE MY CHILDREN HAVE
[1:16:48] ATTENDED HAD.
[1:16:50] OVER JUST OVER $9,000 IN ASSETS
[1:16:53] IN 2022, UH, WHICH IS THE MOST
[1:16:56] RECENT FILING AVAILABLE.
[1:16:58] IN 2025.
[1:16:59] THE BOSTON LATIN SCHOOL
[1:17:00] ASSOCIATION REPORTED NET ASSETS
[1:17:03] OF OVER $97 MILLION.
[1:17:06] UM AND MEANWHILE THERE ARE
[1:17:08] DOZENS OF SCHOOLS THAT HAVE NO
[1:17:11] FUNDRAISING ARMS AT ALL OR
[1:17:12] DEFUNCT FUNDRAISING ARMS AS UM
[1:17:15] TRAVIS MARSHALL MENTIONED, THIS
[1:17:18] DISPARITY.
[1:17:18] ACROSS SCHOOLS IS NOT UH,
[1:17:21] RANDOM UH RESEARCHERS WHO.
[1:17:24] STUDY WHO HAVE STUDIED.
[1:17:25] PRIVATE FUNDRAISING IN AND THE
[1:17:26] CITY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUND THAT
[1:17:28] SCHOOLS THAT HAD 500 AND C3 HAS
[1:17:31] TENDED TO SERVE STUDENTS IN
[1:17:33] NEIGHBORHOODS THAT WERE ON
[1:17:34] AVERAGE MORE WHITE AND MORE
[1:17:37] ECONOMICALLY ADVANTAGED.
[1:17:38] UM AND I SUSPECT THAT THE SAME
[1:17:41] IS TRUE, UM, AND NOT IN
[1:17:43] PHILADELPHIA PRIVATELY RAISED
[1:17:45] MONEY IS USED TO PAY FOR
[1:17:47] ENRICHMENT ACTIVITIES, FIELD
[1:17:49] TRIPS, ATHLETICS, SCHOOL
[1:17:50] SUPPLIES, TECHNOLOGY AND MORE.
[1:17:52] UH, AT THE NATHAN HILL SCHOOL
[1:17:54] THE FRIENDS OF THE NATHAN HALE
[1:17:55] HELP TO FUND UH REHABBED SCHOOL
[1:17:58] PLAYGROUND WHICH UH, WAS.
[1:18:01] UM YOU KNOW, BADLY NEEDED AND
[1:18:02] SO THAT FUNDRAISING WAS A
[1:18:04] CRITICALLY IMPORTANT UH, PART
[1:18:07] OF REHABBING THAT PLAYGROUND
[1:18:08] AND PROVIDING A SAFE AND
[1:18:10] ENGAGING PLACE TO PLAY FOR ALL
[1:18:11] THE STUDENTS.
[1:18:12] BUT IT MIGHT ALSO BE USED TO
[1:18:14] BLUNT THE NEGATIVE IMPACT
[1:18:16] OF PROPOSED BUDGET CUTS UH
[1:18:17] WHICH HAPPEN UM ON UH
[1:18:20] OCCASIONALLY UM THE MOST RECENT
[1:18:23] $1.7 BILLION SCHOOL BUDGET
[1:18:25] PASSED BY THIS BODY WAS
[1:18:26] ESTIMATED TO REQUIRE HUNDREDS
[1:18:28] OF JOB CUTS ACROSS THE
[1:18:29] DISTRICT.
[1:18:29] I'M SURE THAT WAS A VERY
[1:18:31] DIFFICULT VOTE FOR FOR FOR YOU
[1:18:34] UH, FOR THIS COUNCIL.
[1:18:35] AND SO IN TIMES OF SCARCITY
[1:18:38] SCHOOLS THAT DO NOT HAVE THE
[1:18:40] BENEFIT OF PRIVATE REVENUE
[1:18:41] STREAMS, UM, ARE LIKELY TO
[1:18:43] SUFFER EVEN MORE UM
[1:18:47] IMPORTANTLY, PRIVATE PRIVATELY
[1:18:48] RAISED DOLLARS UH, ARE NOT
[1:18:51] REFLECTED ON DISTRICTS
[1:18:52] SPREADSHEETS UH, MEANING THAT
[1:18:53] WE HAVE AN INCOMPLETE PICTURE
[1:18:56] OF THE FINANCIAL RESOURCES FOR
[1:18:57] BETTER AND WORSE AVAILABLE TO
[1:19:00] VARIOUS SCHOOLS.
[1:19:02] UM BUDGET PROCESSES ARE OFTEN
[1:19:04] OPAQUE.
[1:19:05] I HAVE CERTAINLY OBSERVED THIS
[1:19:06] UH, ATTENDING SCHOOL SITE
[1:19:08] COUNCIL MEETINGS, UH, AND
[1:19:09] BUDGETING MEETINGS THE UH THE
[1:19:12] LANGUAGE OF BUDGET ALLOCATIONS
[1:19:14] AND UH STUDENT FUNDING IS HARD
[1:19:18] TO INTERPRET.
[1:19:19] QUESTIONS FROM FAMILIES
[1:19:20] INCLUDING MYSELF TEND TO RELY
[1:19:22] TEND TO FOCUS ON BASIC
[1:19:24] CLARIFYING QUESTIONS AND NOT ON
[1:19:26] DEEPER ISSUES OF WHAT.
[1:19:28] MATTERS WHAT'S IMPORTANT AND
[1:19:29] WHAT WE WHAT WE MOST VALUE.
[1:19:33] UM.
[1:19:33] BUT THIS INFORMATION DEFICIT
[1:19:36] ABOUT PRIVATE FUNDRAISING ON A
[1:19:38] POLICY LEVEL DEEPENS
[1:19:40] INEQUALITY.
[1:19:41] I THINK THE TRUTH IS THAT
[1:19:43] WITHOUT A SYSTEMATIC ACCOUNTING
[1:19:45] OF PRIVATE FUNDRAISING, A
[1:19:47] TRANSPARENT SYSTEMATIC
[1:19:48] ACCOUNTING WE CANNOT KNOW YEAR
[1:19:51] TO YEAR HOW BIG THE RESOURCE
[1:19:53] GAP IS BETWEEN SCHOOLS, UH,
[1:19:55] THAT HAVE PRIVATE FUNDRAISING
[1:19:57] STREAMS IN SCHOOLS THAT DON'T
[1:19:59] THIS IS I THINK, A GAPING
[1:20:01] PUBLIC POLICY BLACK HOLE WHICH
[1:20:04] MAKES IT VERY HARD IF NOT
[1:20:06] IMPOSSIBLE FOR YOU AND FOR THE
[1:20:08] BROADER PUBLIC TO KNOW THE TRUE
[1:20:11] IMPACT.
[1:20:12] OF ANY BUDGETING DECISIONS.
[1:20:14] UM, AS POLICYMAKERS AND AS
[1:20:18] STAKEHOLDERS.
[1:20:18] WITH A COMMITMENT.
[1:20:19] TO EQUITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY,
[1:20:20] WE HAVE AN OBLIGATION TO CARE
[1:20:21] THE MOST FOR THE LEAST AMONG
[1:20:23] US.
[1:20:24] BUT UH, WITHOUT TRANSPARENCY
[1:20:26] AND PRIVATE FUNDRAISING WE ARE
[1:20:28] CONSTRAINED IN OUR ABILITY TO
[1:20:29] DO JUST THAT.
[1:20:31] SO, UH, IN CLOSING, I'D URGE
[1:20:33] YOU ALL TO CONSIDER MEASURES
[1:20:35] THAT COMPEL SCHOOLS AND THE
[1:20:36] DISTRICT TO MAKE PRIVATE
[1:20:38] FUNDRAISING REVENUES, UM,
[1:20:39] PUBLIC AND TRANSPARENT AND
[1:20:42] EASILY ACCESSIBLE TO ALL.
[1:20:43] AND I REALLY THANK YOU AGAIN
[1:20:45] FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO TESTIFY
[1:20:46] AND FOR HOLDING THIS HEARING.
[1:20:48] I THINK THIS IS A REALLY,
[1:20:49] REALLY CRITICAL ISSUE.
[1:20:51] THANK YOU JAMES, AND I REALLY
[1:20:53] DO APPRECIATE YOU UPLIFTING THE
[1:20:54] BUDGET AND ALL THE WALLS THAT
[1:20:55] WE GO THROUGH.
[1:20:57] SO THANK YOU FOR THAT AND I'LL
[1:20:59] HAVE LOTS OF QUESTIONS WHEN
[1:21:00] IT'S MY TURN.
[1:21:00] BUT FOR NOW WE'RE GOING TO MOVE
[1:21:02] ON TO.
[1:21:03] KILL YOU NOW HAVE THE FLOOR.
[1:21:06] AND THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE.
[1:21:07] GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE.
[1:21:09] THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME.
[1:21:10] UM I MUST ADMIT I'M A LITTLE
[1:21:12] UNDER THE WEATHER RIGHT NOW BUT
[1:21:13] I'M THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
[1:21:14] OF THE AUTHENTICATION JUSTICE
[1:21:16] ALLIANCE.
[1:21:17] I'M AN ALUMNUS.
[1:21:18] OF EDWARD KENNEDY ACADEMY FOR
[1:21:20] HEALTH CAREERS, FORMER STUDENT
[1:21:21] REP ON THE BOSTON SCHOOL
[1:21:23] COMMITTEE AND FORMER PRESIDENT
[1:21:24] OF BEST.
[1:21:24] ACTIVE BOSTON.
[1:21:25] STUDENT ADVISORY COUNCIL.
[1:21:27] UM CELEBRATING MY 12TH YEAR IN
[1:21:29] ADVOCACY THIS YEAR.
[1:21:31] SO UM AND I WANT TO START BY
[1:21:32] BEING CLEAR THAT PRIVATE
[1:21:34] FUNDRAISING IN OUR PUBLIC
[1:21:35] SCHOOLS IS NOT SIMPLY A FUND
[1:21:36] RAISING ISSUE IS AN ISSUE.
[1:21:38] IT'S AN EQUITY ISSUE, AN
[1:21:40] OPPORTUNITY GAP ISSUE AND
[1:21:41] ULTIMATELY A QUESTION OF PUBLIC
[1:21:43] POLICY HAS MADE A COMMITMENT TO
[1:21:45] ELIMINATE OPPORTUNITY GAPS AND
[1:21:46] ENSURE AN EQUITABLE ACCESS TO
[1:21:48] HIGH QUALITY LEARNING
[1:21:50] OPPORTUNITIES.
[1:21:50] BUT WE HAVE TO LOOK HONESTLY AT
[1:21:52] WHETHER OUR CURRENT SYSTEMS ARE
[1:21:55] ACTUALLY DELIVERING ON THOSE
[1:21:55] PROMISES WHICH THEY HAVE NOT.
[1:21:58] WHEN ONE SCHOOL COMMUNITY CAN
[1:22:00] LEVERAGE SIGNIFICANT WEALTH
[1:22:01] SOCIAL CAPITAL, SOCIAL CAPITAL
[1:22:03] ,FINANCIAL NETWORKS, UM
[1:22:06] PRIVATE DONORS WHILE ANOTHER
[1:22:07] CANNOT RECREATE TWO VERY
[1:22:08] DIFFERENT EDUCATIONAL
[1:22:09] EXPERIENCES WITHIN THE SAME
[1:22:10] SCHOOL DISTRICT.
[1:22:11] THIS IS A STRUCTURAL INEQUITY
[1:22:13] AND WE CANNOT SEPARATE THAT
[1:22:15] FROM RACE CLASS GEOGRAPHY OUR
[1:22:17] HISTORICALLY UNDER-INVESTED
[1:22:18] BLACK AND BROWN COMMUNITIES.
[1:22:20] I DON'T WANT TO BLAME WE CAN'T
[1:22:21] BLAME PARENTS.
[1:22:22] WE CAN'T BLAME EDUCATORS.
[1:22:23] WE CAN'T BLAME SCHOOL
[1:22:24] COMMUNITIES FOR FUNDRAISING.
[1:22:25] THEY ARE DOING WHAT THEY CAN TO
[1:22:27] MAKE SURE THAT STUDENTS HAVE
[1:22:29] ACCESS TO OPPORTUNITIES.
[1:22:30] BUT THE QUESTION WE SHOULD BE
[1:22:31] ASKING IS WHY DOES THE CHILD'S
[1:22:32] ACCESS TO OPPORTUNITY DEPEND ON
[1:22:34] THEIR SCHOOLS ABILITY TO
[1:22:35] FUNDRAISE?
[1:22:36] IF WE ARE SERIOUS ABOUT AN
[1:22:38] EQUITY LENS, THEN WE HAVE TO
[1:22:40] EXAMINE THE TOTALITY
[1:22:41] OF RESOURCES AVAILABLE TO ALL
[1:22:42] STUDENTS NOT JUST THE DOLLARS
[1:22:43] THAT APPEAR IN SCHOOL.
[1:22:45] ALLOCATION ALREADY HAS TOOLS
[1:22:47] SUCH AS THE OPPORTUNITY INDEX
[1:22:48] AND EQUITY IMPACT ANALYSIS
[1:22:50] DESIGNED TO IDENTIFY DISPARATE
[1:22:52] DISPARITIES, UM AND DIRECT
[1:22:55] RESOURCES TOWARD STUDENTS AND
[1:22:56] SCHOOLS WITH GREATER NEEDS.
[1:22:57] SO I'M DEMANDING THAT THE
[1:22:59] SCHOOL COMMITTEE AND THE WOLF
[1:23:00] SKIP ADMINISTRATION APPLY THE
[1:23:02] SAME LEVEL OF RIGOR TO PRIVATE
[1:23:03] FUNDRAISING.
[1:23:04] HOW MUCH IS EACH SCHOOL RAISING
[1:23:06] ?
[1:23:06] WHO HAS ACCESS TO THOSE?
[1:23:07] WHO HAS ACCESS TO THOSE
[1:23:09] RESOURCES WHERE OPPORTUNITIES
[1:23:10] ARE BEING CREATED BECAUSE
[1:23:11] OF THOSE FUNDRAISING?
[1:23:12] AND WHAT OPPORTUNITIES ARE
[1:23:13] STUDENTS AT OTHER SCHOOLS
[1:23:15] MISSING BECAUSE THEIR
[1:23:16] COMMUNITIES DON'T HAVE THE SAME
[1:23:17] SOCIAL OR ECONOMIC CAPITAL?
[1:23:20] WE NEED TRANSPARENCY.
[1:23:21] WE NEED ACCOUNTABILITY AND WE
[1:23:22] NEED A DISTRICT WIDE STRATEGY
[1:23:23] FOR ENSURING THAT PRIVATE
[1:23:26] FUNDRAISING DOES NOT UNDERMINE
[1:23:27] EQUITABLE RESOURCES UM OR
[1:23:29] EQUITABLE ALLOCATION I SHOULD
[1:23:30] SAY BECAUSE PUBLIC EDUCATION
[1:23:32] CANNOT OPERATE ON A MODEL WHERE
[1:23:34] THE SCHOOLS WITH THIS MOST
[1:23:35] SOCIAL CAPITAL WILL GET THE
[1:23:37] MOST OPPORTUNITY.
[1:23:38] IF WE ARE SERIOUS ABOUT CLOSING
[1:23:39] OPPORTUNITY GAPS, THEN WE
[1:23:40] CANNOT SIMPLY MEASURE WHAT
[1:23:41] BYPASS PROVIDES.
[1:23:42] WE HAVE TO MEASURE WHAT
[1:23:43] STUDENTS ACTIVELY HAVE ACCESS
[1:23:45] TO.
[1:23:45] EVERY STUDENT DESERVES
[1:23:47] EXCELLENT EDUCATION REGARDLESS
[1:23:48] OF THEIR ZIP CODE, THEIR
[1:23:50] SCHOOLS FUNDRAISING CAPACITY
[1:23:51] AND THEIR FAMILIES CONNECTIONS
[1:23:52] .
[1:23:53] OPPORTUNITIES SHOULD BE A
[1:23:54] PUBLIC COMMITMENT AND NOT A
[1:23:55] PRIVATE PRIVILEGE.
[1:23:56] THANK YOU.
[1:23:59] OKAY.
[1:23:59] GOOD JOB KIDDO THANK YOU.
[1:24:02] IT ALMOST FEELS AND I'M GOING
[1:24:04] TO MOVE INTO MY COLLEAGUES
[1:24:05] QUESTIONS BUT I JUST WANT TO
[1:24:06] INSERT THIS REALLY QUICK IS
[1:24:07] THAT YOU KNOW THESE ARE.
[1:24:08] PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
[1:24:09] BUT IT FEELS LIKE SOME OF THEM
[1:24:12] ARE SEMI-PRIVATE IN MANY WAYS.
[1:24:14] RIGHT.
[1:24:14] BECAUSE THE THE SUPPLEMENTAL.
[1:24:17] UM CAPACITY FOR FUNDRAISING UM
[1:24:20] AND BASED ON JAMES'S DATA.
[1:24:22] UH IN.
[1:24:23] TERMS OF WHO IS ATTENDING
[1:24:24] THESE SCHOOLS ARE PREDOMINATELY
[1:24:25] MORE AFFLUENT AND MORE WHITE
[1:24:26] AND OBVIOUSLY THAT'S HOW THEY
[1:24:28] KEEP.
[1:24:29] UM SCHOOLS SEGREGATED.
[1:24:31] UH, NOT JUST RACIALLY BUT ALSO
[1:24:33] SOCIOECONOMICALLY.
[1:24:34] AND SO THAT'S WHY I'M SO GLAD
[1:24:35] THAT, YOU KNOW, IT'S PEOPLE
[1:24:38] LIKE JAMES AND TRAVIS AND QUEST
[1:24:40] THAT.
[1:24:41] ARE LEADING THIS CHARGE BECAUSE
[1:24:43] YOU'RE NOT JUST THINKING ABOUT
[1:24:44] YOUR OWN KIDS AND OFTENTIMES
[1:24:45] THAT IS A NARRATIVE LIKE
[1:24:47] EVERYONE'S JUST THINKING
[1:24:48] OF THEIR OWN AND THE FACT THAT
[1:24:50] YOU ARE SHARING THIS
[1:24:51] RESPONSIBILITY AND YOU KNOW,
[1:24:53] BRING THE LENS, UM, TO THE
[1:24:55] INEQUITIES THAT EXIST IN
[1:24:56] SCHOOLS THAT ARE
[1:24:56] UNDER-RESOURCED AND ALSO UNDER
[1:24:58] ORGANIZE LIKE I'M REALLY
[1:25:00] EXCITED TO TO DIG IN A LITTLE
[1:25:01] BIT DEEPER TODAY.
[1:25:02] SO THANK YOU ALL.
[1:25:03] UM.
[1:25:04] FOR THIS I'M GOING TO GO UM
[1:25:06] THE ORDER OF ARRIVAL HAS
[1:25:07] SHIFTED BECAUSE I BELIEVE THAT
[1:25:09] COUNCILOR FLYNN IS NO LONGER
[1:25:10] WITH US NOR IS
[1:25:12] COUNCILOR FITZGERALD.
[1:25:13] SO WE'LL GO TO
[1:25:14] COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE THEN
[1:25:16] COUNCILOR WEBER AND THEN
[1:25:17] COUNCILOR CULPEPER AND THEN
[1:25:19] MYSELF.
[1:25:19] SO COUNCILOR.
[1:25:20] LOUIJEUNE YOU NOW HAVE THE
[1:25:21] FLOOR.
[1:25:23] THANK YOU.
[1:25:24] UM, CONCILOR MEJIA HERE AND
[1:25:25] THANK YOU TO JAMES AND TO KEOGH
[1:25:27] .
[1:25:28] UH.
[1:25:28] FOR YOUR TESTIMONY.
[1:25:30] I AGREE THAT ECONOMIC AND
[1:25:31] SOCIAL CAPITAL IN THE SCHOOL
[1:25:32] CAN REALLY BE TRANSFORMATIVE
[1:25:35] AND, UH, INTRODUCE STUDENTS TO
[1:25:37] OPPORTUNITIES THAT THEY
[1:25:38] WOULDN'T OTHERWISE HAVE.
[1:25:39] AND SO I WANT TO THANK YOU ALL
[1:25:41] FOR YOUR TESTIMONY, ESPECIALLY
[1:25:42] IN A WEEK WHERE WE KNOW THERE'S
[1:25:43] BEEN A LOT OF CONVERSATION
[1:25:45] AROUND EDUCATION, JUSTICE AND
[1:25:46] WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE TO REALLY
[1:25:48] THINK ABOUT, UH, COMMUNITY
[1:25:52] NEEDS AND NOT JUST INDIVIDUAL
[1:25:54] ADVANCEMENT OF STUDENTS.
[1:25:55] SO, UM, JUST WANT TO THANK YOU
[1:25:56] FOR YOUR TESTIMONY AND I LOOK
[1:25:57] FORWARD I HAVE MORE QUESTIONS
[1:25:58] FROM FOR THE ADMINISTRATION SO
[1:25:59] I'M GOING TO WITHHOLD MY
[1:26:00] QUESTIONS FOR THAT PANEL.
[1:26:01] THANK YOU.
[1:26:03] OH AND.
[1:26:04] CONGRATS TO AKIO ON ALL THE UM
[1:26:06] WELL WONDERFUL I THINK YOU
[1:26:08] STATED THAT YOU WERE JUST UH
[1:26:09] POINTING TO WHAT YOU JUST
[1:26:10] WANTED TO SAY CONGRATULATIONS
[1:26:11] AND HOPE YOU FEEL BETTER SOON.
[1:26:13] THANK YOU I APPRECIATE THAT.
[1:26:16] THANK YOU, COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE.
[1:26:17] WE'LL GO NOW TO COUNCILOR.
[1:26:19] WEBER AND YOU NOW HAVE FIVE
[1:26:21] MINUTES ON THE FLOOR.
[1:26:22] OKAY.
[1:26:23] THANK YOU.
[1:26:24] UH, YEAH.
[1:26:24] UH, I FEEL BETTER, KIDDO.
[1:26:27] AND CONGRATULATIONS ON 12 YEARS
[1:26:29] .
[1:26:30] OF ADVOCACY.
[1:26:31] UH, SO I GUESS JUST, UM, IN
[1:26:35] TERMS OF THE ISSUE WE HEARD
[1:26:36] ABOUT NEW YORK CITY, YOU KNOW
[1:26:40] THAT I GUESS.
[1:26:42] DO WE HAVE THIS DO WE THINK WE
[1:26:44] HAVE THE SAME ISSUE HERE IN
[1:26:46] BOSTON LIKE YOU KNOW, UH DO YOU
[1:26:48] HAVE ANY EXAMPLES OF TWEAKS?
[1:26:51] DO WE THINK SCHOOLS ARE HIDING
[1:26:52] RESOURCES TO GET MORE FUNDING,
[1:26:55] WHICH IS I THINK SEEM TO BE
[1:26:57] WHAT THE ISSUE IN NEW YORK WAS
[1:26:59] .
[1:26:59] BUT ONE OF THE POTENTIAL ISSUES
[1:27:01] UH, FOR SOME OF YOU, PROFESSOR
[1:27:02] NOONAN, IF YOU HAVE ANY
[1:27:05] THOUGHTS, LET ME.
[1:27:08] UM UH.
[1:27:09] THANK YOU FOR THAT QUESTION,
[1:27:11] COUNCILOR WEBER.
[1:27:12] UM, UH, I CAN'T SPECULATE ON
[1:27:15] WHETHER SCHOOLS ARE TRYING TO
[1:27:17] SHELTER OR HIDE RESOURCES IN
[1:27:19] ORDER TO, UH TO BOOST THEIR
[1:27:21] FUNDING.
[1:27:22] UM UH, BUT I THINK THE ISSUE
[1:27:26] FOR ME IS THAT WE SEE THAT
[1:27:29] THERE IS A DISPARITY IN THESE
[1:27:30] KIND OF MECHANISMS AND THE
[1:27:32] SUPPORT AND THE INFRASTRUCTURE
[1:27:34] TO SUPPORT A SUPPLEMENTAL
[1:27:36] PRIVATE FUNDRAISING REVENUE
[1:27:38] STREAM AND AS UH AS THE
[1:27:41] COUNCILOR FROM NEW YORK CITY,
[1:27:42] UH, SAID IN HIS TESTIMONY
[1:27:44] EARLIER UM.
[1:27:46] THIS IS.
[1:27:48] FUNDRAISING FOR YOUR SCHOOL OR
[1:27:49] FUNDRAISING FOR YOUR CHILD'S
[1:27:50] SCHOOL IS NOT THE ISSUE.
[1:27:52] WE CARE ABOUT OUR CHILDREN'S
[1:27:53] EDUCATION.
[1:27:54] WE CARE ABOUT THE SCHOOLS OUR
[1:27:55] CHILDREN ATTEND.
[1:27:57] UM THE ISSUE IS THE DISPARITY
[1:27:59] AND THE LACK OF, UH,
[1:28:01] TRANSPARENCY AND INFORMATION
[1:28:03] WHICH HELPS THAT DISPARITY GROW
[1:28:05] BECAUSE IF WE DON'T HAVE THE
[1:28:07] INFORMATION ABOUT WHERE THESE
[1:28:09] SUPPLEMENTAL REVENUES ARE I
[1:28:10] MEAN WE CAN KIND OF DO THE THE
[1:28:13] INDIVIDUAL KIND OF EXCAVATION
[1:28:14] WORK OF GOING AND DIGGING
[1:28:16] THROUGH PROPUBLICA'S DATABASE
[1:28:18] OF TAX FILINGS.
[1:28:19] BUT IT'S IT'S A IT'S STILL A
[1:28:21] BLACK.
[1:28:21] BOX WE DON'T KNOW.
[1:28:23] AND SO HAVING KIND OF CLEAR
[1:28:25] INFORMATION.
[1:28:27] UM HELPS US KNOW LIKE WHERE
[1:28:30] SCHOOLS REQUIRE EXTRA SUPPORT
[1:28:34] UM SCHOOLS THAT ARE BETTER
[1:28:35] POSITIONED TO WITHSTAND TIMES
[1:28:37] OF SCARCITY.
[1:28:38] UM AND SO THAT TO ME IS LIKE
[1:28:40] THE THE.
[1:28:41] THE ISSUE IF.
[1:28:42] AND OF COURSE IF THERE ARE KIND
[1:28:44] OF SCHOOLS THAT ARE SHELTERING
[1:28:46] RESOURCES TO KIND OF GAME THAT
[1:28:48] SYSTEM THAT'S OBVIOUSLY AN
[1:28:49] ISSUE TOO.
[1:28:50] UM I THINK IT'S A RELATED ISSUE
[1:28:52] TO ME IT'S A IT'S A SEPARATE
[1:28:54] ISSUE.
[1:28:56] WE CAN.
[1:28:57] UM I GUESS SO DO YOU KNOW
[1:29:00] HOW MUCH THE HILL RAISES IS UH
[1:29:03] ,EACH YEAR I YOU KNOW, I'VE
[1:29:05] HAD KIDS AT THE AT THE MENDEL
[1:29:08] MISSION HILLS SCHOOL CURLEY UH
[1:29:10] ,BUT YEAH, I I DON'T KNOW,
[1:29:12] LIKE WHAT KINDS OF DOLLARS.
[1:29:13] THAT YOU.
[1:29:14] THROUGH AND.
[1:29:15] YEAH, I'M NOT INVOLVED DIRECTLY
[1:29:18] IN THE FRIENDS OF THE NATHAN
[1:29:20] HALE GROUP SO I DON'T KNOW.
[1:29:21] UM, ALL.
[1:29:22] I LIKE WHAT I DO KNOW IS.
[1:29:23] THAT, UM.
[1:29:25] YOU KNOW, IN.
[1:29:27] LIKE A FEW YEARS AGO THEY HAD
[1:29:29] $9,000 ON HAND.
[1:29:30] UM, I THINK SOME OF THAT MONEY
[1:29:31] PROBABLY WENT TO THE NEW
[1:29:33] PLAYGROUND.
[1:29:34] SO I DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH MONEY
[1:29:35] THEY HAVE ON HAND NOW I DON'T
[1:29:36] KNOW HOW MUCH THEY RAISE, BUT I
[1:29:38] I WILL SAY THAT MY WIFE AND I
[1:29:39] DO CONTRIBUTE TO THAT.
[1:29:41] IT IS LIKE A WAY TO SUPPORT THE
[1:29:43] SCHOOL.
[1:29:44] BUT IT ALSO MEANS THAT YOU
[1:29:46] KNOW, THAT IS A SCHOOL THAT HAS
[1:29:49] THIS INFRASTRUCTURE IN PLACE TO
[1:29:51] RECEIVE DONATIONS WHERE UM
[1:29:55] OTHER SCHOOLS.
[1:29:56] DON'T LIKE THE UH OTHER SCHOOLS
[1:29:58] THAT ARE ALSO CLOSE BY.
[1:30:00] THE HIGGINSON LEWIS IS RIGHT
[1:30:02] ACROSS THE THE PARK FROM ME AND
[1:30:04] THEY DON'T HAVE A FRIENDS
[1:30:06] OF THE HIGGINS UNLESS THERE'S
[1:30:07] LIKE NOT THE RESOURCES AND THE
[1:30:09] INFRASTRUCTURE IN PLACE.
[1:30:11] UM AND SO ONE POSSIBILITY MIGHT
[1:30:13] BE THAT, YOU KNOW, THERE MIGHT
[1:30:15] BE WAYS TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL
[1:30:18] SUPPORT BEYOND WHAT, YOU KNOW,
[1:30:20] BDF PROVIDES AS A FISCAL AGENT
[1:30:22] BEYOND LIKE THERE MAY BE OTHER
[1:30:23] WAYS TO SUPPORT THE CAPACITY
[1:30:25] BUILDING FOR FUNDRAISING AND
[1:30:27] SCHOOLS TO TO TO TAKE ADVANTAGE
[1:30:30] OF UH RESOURCES AND UM
[1:30:35] COMMUNITY WEALTH THAT BOSTON
[1:30:36] HAS TO OFFER.
[1:30:37] YEAH.
[1:30:38] JUST THE LAST QUESTION
[1:30:39] SHARING IS FOR FOR YOU AGAIN
[1:30:40] PROFESSOR NEEDED TO SEE THE
[1:30:42] HEAD ON MY SCREEN HERE.
[1:30:45] UM HE ADDED THERE ARE OTHER
[1:30:46] CITIES THAT YOU, UH, THINK WE
[1:30:48] SHOULD LOOK TOWARD AS MODELS.
[1:30:50] FOR FOR THIS.
[1:30:52] UH, HAVE YOU COME ACROSS OTHER
[1:30:56] PLACES THAT DO THIS?
[1:30:57] WELL.
[1:30:58] ,THAT'S A THAT'S A REALLY GOOD
[1:30:59] QUESTION.
[1:31:00] I DON'T FEEL LIKE I'M WELL
[1:31:02] INFORMED ENOUGH ON UH, KIND
[1:31:03] OF FULL RANGE, BUT I THINK THE
[1:31:05] EXAMPLE OF UH COUNCILOR TRACKER
[1:31:07] FROM NEW YORK CITY BROUGHT
[1:31:08] TODAY IS ACTUALLY A VERY, VERY
[1:31:10] GOOD AND SIMPLE MODEL THAT
[1:31:12] COULD HAVE MEANINGFUL
[1:31:14] CONSEQUENCES FOR US IN BOSTON.
[1:31:16] OKAY.
[1:31:17] THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
[1:31:18] THANK YOU TO EVERYONE ELSE.
[1:31:19] WE'LL TRY TO UH, INTO THIS.
[1:31:23] OKAY.
[1:31:23] WELL, UH, THANK THANK YOU VERY
[1:31:24] MUCH, CHAIR.
[1:31:26] THANK YOU, COUNCILOR WEBER.
[1:31:27] AND WITH YOUR TIME I'M CURIOUS.
[1:31:28] OF TRAVIS.
[1:31:29] I KNOW QUEST HAS BEEN DOING A
[1:31:30] LOT OF WORK IN RESEARCH IN THAT
[1:31:32] SPACE.
[1:31:32] SO WOULD YOU HAPPEN TO KNOW
[1:31:34] ASIDE FROM NEW YORK CITY, ARE
[1:31:35] THERE ANY OTHER CITIES THAT YOU
[1:31:37] WOULD POINT TO?
[1:31:39] WE MET WITH FOLKS IN PORTLAND.
[1:31:41] WE MET WITH FOLKS IN UH,
[1:31:44] CHARLOTTE-MECKLENBURG HONESTLY
[1:31:46] 12 OR 14 DIFFERENT CITIES AND
[1:31:47] TOWNS EVERY TOWN HAS UH EVERY
[1:31:48] PLACE HAS THEIR OWN.
[1:31:50] PARTICULAR WAY.
[1:31:52] OF UH.
[1:31:53] ADDRESSING THIS.
[1:31:54] OR AT LEAST.
[1:31:55] PUBLISHING IT.
[1:31:55] UH, BUT NEW YORK CITY WAS
[1:31:57] THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE IN TERMS
[1:31:58] OF THE REQUIREMENT EVERY YEAR
[1:32:00] PUBLISHING THAT INFORMATION
[1:32:02] WITHOUT ANY ADDITIONAL REMEDIES
[1:32:06] PRESCRIBED.
[1:32:07] JUST JUST THE DATA OUT FRONT IN
[1:32:11] PUBLIC UM, WITHOUT ANY UH
[1:32:14] PARTICULAR AGENDA ACCOMPANYING
[1:32:15] IT WHICH IS I THINK WHAT WE
[1:32:17] THOUGHT WAS THE APPROPRIATE
[1:32:18] FIRST STEP.
[1:32:19] THANK YOU FOR THAT, TRAVIS AND
[1:32:21] I INSERTED YOU BACK INTO THE
[1:32:23] CONVERSATION.
[1:32:23] SO THANK YOU FOR BEING SO
[1:32:24] WILLING TO ANSWER.
[1:32:25] THANK YOU.
[1:32:26] UM, I KNOW COUNCILOR CULPEPPER
[1:32:28] HAS BEEN.
[1:32:29] PATIENTLY WAITING.
[1:32:31] SO COUNCILOR CULPEPER, YOU
[1:32:31] HAVE.
[1:32:32] FIVE MINUTES AND THE FLOOR.
[1:32:33] OKAY.
[1:32:34] THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR, BUT
[1:32:35] I'M GOING TO WAIT UNTIL THE
[1:32:38] ADMINISTRATION COMES ON.
[1:32:40] UH, THAT'S WHERE UH, MOST OF MY
[1:32:43] QUESTIONS WILL PROBABLY BE
[1:32:45] ANSWERED.
[1:32:45] SO, UM, DO I GET TO ADD MY FIVE
[1:32:50] MINUTES NOW TO THE
[1:32:52] ADMINISTRATION?
[1:32:53] GOT ANOTHER FIVE MINUTES?
[1:32:55] NO.
[1:32:55] THERE'LL BE ANOTHER NO.
[1:32:56] SORRY.
[1:32:57] NO, I WANT TO YEAH BECAUSE.
[1:32:59] IT'S NOT EQUITABLE DISTRIBUTION
[1:33:01] HERE OKAY YOU CAN'T TRANSFER
[1:33:03] WEALTH LIKE THAT.
[1:33:04] NO IT'S NOT HAPPENING.
[1:33:05] WELL I'LL HOLD MY WELL UNTIL
[1:33:07] THE ADMINISTRATION COMES.
[1:33:09] THAT'S RIGHT.
[1:33:10] SOUNDS LIKE A GOOD PLAN FOR
[1:33:11] YOU.
[1:33:11] ALL RIGHT, SO I HAVE MY
[1:33:15] QUESTIONS.
[1:33:15] UM, AND THEN WE'LL TRANSITION
[1:33:17] INTO OUR UM.
[1:33:20] OUR THIRD PANEL.
[1:33:22] SO I'M CURIOUS, UH, CERTAIN
[1:33:23] SCHOOLS SUCH AS BILLS HAVE
[1:33:26] ENTIRE POSITIONS FUNDED BY
[1:33:29] THEIR SCHOOL ASSOCIATIONS.
[1:33:31] THAT'S RIGHT.
[1:33:32] YOU HEARD IT HERE.
[1:33:33] HOW DO WE ENSURE, UH.
[1:33:36] UH, WE FUND PROGRAMS AND
[1:33:38] POSITIONS THAT ARE IMPORTANT TO
[1:33:39] STUDENT SUCCESS EQUITABLY
[1:33:40] ACROSS THE ENTIRE DISTRICT?
[1:33:45] MHM.
[1:33:46] I WONDER IF KIA HAS THOUGHTS
[1:33:48] ON THAT.
[1:33:52] SORRY I WAS BLOWING MY NOTES.
[1:33:54] CAN CAN.
[1:33:54] YOU REPEAT THE QUESTION?
[1:33:56] YES.
[1:33:57] SO UH, THE.
[1:33:58] QUESTION IS UH THAT.
[1:33:59] THERE'S CERTAIN SCHOOLS.
[1:34:00] SUCH AS DALLAS UM.
[1:34:03] THAT THEY HAVE.
[1:34:04] ENTIRE POSITIONS FUNDED BY
[1:34:06] THEIR SCHOOL ASSOCIATIONS.
[1:34:08] RIGHT.
[1:34:08] AND SO.
[1:34:10] I DON'T UNDER THOSE.
[1:34:11] CIRCUMSTANCES HOW DO WE ENSURE
[1:34:13] .
[1:34:13] THAT WE FUND PROGRAMS.
[1:34:15] AND POSITIONS THAT ARE
[1:34:17] IMPORTANT TO STUDENT SUCCESS
[1:34:18] EQUITABLY ACROSS THE ENTIRE.
[1:34:20] SYSTEM.
[1:34:21] ACROSS THE ENTIRE DISTRICT?
[1:34:23] I MEAN.
[1:34:23] AND THAT'S A QUESTION THAT I
[1:34:26] THINK THAT WE ALL HAVE IN MIND
[1:34:27] RIGHT NOW WITH BUDGET SEASON
[1:34:29] STARTING AND THINKING ABOUT THE
[1:34:31] 500 WHAT 400 PLUS PAIR
[1:34:32] OF POSITIONS THAT WE LOST THIS
[1:34:34] YEAR ALONE IN THE LAST BUDGET
[1:34:35] SEASON.
[1:34:36] SO THINKING ABOUT HOW ARE WE
[1:34:37] NOT CUTTING VITAL STAFF IN THE
[1:34:39] SCHOOL COMMUNITIES ARE.
[1:34:41] YOU KNOW, MAYBE OKAY I'M GONNA
[1:34:43] STOP MYSELF BEFORE I RAMBLE
[1:34:44] BECAUSE I CAN GO ON A RANT BUT
[1:34:45] I'M NOT.
[1:34:46] UM SO I THINK UTILIZING TOOLS
[1:34:48] THAT THE DISTRICT ALREADY HAS
[1:34:50] LIKE THE OPPORTUNITY INDEX AND
[1:34:51] THE EQUITY IMPACT ANALYSIS
[1:34:53] BEING ABLE TO REFRESH THAT.
[1:34:55] MAYBE WORKING WITH THE
[1:34:56] OPPORTUNITY TEAM WE GOT TASK
[1:34:57] FORCE TO THINK ABOUT HOW
[1:34:58] EFFECTIVE IS THIS TOOL, HOW CAN
[1:35:01] WE EXPAND IT TO BE MORE
[1:35:02] INCLUSIVE OF UM OWNERSHIP UH
[1:35:05] INDIVIDUAL SCHOOLS AND YES,
[1:35:09] THAT'S ALL I CAN THINK OF AT
[1:35:10] THE MOMENT.
[1:35:12] UH I I I APPRECIATE THAT IT
[1:35:15] JUST GOES THE QUESTION.
[1:35:17] WAS REALLY HOPING TO GET AT
[1:35:18] THE.
[1:35:19] FACT THAT THE THE.
[1:35:20] REASON WHY SO MANY SCHOOLS ARE
[1:35:22] SUCCESSFUL IS BECAUSE THEY HAVE
[1:35:23] THE INFRASTRUCTURE, UM, TO
[1:35:25] REALLY BE ABLE TO DO JUST THAT
[1:35:28] AND WHEREAS PARENT COUNCIL YOU
[1:35:29] KNOW, IT'S VOLUNTEER AND A LOT
[1:35:32] OF THE PARENTS PARTICULARLY IN
[1:35:34] SCHOOLS.
[1:35:35] UM WITH LOW INCOME AND
[1:35:37] UNDER-RESOURCED.
[1:35:38] NEIGHBORHOODS.
[1:35:38] THEY JUST DON'T HAVE THE
[1:35:39] TIME OR CAPACITY TO DO JUST
[1:35:41] THAT.
[1:35:41] AND I THINK THAT THERE IS A
[1:35:42] ROLE FOR THE DISTRICT TO PLAY.
[1:35:43] AND I.
[1:35:44] THINK MY HOPE IS ASIDE FROM
[1:35:45] THE REPORTING THAT WE CAN GET
[1:35:47] AT WHAT ELSE WE CAN BE DOING TO
[1:35:48] HELP SUPPORT, UH, YOU KNOW, THE
[1:35:50] OVERALL ECOSYSTEM.
[1:35:52] SO THANK YOU.
[1:35:52] BUT I.
[1:35:53] WOULD I MEAN ALSO.
[1:35:54] PORTLAND SCHOOL HAS AN
[1:35:55] EXTENSIVE ALUMNI NETWORK THAT
[1:35:57] GIVES BACK TO THEIR COMMUNITY.
[1:35:58] THEY ALSO HAVE PRIVATE
[1:35:59] DEVELOPMENT TEAMS THAT WORK.
[1:36:01] WITH UM INSTITUTIONS IN THE
[1:36:03] FENWAY AREA TO CREATE LIKE LIKE
[1:36:07] EXCLUSIVE OPPORTUNITIES FOR
[1:36:08] STUDENTS IN THEIR SCHOOLS THAT
[1:36:09] WE DON'T SEE BEING OFFERED TO
[1:36:10] SCHOOLS LIKE THE HAALAND SCHOOL
[1:36:12] OR FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE BARAK.
[1:36:14] OR EVEN M.K. WHO STILL DOESN'T
[1:36:16] HAVE A BUILDING AFTER 25 YEARS
[1:36:17] OF BEING AN IN DISTRICT
[1:36:18] CHARTER.
[1:36:19] SO I MEAN WE SEE THESE
[1:36:21] DISPARITIES GENERATION AFTER
[1:36:22] GENERATION NO MATTER WHAT WE'RE
[1:36:24] GOING THROUGH.
[1:36:25] SO UM YEAH.
[1:36:26] THANK YOU.
[1:36:27] JAMES I.
[1:36:28] WAS JUST GOING TO ADD THAT I
[1:36:30] THINK KIND OF BUILDING ON THAT.
[1:36:32] THAT THE.
[1:36:34] IF THE.
[1:36:34] FIRST STEP IS GETTING
[1:36:36] INFORMATION.
[1:36:36] UH.
[1:36:37] CLEAR ACROSS THE ACROSS
[1:36:39] SCHOOLS AND ACROSS DISTRICT
[1:36:41] THAT WE HAVE A FULL PICTURE
[1:36:42] OF WHAT THE RESOURCES ARE AND
[1:36:43] WHAT THE RESOURCE DISPARITIES
[1:36:45] ARE, YOU KNOW, THAT KIND
[1:36:47] OF INFORMATION COULD LIKE
[1:36:49] ANOTHER STEP AFTER THAT COULD
[1:36:50] BE TO FOLD THAT INFORMATION
[1:36:51] INTO THINGS LIKE BUDGETING
[1:36:54] TOOLS, UM, AND.
[1:36:56] SCHOOL CHOICE TOOLS LIKE THE.
[1:36:58] OPPORTUNITY INDEX OR OTHER KIND
[1:37:00] OF BUDGETING.
[1:37:01] KIND OF UH, FORMULAS SO THAT WE
[1:37:04] CAN ENSURE GREATER EQUITY
[1:37:07] ACROSS THOSE SCHOOLS IN TERMS
[1:37:08] OF STAFFING RESOURCES, IN TERMS
[1:37:10] OF MATERIAL RESOURCES, IN TERMS
[1:37:12] OF CURRICULUM RESOURCES.
[1:37:13] UM, I I'M AND I'D CERTAINLY BE
[1:37:16] HAPPY TO BE A PART OF A
[1:37:18] CONVERSATION LIKE THAT AND I
[1:37:19] THINK WE CAN'T DO THAT UNTIL WE
[1:37:22] HAVE ALL THE INFORMATION AND IN
[1:37:24] A WAY THAT IT'S LIKE EASILY
[1:37:25] ACCESSIBLE, DIGESTIBLE,
[1:37:27] INTERPRETABLE.
[1:37:28] UM AND SO TO.
[1:37:29] TO TO GET THAT FIRST THEN WE
[1:37:31] CAN CAN USE IT IN THE SERVICE
[1:37:34] OF UH UM UH OF WHAT YOU'RE WHAT
[1:37:37] YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT,
[1:37:38] COUNSELOR.
[1:37:38] THANK YOU FOR THAT, JAMES.
[1:37:40] AND THEN I'M JUST THIS WILL.
[1:37:42] BE MY LAST QUESTION IS WHAT
[1:37:43] ARE.
[1:37:43] SOME OF THE INEQUITIES.
[1:37:44] THAT YOU SEE NOW ACROSS THE
[1:37:46] DISTRICT?
[1:37:47] AND THIS IS JUST TO GET IT ON
[1:37:49] THE RECORD BECAUSE WE KNOW WHAT
[1:37:50] WE KNOW.
[1:37:50] BUT JUST FOR THE SAKE OF THIS
[1:37:52] EXERCISE.
[1:37:53] ON THE GROUND, WHAT DO YOU SEE.
[1:37:54] THOSE.
[1:37:55] UH, INEQUITIES LOOKING LIKE?
[1:37:57] AND YOU KNOW, JAMES.
[1:37:59] SPECIFICALLY FOR YOU AS A
[1:38:01] PARENT.
[1:38:01] HOW DO.
[1:38:02] YOU SEE THIS IMPACTING YOUR.
[1:38:04] CHILDREN'S EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES
[1:38:06] ?
[1:38:07] AND I'M PARTICULARLY
[1:38:08] INTERESTED IN ENGLISH HIGH
[1:38:09] SCHOOL I WAS LIKE OH WOW.
[1:38:11] YOU ACTUALLY PICKED THAT SCHOOL
[1:38:13] .
[1:38:13] AND YOU KNOW.
[1:38:15] I KNOW THAT SCHOOL WHEN I'M
[1:38:17] HAPPY TO SEE THAT ALUMS ARE
[1:38:20] RECOGNIZING THE GEM THAT IT IS
[1:38:21] AND I'M CURIOUS KIND OF LIKE
[1:38:22] WHAT THOSE INEQUITIES LOOK LIKE
[1:38:24] SPECIFICALLY AT ENGLISH.
[1:38:25] I'M IT'S A REALLY.
[1:38:27] GOOD QUESTION.
[1:38:28] UM.
[1:38:30] ,UH, OUR OUR OUR OLDEST JUST
[1:38:33] STARTED AT ENGLISH THREE WEEKS
[1:38:35] AGO.
[1:38:36] UM AND SO HAVING A FULL SENSE
[1:38:39] OF LIKE UH BOTH THE
[1:38:41] OPPORTUNITIES THE THE THE
[1:38:42] RESOURCES AND WHAT YOU SAID THE
[1:38:44] GEM UH, I REALLY AGREE WITH
[1:38:46] YOU.
[1:38:47] UM, AND.
[1:38:48] YOU KNOW, I KNOW THAT, UM, AND
[1:38:52] I THINK TRAVIS COULD SPEAK TO
[1:38:54] THIS TOO.
[1:38:54] TRAVIS ALSO HAS A CHILD AN
[1:38:55] ENGLISH.
[1:38:56] UM, UM, IS, UH.
[1:39:00] THAT ENGLISH DOES HAVE AN
[1:39:01] ALUMNI ASSOCIATION?
[1:39:02] UM, IT DOES HAVE FUNDRAISING
[1:39:05] CAPACITY.
[1:39:06] UM, BUT I THINK THAT AT THE
[1:39:08] LAST KIND OF TAX FILING IT HAD
[1:39:10] LIKE $800,000 ON HAND WHICH
[1:39:13] AGAIN IS ONE IS LESS THAN ONE
[1:39:15] TENTH OF WHAT THE BOSTON LATIN
[1:39:16] SCHOOL ASSOCIATION HAS.
[1:39:19] UM AND THERE'S TO MY KNOWLEDGE
[1:39:21] I DON'T KNOW WHAT KIND.
[1:39:22] OF.
[1:39:23] DEVELOPMENT CAPACITY
[1:39:23] DEVELOPMENT OFFICERS
[1:39:24] FUNDRAISING IS IN PLACE BUT UM
[1:39:28] ,YOU KNOW, FOR EXAMPLE ENGLISH
[1:39:29] HAS ONE MODERN FOREIGN LANGUAGE
[1:39:32] UM THEY OFFER SPANISH UM AS AN
[1:39:34] ELECTIVE UM COMPARED TO UM I
[1:39:38] THINK.
[1:39:39] 6 OR 7 LANGUAGES AT BOSTON
[1:39:41] LATIN ACADEMY.
[1:39:43] UM AND SO LIKE THAT'S JUST ONE
[1:39:45] EXAMPLE OF THE AND THE THE
[1:39:47] INTRAMURAL CLUBS UM.
[1:39:52] UH EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES,
[1:39:54] UM FIELD TRIPS THESE ARE OTHER
[1:39:56] THINGS THAT ARE REALLY
[1:39:59] DIFFERENTLY DISTRIBUTED ACROSS
[1:40:00] THE DISTRICT.
[1:40:01] UM, AND YOU KNOW, THAT'S THAT
[1:40:05] AS THAT'S WE HAVE TO TAKE THAT
[1:40:07] INTO ACCOUNT.
[1:40:08] UM, BUT UM, WHEN WE'RE MAKING
[1:40:10] CHOICES FOR SCHOOLS BUT ALSO
[1:40:11] WHEN WE'RE MAKING CHOICES ABOUT
[1:40:13] HOW WE ALLOCATE RESOURCES TO
[1:40:14] SCHOOLS AND ACROSS SCHOOLS.
[1:40:16] SO THANK YOU.
[1:40:17] I WAS JUST MY TIME IS UP TOO
[1:40:21] AND I'LL JUST SAY BEFORE WE
[1:40:23] TRANSITION OVER TO THE ADMIN.
[1:40:24] PANEL IS THAT.
[1:40:26] OH YEAH YEAH GO AHEAD KYLE I
[1:40:28] WAS JUST.
[1:40:28] GOING TO ADD SOMETHING ELSE
[1:40:29] THAT BASE OF THE COALITION TOO
[1:40:30] WHICH IS LIKE SOME OF THE OTHER
[1:40:31] INEQUITIES WE HAVE AROUND LIKE
[1:40:33] OUR CORE CAMPAIGNS WHICH ARE
[1:40:34] LIKE FACILITIES AROUND NEW
[1:40:35] BUILDS AND RENOVATIONS
[1:40:36] HAPPENING THE DISTRICT WHERE
[1:40:38] SCHOOLS THAT ARE PRIMARILY
[1:40:39] SERVING BLACK AND BROWN
[1:40:40] STUDENTS DON'T HAVE ACCESS TO
[1:40:42] HAVING THE SAME UM RESOURCES
[1:40:44] FOR REPAIRS AS STUDENTS AT
[1:40:46] SCHOOLS LIKE BLESS OUR OB OR UM
[1:40:50] LATIN ACADEMY.
[1:40:51] UM ALSO OTHER DISPARITIES ARE
[1:40:52] AROUND EXPANDING THE
[1:40:53] MULTILINGUAL LEARNING ALLIANCE
[1:40:55] AND THE WORK FOR BILINGUAL
[1:40:57] LITERACY UM ACROSS THE DISTRICT
[1:40:58] AS WELL UM ESPECIALLY FOR LIKE
[1:41:01] HAITIAN CREOLE OUR CAPE VERDEAN
[1:41:03] CREOLE AND EXPANDING THOSE
[1:41:04] VERSUS JUST SOME OF THE OTHER
[1:41:05] ONES THAT WE HAVE EMPHASIZED AS
[1:41:08] WELL UM, AS WELL AS THE EXAM
[1:41:10] SCHOOL POLICY WHERE WE'RE
[1:41:11] INTERVENERS IN THE CASE RIGHT
[1:41:12] NOW WORKING WITH THE LEGAL
[1:41:13] DEFENSE FUND HOLDING BOSTON
[1:41:15] PUBLIC SCHOOL COMMITTEE
[1:41:16] ACCOUNTABLE FOR ADOPTING THIS
[1:41:17] NEW POLICY THAT HAS PROVEN
[1:41:20] WE'LL HAVE A DROP IN ADMISSIONS
[1:41:21] FOR BLACK AND BROWN STUDENTS IN
[1:41:23] THE UPCOMING YEARS.
[1:41:24] SO THOSE ARE JUST OTHER
[1:41:26] INEQUITIES THAT ARE HAPPENING
[1:41:26] THAT AREN'T SILOED TO, YOU
[1:41:29] KNOW, FUNDRAISING.
[1:41:31] THANK YOU FOR THAT, KYLE.
[1:41:33] YOU KNOW, AS I.
[1:41:34] AS I.
[1:41:35] THINK ABOUT THIS
[1:41:35] CONVERSATION, I ALWAYS LIKE TO
[1:41:37] FRAME IT AS THE WHOLE CHILD.
[1:41:38] RIGHT.
[1:41:39] AND SOMETIMES WE FOCUS SO
[1:41:40] MUCH ON JUST THE ACADEMICS AND
[1:41:41] THE QUALITY OF EXPERIENCE WITH
[1:41:42] THE TEXTBOOKS AND THINGS
[1:41:43] OF THAT NATURE.
[1:41:44] BUT I BELIEVE THAT THE.
[1:41:46] SOFT SKILLS, THE CULTURAL
[1:41:48] EXPERIENCES UH, THOSE THINGS
[1:41:50] REALLY HELP.
[1:41:51] SHAPE.
[1:41:52] .
[1:41:53] UM.
[1:41:53] YOU KNOW.
[1:41:54] THE TRAJECTORY OF A STUDENT AND
[1:41:56] I THINK THAT.
[1:41:57] THESE ARE THE SORT OF THINGS
[1:41:58] THAT OTHER SCHOOLS HAVE THE
[1:42:00] ADVANTAGE OF BECAUSE THEY HAVE
[1:42:01] THE LUXURY OF BEING ABLE TO
[1:42:03] SUPPLEMENT THESE EXTRA UM
[1:42:06] ACTIVITIES FOR FOR STUDENTS AND
[1:42:08] AND I THINK THAT CREATES A
[1:42:09] FURTHER DIVIDE.
[1:42:12] UM FOR STUDENTS.
[1:42:13] SO I WANT TO NAME THAT AS ONE
[1:42:14] OF THE THINGS THAT I THINK IS
[1:42:15] REALLY IMPORTANT FOR US TO KEEP
[1:42:17] TOP OF MIND AS WE CONTINUE
[1:42:18] HAVING THIS CONVERSATION.
[1:42:19] AND JUST FOR THE RECORD, AS
[1:42:22] OF 2024.
[1:42:23] UM.
[1:42:23] THE UH.
[1:42:25] THE UH FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND,
[1:42:28] UH, ENGLISH HIGH HAD $771,000
[1:42:33] SO CLOSE TO 800.
[1:42:34] SO YOU'RE GOOD WITH NUMBERS
[1:42:35] BECAUSE YOU KNOW THAT'S NOT
[1:42:36] YOU'RE NOT THAT BAD OFF.
[1:42:38] UM, SO SO SO GOOD JOB.
[1:42:40] JAMES AND TRAVIS.
[1:42:42] I AM GOING TO MOVE ON, UH, TO,
[1:42:45] UM.
[1:42:47] FOR THE.
[1:42:48] ADMIN PANEL AND THIS IS THE
[1:42:50] MOMENT THAT WE ALL HAVE BEEN.
[1:42:51] WAITING FOR BECAUSE I'M
[1:42:52] HOPING THAT THE ADMINISTRATION
[1:42:54] IS WALKING.
[1:42:55] IN, UH.
[1:42:56] LISTENING TO WHAT THEY'VE HEARD
[1:42:58] AND.
[1:42:58] BEING ABLE TO EITHER.
[1:43:00] CLARIFY OR, YOU KNOW.
[1:43:02] HOPEFULLY YOU.
[1:43:03] WERE INSPIRED BY WHAT YOU
[1:43:05] HEARD TODAY AND ARE ABLE TO
[1:43:06] MAKE SOME COMMITMENTS TO HOW
[1:43:07] WE'RE GOING TO FIX ALL OF THIS,
[1:43:08] BUT WE'RE GOING.
[1:43:09] TO GO ON TO THE ADMIN PANEL.
[1:43:12] WE HAVE.
[1:43:12] UH OUR UH CHIEF OF FINANCE AND
[1:43:14] DPS DAVID BLOOM, DOCTOR AND.
[1:43:17] CLARK, THE DEVELOPMENT OFFICER.
[1:43:18] FOR STRATEGY AND
[1:43:19] PARTNERSHIPS AND INNOVATION OPS
[1:43:21] AND OUR VERY OWN AND VERY
[1:43:23] FAVORITE.
[1:43:23] UM.
[1:43:25] AMAZING COMMUNITY.
[1:43:26] ORGANIZER AND ACTIVIST AND ALL
[1:43:28] THINGS THAT DEAL WITH EDUCATION
[1:43:29] .
[1:43:29] EQUITY, UM AND LINES.
[1:43:31] UM FROM THE BOSTON EDUCATION
[1:43:34] DEVELOPMENT FUND.
[1:43:35] SO I WANTED TO UH JUST GIVE
[1:43:38] YOU.
[1:43:38] ALL YOUR FIVE.
[1:43:39] MINUTES.
[1:43:40] EACH UM.
[1:43:41] UM.
[1:43:42] .
[1:43:42] SO WHO WANTS TO START FIRST?
[1:43:44] UM.
[1:43:45] THANK YOU SO MUCH,
[1:43:46] COUNSELOR.
[1:43:46] I'LL KICK US OFF.
[1:43:48] UM, FOR MY ILLUSTRIOUS
[1:43:50] COLLEAGUES TAKE OVER.
[1:43:51] UM, THANK YOU SO MUCH TO
[1:43:54] EVERYONE INVOLVED FOR SORT
[1:43:55] OF RAISING THIS ISSUE TODAY AND
[1:43:57] MAKING SURE WE'RE SPENDING TIME
[1:43:59] TALKING ABOUT VERY IMPORTANT,
[1:44:01] UM, PART OF THE SORT
[1:44:03] OF DISTRIBUTION OF FUNDS IN
[1:44:04] THIS.
[1:44:05] CITY AND SOMETHING WE SHOULD
[1:44:06] CONTINUE TO BE HAVING A
[1:44:07] CONVERSATION ABOUT.
[1:44:08] UM, AS WE TALK ABOUT FUNDING
[1:44:10] EDUCATION UM I THINK UM I
[1:44:14] REALLY WANT TO MOSTLY LEAVE UH,
[1:44:16] TIME TO BE ABLE TO ANSWER
[1:44:17] QUESTIONS FROM THE COUNCIL BUT
[1:44:19] I WILL JUST SAY, YOU KNOW, WE
[1:44:21] TAKE THIS WORK VERY SERIOUSLY
[1:44:22] AND HAVE OVER A NUMBER OF YEARS
[1:44:24] UM, I'M HOPING OVER THE COURSE
[1:44:27] OF OUR CONVERSATION THREE WILL
[1:44:29] HIGHLIGHT UH, THINGS THAT WE
[1:44:31] HAVE BEEN DOING SUCH AS OUR
[1:44:33] WORK UH, ON THE PARTNERSHIPS
[1:44:35] FUND, UM, ORIGINALLY WITH
[1:44:37] DOCTOR BROWN ROSE UM, AND USING
[1:44:39] THE OPPORTUNITY INDEX UM, AS
[1:44:42] WELL AS UM OUR RECENT WORK WITH
[1:44:45] STUDENT ACTIVITY ACCOUNTS AND
[1:44:46] PUBLISHING THAT WHICH I BELIEVE
[1:44:47] IS WHAT WE COULD DO THAT'S SORT
[1:44:49] OF EQUIVALENT TO WHAT THEY DID
[1:44:51] IN NEW YORK.
[1:44:52] UM, AND THEN OUR WORK REALLY UH
[1:44:55] ,ESPECIALLY OVER THE LAST TWO
[1:44:56] YEARS IS UH, PAM WAS MENTIONING
[1:44:58] IN HER EARLY REMARKS UM IN
[1:45:00] PARTNERSHIP WITH BDF AND EQUITY
[1:45:04] UM TO BE ABLE TO REALLY THINK
[1:45:06] ABOUT HOW WE CAN.
[1:45:08] BE USING OUR OFFICIAL 501 C3
[1:45:11] PARTNERSHIP WITH PAM AND HER
[1:45:14] AND BDF TO BE ABLE TO UH, LIFT
[1:45:17] UP THOSE COMMUNITIES THAT MIGHT
[1:45:19] NEED OUR SUPPORT, UM, TO GET
[1:45:21] FUNDRAISING.
[1:45:22] UM, SO PAM, MAYBE I TURN IT
[1:45:24] OVER TO YOU NEXT TO DO YOUR
[1:45:26] SIDE AND AND CAN CLOSE FOR US.
[1:45:29] AND I WANT TO KNOW FOR THE
[1:45:31] RECORD THAT PAM.
[1:45:32] IT DOES.
[1:45:32] NOT WORK.
[1:45:33] FOR DPS.
[1:45:33] EVEN THOUGH.
[1:45:34] SHE WAS PART OF THE ADMIN
[1:45:35] PANEL.
[1:45:36] I WANT TO.
[1:45:37] DO THAT DISCLOSURE SO THAT
[1:45:38] PEOPLE DON'T ASSOCIATE HER WITH
[1:45:41] THE ADMINISTRATION.
[1:45:42] THERE'S NOTHING.
[1:45:42] WRONG WITH THE ADMINISTRATION
[1:45:43] BUT.
[1:45:44] JUST FOR THE RECORD.
[1:45:45] SHE'S OUTSIDE THE SYSTEM.
[1:45:47] THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
[1:45:50] UH, WHEN I STARTED THIS
[1:45:51] EVERYONE GOOD AFTERNOON.
[1:45:53] UH, THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME.
[1:45:55] MY NAME IS PAM OR FORMULA LANDS
[1:45:57] .
[1:45:57] AND FOR THE PAST FIVE YEARS
[1:45:58] I'VE HAD THE PRIVILEGE
[1:45:59] OF SERVING AS THE EXECUTIVE
[1:46:01] DIRECTOR OF THE BOSTON
[1:46:02] EDUCATION FUND.
[1:46:03] OTHERS MAY KNOW US AS THE
[1:46:04] BOSTON EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
[1:46:06] FOUNDATION.
[1:46:06] EITHER ONE IS FINE.
[1:46:08] WE ALL GO BY VIDEO I'M ALSO A
[1:46:10] PROUD GRADUATE OF BOSTON PUBLIC
[1:46:12] SCHOOLS, THE MOTHER OF TWO SONS
[1:46:14] IN BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS, A
[1:46:15] FOURTH GRADER AT THE HERNANDEZ
[1:46:17] AND A NINTH GRADER AT NEW
[1:46:18] MISSION, MULTIPLE MEMBER OF THE
[1:46:19] CITYWIDE PARENT
[1:46:20] COUNCIL LEADERSHIP TEAM.
[1:46:23] UM A WHOLE BUNCH OF OTHER
[1:46:23] THINGS TOO BUT I KNOW I ONLY
[1:46:24] HAVE A FEW MINUTES THOSE, UH,
[1:46:27] PERSPECTIVES GIVE ME A FRONT
[1:46:29] ROW SEAT TO THE INEQUITIES OUR
[1:46:31] CHILDREN, SCHOOLS, FAMILIES AND
[1:46:34] EDUCATORS FACE EVERY DAY I SEE
[1:46:36] THE CARE AND CREATIVITY IN OUR
[1:46:38] SCHOOL.
[1:46:38] I ALSO SEE HOW HARD PEOPLE WORK
[1:46:40] TO SECURE OUR OPPORTUNITIES
[1:46:41] EVERY CHILD DESERVES.
[1:46:42] THANK YOU FOR HOLDING THE SPACE
[1:46:44] IN THIS HEARING.
[1:46:45] UM, QUESTIONS ABOUT WHO HAS
[1:46:47] ACCESS TO PRIVATE RESOURCES,
[1:46:49] HOW THOSE RESOURCES ARE MANAGED
[1:46:51] AND WHAT THEY MEAN FOR STUDENTS
[1:46:53] DESERVE AN HONEST CONVERSATION.
[1:46:55] PBF HAS SUPPORTED BPA SINCE
[1:46:59] 1984.
[1:46:59] WE'VE BEEN ON A LONG FOR A LONG
[1:47:02] TIME.
[1:47:03] UM WE ARE ANON.
[1:47:05] WE ARE THE NONPROFIT ARM THAT
[1:47:07] SCHOOLS CAN TURN TO FOR FISCAL
[1:47:10] SPONSORSHIP AND FUNDRAISING
[1:47:12] SUPPORT AND EVERY BPA SCHOOL IS
[1:47:15] WELCOME TO USE OUR SERVICES.
[1:47:17] I WANT TO STRESS THAT EVERY
[1:47:19] SINGLE SCHOOL HAS THE ABILITY
[1:47:21] TO USE OUR SERVICES AS THEIR
[1:47:23] FISCAL SPONSOR AND FUNDRAISING
[1:47:26] UM UM PARTNER WE HAVE SCHOOL
[1:47:30] DEPARTMENTS AND EDUCATION
[1:47:31] INITIATIVES, RECEIVE CHARITABLE
[1:47:32] GIFTS, MANAGE FUNDS AND PAY FOR
[1:47:36] APPROVED ACTIVITIES AND REPORT
[1:47:37] ON THOSE RESEARCH TO A SCHOOL
[1:47:39] THAT OUR EDUCATOR SHOULD NOT
[1:47:41] HAVE TO BUILD A NONPROFIT OR
[1:47:43] BECOME A FINANCE EXPERT TO
[1:47:45] BRING OPPORTUNITIES TO STUDENTS
[1:47:46] .
[1:47:47] THAT'S WHAT WE'RE HERE FOR.
[1:47:48] OVER THE PAST FIVE YEARS WE'VE
[1:47:50] ASKED OURSELVES A VERY HARD
[1:47:52] QUESTION IF ALL THE EDF DOES IS
[1:47:55] PROVIDE FISCAL SPONSORSHIP, WHO
[1:47:57] IS BEST POSITIONED TO USE THAT
[1:48:00] SERVICE?
[1:48:00] WHERE ARE WE INADVERTENTLY
[1:48:02] SUSTAINING THE VERY INEQUITIES
[1:48:04] WE WANTED TO CHOOSE TO CLOSE?
[1:48:06] I'VE EXPERIENCED WHAT IT MEANS
[1:48:07] TO BELONG TO A SCHOOL COMMUNITY
[1:48:09] WITH STRONG ACCESS TO
[1:48:11] RESOURCES.
[1:48:11] I'VE ALSO SEEN A SCHOOL ACROSS
[1:48:13] THE STREET SERVING STUDENTS
[1:48:14] WITH VERY SIMILAR DEMOGRAPHICS
[1:48:16] HAVE A VERY DIFFERENT
[1:48:17] EXPERIENCE.
[1:48:18] THAT DIFFERENCE CAN COME DOWN
[1:48:21] TO RELATIONSHIPS, FUNDRAISING
[1:48:22] CAPACITY AND WHO HAS THE TIME
[1:48:23] TO MAKE THE EFFORT.
[1:48:25] EVERY SCHOOL MAY BE WELCOME TO
[1:48:28] USE THE IDEA, BUT AN OPEN DOOR
[1:48:30] ALONE DOES NOT ENSURE EVERY
[1:48:32] SCHOOL HAS THE SAME OPPORTUNITY
[1:48:33] TO WALK THROUGH IT.
[1:48:35] WE HAD TO LOOK INWARD BEFORE WE
[1:48:37] COULD DO MORE OUTWARD.
[1:48:38] AND SO THE EDF HAS INVESTED IN
[1:48:41] THE SYSTEMS THAT HELP US STAFF,
[1:48:43] SCHOOLS AND OUR TEAM HAS GROWN
[1:48:44] FROM THREE PEOPLE TO SIX IN
[1:48:47] SCHOOL YEAR 2026 WE'VE
[1:48:49] SUPPORTED OVER 224 FUND
[1:48:52] MANAGERS, PROVIDED HUNDREDS
[1:48:54] OF TRAININGS AND PROCESSED MORE
[1:48:55] THAN 5000 TRANSACTIONS.
[1:48:57] AND WE CONTINUE TO EXAMINE HOW
[1:49:00] WE OPERATE AND HOW WE CAN DO
[1:49:01] MORE THAN ADMINISTER THE
[1:49:03] RESOURCES THAT COME OUR WAY.
[1:49:04] WE'VE ALSO WORKED HARD TO
[1:49:06] STRENGTHEN RELATIONSHIPS ACROSS
[1:49:08] BPA AND THE BROADER EDUCATIONAL
[1:49:11] ECOSYSTEM.
[1:49:11] WE SPEAK REGULARLY WITH
[1:49:13] DISTRICT LEADERSHIP
[1:49:14] DEPARTMENTS, EDUCATORS,
[1:49:16] FAMILIES, COMMUNITY
[1:49:18] ORGANIZATIONS, PARTNERS AND
[1:49:20] FUNDERS.
[1:49:20] OUR ROLE AS A CONNECTOR IS
[1:49:23] FUNDAMENTAL TO OUR SERVICE.
[1:49:26] UNDERSTANDING WHAT THE SCHOOL
[1:49:26] COMMUNITY HOPES TO ACCOMPLISH
[1:49:28] HELPS US BRING PEOPLE,
[1:49:30] PARTNERSHIPS AND RESOURCES
[1:49:31] TOGETHER.
[1:49:32] FUNDS MANAGED THROUGH PDF HAVE
[1:49:34] SUPPORTED 3D PRINTERS AND SMART
[1:49:36] BOARDS IN CLASSROOMS,
[1:49:38] EXPERIENTIAL FIELD TRIPS, HBCU
[1:49:40] TOURS, STUDENT WELLNESS
[1:49:41] ATHLETICS AND CITY PREP ARTS
[1:49:44] ENRICHMENT AND THOSE ARE JUST A
[1:49:45] FEW EXAMPLES.
[1:49:47] WE ALSO HELP SCHOOLS MAKE
[1:49:48] GIVING MORE ACCESSIBLE.
[1:49:50] LAST YEAR ALONE WE CREATED 62
[1:49:52] NEW ONLINE GIVING ACCOUNT
[1:49:54] ALLOWING FOR A SCHOOL TO INVITE
[1:49:56] SUPPORT THROUGH SOMETHING AS
[1:49:57] SIMPLE AS THE QR CODE.
[1:49:59] MY MOTHER TAUGHT ME THAT
[1:50:00] EDUCATION IS THE ONE THING NO
[1:50:02] ONE CAN TAKE AWAY FROM YOU.
[1:50:04] HELP ME IMAGINE A FUTURE BEYOND
[1:50:06] WHAT MY FAMILY HAD EXPERIENCED
[1:50:07] .
[1:50:08] I WANT THAT FOR MY SONS AND FOR
[1:50:10] EVERY CHILD WHOSE FAMILY I HEAR
[1:50:11] FROM AS APPARENTLY THEY'RE
[1:50:13] THEIR OPPORTUNITIES AND NOT
[1:50:15] DEPEND ON WHICH SCHOOL THEY
[1:50:16] ATTEND OR HOW MUCH MONEY THE
[1:50:18] ADULTS AROUND THEM CAN REIGN.
[1:50:20] THAT WILL LEAD US TO LAUNCH AT
[1:50:22] EQUITY BOSTON MY BABY.
[1:50:25] WE'RE WORKING TO BRING MORE
[1:50:27] RESOURCES TO SCHOOLS WHILE
[1:50:28] GIVING SCHOOL COMMUNITIES A
[1:50:30] MEANINGFUL ROLE IN DECIDING
[1:50:31] WHAT SUPPORT THEY NEED.
[1:50:33] WE'RE STILL LEARNING BUT OUR
[1:50:35] PRINCIPLE IS CLEAR PEOPLE
[1:50:37] CLOSEST TO STUDENTS EXPERIENCE
[1:50:39] SHOULD HAVE POWER IN SHAPING
[1:50:41] INVESTMENTS INTENDED TO SERVE
[1:50:42] THEM.
[1:50:43] THAT INCLUDES OUR STUDENTS,
[1:50:45] ESPECIALLY OUR STUDENTS.
[1:50:47] THEY ARE AT THE CENTER ALWAYS.
[1:50:49] TRANSPARENCY IS PART OF OUR
[1:50:51] RESPONSIBILITY.
[1:50:52] EDF IS COMMITTED TO CLEAR
[1:50:54] REPORTING ON THE RESOURCES WE
[1:50:56] MANAGE AND TO WORKING WITH
[1:50:57] GROUPS TO BETTER UNDERSTAND
[1:50:58] PRIVATE RESOURCES ACROSS THE
[1:51:00] DISTRICT THAT WORK CALLS FOR
[1:51:02] INFORMATION FAMILIES CAN
[1:51:04] UNDERSTAND AND PROBLEM HANDLED
[1:51:06] WITH APPROPRIATE CARE FOR
[1:51:08] SCHOOLS AND DONORS.
[1:51:10] PRIVATE PHILANTHROPY CAN OPEN
[1:51:11] THOSE DOORS FOR STUDENTS BUT IT
[1:51:13] CANNOT REPLACE PUBLIC FUNDING.
[1:51:16] BIDEN'S JOB IS TO MANAGE
[1:51:17] RESOURCES RESPONSIBLY, MAKE
[1:51:19] FUNDRAISING EASIER, CONNECT
[1:51:21] PEOPLE ACROSS THE EDUCATIONAL
[1:51:23] ECOSYSTEM AND KEEP ASKING ARE
[1:51:25] WE HELPING OPPORTUNITY REACH
[1:51:26] THE STUDENTS WHO NEED IT OR
[1:51:28] ONLY THE SCHOOL'S BEST
[1:51:30] POSITIONED TO.
[1:51:30] ASK FOR IT?
[1:51:31] THANK YOU.
[1:51:34] NICE.
[1:51:35] OKAY.
[1:51:35] THANK YOU.
[1:51:37] UM, SO WE'LL GO NEXT TO DOCTOR
[1:51:40] CLARK.
[1:51:40] YOU NOW.
[1:51:41] HAVE THE FLOOR.
[1:51:42] GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE I WANT
[1:51:45] TO FIRST ECHO.
[1:51:46] DAVID AND PAM.
[1:51:48] THANK YOU FOR.
[1:51:50] BRINGING THIS VERY IMPORTANT
[1:51:51] ISSUE TO THE FORE.
[1:51:53] WE ALL.
[1:51:53] WORK EVERY DAY AND DO WHAT WE
[1:51:55] DO BECAUSE WE DESERVE OUR.
[1:51:57] WE BELIEVE OUR.
[1:51:58] STUDENTS DESERVE ALL OF THESE
[1:52:00] RESOURCES AND SO WE REALLY
[1:52:01] APPRECIATE YOUR PARTNERSHIP IN
[1:52:03] THIS CONVERSATION.
[1:52:05] UM.
[1:52:05] MY ROLE IN THE DISTRICT IS
[1:52:08] AS YOU SAID AS DEVELOPMENT
[1:52:09] OFFICER FOR STRATEGY
[1:52:10] PARTNERSHIPS AND INNOVATION.
[1:52:12] UM.
[1:52:13] I ALSO WANT TO BE MOSTLY
[1:52:15] RESPONSIVE TO YOUR QUESTIONS,
[1:52:16] BUT I WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT TWO
[1:52:18] STRATEGIES THAT WE EMPLOY
[1:52:20] DISTRICT WIDE THAT DAVID AND I
[1:52:22] THOUGHT MIGHT BE USEFUL AND
[1:52:23] RELEVANT TO THIS CONVERSATION.
[1:52:25] UM, THE FIRST IS THE
[1:52:28] PARTNERSHIPS FUND WHICH IS
[1:52:30] SOMETHING THAT IS DISTRIBUTED
[1:52:32] THROUGH THE CENTRAL OFFICE AND
[1:52:34] IN FISCAL YEAR 2019 A
[1:52:37] SIGNIFICANT SHIFT WAS MADE IN
[1:52:39] THAT PARTNERSHIPS FUND WHERE IT
[1:52:42] IS UM ALLOCATE ALLOCATED.
[1:52:45] THROUGH AN ANALYSIS USING THE
[1:52:48] OPPORTUNITY INDEX PURPOSELY TO
[1:52:51] INCREASE EQUITY AND CLOSE
[1:52:53] OPPORTUNITY GAPS.
[1:52:57] SO USING THE OPPORTUNITY INDEX
[1:52:58] THE DISTRICT IDENTIFIES UM A
[1:53:01] PERCENTAGE OF SCHOOLS.
[1:53:03] WHO NEED ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
[1:53:07] UM AND DISTRIBUTES ANNUALLY
[1:53:09] THIS YEAR IT'S 7 MILLION UM
[1:53:14] DOLLARS ADDITIONAL FUNDING TO
[1:53:20] 105 SCHOOLS BECAUSE OF THEIR
[1:53:23] OPPORTUNITY INDEX SCORES.
[1:53:25] AND THIS IS UH AN EXPLICIT
[1:53:28] STRATEGY UM, MEANT TO MITIGATE
[1:53:31] SOME OF THE DYNAMICS THAT WE
[1:53:32] TALKED ABOUT EARLIER IN THE
[1:53:34] PANEL TODAY.
[1:53:35] UH, THE OTHER STRATEGY THAT I
[1:53:38] WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT, UM, WERE
[1:53:40] SOME OF OUR DISTRICT WIDE
[1:53:43] PARTNERSHIP AND RESOURCE UM.
[1:53:46] INITIATIVES SUCH AS UH
[1:53:48] PRINCIPAL PARTNERS FORMERLY
[1:53:49] KNOWN AS PRINCIPAL FOR A DAY,
[1:53:51] WHICH IS AN ANNUAL INITIATIVE
[1:53:53] THAT WE ORGANIZED CENTRALLY
[1:53:57] CONNECTING SCHOOL LEADERS
[1:53:59] THROUGH A SURVEY, UM, WHERE
[1:54:01] THAT SOLICITS THEIR INPUT AS TO
[1:54:03] WHAT KINDS OF PARTNERS AND
[1:54:05] RESOURCES THEY'RE LOOKING WE'RE
[1:54:06] LOOKING FOR RATHER AND
[1:54:08] CONNECTING THEM TO, UM,
[1:54:11] BUSINESSES AND COMPANIES THAT
[1:54:14] ARE CONNECTED TO THE BOSTON
[1:54:15] CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND THAT
[1:54:17] HAPPENS ANNUALLY AND SOME
[1:54:18] OF THOSE PARTNERSHIPS AND
[1:54:20] RESULTING DONATIONS CONTINUE
[1:54:22] FOR SEVERAL YEARS.
[1:54:24] THAT SAID, WE KNOW THERE IS
[1:54:25] MUCH WORK TO DO AND WE'RE
[1:54:27] EXCITED TO BE PART OF THIS
[1:54:29] CONVERSATION TODAY AND HOPE TO
[1:54:31] MAKE, UM, SOME JOINT DECISIONS
[1:54:34] ABOUT PATHWAYS FORWARD.
[1:54:40] UH, ECONOMY.
[1:54:41] GREAT.
[1:54:42] THANK YOU.
[1:54:42] ALL RIGHT.
[1:54:44] SO I AM GOING TO UH,
[1:54:46] INITIATE THE ROUND
[1:54:48] OF QUESTIONS.
[1:54:48] AS I MENTIONED SINCE WE HAD
[1:54:50] THREE.
[1:54:50] PANELS WE WERE GOING TO.
[1:54:51] DO ONE ROUND.
[1:54:52] SO MAKE IT COUNT, Y'ALL.
[1:54:55] UH, WE'LL GO TO
[1:54:57] COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE FOLLOWED BY
[1:54:58] COUNCILOR WEBER, COUNSELOR
[1:55:00] CULPEPER.
[1:55:00] AND THEN MYSELF.
[1:55:01] AND YOU EACH FOR FIVE MINUTES.
[1:55:03] THANK YOU.
[1:55:04] MADAM CHAIR.
[1:55:04] AND THANK YOU.
[1:55:05] TO.
[1:55:05] THIS PANEL I.
[1:55:06] ALSO.
[1:55:06] WANT TO CORRECT I SAID CONGRATS
[1:55:07] ON A BOARD.
[1:55:07] CONGRATS ON 12 YEARS
[1:55:09] OF ADVOCACY.
[1:55:09] UM, REALLY UH, WANTED TO JUST
[1:55:12] MAKE SURE THAT I CORRECT THE
[1:55:14] RECORD THERE.
[1:55:14] UM, PAM.
[1:55:16] GOOD TO SEE YOU.
[1:55:17] THANK YOU.
[1:55:17] FOR BEING ON THIS, UM, PANEL
[1:55:19] .
[1:55:19] YOU YOU STATED LIKE WHICH I
[1:55:21] THINK WAS REALLY IMPORTANT BUT
[1:55:23] LIKE HOW ARE WE MAKING SURE
[1:55:24] THAT YOU'RE SERVING SCHOOLS
[1:55:26] THAT DON'T KNOW BASICALLY YOU
[1:55:29] KNOW THAT OKAY.
[1:55:30] FOR EXAMPLE, LIKE I'VE DONATED
[1:55:32] TO SCHOOLS AND EVENTS WHERE
[1:55:33] IT'S LIKE JUST A TEACHER KIND
[1:55:35] OF PUT SOMETHING TOGETHER
[1:55:36] RIGHT?
[1:55:36] AND THEY DIDN'T DO LIKE GO TO
[1:55:38] THE FISCAL SPONSORSHIP.
[1:55:39] UM, WHAT IS THAT SOLUTION LIKE
[1:55:42] HOW ARE YOU MAKING SURE THAT
[1:55:43] THAT.
[1:55:44] SCHOOL COMMUNITIES OR TEACHERS
[1:55:46] OR OR PARENTS LIKE KNOW TO ASK
[1:55:49] FOR YOUR HELP?
[1:55:49] LIKE WHAT?
[1:55:50] BECAUSE THAT'S THE HARDEST
[1:55:51] WORK.
[1:55:51] IT'S LIKE THE WORK OF MEETING
[1:55:52] PEOPLE WHERE THEY ARE AND SORT
[1:55:55] OF WAITING THERE FOR THEM TO
[1:55:56] KNOCK ON YOUR DOOR.
[1:55:57] YEAH, ABSOLUTELY.
[1:55:58] SO WE ACTUALLY UM WE SERVE THE
[1:56:00] MAJORITY OF SCHOOLS AND I WILL
[1:56:03] EVEN SAY THERE ARE SCHOOLS THAT
[1:56:05] HAVE THEIR OWN FRIENDS OF UM
[1:56:07] ACCOUNT THAT ALSO USE US AS
[1:56:10] THEIR FISCAL UH, SPONSOR.
[1:56:13] SO UM, THE IDEA THAT I
[1:56:16] CONFIDENTLY SAY THAT ALL OF THE
[1:56:18] .
[1:56:20] SCHOOLS AND DEPARTMENTS KNOW
[1:56:22] THAT WE ARE HERE AND THAT WE'RE
[1:56:23] READY TO SERVE THEM AND LIKE I
[1:56:25] SAID, WE'VE DONE A LOT
[1:56:27] OF INWARD WORK WHERE OVER THE
[1:56:28] PAST FIVE YEARS WE'VE REALLY
[1:56:30] DONE UM, A TON OF INTENTIONAL
[1:56:32] WORK OF MAKING SURE THAT
[1:56:35] SCHOOLS AT THE SCHOOL LEVEL,
[1:56:36] DEPARTMENTS AT THE DEPARTMENT
[1:56:37] LEVEL, PARENT COUNCIL AT THE
[1:56:39] PARENT COUNCIL LEVEL,
[1:56:40] COMMUNITIES AT THE COMMUNITY
[1:56:42] LEVEL KNOW WHAT IT IS WE'RE
[1:56:44] WE'RE HERE TO DO TO HELP TO
[1:56:46] SERVE AND LIKE WHAT ARE THE
[1:56:48] RESOURCES THAT WE UM, HAVE THE
[1:56:50] ABILITY TO BRING TO THEM.
[1:56:51] SO AGAIN, LIKE OUR BIG THING
[1:56:53] AND I'M YOU KNOW ME A LOT
[1:56:55] OF PEOPLE KNOW ME LIKE BEING A
[1:56:56] CONNECTOR IS SUCH A HUGE PART
[1:56:58] OF THE WORK THAT WE DO.
[1:57:00] AND SO I CAN CONFIDENTLY SAY
[1:57:03] ALL OF THE SCHOOLS KNOW WE
[1:57:04] EXIST HOW THEY USED US AND KIND
[1:57:07] OF LIKE WHAT WE'RE WORKING TO
[1:57:09] MEET THEM WHERE THEY ARE SO
[1:57:11] THAT THEY CAN BETTER USE US AS
[1:57:12] A BETTER RESOURCE.
[1:57:13] YEAH, AND THAT SOUNDS LIKE.
[1:57:14] AN INCREDIBLE ENDEAVOR FOR
[1:57:16] UM, A STAFF OF SIX.
[1:57:19] SO WE'RE TRYING.
[1:57:21] YEAH.
[1:57:22] UM THANK YOU PAMELA FOR ALL THE
[1:57:24] WORK THAT YOU DO AND THAT
[1:57:25] YOU'VE BEEN DOING FOR ALL OF.
[1:57:26] OUR.
[1:57:26] SCHOOLS AND ALL OF OUR KIDS.
[1:57:27] SO APPRECIATE IT.
[1:57:28] UM, AND I'M GLAD THAT YOU WERE
[1:57:29] ABLE TO CONNECT WITH TRAVIS AND
[1:57:32] REALLY TALK ABOUT THE REALLY
[1:57:33] GREAT WORK THAT YOU'RE DOING.
[1:57:35] UM, UM, QUESTION FOR
[1:57:37] ADMINISTRATION IS REALLY IF YOU
[1:57:38] COULD TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE
[1:57:39] ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY INDEX
[1:57:40] INFORMS FUNDING AND WHAT WHAT
[1:57:43] WHAT IT WHAT WHAT WHAT MAKES IT
[1:57:45] UP?
[1:57:47] YEAH.
[1:57:48] UM SO THE OPPORTUNITY INDEX
[1:57:52] UM, IS DESIGNED TO BE A MEASURE
[1:57:56] OF, UM, THE COMMUNITY THE
[1:57:58] SCHOOL SERVES.
[1:57:59] SO IT'S NOT, UM, ABOUT WHERE
[1:58:01] THE SCHOOL IS LOCATED AND AT
[1:58:04] ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS IT LOOKS UM
[1:58:08] AT MEASURES LIKE UM COMMUNITY
[1:58:12] POVERTY, UH COMMUNITY
[1:58:13] EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT AND
[1:58:15] OTHERS AT THE HIGH SCHOOL
[1:58:16] LEVEL.
[1:58:16] IT ALSO ADDS INFORMATION ABOUT
[1:58:19] UM STUDENTS WHO ARE ENTERING
[1:58:20] THE SCHOOL AND NEEDS THEY MIGHT
[1:58:22] HAVE UM AND THE GOAL OF OUR USE
[1:58:24] OF THE OPPORTUNITY INDEX AND
[1:58:25] OUR FUNDING FORMULA IS TO
[1:58:28] ENSURE THAT THOSE SCHOOLS THAT
[1:58:31] HAVE THE LEAST SORT
[1:58:34] OF COMMUNITY ABILITY TO
[1:58:35] FUNDRAISE HAVE SOME DEDICATED
[1:58:39] STREAMS OF FUNDING FUNDING FOR
[1:58:41] FLEXIBLE USE AND IT'S SPLIT
[1:58:42] INTO TWO CATEGORIES.
[1:58:44] THE FIRST IS THE PARTNERSHIP
[1:58:46] FUND UM, WHICH IS.
[1:58:48] SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED TO FUND
[1:58:49] THE SORTS OF COMMUNITY
[1:58:51] ENRICHMENT ACTIVITIES THAT UM
[1:58:54] COMMUNITY FUNDRAISING OFTEN
[1:58:55] PAYS FOR.
[1:58:56] AND THEN THE SECOND IS WHAT'S
[1:58:58] JUST CALLED THE SCHOOL SUPPORT
[1:58:59] FUND.
[1:58:59] IT'S A LITTLE BIT MORE GENERAL
[1:59:01] AND MEANT TO BE SORT OF MORE AT
[1:59:03] THE SCHOOL'S DISCRETION TO
[1:59:05] DETERMINE UM.
[1:59:07] I THINK.
[1:59:08] SO THAT'S SORT.
[1:59:09] OF THE MAIN WAY WE'RE USING
[1:59:10] THE OPPORTUNITY INDEX AND CAN
[1:59:11] TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT
[1:59:12] THE WAY WE PARTNER WITH SCHOOLS
[1:59:13] TO DETERMINE SORT OF HOW THEY
[1:59:15] USE THAT.
[1:59:15] THANK THANK YOU.
[1:59:17] BUT BEFORE WE MOVE TO THAT SO
[1:59:18] INHERENT IN THE OPPORTUNITY
[1:59:19] INDEX AS IT CURRENTLY EXISTS,
[1:59:21] ARE THERE SCHOOLS THAT ARE
[1:59:22] CURRENTLY GETTING MORE PER
[1:59:24] PUPIL THAN OTHER SCHOOLS
[1:59:26] BECAUSE OF BECAUSE OF THE
[1:59:28] OPPORTUNITY TO INDEX OR BECAUSE
[1:59:29] OF THE COST PER STUDENT TO
[1:59:31] ADVOCATE?
[1:59:32] IS THAT CURRENTLY OR BECAUSE
[1:59:33] OF THE YOU KNOW, SOCIOECONOMIC
[1:59:35] BACKGROUND?
[1:59:35] IS THAT ALREADY HAPPENING?
[1:59:36] YES.
[1:59:37] SO THE OPPORTUNITY INDEX IS
[1:59:39] IS WEIGHTED.
[1:59:40] SO UM HIGHER NEEDS SCHOOLS
[1:59:43] RECEIVE MORE FUNDING.
[1:59:45] UM AND WE ALSO PROVIDE
[1:59:46] ADDITIONAL FUNDING TO SCHOOLS
[1:59:48] BASED ON THE LEVEL OF POVERTY
[1:59:51] IN THE SCHOOL, THE NUMBER
[1:59:52] OF HOMELESS YOUTH IN THE
[1:59:53] SCHOOL, ALL OF THOSE MEASURES
[1:59:56] UM INCREASE THE PER PUPIL
[1:59:57] SPENDING AT SCHOOLS WITH HIGHER
[1:59:58] NEEDS.
[2:00:01] RIGHT.
[2:00:01] AND I THINK THERE IS AN
[2:00:02] ADDITIONAL AND RELATED QUESTION
[2:00:06] UM, ABOUT LIKE JUST WHAT THE
[2:00:08] SOCIAL CAPITAL IN THE SCHOOL
[2:00:09] WILL DO FOR IT THAT YOU CAN'T
[2:00:12] NECESSARILY MAKE UP FOR IN
[2:00:13] DOLLARS AND SOUNDS RIGHT.
[2:00:14] THAT'S JUST ABOUT SORT OF THE
[2:00:15] NETWORK AND AND SO LIKE YOU
[2:00:17] KNOW WHAT ARE THE IDEAS THERE
[2:00:19] IS THAT WHAT WHAT ANNE WAS
[2:00:20] GOING TO TALK ABOUT BECAUSE I
[2:00:21] THINK LIKE WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT
[2:00:22] SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CAPITAL
[2:00:23] AMONG THE PARENTS, AMONG THE
[2:00:25] ALUMNI OR THE LACK THEREOF THAT
[2:00:27] CAN REALLY UM INFORM A SCHOOL
[2:00:30] ENVIRONMENT EVEN WHEN THE
[2:00:32] OPPORTUNITY INDEX IS ALREADY
[2:00:33] TAKING INTO ACCOUNT HIGHER
[2:00:35] SPENDING PER PUPIL IN LOW
[2:00:37] INCOME SCHOOLS, WHICH IS THE
[2:00:38] MAJORITY OF BOTH OF THOSE
[2:00:39] DOORS.
[2:00:40] TOTALLY.
[2:00:41] AND WHAT I THINK THE
[2:00:42] PRINCIPAL PARTNER IS A GREAT
[2:00:43] EXAMPLE OF THAT.
[2:00:43] AND THEN I SORRY IN THAT LAST
[2:00:45] YEAR TOO.
[2:00:46] YEAH THAT THIS IS THE LAST
[2:00:48] QUESTION BECAUSE THE TIME HAS
[2:00:49] BEEN UP.
[2:00:49] SO IF YOU CAN ANSWER THAT THAT
[2:00:50] WOULD BE GREAT THANK YOU.
[2:00:52] YES SO.
[2:00:53] OUR INTENTION JUST LIKE.
[2:00:55] THE PARTNERSHIPS FUND IS TO UM
[2:00:58] MAKE SURE THAT THOSE SCHOOLS
[2:01:00] THAT HAVE FEWER PARTNERS HAVE
[2:01:03] FEWER PARTNERS WITH CAPACITY,
[2:01:06] UM, HAVE OPPORTUNITIES TO
[2:01:08] CONNECT WITH THOSE UM KINDS
[2:01:10] OF PARTNERS THROUGH.
[2:01:11] THE PRINCIPAL PARTNERS, UH,
[2:01:14] OPPORTUNITY.
[2:01:15] SO WE ARE EXPLICITLY MAKING ONE
[2:01:18] BY ONE MATCHES LOOKING AT THE
[2:01:20] OPPORTUNITY INDEX, LOOKING AT
[2:01:23] UM SCHOOL LEADERS, UH,
[2:01:25] REPRESENTATION OF WHAT THEY
[2:01:26] NEED AND TRYING TO CONNECT
[2:01:28] THOSE SCHOOLS THAT NEED THE
[2:01:30] MOST WITH THE PARTNERS THAT
[2:01:31] HAVE THE MOST CAPACITY.
[2:01:34] THANK YOU AND THANK YOU FOR
[2:01:35] ANSWERING QUESTIONS.
[2:01:36] THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
[2:01:37] THANK YOU, COUNCILOR DIVISION.
[2:01:38] UM, COUNCILOR WEBER, YOU HAVE
[2:01:41] FIVE MINUTES AND THEN WE'RE
[2:01:42] GOING TO COUNCILOR CULPEPPER.
[2:01:44] YEAH, THANK YOU.
[2:01:45] VERY MUCH.
[2:01:46] UM, I'M MEAN FOR THE PANEL.
[2:01:48] SO I GUESS, YOU KNOW, WE HEARD
[2:01:50] ABOUT IN NEW YORK CITY THAT
[2:01:52] THERE ARE CERTAIN AREAS WHERE
[2:01:54] THERE YOU KNOW, THERE'S A LOT
[2:01:55] MORE RESOURCES POURED INTO THE
[2:01:57] SCHOOLS.
[2:01:58] SO I THINK LIKE AT THE IN THE
[2:02:00] AT THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LEVEL
[2:02:01] ,I MEAN I FEEL LIKE I'VE BEEN
[2:02:03] IN EVERY SCHOOL IN DISTRICT SIX
[2:02:05] AND SOME OTHERS ACROSS THE CITY
[2:02:06] LIKE I I'M NOT SURE I MEAN I
[2:02:10] GUESS YOU KNOW THE DISTRICT
[2:02:11] WIDE VIEW IS THERE A DISPARITY
[2:02:13] IN TERMS OF YOU KNOW, WHAT
[2:02:18] RESOURCES YOU KNOW THIS THE
[2:02:19] SCHOOLS OR UH, THE SCHOOLS HAVE
[2:02:21] AND IS THAT EXACERBATED BY
[2:02:25] PRIVATE FUNDRAISING?
[2:02:26] WHAT'S THE.
[2:02:27] YEAH, I MEAN I THINK YOU KNOW,
[2:02:29] THE SHORT ANSWER IS YES.
[2:02:31] YOU KNOW, UM, CONCILOR MEJIA UH
[2:02:34] AND I HAVE TALKED ABOUT THIS A
[2:02:35] NUMBER OF TIMES OVER THE YEARS.
[2:02:36] WE'RE HAVING THIS HEARING FOR A
[2:02:37] REASON FOR SURE.
[2:02:39] UM, THAT DISPARITY DOES EXIST.
[2:02:41] UM, THERE ARE SCHOOLS THAT HAVE
[2:02:44] SIGNIFICANTLY MORE PRIVATE
[2:02:45] FUNDRAISING POWER THAN OTHERS.
[2:02:48] I THINK WE DEFINITELY TAKE SOME
[2:02:50] EFFORTS TO TRY AND COUNTER THAT
[2:02:54] WITH UH, DISTRICT FUNDS WITH
[2:02:56] CITY FUNDS, YOU KNOW, WITH THE
[2:02:57] FUNDS YOU APPROPRIATE FOR US
[2:02:59] UH, BY THINGS LIKE THE
[2:03:00] PARTNERSHIP FUND THAT WE WERE
[2:03:01] TALKING ABOUT EARLIER.
[2:03:02] UM, BUT I ALSO THINK, UH, BOTH
[2:03:04] THE PRINCIPAL PARTNERS AND THE
[2:03:06] WORK AT HAND IS DOING IT UH BDF
[2:03:10] UM TO SUPPORT SCHOOLS BOTH IN
[2:03:12] THEIR CONNECTIONS TO THE
[2:03:14] BROADER BOSTON COMMUNITY AND TO
[2:03:16] PRIVATE FUNDRAISING AND
[2:03:17] PHILANTHROPY ARE IMPORTANT AND
[2:03:20] HOW WE BUILD A SORT OF NETWORK
[2:03:23] OF UM, PHILANTHROPY WHERE, YOU
[2:03:27] KNOW, THERE MIGHT BE A CENTRAL
[2:03:28] TEAM WHETHER APS OR EPRDF
[2:03:31] THAT'S DOING THE HARD WORK
[2:03:32] OF BUILDING THE RELATIONSHIPS
[2:03:33] AND THE FUNDRAISING, BUT THEN
[2:03:35] WE'RE ENSURING THAT THOSE
[2:03:36] RESOURCES ARE FLOWING DOWN TO
[2:03:37] OUR NEEDIEST, UM, SCHOOLS.
[2:03:40] I'M A PAM.
[2:03:41] IF YOU WANT TO TALK A LITTLE
[2:03:41] BIT ABOUT SOME OF THAT PILOT
[2:03:43] YOU'RE DOING RIGHT NOW, WHICH
[2:03:44] IS REALLY COOL.
[2:03:45] YEAH.
[2:03:46] SO I THINK ONE.
[2:03:47] OF THE BIG THINGS THAT
[2:03:48] HASN'T BEEN MENTIONED IS ALSO A
[2:03:50] BIG UH, PERSON THAT SHOULD FOR
[2:03:53] A PERSON PERSONIFY AT THE TABLE
[2:03:55] IS THE FUNDER OF THE FUNDER
[2:03:57] DECIDES THAT THEY WANT TO GIVE
[2:03:59] $1 MILLION TO SUPPORT 3D
[2:04:02] PRINTERS.
[2:04:02] I USE THIS EXAMPLE A LOT.
[2:04:03] RIGHT.
[2:04:04] AND THEY SAY WE WANT TO GIVE
[2:04:05] EVERY SINGLE THIRD GRADE THAT
[2:04:07] HAS A KID WITH A BLUE EYE AND
[2:04:09] AN A GREEN EYE, A 3D PRINTER
[2:04:12] USUALLY WHAT HAPPENS IS WE KIND
[2:04:13] OF WORK BACKWARDS AND GO
[2:04:14] LOOKING FOR THAT THIRD GRADER
[2:04:16] THAT HAS A BLUE EYE AND A GREEN
[2:04:17] EYE, YOU KNOW, SO THAT THEY CAN
[2:04:19] GET THIS 3D PRINTER INSTEAD
[2:04:20] OF ACTUALLY ACTUALLY HAVING THE
[2:04:22] CONVERSATION WITH THE FUNDER
[2:04:23] AND SAYING YOU KNOW THAT THANK
[2:04:24] YOU FOR THE DONATION.
[2:04:26] WE CAN ACTUALLY PUT A 3D 3D
[2:04:28] PRINTER ON EVERY ONE OF THE
[2:04:29] SCHOOLS.
[2:04:30] BUT TO GO A LITTLE FURTHER
[2:04:31] THERE ARE SOME SCHOOLS THAT
[2:04:32] DON'T EVEN HAVE REALLY GOOD
[2:04:34] WI-FI RIGHT?
[2:04:35] SO WE TOOK TO TO RUN THE 3D
[2:04:37] PRINTER OR LIKE THE STAFF ARE
[2:04:39] GOING TO NEED ADDITIONAL
[2:04:41] RESOURCES TO EVEN KNOW HOW TO
[2:04:42] TEACH THE YOUNG PEOPLE HOW TO
[2:04:44] USE THE 3D PRINTER.
[2:04:45] BUT THERE'S SO MUCH MORE THAN
[2:04:46] JUST THAT LIKE VERY BLACK AND
[2:04:50] WHITE THERE'S MONEY BEING
[2:04:51] DONATED INTO THE SCHOOL.
[2:04:52] THERE'S A LOT OF CONVERSATIONS
[2:04:54] THAT AREN'T BEING CROWDED AND
[2:04:55] THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE HAVE
[2:04:56] BEEN BRINGING TO THE TABLE AS
[2:04:58] FAR AS UM EQUITY THAT THAT'S
[2:05:01] EXACTLY WHAT EQUITY IS.
[2:05:02] I THINK IN THAT WE'RE HAVING
[2:05:05] THE CONVERSATIONS AND WE'RE
[2:05:07] PAYING BACK THE SCHOOL UH,
[2:05:10] COMMUNITY TO LET US KNOW WHAT
[2:05:12] THEIR NEEDS ARE SO THAT WE CAN
[2:05:13] KIND OF MEET THEM WHERE THEY
[2:05:15] ARE AND WE CAN HELP PROVIDE THE
[2:05:18] FOUNDATION, LET THEM KNOW WHAT
[2:05:20] THEY NEED TO DO AND HAVE THEM
[2:05:22] SET UP US FOR WHAT IT MEANS TO
[2:05:24] FUNDRAISE.
[2:05:25] WE CAN TAKE CARE OF ALL OF THE
[2:05:26] FINANCE AND OPERATIONS OF IT
[2:05:29] WHERE YOU KNOW THERE ARE UM WE
[2:05:33] TAKE AWAY THE BURDEN OF TAX
[2:05:35] FILINGS, YOU KNOW, ALL OF THAT
[2:05:36] TECHNICAL PIECE OF THINGS
[2:05:38] EXACTLY WHAT THE EDF IS HERE TO
[2:05:40] SUPPORT WITH AND THROUGH EQUITY
[2:05:42] .
[2:05:42] WE AS AN ORGANIZATION ARE NOW
[2:05:45] FUNDRAISING TO HELP DISTRICT
[2:05:46] WIDE AND CLOSING THE GAP UM,
[2:05:49] YOU KNOW AND AND LOOKING AT ALL
[2:05:50] OF THE DIFFERENT SCHOOLS EVERY
[2:05:52] SCHOOL HAS NEEDS I SAY THIS ALL
[2:05:53] THE TIME BUT EVERY EVERY NEEDS
[2:05:55] OF THE SCHOOLS LOOK VERY
[2:05:56] DIFFERENT.
[2:05:57] SO IT'S OUR JOB TO FIGURE OUT
[2:05:58] WHERE THOSE GAPS ARE SO THEN WE
[2:06:00] CAN WORK TOWARD UM CLOSING
[2:06:02] THOSE GAPS.
[2:06:04] I GUESS JUST ONE LAST QUESTION.
[2:06:05] SO IN TERMS OF LIKE MUSIC
[2:06:07] EDUCATION IS THERE IS THIS LIKE
[2:06:11] DISPARITY IMPACT LIKE WHERE YOU
[2:06:13] COULD HAVE A MUSIC TEACHER DOES
[2:06:15] I FEEL LIKE I AM I YOU RAISE
[2:06:18] MONEY IN MISSION HILL SCHOOL
[2:06:19] AND I WOULD I THOUGHT IT WENT
[2:06:21] TO LIKE A PART TIME MUSIC
[2:06:22] TEACHER LIKE I'M JUST TRYING TO
[2:06:24] FIGURE OUT THE OTHER YOU KNOW
[2:06:26] SOME SCHOOL MIGHT NOT HAVE
[2:06:27] WI-FI OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
[2:06:28] HOW DOES THAT ACTUALLY PLAY
[2:06:30] OUT?
[2:06:30] LIKE WHERE ARE THE RESOURCES
[2:06:32] THAT ARE MISSING?
[2:06:34] YEAH, I MEAN WE FOUND A LOT
[2:06:36] OF UH INITIALLY A LOT OF THE
[2:06:38] RESOURCES WERE THOSE SORTS
[2:06:40] OF UM EXTRACURRICULAR PARTNERS
[2:06:43] THINGS LIKE MUSIC PROGRAMS, UM
[2:06:45] AND ARTS AND OTHER THINGS.
[2:06:47] UM, YOU KNOW, MOST OF OUR
[2:06:49] SCHOOLS AS LONG AS YOU HAVE A
[2:06:50] CERTAIN SIZE AND YOU CAN HAVE
[2:06:52] MOLD, YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE ENOUGH
[2:06:53] NEED FOR MULTIPLE DIFFERENT
[2:06:54] TYPES OF SPECIALTIES.
[2:06:56] WE FUND, YOU KNOW, AN ART
[2:06:58] TEACHER OR A MUSIC TEACHER
[2:07:00] THOSE SORT OF BASICS.
[2:07:01] BUT THE MORE UM COMPLEX OR
[2:07:06] SUPPLEMENTAL UM ENGAGEMENT
[2:07:07] PROGRAMS MIGHT TAKE UM MORE UM
[2:07:11] FUNDING.
[2:07:12] OKAY.
[2:07:13] THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
[2:07:14] UH, SHE FLEW ON AND THANK YOU,
[2:07:16] CHAIR.
[2:07:18] THANK YOU.
[2:07:19] COUNCILOR REBER.
[2:07:20] DO YOU HAVE I MEAN ONE MORE
[2:07:22] QUESTION.
[2:07:23] THAT I I KNOW
[2:07:26] COUNCILOR CULPEPER HAS BEEN
[2:07:27] PATIENTLY WAITING AND UH, HE
[2:07:29] YOU KNOW, HE AND.
[2:07:30] HE'S GIVING ME HIS TIME.
[2:07:32] AND.
[2:07:33] I'M THE CHAIR OF THIS.
[2:07:35] THANK YOU CHAIR.
[2:07:37] THANK YOU, COUNCILOR WEBER.
[2:07:38] OKAY.
[2:07:39] COUNCILOR CULPEPER.
[2:07:39] YOU HAVE YOUR TIME.
[2:07:41] I THANK YOU, CHAIR.
[2:07:43] DAVID, LET ME ASK YOU A
[2:07:44] QUESTION BECAUSE I'M TRYING TO
[2:07:45] MAKE SENSE OF THIS AND SO DID I
[2:07:48] HEAR CORRECTLY THAT BOSTON LIED
[2:07:50] AND HAS $97 MILLION IN THEIR
[2:07:54] ENDOWMENT?
[2:07:55] UH, THAT IS WHAT WAS SAID AND I
[2:07:57] CERTAINLY BELIEVE IT.
[2:07:58] I WOULD HAVE TO DOUBLE CHECK MY
[2:08:00] RECORDS TO BE 100% SURE, BUT.
[2:08:01] AND SO YOU'VE GOT $97 MILLION
[2:08:06] AND ONE SCHOOL'S ENDOWMENT AND
[2:08:09] I HEARD THEM TALK ABOUT THE
[2:08:10] OPPORTUNITY INDEX.
[2:08:12] BUT WHEN I WAS AT THE UH
[2:08:15] ORCHARD GARDEN SCHOOL LAST YEAR
[2:08:17] UH, OR THE EARLIER THIS YEAR I
[2:08:21] WAS REALLY FIGHTING TO GET
[2:08:23] THOSE AUDITORIUM SEATS UH,
[2:08:27] FIXED BECAUSE THE STUDENTS
[2:08:29] COULDN'T SIT IN THE AUDITORIUM
[2:08:33] TO DO ANY SETTING BECAUSE THE
[2:08:34] SEATS HAD YELLOW TAPE ALL
[2:08:37] ACROSS THEM.
[2:08:39] WHEN WE TALKED TO THE CAPITAL
[2:08:41] BUDGET, UH, PERSON BRIAN BRIAN
[2:08:45] SAID IT HAD TO GO ON A CULTURAL
[2:08:49] CAPITAL BUDGET SCHEDULE UNLESS
[2:08:51] IT WAS CONSIDERED EMERGENCY NOT
[2:08:54] CONSIDERED THOSE SEATS THAT
[2:08:56] WERE IN THE AUDITORIUM THEY
[2:08:58] COULDN'T USE THOSE SEATS UP
[2:09:01] FROM QUITE A FEW ROWS.
[2:09:03] THEY COULDN'T USE THEM.
[2:09:05] I CONSIDERED THAT AN EMERGENCY
[2:09:06] .
[2:09:07] BUT YET YOU HAVE $97 MILLION IN
[2:09:10] AN ENDOWMENT AT BOSTON LATIN
[2:09:13] THAT'S NOT BEING USED.
[2:09:15] HOW CAN WE HOW HOW CAN THAT
[2:09:18] HAPPEN?
[2:09:21] YEAH, IT'S A VERY TRICKY
[2:09:23] SITUATION RIGHT?
[2:09:24] BECAUSE UM, THAT $97 MILLION IS
[2:09:29] NOT OUR MONEY, RIGHT?
[2:09:30] IT'S IT'S MONEY THAT'S BEEN
[2:09:32] PRIVATELY FUNDRAISED BY THE BY
[2:09:33] 0501 C3.
[2:09:35] I THINK THE WORK WE TRY AND DO
[2:09:37] ,ESPECIALLY WITH OUR LARGER
[2:09:39] 500 AND C3 IS LIKE THE TWO THAT
[2:09:41] HAVE BEEN MENTIONED TODAY THE
[2:09:42] FRIENDS OF BOSTON LATIN SCHOOL
[2:09:44] AND UM THE BOSTON ARTS ACADEMY
[2:09:47] FOUNDATION IS IDENTIFY WAYS
[2:09:49] WHERE THOSE FOUNDATIONS AND THE
[2:09:51] MONEY THEY RAISE CAN BE USED TO
[2:09:52] SUPPORT OTHERS UM STUDENTS
[2:09:54] THROUGHOUT THE DISTRICT.
[2:09:56] SO I KNOW THE BOSTON LATIN
[2:09:57] SCHOOL ASSOCIATION DOES A LOT
[2:09:59] OF FUNDING FOR OUR EXAM SCHOOL
[2:10:00] INITIATIVE WORK.
[2:10:02] UM, AND YOU KNOW, PREPARING UM
[2:10:06] SCHOLARS AND ESPECIALLY WITH A
[2:10:07] FOCUS ON STUDENTS WHO MIGHT
[2:10:08] HAVE HISTORICALLY BEEN
[2:10:10] MARGINALIZED FOR ACCESS TO THE
[2:10:11] LATIN SCHOOL.
[2:10:12] I KNOW THE BOSTON ARTS ACADEMY
[2:10:14] DOES A LOT OF WORK IN THE
[2:10:16] BROADER COMMUNITY WITH ARTS
[2:10:17] EDUCATION AND OTHER SCHOOLS AS
[2:10:19] WELL.
[2:10:20] UM, AND SO I THINK WHAT WE'RE
[2:10:21] REALLY TRYING TO WORK ON UM,
[2:10:23] WITH THOSE UM, 501 C3
[2:10:26] ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE
[2:10:27] AFFILIATED THAT AREN'T RUN BY
[2:10:29] PAM UM, IS TO MAKE SURE THAT WE
[2:10:32] ARE ENSURING THAT WE ARE
[2:10:33] GETTING THAT BROAD COMMUNITY
[2:10:34] BENEFIT AS WELL AS THE SUPPORT
[2:10:37] FOR THE INDIVIDUAL SCHOOL THAT
[2:10:39] THEY ARE RAISING MONEY FOR.
[2:10:42] SO THE COUNCIL HAVE TO DO
[2:10:44] SOMETHING OR DO WE HAVE TO LOOK
[2:10:46] AT THE ORDINANCE TO AMEND IT
[2:10:48] BECAUSE OF THOUGHT AND I GUESS
[2:10:51] I THOUGHT WRONG THAT ALL THE
[2:10:53] MONEY THAT WAS RAISED BY
[2:10:56] OUTSIDE ORGANIZATIONS HAD TO
[2:10:59] COME TO THE COUNCIL IN ORDER
[2:11:01] FOR IT TO GET TO THE SCHOOL.
[2:11:04] YEAH.
[2:11:05] SO UH NO UNFORTUNATELY SO
[2:11:09] THE THE THE WAY IT WORKS IS
[2:11:11] THAT THE UM THE 501 C3
[2:11:14] ORGANIZATION, UM, CAN RAISE THE
[2:11:17] MONEY DIRECTLY.
[2:11:17] THEY'RE THEIR OWN SEPARATE UM
[2:11:20] ENTITY.
[2:11:22] UM THEY RAISE THE MONEY
[2:11:23] DIRECTLY AND THEN IF THEY'RE
[2:11:24] CHOOSING TO SPEND IT UM, THAT'S
[2:11:26] WHEN THEY HAVE TO WORK WITH UM
[2:11:28] ,THE BP'S AND THE SCHOOL
[2:11:30] COMMITTEE.
[2:11:31] RIGHT.
[2:11:31] BUT I THOUGHT ALL THE MONEY
[2:11:33] THAT CAME FROM GRANTS OUTSIDE
[2:11:36] OF THE SCHOOL IN ORDER TO COME
[2:11:40] TO THE SCHOOL TO BE USED THAT
[2:11:43] THE COUNCIL HAD TO APPROVE THE
[2:11:45] GRANT MONEY.
[2:11:46] UH, THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE DOES
[2:11:47] IN THE CASE OF UM THE SCHOOLS.
[2:11:50] SO THE COUNCIL HAS NO ROLE
[2:11:52] WHATSOEVER WITH MONEY THAT'S
[2:11:55] BEING RAISED OUTSIDE THAT THEN
[2:11:57] COME COMES THROUGH THE SCHOOL
[2:12:01] AND SO WE'RE APPROVING THIS
[2:12:03] GRANT MONEY THAT'S COMING FROM
[2:12:06] OUTSIDE SOURCES TO THE SCHOOL
[2:12:08] LIKE WE JUST DID FOR MADISON
[2:12:09] PARK A FEW WEEKS AGO.
[2:12:11] I THINK WE PROVED UH MONEY FOR
[2:12:14] MADISON PARK FOR THE DIFFERENT
[2:12:16] PROGRAMS THAT IT WAS BEING USED
[2:12:17] FOR.
[2:12:18] WE APPROVE THAT BUT THERE'S
[2:12:20] OUTSIDE MONEY THAT'S COMING.
[2:12:22] YEAH.
[2:12:23] THE SCHOOLS THE WE DON'T
[2:12:26] EVEN KNOW ABOUT THAT.
[2:12:28] I BELIEVE THE OUTSIDE FUNDING
[2:12:29] THAT THE COUNCIL APPROVED A FEW
[2:12:30] WEEKS AGO ACTUALLY WENT TO THE
[2:12:32] OFFICE OF WORKFORCE
[2:12:32] DEVELOPMENT, WHICH.
[2:12:34] WENT TO MADISON PARK.
[2:12:35] IT WENT TO SUPPORT STUDENTS.
[2:12:36] AT MADISON, BUT IT'S GOING
[2:12:38] THROUGH THE MAYOR'S OFFICE
[2:12:39] OF WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT
[2:12:40] WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT WHICH IS
[2:12:41] WHY IT COMES THROUGH THE
[2:12:44] COUNCIL OUTSIDE FUNDRAISING FOR
[2:12:45] THE BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS,
[2:12:46] GRANTS THAT ARE RECEIVED BY THE
[2:12:47] BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS GO TO THE
[2:12:49] BOSTON SCHOOL COMMITTEE AND NOT
[2:12:50] TO THE COUNCIL.
[2:12:50] NOT TO THE COUNCIL.
[2:12:52] UM AND SO WE SHOULD PROBABLY
[2:12:54] START LOOKING AT SOME
[2:12:57] COUNCIL AMENDMENTS BECAUSE.
[2:13:01] I WAS UNDER THE IMPRESSION THAT
[2:13:02] WHEN WE APPROVED THAT GRANT
[2:13:04] MONEY IT DIDN'T GO TO THE
[2:13:05] MAYOR'S OFFICE.
[2:13:06] THE GRANT MONEY WENT TO IN FACT
[2:13:09] ,I THINK THE UNIONS HAD SOME
[2:13:12] ROLE IN THAT MONEY THAT WENT TO
[2:13:15] MADISON PARK, I THINK BUT.
[2:13:19] IT SEEMS LIKE THERE'S THERE'S
[2:13:21] SOME LOOPHOLES THERE WHERE THAT
[2:13:26] $97 MILLION CAN SIT WITH THE
[2:13:29] FROM THE BUS AND LAND WHILE
[2:13:31] ALDER GARDENS STUDENTS CAN'T
[2:13:35] EVEN USE THE THE AUDITORIUM
[2:13:38] BECAUSE THE SEATS ARE TORN UP.
[2:13:40] YEAH AND SO AND I'M JUST AMAZED
[2:13:43] I JUST WANTED TO COME BACK TO
[2:13:44] THE OPPORTUNITY INDEX BECAUSE
[2:13:47] IF THE OPPORTUNITY INDEX IS
[2:13:48] GOING AROUND ASSESSING WHAT
[2:13:51] NEEDS THE OTHER SCHOOLS HAVE,
[2:13:54] THEY THEY MUST HAVE MISSED THE
[2:13:57] ORCHARD GARDEN SCHOOL BECAUSE
[2:13:59] WE WERE FIGHTING AND PUSHING
[2:14:01] FOR THAT MONEY TO GET ON THE
[2:14:03] EMERGENCY LIST SO THAT THE
[2:14:06] SEATS COULD BE EITHER REPAIRED
[2:14:08] OR THEY COULD BRING IN NEW
[2:14:09] SEATS SO THE STUDENTS COULD USE
[2:14:11] THE AUDITORIUM.
[2:14:12] AND SO FOR THE OPPORTUNITY
[2:14:14] INDEX UM, HOW DOES THAT
[2:14:16] OPPORTUNITY INDEX AND WHEN THEY
[2:14:19] GO TO THE SCHOOLS ARE THEY
[2:14:21] GOING TO EVERY SCHOOL THAT HAS
[2:14:23] NEEDS AND THOSE NEEDS GO ON THE
[2:14:25] LIST.
[2:14:25] HOW DOES THAT HAPPEN?
[2:14:27] I JUST WANT TO YOU KNOW, UH
[2:14:29] CHIEF BLOOM THAT THE SO I
[2:14:31] ALREADY GAVE COUNCILOR.
[2:14:33] CULPEPPER EXTRA TIME SO THIS
[2:14:35] WOULD BE HIS FINAL QUESTION.
[2:14:35] SO IF YOU CAN ANSWER.
[2:14:36] THAT WOULD BE GREAT.
[2:14:37] THANK YOU.
[2:14:38] I'LL MY ANSWER WILL BE IN 27
[2:14:39] PARTS SO BUT.
[2:14:41] BUT DAVID I WANTED UH.
[2:14:43] JUST JUST FORWARD.
[2:14:44] THERE WAS SOMEONE THAT WAS
[2:14:46] TALKING ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY
[2:14:47] AND YEAH.
[2:14:48] SO WOULD.
[2:14:49] YOU JUST GIVE US AN
[2:14:50] OVERVIEW.
[2:14:51] OF YES WE.
[2:14:51] NAME IT.
[2:14:54] HOW IT.
[2:14:54] WORKS AND WHAT THE GOALS AND
[2:14:56] OBJECTIVES ARE.
[2:14:56] I MEAN I'LL BE VERY QUICK
[2:14:57] ABOUT IT.
[2:14:59] SO THE THE PARTNERSHIP UM FUND
[2:15:02] GOES TO ABOUT THE HIGHEST NEED
[2:15:04] ABOUT 40% SUPPORTS ABOUT 40
[2:15:06] SCHOOLS GET THAT PARTNERSHIP
[2:15:07] FUND RIGHT THEN THERE'S A
[2:15:10] BROADER SET OF UH UM UH DOLLARS
[2:15:15] CALLED THE SCHOOL SUPPORT FUND
[2:15:16] THAT GOES TO A MUCH BROADER SET
[2:15:18] OF ABOUT 100 SCHOOLS THE
[2:15:20] PARTNERSHIP FUND THE GOAL IS
[2:15:22] SUPPORT WORKS WITH EXTERNAL
[2:15:24] PARTNERS AT THE SCHOOL.
[2:15:27] SO YOU KNOW, UH, ORCHARD
[2:15:28] GARDENS GETS $270,000 FOR THAT
[2:15:32] PARTNERSHIP FUND UH, ANNUALLY
[2:15:34] APPROXIMATELY THAT MUCH TO WORK
[2:15:36] WITH OUTSIDE ORGANIZATIONS TO
[2:15:37] PROVIDE ADDITIONAL SUPPORTS
[2:15:39] WHETHER IT'S MUSIC OR ARTS
[2:15:41] THEATER TO THE SCHOOL.
[2:15:44] BUT DAVID, HOW DOES THE SCHOOLS
[2:15:47] THAT LIKE HOLD YOU.
[2:15:49] SO I'M SORRY CONCERTS HALL
[2:15:50] PEPPER I JUST WANT TO THE
[2:15:51] QUESTION.
[2:15:52] WAS ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY
[2:15:53] INDEX.
[2:15:54] IT WASN'T ABOUT THAT FUND.
[2:15:55] IT WAS ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY
[2:15:57] INDEX THAT SHE SAID THEY WENT
[2:15:59] AROUND TO SCHOOLS AND THEY
[2:16:00] LOOKED AT THE NEEDS FROM THE
[2:16:02] SCHOOL AND THEY PUT THEM ON
[2:16:03] THIS LIST IN ORDER OH.
[2:16:05] FOR THE FOR THE PRINCIPAL
[2:16:06] THE PRINCIPAL PARTNERS.
[2:16:08] NO, I WAS I WAS TALKING ABOUT
[2:16:10] THE PARTNERSHIP FUND BUT SO THE
[2:16:12] OPPORTUNITY INDEX IS A TOOL
[2:16:13] THAT IS USED TO TO FIGURE OUT
[2:16:16] WHICH SCHOOLS NEED PARTNERSHIP
[2:16:19] DOLLARS.
[2:16:19] SO THAT'S THAT CONNECTION.
[2:16:21] OKAY UM AND.
[2:16:23] HOW DOES IT WORK.
[2:16:24] SO HOW DOES IT WORK.
[2:16:26] OR TO GARDNER IS ONE OF THE
[2:16:27] HIGHEST NEED SCHOOLS ON THAT
[2:16:28] LIST FOR SURE OKAY.
[2:16:29] AND THEY GOT THE THEY GOT
[2:16:30] THE LEAST THE $250,000.
[2:16:33] IS NOT IT'S NOT.
[2:16:34] IT'S NOT EQUITABLE IF THAT'S
[2:16:36] THE HIGHEST NEEDED AND THAT'S
[2:16:37] THE THRESHOLD BUT THAT'S A
[2:16:38] WHOLE NOTHER CONVERSATION I'M
[2:16:40] ANXIOUS TO GET MY QUESTIONS IN
[2:16:41] COUNCIL CULPEPPER AND I OKAY
[2:16:43] GOING THANK YOU.
[2:16:44] THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
[2:16:45] OKAY THANK YOU THANK YOU.
[2:16:47] COUNCIL CALLED FOR YOUR
[2:16:48] ADVOCACY ON BEHALF OF YOUR
[2:16:49] DISTRICT AND ALL OF OUR
[2:16:50] STUDENTS.
[2:16:50] UM, SO I GUESS YOU KNOW, I WANT
[2:16:53] TO JUST KIND OF IT'S A
[2:16:54] HYPOTHETICAL SITUATION HERE,
[2:16:55] BUT I'M JUST VERY CURIOUS IF
[2:16:57] WE'RE UTILIZING THE STUDENT
[2:16:59] WEIGHTED FORMULA BASED ON THE
[2:17:00] HIGHEST NEEDS TO FUND OUR
[2:17:03] SCHOOLS, WHAT IT WOULD LOOK
[2:17:04] LIKE IF WE ARE USING THE MOST.
[2:17:08] RESOURCED FUNDRAISING HIGHEST
[2:17:09] SCHOOLS TO THEN FUND THEM
[2:17:12] ACCORDINGLY SO THAT THERE IS A
[2:17:13] MORE OF A LEVEL PLAYING FIELD
[2:17:15] AND I DON'T UNDERSTAND I DON'T
[2:17:16] KNOW IF YOU GET WHAT I'M TRYING
[2:17:17] TO ASK.
[2:17:17] OKAY WELL THIS HAS YOU KNOW,
[2:17:21] MILLIONS AND MILLIONS AND
[2:17:21] MILLIONS OF DOLLARS ALREADY IN
[2:17:24] THEIR BUDGET AND ORCHARD GARDEN
[2:17:27] HAS NOT CAN WE USE THIS CAN YOU
[2:17:31] USE THE OPPORTUNITY INDEX TOOL
[2:17:34] AND THE REVERSE AND MAYBE CALL
[2:17:36] IT THE AFFLUENT OPPORTUNITY,
[2:17:38] THE AFFLUENT INDEX TOOL TO
[2:17:41] OFFSET SOME OF THIS WORK SO
[2:17:43] THEY GET LESS MONEY FROM THE
[2:17:44] DISTRICT SINCE THEY HAVE THE
[2:17:45] MOST MONEY IN THEIR ACCOUNTS?
[2:17:48] YES.
[2:17:49] UM I HEAR YOU ON THAT I SO
[2:17:51] BOSTON LATIN SCHOOL IS
[2:17:53] CURRENTLY THE LOWEST FUNDED
[2:17:53] SCHOOL IN THE DISTRICT PER
[2:17:55] PUPIL UM, THAT IS BASED ON THE
[2:17:58] NEEDS OF THE STUDENTS WHO GO
[2:17:59] THERE.
[2:17:59] HOWEVER, I THINK YOUR POINT IS
[2:18:01] ALSO VALID, RIGHT?
[2:18:02] WHICH IS THEY ARE OFFSETTING
[2:18:04] THAT WITH PRIVATE WITH PRIVATE
[2:18:06] FUNDRAISING FOR SURE.
[2:18:08] ALL RIGHT.
[2:18:09] MY MATH IS UP IN THE LAST YEAR
[2:18:10] OR SOMETHING EQUIVALENT TO
[2:18:11] ABOUT $3,000 PER PUPIL BECAUSE
[2:18:14] THE OTHER THING IS THEY ARE THE
[2:18:15] BASICALLY THE LARGEST SCHOOL IN
[2:18:16] THE DISTRICT.
[2:18:17] RIGHT.
[2:18:18] SO UM UH WHEN WE THINK ABOUT
[2:18:20] THINGS PER PUPIL THAT'S A
[2:18:21] PRETTY BIG DIFFERENCE RIGHT?
[2:18:23] UM AND SO I THINK WHAT WE'RE
[2:18:25] THINKING ABOUT RIGHT.
[2:18:27] WHILE THE OPPORTUNITY INDEX
[2:18:28] PROVIDES, YOU KNOW, SEVERAL
[2:18:29] HUNDRED DOLLARS PER PUPIL IN
[2:18:30] ADDITION IT IS DEFINITELY LESS
[2:18:33] THAN THE FUNDRAISING POWER
[2:18:35] OF THE BOSTON LATIN SCHOOL
[2:18:37] ASSOCIATION.
[2:18:38] SO I THINK WHAT WE'RE DOING
[2:18:39] WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO IS TWO
[2:18:40] THINGS.
[2:18:40] ONE IS THROUGH THINGS LIKE THE
[2:18:43] REIMAGINE SCHOOL FUNDING
[2:18:43] FORMULA, IDENTIFY WAYS WE CAN
[2:18:46] DIRECT RESOURCES TO OUR HIGHEST
[2:18:48] NEED SCHOOLS FIRST AND THEN
[2:18:50] PARTNER WITH WITH AMAZING
[2:18:51] ORGANIZATIONS LIKE PAMS TO DO
[2:18:53] FUNDRAISING FOR THOSE SCHOOLS
[2:18:54] THAT CAN'T AFFORD TO DO IT FOR
[2:18:56] THEMSELVES.
[2:18:56] AND BECAUSE YOU KNOW, I DON'T
[2:18:58] HAVE A LOT OF TIME I WANT TO,
[2:18:59] YOU KNOW, KEEP THE CONVERSATION
[2:19:01] GOING.
[2:19:02] I'M GOING TO MOVE ON TO MY NEXT
[2:19:03] SET OF QUESTIONS HERE.
[2:19:04] UM, I APPRECIATE THE ANSWER.
[2:19:06] AND UH AND BRIEFLY JUST HIGH
[2:19:08] LEVEL I'M JUST GOING TO ASK ALL
[2:19:09] MY QUESTIONS SO YOU ALL SHOULD
[2:19:10] WRITE THEM DOWN BECAUSE AFTER I
[2:19:11] ASK THEM I'M JUST GOING TO LET
[2:19:13] YOU ALL ANSWER THEM SO THAT WAY
[2:19:14] WE CAN GET THROUGH.
[2:19:16] UM OTHER TESTIMONY.
[2:19:17] SO FOR PAM, I'D LIKE FOR YOU TO
[2:19:19] TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT UM WHAT
[2:19:21] CAN BE F UM YOU KNOW, WHAT YOU
[2:19:25] ALL ARE DOING TO CREATE MORE
[2:19:26] STREAMLINED WAYS FOR SCHOOLS TO
[2:19:29] FUNDRAISE BECAUSE YOU ARE
[2:19:30] ALREADY DOING AMAZING WORK.
[2:19:31] I'D LOVE TO SEE YOU ALL MAYBE
[2:19:33] MAYBE DOING THE TRAINING
[2:19:34] WORKING MORE IN PARTNERSHIP
[2:19:35] WITH MAYBE YOU CAN THAT CAN
[2:19:38] CONTACT YOU ALL AS A TRAINING
[2:19:41] INSTITUTE TO HELP SUPPORT THESE
[2:19:42] SCHOOLS.
[2:19:43] I MEAN THERE HAS TO BE SOME
[2:19:44] SOLUTIONS HERE ASIDE FROM JUST
[2:19:45] THE REPORTING, I THINK THAT WE
[2:19:47] NEED TO REALLY START THINKING
[2:19:48] ABOUT.
[2:19:48] ALSO BOTH.
[2:19:49] THE STRENGTHENING RIGHT?
[2:19:50] ONCE WE KNOW WHAT WE KNOW
[2:19:51] WHAT SCHOOLS DO WE NEED TO
[2:19:52] SUPPORT?
[2:19:52] WE'D LOVE TO HEAR YOUR.
[2:19:53] THOUGHTS ON THAT.
[2:19:54] AND EVEN THOUGH BDF SUPPORTS A
[2:19:57] LOT OF SCHOOLS WITH THEIR
[2:19:58] FUNDRAISING, THEY SHOULD BE
[2:19:59] PROVIDING A BASE BUDGET THAT
[2:20:01] COVERS THE SCHOOL BASIC NEEDS.
[2:20:03] IS THE DISTRICT WORKING ON ANY
[2:20:04] PLAN TO FULLY FUND SCHOOLS WITH
[2:20:06] ITS $1.8 BILLION BUDGET?
[2:20:10] UM I'M ALSO CURIOUS HOW MANY
[2:20:11] SCHOOLS HAVE 5 TO 1 C THREES
[2:20:14] THAT YOU KNOW OF.
[2:20:15] IS THIS INFORMATION PUBLICLY
[2:20:15] AVAILABLE AND IF NOT WHY AND
[2:20:18] WHY ISN'T THAT INFORMATION
[2:20:19] AVAILABLE?
[2:20:20] IS PRIVATE FUNDRAISING DONE BY
[2:20:22] INDIVIDUAL SCHOOLS?
[2:20:23] CONSIDER THE REIMAGINE SCHOOL
[2:20:24] FUND FOR ME UH, CONSIDERED IN
[2:20:27] THE REIMAGINE SCHOOL FUND
[2:20:28] FORMULA.
[2:20:29] SO THINKING THROUGH THIS IN
[2:20:31] TERMS OF, YOU KNOW, THE
[2:20:32] INFRASTRUCTURE WHEN YOU'RE
[2:20:34] THINKING ABOUT YOUR EQUITABLE
[2:20:37] DISTRIBUTION, ARE YOU THINKING
[2:20:38] ABOUT HOW MUCH MONEY THESE.
[2:20:38] SCHOOLS ALREADY HAVE?
[2:20:40] UM, DOES THE DISTRICT WORK
[2:20:42] ALONGSIDE.
[2:20:42] THE FIVE AND ONE C THREES
[2:20:43] AND OTHER.
[2:20:44] PRIVATE FUNDERS.
[2:20:44] TO SUPPLEMENT ANY BUDGETARY
[2:20:47] UM AND RESOURCE DEFICITS?
[2:20:49] HOW IS THE RACIAL EQUITY
[2:20:50] PLANNING TOOL USED IF AT ALL?
[2:20:53] UM WHEN PRIVATE DONATIONS ARE
[2:20:54] GIVEN TO SOME.
[2:20:55] SCHOOLS AND NOT OTHERS?
[2:20:56] SO I'M JUST CURIOUS OF KIND
[2:20:57] OF WHAT IS THAT YOU CAN PROVIDE
[2:20:58] ON THAT.
[2:20:58] AND HOW DOES THE DISTRICT AND
[2:21:00] THE CENTRAL OFFICE SUPPORT
[2:21:02] PARENT COUNCILS WITH TECHNICAL
[2:21:04] ASSISTANCE BUILDING
[2:21:05] INFRASTRUCTURE SIMILAR TO FACE
[2:21:07] IN NEW YORK CITY?
[2:21:08] AND LASTLY, DAVID AND THIS IS
[2:21:11] YOU BECAUSE YOU'VE BEEN HERE
[2:21:12] THE.
[2:21:12] LONGEST DEALING WITH ME IS THAT
[2:21:14] I'VE ALWAYS HAVE BEEN ASKING
[2:21:16] FOR.
[2:21:16] DASHBOARDS ABOUT.
[2:21:17] EVERYTHING LIKE I.
[2:21:18] WANT EVERYTHING.
[2:21:19] TO BE TRANSPARENT.
[2:21:20] AS WE.
[2:21:21] HAVE THIS CONVERSATION I
[2:21:21] WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHAT THE
[2:21:23] APPETITE IS FROM.
[2:21:24] AND WHAT WHAT WOULD IT LOOK
[2:21:26] LIKE AND WHAT WOULD YOU NEED
[2:21:27] TO.
[2:21:28] BE ABLE TO DELIVER THIS
[2:21:29] REPORTING TO UM ON OUR WEBSITE?
[2:21:33] THOSE ARE ALL MY QUESTIONS.
[2:21:35] SO YOU COULD TAKE THEM IN THE
[2:21:37] ORDER THAT I ASKED OR YOU CAN
[2:21:38] BOUNCE AROUND.
[2:21:39] WHATEVER YOU SEE FIT.
[2:21:41] I THINK I GOT MOST OF THEM
[2:21:42] WRITTEN DOWN.
[2:21:43] PAM, DO YOU WANT TO YOUR FIRST
[2:21:44] QUESTION WAS FOR YOU DO YOU
[2:21:45] WANT TO TAKE IT?
[2:21:46] YEAH.
[2:21:47] SO WE'RE ACTUALLY DOING ALL
[2:21:49] OF THAT UM WHERE WE'RE DOING
[2:21:52] THE TRAININGS WE UH ARE ABOVE
[2:21:56] AT THE LOWEST AND EASIEST I
[2:21:59] GUESS TANGIBLE EXAMPLE AND I
[2:22:00] MENTIONED THIS IN MY STATEMENT
[2:22:02] THAT WE'RE CREATING UM,
[2:22:04] DONATION LINKS FOR ALL OF THE
[2:22:07] SCHOOLS.
[2:22:08] SO AT THE VERY MINIMUM EVERY
[2:22:10] SCHOOL ON THEIR WEB PAGE SHOULD
[2:22:12] HAVE A DONATE LINK THAT THEY
[2:22:14] CAN THEN SEND OUT TO THEIR
[2:22:16] NETWORKS.
[2:22:16] AND THAT IS KIND OF LIKE A LOW
[2:22:18] HANGING FRUIT ON UM HOW THEY
[2:22:19] CAN START TO.
[2:22:20] ACTIVATE THEIR THEIR.
[2:22:21] FUNDRAISING EFFORTS.
[2:22:23] UM WE HAVE STARTED WORKING WITH
[2:22:25] THE PARENT COUNCILS.
[2:22:27] WE STARTED WORKING WITH THE
[2:22:27] CITY WIDE PARENT COUNCIL AS ITS
[2:22:29] FISCAL SPONSOR.
[2:22:31] UM, AND REALLY PROVIDING ALL
[2:22:34] OF THE THE RESOURCES THAT THEY
[2:22:36] NEED.
[2:22:37] UM, WE HAVE A COMMUNICATION A
[2:22:39] RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT AND
[2:22:40] COMMUNICATION MANAGER SAMANTHA
[2:22:42] ,WHO WORKS DIRECTLY WITH THE
[2:22:44] SCHOOLS PROVIDES THEM WITH ONE
[2:22:46] ON ONE TRAINING.
[2:22:47] SHE HELP UM WHEN SHE CAN
[2:22:50] PROVIDE ACTUAL VISUALS.
[2:22:52] THERE ARE TWO THERE'S LITERALLY
[2:22:54] THIS TOOLBOX THAT WE PROVIDE
[2:22:57] SCHOOLS WITH HOW THEY CAN USE
[2:22:59] ALL OF THE RESOURCES TO
[2:23:01] MAXIMIZE ON THEIR FUNDRAISING,
[2:23:03] UM, EFFORT.
[2:23:04] SO THAT'S ALL HAPPENING AND
[2:23:06] THAT'S SOMETHING WE'VE BEEN
[2:23:07] FOCUSED ON OUTSIDE OF OUR WHOLE
[2:23:09] FINANCE AND OPERATIONS LIKE
[2:23:12] WE'VE LIVED IN.
[2:23:13] RIGHT.
[2:23:14] AND I GUESS TO KIND OF LIKE
[2:23:16] PUT A BUTTON ON THAT SPECIFIC
[2:23:17] AND I'M GLAD THAT YOU LAID OUT
[2:23:19] EVERYTHING AS.
[2:23:20] YOU.
[2:23:20] DID NOW IN THIS GO AROUND
[2:23:22] BECAUSE I'M CURIOUS WHAT ROLE
[2:23:23] IF ANY BP'S PLAYS IN PARTNERING
[2:23:26] WITH YOU ALL ON THOSE
[2:23:28] DELIVERABLES ARE ARE ARE ARE
[2:23:30] THEY PROVIDING YOU WITH ANY
[2:23:31] TYPE OF RESOURCES SUPPORT YOU
[2:23:34] KNOW WHETHER IT'S SO GRANTS HOW
[2:23:38] HOW ARE THEY SUPPORTING YOU
[2:23:39] SUPPORT PARENTS.
[2:23:41] SO WE HAVE I MEAN WE HAVE AN
[2:23:42] MOU WITH BP AS A AS A DISTRICT
[2:23:45] UM TO PROVIDE THE SERVICE TO
[2:23:47] ALL THE SCHOOLS AND AS I
[2:23:48] MENTIONED EARLIER, EVERY SINGLE
[2:23:49] SCHOOL HAS THE ABILITY TO USE
[2:23:51] US AS A AS A SERVICE.
[2:23:53] UM WE HAVE A PAY FOR SERVICE
[2:23:54] KIND OF MODEL.
[2:23:56] SO THAT'S HOW I'M ABLE TO PAY
[2:23:57] MY STAFF.
[2:23:58] UM, BUT THAT'S YOU KNOW, THAT'S
[2:24:00] VERY MINIMAL AND THEN WE DO OUR
[2:24:01] OWN FUNDRAISING AS AN
[2:24:03] ORGANIZATION TO SUPPORT THE
[2:24:05] STAFF OUR OWN OPERATIONAL UH,
[2:24:07] BUDGET AS WELL, UM, YOU KNOW,
[2:24:09] HOPEFULLY BRING IN NEW FUNDING
[2:24:11] FOR ALSO UM REINVESTMENTS
[2:24:15] OF BPA.
[2:24:16] SO IT'S LIKE A YES, WE'RE
[2:24:18] WORKING ON IT AND WE'RE LIKE
[2:24:20] FIGURING OUT BETTER WAYS TO
[2:24:21] SUPPORT EACH OTHER.
[2:24:23] THE OTHER BIG THING IS LIKE THE
[2:24:26] COMMUNICATION WE HAVE REALLY
[2:24:27] DONE SOME INTENTIONAL WORK ON
[2:24:30] STRENGTHENING THE STRENGTHENING
[2:24:32] THE COMMUNICATION WITH BETWEEN
[2:24:33] BPA AND THE FDA SO THAT WE KNOW
[2:24:37] YOU KNOW WHAT FUNDERS WE'RE
[2:24:38] TALKING TO COLLECTIVELY WE KNOW
[2:24:41] THAT, YOU KNOW, THESE FIVE
[2:24:42] SCHOOLS HAVE BEEN ASKING THIS
[2:24:43] FUNDER FOR $5,000 BUT IT'S LIKE
[2:24:45] OKAY, WAIT A SECOND, WHY DON'T
[2:24:47] WE ASK FOR YOU AND HAVE LIKE
[2:24:51] THESE MORE STRATEGIC
[2:24:52] CONVERSATIONS?
[2:24:53] I THINK THAT HAS BEEN A REALLY
[2:24:54] A KEY THING AS TO THE WORK THAT
[2:24:56] WE'RE DOING COLLECTIVELY AND IN
[2:24:59] PARTNERSHIP WITH EACH OTHER TO
[2:25:00] BETTER SUPPORT OUR SCHOOL.
[2:25:02] I LOVE THAT THANK YOU.
[2:25:03] THANK YOU FOR THAT BREAKDOWN.
[2:25:05] UM AND SO OKAY, SO DAVID AND
[2:25:08] DOCTOR CLARK IF YOU COULD TAKE
[2:25:09] THE.
[2:25:11] REST.
[2:25:12] THAT'D BE NOW.
[2:25:12] AND DAVE AND DON'T YOU KNOW YOU
[2:25:14] DON'T HAVE TO GO TOO DEEP IN
[2:25:15] THE WEEDS BECAUSE I WANT TO.
[2:25:17] BE MINDFUL OF PUBLIC
[2:25:18] TESTIMONY.
[2:25:18] YEAH.
[2:25:19] I THINK UM IN TERMS OF UH WE
[2:25:21] SHOULD DEFINITELY HAVE A FOLLOW
[2:25:23] UP CONVERSATION ABOUT WHAT WE
[2:25:24] SHOULD MAKE PUBLIC AND HOW WE
[2:25:26] DO IT.
[2:25:26] I THINK I CERTAINLY HAVE NO
[2:25:28] ISSUES WITH MAKING WHAT WE HAVE
[2:25:30] AVAILABLE PUBLIC.
[2:25:32] I THINK THERE ARE SOME UM,
[2:25:34] ISSUES AROUND TIMING AND
[2:25:36] AVAILABILITY OF REPORTS FROM
[2:25:38] 501 C THREES.
[2:25:39] UM, BUT IN TERMS OF EVERYTHING
[2:25:41] ELSE WE CERTAINLY WE CAN ALWAYS
[2:25:43] PUT THE MOST RECENT AVAILABLE
[2:25:44] PUBLIC SO WE COULD TALK ABOUT
[2:25:46] WHAT'S WHAT'S THE BEST WAY TO
[2:25:47] DO THAT TO MAKE IT MORE
[2:25:47] ADJUSTABLE AND UNDERSTANDABLE.
[2:25:49] YEAH AND I'D LIKE TO INSERT
[2:25:50] THAT I'D LOVE TO CREATE SOME
[2:25:52] SORT OF ADVISORY COMMITTEE AS
[2:25:53] YOU.
[2:25:53] CONTINUE TO THINK ABOUT WHAT.
[2:25:55] WOULD BE THE TYPE OF PUBLIC.
[2:25:57] UH, FACING INFORMATION THAT WE
[2:25:58] WOULD SHARE.
[2:25:59] SO TRAVIS AND YOUR TEAM YOU
[2:26:01] KNOW, JUST THAT THIS IS AN
[2:26:02] INVITATION THAT ONCE THEY START
[2:26:03] THINKING ABOUT THAT, WE'D LOVE
[2:26:04] TO INVITE YOU ALL TO BE AT THE
[2:26:05] TABLE.
[2:26:06] OKAY.
[2:26:06] DAVID, CONTINUE.
[2:26:08] YEP.
[2:26:08] UM, IN TERMS OF UH, UH, THE
[2:26:11] INTERSECTION WITH OUR REIMAGINE
[2:26:13] SCHOOL FUNDING, I THINK UM,
[2:26:15] BECAUSE WE CAN'T CONTROL OR
[2:26:18] DIRECTLY PREDICT PRIVATE
[2:26:19] FUNDRAISING BUT WE TRY TO LOOK
[2:26:21] AT WERE WHAT WERE WAYS WE CAN
[2:26:23] ENSURE THAT HIGHER NEEDS
[2:26:24] SCHOOLS ARE GETTING MORE
[2:26:25] OF THAT SECOND CATEGORY
[2:26:27] OF DISCRETIONARY FUNDING THAT
[2:26:28] WAS OUTLINED EARLIER.
[2:26:31] UM THAT WAS ONE OF THE BIG UM
[2:26:34] THINGS WE NEEDED TO CHANGE IN
[2:26:35] OUR FUNDING FORMULA.
[2:26:37] UM, AND COUNSELOR, I KNOW
[2:26:39] YOU'RE VERY FAMILIAR WITH THIS
[2:26:40] FROM YOUR PAST WORK BUT JUST
[2:26:41] FOR THE MORE GENERAL PUBLIC
[2:26:43] HISTORICALLY WITH WEIGHTED
[2:26:44] STUDENT FUNDING, THE PROBLEM
[2:26:46] WAS IS THAT THE BASICS TOOK UP
[2:26:47] ALL ALL OF THE MONEY AND THEN
[2:26:50] OUR HIGHER NEED SCHOOLS THEN
[2:26:52] DIDN'T OFTEN HAVE THE MONEY FOR
[2:26:53] THOSE SORT OF DISCRETIONARY
[2:26:56] CHOICES.
[2:26:56] AND DISCRETIONARY DOESN'T MEAN
[2:26:57] OPTIONAL IT MEANS JUST SORT
[2:26:59] OF AT THE DISCRETION OF THE
[2:27:00] SCHOOL FOR THAT PROGRAMING.
[2:27:02] AND SO BY GUARANTEEING
[2:27:05] EQUITABLY DISTRIBUTED
[2:27:06] DISCRETIONARY FUNDING THAT'S
[2:27:07] ONE OF THE WAYS THAT UM OUR
[2:27:09] REIMAGINE SCHOOL FUNDING
[2:27:11] FORMULA IS WORKING ON THIS
[2:27:13] ISSUE.
[2:27:13] I'M NOT SUGGESTING WE'VE SOLVED
[2:27:15] IT BY ANY MEANS, BUT THAT WAS
[2:27:16] DEFINITELY THE INTENTION.
[2:27:18] UM, AND THEN IN TERMS
[2:27:20] OF SUPPORT FOR PARENT COUNCILS
[2:27:21] ,I THINK YOU KNOW, I'M
[2:27:22] PROBABLY NOT THE PERFECT PERSON
[2:27:24] TO ANSWER THIS BECAUSE I KNOW
[2:27:25] UM, UH AAFCA DOES A LOT OF THAT
[2:27:27] SUPPORT DIRECTLY BUT WE PARTNER
[2:27:30] UM WITH OFF GOING TO DO UH,
[2:27:32] BUDGET TRAININGS UM WITH
[2:27:35] SCHOOLS LIKE COUNCIL MEMBERS IS
[2:27:36] MOSTLY NEWER SCHOOL SITE
[2:27:38] COUNCIL MEMBERS THOSE AREN'T
[2:27:39] ALWAYS THE HIGHEST ATTENDED
[2:27:40] EVENTS.
[2:27:40] SO I THINK WE'LL CONTINUE TO
[2:27:42] WORK WITH PAM AND OUR OFFICE
[2:27:43] OF FAMILY AND COMMUNITY
[2:27:44] ADVANCEMENT TO FIGURE OUT HOW
[2:27:46] WE CAN EXPAND AND SUPPORT THOSE
[2:27:48] PARENT COUNCILS.
[2:27:49] AND THEN THE LAST THING I ALSO
[2:27:50] WANT TO SHOUT OUT IS OUR HUB
[2:27:52] SCHOOLS WORK.
[2:27:52] I THINK THAT INITIATIVE IS A
[2:27:54] GREAT WAY WHEN THOSE SCHOOLS
[2:27:55] ARE REALLY FOCUSED AT HIRING
[2:27:56] EIGHT SCHOOLS TO BUILD A HUB
[2:27:58] FOR COMMUNITY RESOURCES IN THE
[2:28:00] SCHOOL, BOTH THROUGH OUR
[2:28:02] SUPPORTIVE FUNDRAISING AND
[2:28:03] THROUGH CONNECTIONS UH, TO
[2:28:05] COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS.
[2:28:07] AND I'M SORRY, COUNSELOR, IF I
[2:28:09] MISSED ONE, PLEASE UM, LET
[2:28:11] ME KNOW.
[2:28:15] MY TIME IS WAY OVER AND BUT.
[2:28:19] WAIT A MINUTE.
[2:28:20] HOLD ON.
[2:28:20] DON'T GET.
[2:28:20] TOO EXCITED DAVID.
[2:28:22] I'M JUST LOOKING AT MY NOTES,
[2:28:23] MAKING SURE THAT THE SAME
[2:28:24] THING.
[2:28:24] UM, YOU KNOW, I THINK YOU DID
[2:28:28] THE RACIAL EQUITY PLANNING TOOL
[2:28:30] .
[2:28:30] OH, YES.
[2:28:31] CAN YOU TALK TO ME A LITTLE BIT
[2:28:32] ABOUT THAT ONE THAT I DIDN'T?
[2:28:33] YES.
[2:28:34] SORRY THAT'S THE ONE I
[2:28:36] DEFINITELY MISSED THAT LET
[2:28:36] ME GET BACK TO THAT.
[2:28:38] SO WE USE THE RACIAL EQUITY
[2:28:39] PLANNING TOOL IN OUR DESIGN
[2:28:41] OF OUR REIMAGINE SCHOOL FUNDING
[2:28:42] FORMULA.
[2:28:44] WE CANNOT ENFORCE A PRIVATE 501
[2:28:47] C3 TO USE IT UM SEPARATELY.
[2:28:50] SO I THINK WHAT WE TRY AND DO
[2:28:53] IS THINK ABOUT HOW CAN WE USE
[2:28:54] THE INFORMATION WE KNOW AS
[2:28:57] WHERE AS WE'RE HAVING
[2:28:58] CONVERSATIONS ABOUT THE FUNDING
[2:28:59] THAT WE HAVE TO DISTRIBUTE THAT
[2:29:01] FUNDING MORE EQUITABLY AND FOR
[2:29:02] US THAT DOES INCLUDE USE OF THE
[2:29:03] RACIAL EQUITY PLAY TOOL.
[2:29:05] AND THEN HOW DOES THE DISTRICT
[2:29:07] AND THE CENTRAL OFFICE SUPPORT
[2:29:08] PARENT.
[2:29:08] COUNCILS WITH TECHNICAL
[2:29:09] ASSISTANCE?
[2:29:10] I KNOW PAM TALK A LITTLE YOU
[2:29:11] KNOW.
[2:29:12] A LOT ABOUT OUR WORK.
[2:29:13] UM AND I DON'T WANT PAM DOING
[2:29:16] THE DISTRICT'S JOB.
[2:29:17] SO I'M JUST CURIOUS WHAT.
[2:29:18] ROLE YOU.
[2:29:19] ARE PLAYING IN TO SUPPORT
[2:29:21] THAT.
[2:29:21] WORK AS WELL.
[2:29:23] SO UM, MY TEAM PRIMARILY
[2:29:26] SUPPORTS THROUGH STUDENT
[2:29:26] ACTIVITY ACCOUNTS, WHICH ARE
[2:29:28] THE THINGS I THINK ARE MOST
[2:29:29] SIMILAR TO WHAT THE
[2:29:30] COUNCIL FROM NEW YORK WAS
[2:29:31] DESCRIBING, UM, WHICH ARE
[2:29:34] ACCOUNTS THAT SORT OF TAKE
[2:29:35] MONEY THAT'S RAISED FROM
[2:29:37] PARENTS AND BIG SALES AND UM,
[2:29:39] OTHER SORT OF FUNDRAISING
[2:29:40] THINGS AND REDISTRIBUTE THOSE
[2:29:41] FOR STUDENT ACTIVITIES IN THE
[2:29:43] ORGANIZATION.
[2:29:44] SO WE DO TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE
[2:29:45] DIRECTLY TO SCHOOLS WITH
[2:29:46] WORKING ON THOSE ACCOUNTS AND
[2:29:48] THEN WE PARTNER WITH UM THE
[2:29:50] PARENT ENGAGEMENT TEAM IN THE
[2:29:52] OFFICE OF FAMILY AND COMMUNITY
[2:29:53] ADVANCEMENT TO SUPPORT
[2:29:55] TRAININGS FOR SCHOOL SITE
[2:29:56] COUNCILS.
[2:29:57] UM I DON'T BELIEVE WE SUPPORT
[2:29:58] PARENT COUNCILS SEPARATELY FROM
[2:30:00] SCHOOL SITE COUNCILS, BUT I
[2:30:02] THINK THAT WOULD DEFINITELY BE
[2:30:03] SOMETHING WE'D BE OPEN TO
[2:30:04] SUPPORTING FOR SURE.
[2:30:05] AND HOW MANY SCHOOLS HAVE.
[2:30:07] 5 TO 1 C THREES AND IS THIS
[2:30:08] INFORMATION PUBLIC AND IF NOT
[2:30:09] WHY.
[2:30:11] UM I DON'T REMEMBER THAT ANSWER
[2:30:13] .
[2:30:13] YEAH WE UH WE DON'T UM WE DON'T
[2:30:17] HAVE A SORT OF HISTORICAL WAY
[2:30:19] OF REPORTING ON THAT.
[2:30:21] UM, SO IT'S CERTAINLY SOMETHING
[2:30:22] WE COULD DISCUSS.
[2:30:23] UM, THE LAST TIME WE PULLED ALL
[2:30:27] THE DATA TOGETHER WHICH WAS
[2:30:28] UPDATED THROUGH THE 2024 FISCAL
[2:30:31] YEAR BECAUSE THE 2025 UPDATES
[2:30:32] AREN'T FULLY FILED YET.
[2:30:35] UM, I KNOW IT'S BEEN A SUCCESS
[2:30:37] .
[2:30:37] THERE WERE 42 SCHOOLS THAT AT
[2:30:39] ONE POINT OR ANOTHER HAD A
[2:30:41] FRIENDS OF OR AFFILIATED 500
[2:30:43] AND C3 A NUMBER OF THOSE WE
[2:30:45] THINK ARE POTENTIALLY DEFUNCT.
[2:30:47] SO I THINK THE REAL ANSWER IS
[2:30:50] PROBABLY LESS THAN 42 OKAY.
[2:30:53] BUT WE DON'T HAVE UH, BETTER
[2:30:55] INFORMATION THAN THAT FOR NOW.
[2:30:57] YEAH.
[2:30:57] I THINK IT MIGHT.
[2:30:58] BE WILLING TO SHARE THAT
[2:30:59] INFORMATION WITH YOU THAT WE
[2:31:00] HAVE.
[2:31:01] I WOULD LOVE THAT.
[2:31:01] AND I KNOW THAT YOU KNOW, UH,
[2:31:03] THEM.
[2:31:03] UH, MENTIONED BEING ABLE TO
[2:31:06] SUPPORT.
[2:31:06] SOME OF THE SCHOOLS.
[2:31:08] BUT NOT ALL THE SCHOOLS HAVE
[2:31:09] WEBSITE WHICH IS KIND OF LIKE
[2:31:10] WE NEED TO WORK ON THAT TOO.
[2:31:12] NOT EVERY.
[2:31:13] SCHOOL HAS A FUNCTIONING
[2:31:15] WEBSITE.
[2:31:16] AND WHY UM THERE IS.
[2:31:18] REPORTING THAT HAS BEEN UM
[2:31:20] MANDATED I GUESS SINCE IT WAS.
[2:31:22] UH AMENDED IN 2021 UH, BY THE
[2:31:26] SUPERINTENDENT.
[2:31:27] I'M NOT SURE IF YOU ARE
[2:31:28] FAMILIAR WITH THAT BUT ANYWAYS.
[2:31:30] YEAH, I ENJOYED THAT REALLY
[2:31:32] QUICKLY ON THAT AND UH AND I
[2:31:35] MENTIONED THIS EARLIER BUT
[2:31:36] OF THE UH WHAT'S THE TOTAL
[2:31:37] COUNT OF SCHOOLS RIGHT NOW THEY
[2:31:39] ARE AND IS A 109 OFFICIAL
[2:31:42] SCHOOLS.
[2:31:43] WE HAVE FUNDS FOR ALL 109
[2:31:45] OF THEM.
[2:31:47] SO EVEN THOUGH A SCHOOL DOES
[2:31:48] NOT HAVE A FRIENDS UH THEY
[2:31:50] HERNANDEZ IS A PERFECT EXAMPLE.
[2:31:52] THEY HAVE A FRIENDS OF PRETTY
[2:31:53] STRONG FRIENDS OF AND THEY HAVE
[2:31:55] THE EDF ACCOUNT.
[2:31:57] SO THERE ARE MANY SCHOOLS IF
[2:31:58] NOT MOST OF THEM THAT THAT USE
[2:32:01] US AS THEIR MAIN SERVICE AS
[2:32:04] THEIR MAIN FISCAL SPONSOR.
[2:32:05] THAT'S AMAZING.
[2:32:07] I'M TELLING YOU.
[2:32:09] WE NEED TO GIVE.
[2:32:10] UH UH, A WHOLE DEPARTMENT.
[2:32:12] M.C.P.S UM, BECAUSE SIX PEOPLE
[2:32:15] IS NOT HOLDING IT DOWN HERE.
[2:32:16] UM, AND I BELIEVE THERE WAS A
[2:32:19] SUPERINTENDENT CIRCULAR THAT UM
[2:32:20] THAT SAID THAT ALL 501 C
[2:32:22] THREES.
[2:32:22] NEED TO.
[2:32:23] SUPPORT THE NEED TO REPORT TO
[2:32:25] THEM, BUT THE DISTRICT HAS
[2:32:26] NEVER REALLY ENFORCED IT.
[2:32:28] AND I THINK THAT IF WE'RE
[2:32:28] TALKING ABOUT.
[2:32:29] REPORTING AND KIND OF YOU KNOW,
[2:32:30] THERE ARE SOME.
[2:32:31] POLICIES IN PLACE FOR THIS IS
[2:32:33] JUST REALLY ALSO SOME
[2:32:34] ENFORCEMENT THAT WE MAY
[2:32:35] POTENTIALLY NEED TO DO.
[2:32:38] UM AND SO I THINK IT'S
[2:32:39] SOMETHING WORTH CONSIDERING.
[2:32:40] FOR ME I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT
[2:32:42] THAT WE WHEN WE HAVE HEARINGS
[2:32:45] THEY IT'S IT'S THE GOAL IS TO
[2:32:46] ALL LISTEN AND THEN GO BACK AND
[2:32:50] THINK ABOUT WHERE ARE SOME
[2:32:51] OF THE THINGS.
[2:32:51] THAT WE COULD POTENTIALLY.
[2:32:53] WORK ON COLLABORATIVELY TO
[2:32:54] FIX.
[2:32:55] AND THE GOAL IS TO DELIVER.
[2:32:56] ON THOSE THINGS BECAUSE PEOPLE.
[2:32:58] DON'T WANT TO SHOW.
[2:32:59] UP FOR A MEETING ABOUT A
[2:33:01] MEETING AND NOTHING HAPPENS,
[2:33:02] RIGHT.
[2:33:03] SO OUR GOAL.
[2:33:04] IS TO TAKE THE LESSONS THAT.
[2:33:05] WE'VE LEARNED.
[2:33:06] HERE AND.
[2:33:06] AND UM, WHAT WAS SHARED.
[2:33:08] AND REALLY START MAYBE PUTTING
[2:33:10] TOGETHER A WORKING.
[2:33:11] GROUP.
[2:33:11] SO THAT WE CAN START.
[2:33:13] DRAFTING SOME, YOU KNOW,
[2:33:15] POLICIES.
[2:33:16] AND MODELING.
[2:33:16] UH.
[2:33:17] NEW YORK BECAUSE YOU KNOW,
[2:33:18] NEW.
[2:33:18] YORK AND BOSTON ARE VERY
[2:33:19] COMPETITIVE.
[2:33:20] AND SO THEY'RE AHEAD OF US ON
[2:33:21] THIS ONE AND I THINK WE HAVE AN
[2:33:23] OPPORTUNITY.
[2:33:23] IT'S JUST REPORTING IT'S
[2:33:25] TRANSPARENCY.
[2:33:26] IT DOESN'T REALLY COST MUCH
[2:33:27] ACCORDING TO YOU KNOW JUST
[2:33:28] PUTTING UP THE EXCEL.
[2:33:29] SHEET RIGHT ONTO YOUR WEBSITE I
[2:33:31] MEAN IT IT SHOULD NOT BE
[2:33:33] COMPLICATED AND I THINK THAT IF
[2:33:35] WE REALLY.
[2:33:36] WANT TO RESTORE TRUST IN
[2:33:37] GOVERNMENT THAT THIS IS A
[2:33:38] REALLY GOOD STEP AND TOWARDS.
[2:33:39] THAT DIRECTION GIVEN ALL THE
[2:33:42] DISCREPANCIES THAT WE HAVE BEEN
[2:33:43] HAVING REGARDING OUR BUDGETS IN
[2:33:45] ALL THIS, THAT OR THE OTHER.
[2:33:47] SO MY HOPE IS IS THAT WE HAVE
[2:33:48] THREE PEOPLE SIGNED UP FOR
[2:33:49] PUBLIC TESTIMONY.
[2:33:52] UM UH NOT SURE.
[2:33:53] IF YOU I WANT.
[2:33:54] TO STAY AND LISTEN BUT YOU'RE.
[2:33:56] MORE THAN WELCOME TO.
[2:33:57] BUT I DO WANT TO THANK.
[2:33:59] EVERYONE OUR PANELISTS.
[2:34:00] OUR EXPERTS, OUR ADVOCATES FOR
[2:34:02] SHOWING UP.
[2:34:03] UM.
[2:34:04] AND SHARING THEIR EXPERTISE.
[2:34:05] IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT FOR
[2:34:06] THIS WORK, UM, FOR US TO BE
[2:34:09] SPEAKING ALL IN ONE VOICE WELL,
[2:34:10] NOT IN ONE VOICE BUT YOU KNOW,
[2:34:12] COLLECTIVELY TO GETTING TO WHAT
[2:34:14] WE NEED TO BE.
[2:34:14] SO THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND
[2:34:16] I'M GOING TO BE TRANSITIONING
[2:34:17] TO PUBLIC.
[2:34:17] TESTIMONY UNLESS ANYONE HERE
[2:34:19] HAS.
[2:34:20] SOMETHING THAT THEY NEED TO SAY
[2:34:22] BEFORE WE TRANSITION.
[2:34:25] GOING ONCE.
[2:34:27] ALL RIGHT.
[2:34:28] THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
[2:34:29] ENJOY THE REST OF YOUR
[2:34:30] AFTERNOON.
[2:34:30] I'M GOING TO BE TRANSITIONING
[2:34:32] UM, TO PUBLIC TESTIMONY.
[2:34:34] I BELIEVE WE HAVE THREE PEOPLE
[2:34:36] SIGNED UP.
[2:34:37] UM, SO, UH, ETHAN, IF YOU COULD
[2:34:39] START LETTING FOLKS IN THAT
[2:34:40] WOULD BE GREAT.
[2:34:41] THANK YOU PAMELA THANK YOU
[2:34:42] DAVID THANK YOU DOCTOR CLARK
[2:34:43] THANK YOU TRAVIS.
[2:34:44] THANK YOU.
[2:34:45] THANK YOU EVERYONE THAT UH,
[2:34:46] SHOWED.
[2:34:46] UP AND SHOWED UP AS A FACE.
[2:34:48] THANK YOU.
[2:34:51] OKAY.
[2:34:51] OTHER TESTIMONY WE GOT ON
[2:34:55] DECK.
[2:35:03] WE HAVE EUGENIA AND MEGAN WOLF
[2:35:05] .
[2:35:09] ON MY LIST I SEEN.
[2:35:13] AND WHILE WE WAIT, I WANT TO
[2:35:15] THANK QUEST UH, FOR BRINGING
[2:35:18] THIS TO OUR OFFICE AND YOUR
[2:35:20] STEADFAST LEADERSHIP AND
[2:35:23] DEDICATION TO EQUITY ACROSS ALL
[2:35:24] OF OUR BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
[2:35:26] WE REALLY WANT TO WORK IN
[2:35:27] PARTNERSHIP WITH YOU ALL.
[2:35:28] YOU HEARD IT HERE.
[2:35:29] WE GOT IT ON THE RECORD.
[2:35:30] THEY DID SAY THEY DON'T HAVE
[2:35:31] ANY PROBLEMS.
[2:35:33] SO LET'S SEE ONCE WE START
[2:35:34] REALLY UH, PUSHING WHAT KIND
[2:35:36] OF UH YOU KNOW, WHAT KIND
[2:35:37] OF ISSUES WE MAY ENCOUNTER BUT
[2:35:39] OUR GOAL IS TO UM, LOOK WITH
[2:35:42] QUEST AND OTHER ADVOCATES AND
[2:35:44] PAMELA, WE'D LOVE TO HAVE YOU
[2:35:45] AT THE TABLE HELPING SHAPE.
[2:35:47] UM.
[2:35:47] WHAT THIS.
[2:35:48] IS GOING TO LOOK LIKE.
[2:35:49] AND YOU KNOW, THIS IS
[2:35:50] STRUCTURAL REFORM AND I THINK
[2:35:51] THAT THIS IS THESE LITTLE
[2:35:53] THINGS THAT WE DO, UM, CAN.
[2:35:56] MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE IN TERMS
[2:35:57] OF THE WORK.
[2:35:58] SO LOOKING FORWARD TO WORKING.
[2:35:59] WITH QUEST TO DO JUST THAT.
[2:36:01] SO UH, THANK YOU.
[2:36:02] TRAVIS AND TO YOUR ENTIRE TEAM
[2:36:03] FOR.
[2:36:04] YOUR LEADERSHIP HERE.
[2:36:05] THANK YOU FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP
[2:36:06] COUNCIL.
[2:36:07] WE REALLY APPRECIATE THE TIME
[2:36:08] TODAY.
[2:36:09] YEAH THANK YOU.
[2:36:10] ALL RIGHT.
[2:36:11] SO WE HAVE.
[2:36:15] UM PEOPLE SIGNED UP.
[2:36:17] WE HAVE.
[2:36:17] SARAH.
[2:36:18] MARY AND FIELD AND MEGAN
[2:36:20] WOLF AND WE NEED THE VOTES TO
[2:36:22] BE.
[2:36:23] PANELISTS ETHAN.
[2:36:26] IF THEY CAN ACCEPT THE
[2:36:28] PANELISTS.
[2:36:28] INVITATION PLEASE.
[2:36:38] OR MEGAN.
[2:36:39] SARAH AND MARY ARE ON.
[2:36:41] WE'RE JUST WAITING ON MEGAN TO
[2:36:43] ACCEPT.
[2:36:43] THE PROMISE.
[2:36:44] OKAY.
[2:36:44] SO THEN OKAY.
[2:36:45] SORRY I DID NOT SEE THAT.
[2:36:47] OKAY, SO WHO CAME IN FIRST?
[2:36:51] SARAH.
[2:36:53] ALL RIGHT.
[2:36:53] SARAH.
[2:36:54] EVERYONE TWO MINUTES.
[2:36:56] UM, MY NAME IS SARAH DELURY.
[2:36:58] UM, I AM A MEMBER OF QUEST AND
[2:37:00] ALSO A PARENT OF TWO, UH,
[2:37:03] CHILDREN AND BP'S UH, THIS YEAR
[2:37:06] MY DAUGHTER IS AT BELLA AND MY
[2:37:07] SON IS AT THE SARAH ROBERTS
[2:37:09] SCHOOL AT THE NEW SCHOOL IN
[2:37:10] ROSLINDALE.
[2:37:11] AND FOR OUR FIRST SEVEN YEARS
[2:37:12] AS A FAMILY, MY CHILDREN WERE
[2:37:14] STUDENTS AT THE MILDRED
[2:37:16] ADVOCATE IN MATTAPAN.
[2:37:17] WHEN MY.
[2:37:18] OLDEST CHILD BEGAN K-1 AT
[2:37:19] THE MILDRED.
[2:37:20] THERE IS NO FORMALLY
[2:37:21] ESTABLISHED SPC.
[2:37:23] IN FACT, UH AFTER MANY YEARS
[2:37:25] OF TRYING BUT GAINING NO
[2:37:26] TRACTION AND SPC WAS FINALLY
[2:37:28] SET UP DURING MY DAUGHTER'S
[2:37:29] THIRD UH, THIRD GRADE YEAR
[2:37:31] WHICH WAS OUR FIFTH YEAR AT THE
[2:37:32] SCHOOL.
[2:37:33] IT WAS A SMALL GROUP OF 4 TO 5
[2:37:35] COMMITTED PARENTS AND GUARDIANS
[2:37:36] WHO WOULD CONSISTENTLY SHOW UP
[2:37:38] TO MEETINGS AND HELP TO
[2:37:39] ORGANIZE EVENTS.
[2:37:41] WE DID OUR BEST TO FUNDRAISE,
[2:37:42] HOPING TO BE ABLE TO PAY FOR
[2:37:44] SOME FUN EVENTS FOR THE UH
[2:37:46] STUDENTS.
[2:37:47] THE FIRST YEAR THAT WE WERE
[2:37:48] ACTIVE, OUR GOAL WAS TO BE ABLE
[2:37:50] TO ORGANIZE AND PAY FOR THE
[2:37:51] CHILDREN TO HAVE A FIELD DAY
[2:37:52] WHICH THEY HAD NEVER HAD IN OUR
[2:37:54] TIME AT THE SCHOOL.
[2:37:55] WE FIRST UH, TRIED SELLING
[2:37:57] MILDRED AS BRANDED ITEMS AT
[2:37:59] SCHOOL DROP OFF ONCE PER WEEK.
[2:38:01] THE MOST EXPENSIVE ITEM THAT WE
[2:38:03] SOLD WAS A CAR MAGNET UH.
[2:38:05] WHICH UH, WE ARE TRYING TO
[2:38:06] REMEMBER BUT I BELIEVE IT WAS
[2:38:08] EITHER 5 OR $8.
[2:38:10] UH, UNFORTUNATELY THE UH THE
[2:38:13] FUNDRAISING ASPECT OF THIS WAS
[2:38:15] LARGELY UNSUCCESSFUL AS MANY
[2:38:18] OF THE FAMILIES JUST DID NOT
[2:38:19] HAVE THE MONEY UH, TO SPARE TO
[2:38:21] BUY THESE THINGS.
[2:38:22] IN THE END, MOST OF WHAT WE
[2:38:24] SOLD WAS ACTUALLY, UM, SOLD TO
[2:38:27] STUDENTS AND STAFF WOULD USE
[2:38:28] THEIR OWN CASH AT THE BEGINNING
[2:38:30] OF THE DAY TO BUY THE STUDENTS
[2:38:31] UM, PENCILS.
[2:38:34] THE MOST SUCCESSFUL FUNDRAISER
[2:38:35] WE EVER HAD WAS AN ELECTION DAY
[2:38:37] BAKE SALE.
[2:38:38] WE RAISED $600 THAT DAY.
[2:38:40] IN THE THREE YEARS THAT I WAS
[2:38:42] ACTIVELY INVOLVED WITH THE SPC
[2:38:44] ,THE MOST MONEY THAT WE EVER
[2:38:45] HAD AT ONE TIME WAS ABOUT
[2:38:47] $1,200.
[2:38:48] I DO NOT REMEMBER EVER
[2:38:50] RECEIVING A CASH DONATION.
[2:38:52] ALMOST ALL OF THAT MONEY WAS
[2:38:53] FROM UM SELLING BAKED GOODS
[2:38:55] HONESTLY BUT A FEW FROM PENCILS
[2:38:57] AND MAGNETS.
[2:38:59] UH THE THEN LAST YEAR MY MY
[2:39:02] CHILDREN BOTH STARTED AT THE
[2:39:03] NEW SARAH ROBERTS SCHOOL IN
[2:39:05] ROSLINDALE AND WHILE BOTH THE
[2:39:07] SARAH ROBERTS AND THE MILDRED
[2:39:08] ABBY SCHOOLS WERE FILLED WITH
[2:39:09] CARING PARENTS, CARING AND
[2:39:11] DEDICATED PARENTS WHO WANTED
[2:39:12] THE BEST FOR THEIR CHILDREN, IT
[2:39:14] VERY QUICKLY BECAME CLEAR THAT
[2:39:15] THERE IS A HUGE DIFFERENCE IN
[2:39:17] THE FUNDRAISING CAPACITIES AT
[2:39:18] THE TWO SCHOOLS.
[2:39:19] I WENT TO THE FIRST SPC MEETING
[2:39:21] OF THE YEAR AND AGAIN IT WAS A
[2:39:23] BRAND NEW SCHOOL AND UH EVEN
[2:39:25] THOUGH IT WAS A BRAND NEW
[2:39:26] SCHOOL, PARENTS HAD ALREADY
[2:39:28] ESTABLISHED A 501 C3
[2:39:29] ORGANIZATION BY THAT FIRST
[2:39:31] MEETING TO UH TO SUPPORT
[2:39:32] FUNDRAISING AT THE SCHOOL
[2:39:34] DURING THAT FIRST YEAR.
[2:39:37] I ACTUALLY UM, DON'T KNOW
[2:39:38] EXACTLY HOW MUCH MONEY WAS
[2:39:40] RAISED THROUGHOUT THE SCHOOL
[2:39:41] THE YEAR AGAIN A CALL FOR
[2:39:43] TRANSPARENCY UM, BUT THE MOST
[2:39:45] FUN THE MOST SUCCESSFUL
[2:39:46] FUNDRAISING EVENT OF THE YEAR.
[2:39:48] I DO KNOW THE ONE BIG ANNUAL
[2:39:50] FUNDRAISER ONE NIGHT EVENT MADE
[2:39:52] OVER $25,000 IN THAT ONE NIGHT
[2:39:55] WHICH WAS FAR AND AWAY MORE
[2:39:57] MONEY THAN WE EVER RAISED IN
[2:39:58] OUR SEVEN YEARS AT THE MILDRED
[2:40:00] ABBEY SCHOOL UM IN MATTAPAN.
[2:40:01] AND WHILE.
[2:40:02] THOSE.
[2:40:03] TWO SCHOOLS ARE BOTH.
[2:40:03] PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS
[2:40:04] WITHIN THE SAME SCHOOL DISTRICT
[2:40:07] ,UM, I ONLY HAVE ACCESS TO
[2:40:08] THIS INFORMATION ABOUT HOW MUCH
[2:40:10] MONEY THEY RAISED BECAUSE I WAS
[2:40:12] INVOLVED AND WENT TO THE SPC
[2:40:13] MEETINGS AT THOSE TWO
[2:40:15] RESPECTIVE SCHOOLS.
[2:40:17] THIS DATA IS NOT CURRENTLY
[2:40:18] BEING COLLECTED.
[2:40:19] THERE IS NOWHERE THAT A PARENT
[2:40:21] ,A DONOR, A POLICYMAKER OR AN
[2:40:23] EDUCATOR EDUCATOR CAN GO AND
[2:40:25] LOOK ONLINE TO ACCESS THIS
[2:40:27] INFORMATION.
[2:40:29] AND I WANT TO BE CLEAR AS
[2:40:30] OTHERS HAVE BEEN THAT THIS IS
[2:40:31] NOT ABOUT PITTING SCHOOLS
[2:40:32] AGAINST EACH OTHER OR RESENTING
[2:40:34] FAMILIES WHO HAVE THE ABILITY
[2:40:36] TO GIVE GENEROUSLY TO THEIR
[2:40:37] CHILDREN'S SCHOOLS.
[2:40:38] EVERY PARENT I HAVE MET AT BOTH
[2:40:40] BOTH OF MY CHILDREN'S SCHOOLS
[2:40:42] WANTS THE SAME THING A
[2:40:44] WELL-ROUNDED EXPERIENCE FOR
[2:40:44] THEIR CHILDREN AND FOR TEACHERS
[2:40:46] TO NOT HAVE TO MAKE UP FOR
[2:40:48] BUDGET GAPS.
[2:40:49] THANK YOU.
[2:40:50] RIGHT UP.
[2:40:50] SORRY BUT YOU.
[2:40:51] ALMOST DONE SARAH.
[2:40:52] JUST A COUPLE MORE SENTENCES.
[2:40:54] I WAS JUST GONNA SAY I SUPPORT
[2:40:55] THE CALL FOR A PUBLIC DASHBOARD
[2:40:57] TO TRACK THIS DATA IF WE ARE
[2:40:59] SERIOUS ABOUT ENSURING THAT
[2:41:00] EVERY SCHOOL AND EVERY STUDENT
[2:41:02] IN THE DISTRICT HAS THE
[2:41:02] RESOURCES THEY NEED TO BE
[2:41:04] SUCCESSFUL THE FIRST STEP THIS
[2:41:05] FIRST STEP EXCUSE ME IS TO
[2:41:07] SIMPLY SEE THE FULL AND
[2:41:08] ACCURATE PICTURE OF THE FUNDS
[2:41:09] THAT EACH SCHOOL HAS ACCESS TO
[2:41:11] .
[2:41:11] WE CAN'T FIX A DISPARITY THAT
[2:41:13] WE CANNOT SEE.
[2:41:14] THANK YOU THANK.
[2:41:15] YOU SIR AND I THINK I BOUGHT
[2:41:17] ALL THOSE CUPCAKES IN THE.
[2:41:18] COOKIES THAT.
[2:41:19] ELECTION DAY.
[2:41:21] UM AND HELPED YOU RAISE THOSE
[2:41:23] AND I DO REMEMBER YOU ALL OUT
[2:41:25] THERE.
[2:41:25] UM ALL RIGHT, SO I THINK WE
[2:41:27] HAVE MARY NEXT.
[2:41:30] MARY.
[2:41:30] YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES AND.
[2:41:32] I WILL TRY TO BE FAST.
[2:41:34] UH, AND I WILL.
[2:41:35] I CAN'T I WILL DEVOTE A COUPLE
[2:41:36] OF MY TIME.
[2:41:37] SO THANK YOU.
[2:41:38] THANK YOU, NEW COUNCILOR FOR
[2:41:40] CHAIRING THIS HEARING.
[2:41:42] SO AMAZINGLY AMID, UM, PERSONAL
[2:41:44] LOSS.
[2:41:45] UM, SO, UH, I I I, UM I HAVE UH
[2:41:50] ,THREE GRADUATES OF BOSTON
[2:41:52] PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND HAVE BEEN AT
[2:41:53] SIX DIFFERENT SCHOOLS FROM ONE
[2:41:55] THE HANNIGAN WHICH HAS VERY
[2:41:57] LITTLE MONEY TO ONE BOSTON ARTS
[2:41:58] ACADEMY WHICH HAS LOTS OF MONEY
[2:41:59] AND I CAN TELL A LOT
[2:42:01] OF ANECDOTES ABOUT THIS BUT AS
[2:42:02] UM UH MARK TRAGER SAID, IT'S
[2:42:04] IMPORTANT TO MOVE FROM
[2:42:06] ANECDOTAL EVIDENCE BASED AND
[2:42:07] THAT'S WHAT HAVING A DASHBOARD
[2:42:08] IS ABOUT.
[2:42:09] SO I JUST WANTED TO NOTE A
[2:42:11] COUPLE OF THINGS.
[2:42:12] UM, UM, FIRST OF ALL, OVERALL
[2:42:15] THE DATA ON THE SCHOOL UH,
[2:42:18] PRIVATE UH FUNDRAISING AND
[2:42:20] SCHOOL FUNDS UM, IS THAT THE
[2:42:24] SCHOOLS THAT HAVE LESS SERVES
[2:42:28] STUDENTS WHO NEED MORE AND THAT
[2:42:31] IS AND THAT IS RACIALIZED.
[2:42:32] THAT MEANS STUDENTS THAT ARE
[2:42:34] SORT OF HIGH SCHOOLS THAT SORT
[2:42:35] OF HIGH PROPORTION OF BLACK AND
[2:42:37] HISPANIC STUDENT HIGH
[2:42:38] PROPORTIONS OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE
[2:42:40] LEARNERS HAVE LESS TO USE THE A
[2:42:42] BA FOR EXAMPLE I LOVE BA I
[2:42:44] THINK AND CLARK STILL ON BUT
[2:42:46] THE BOSTON ARTS ACADEMY HAS I
[2:42:48] THINK 5% UM ENGLISH LANGUAGE
[2:42:50] LEARNERS THAT HENNIGAN HAS LIKE
[2:42:52] I THINK CLOSE TO 70%.
[2:42:55] UM SO WHEN WE DID OUR WE DID UM
[2:42:58] OUR 2021 QUEST REPORT ON
[2:43:00] PRIVATE FUNDRAISING, I ASKED A
[2:43:03] STUDENT, A FORMER STUDENT ERICA
[2:43:04] LEE, TO DO A LINEAR REGRESSION
[2:43:07] ANALYSIS.
[2:43:08] UM, THE ANALYSIS REVEALED THAT
[2:43:09] FOR EVERY 1% INCREASE IN BLACK
[2:43:11] AND HISPANIC STUDENT ENROLLMENT
[2:43:13] AT A BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOL,
[2:43:15] PRIVATE FUNDRAISING DECREASED
[2:43:16] BY AN AVERAGE OF $35 PER
[2:43:19] STUDENT.
[2:43:19] IF YOU LOOK AT THE NEW YORK
[2:43:21] CITY DATA AND AGAIN, GREAT THAT
[2:43:23] WE HAVE THAT TRANSPARENCY.
[2:43:25] UM, IT TELLS US A LOT OF THINGS
[2:43:26] BUT IT DOESN'T SOLVE THE
[2:43:28] PROBLEM.
[2:43:28] SO IN THE NEW YORK CITY DATA,
[2:43:30] UM, FOR EXAMPLE, YOU CAN SEE
[2:43:32] THAT DISTRICT TWO WHICH IS ON
[2:43:33] THE UPPER EAST SIDE UM AND THEN
[2:43:36] UM MIDTOWN WHICH IS ONE OF THE
[2:43:37] WEALTHIEST AND WHITEST HAS ONLY
[2:43:40] 8.3% OF STUDENTS IN THAT
[2:43:41] DISTRICT ARE BLACK.
[2:43:42] THEY HAD AN IMBALANCE IN THEIR
[2:43:45] UH ACCOUNT OF 15.5 MILLION
[2:43:48] DISTRICT 23 IN BROOKLYN, WHICH
[2:43:50] IS NEARLY 100% BLACK AND
[2:43:51] HISPANIC, HAD ONLY $5,000
[2:43:54] OVERALL.
[2:43:55] WHEN YOU LOOK AT THAT DATA ON
[2:43:56] THE NEW YORK CITY UM THING,
[2:43:58] WHAT YOU SEE IS THAT THE TOP 30
[2:44:00] SCHOOLS WHICH IN NEW YORK IS
[2:44:01] ONLY 2.5% BECAUSE THEY'RE SO
[2:44:03] BIG.
[2:44:04] BUT THE TOP THREE SCHOOLS UM,
[2:44:05] IN NEW YORK RAISED UH HALF
[2:44:08] OF THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF MONEY
[2:44:11] RAISED UM 309 90 SCHOOLS AS UM
[2:44:16] COUNCILOR TRAGER EMPHASIZED HAD
[2:44:17] NONE.
[2:44:18] AND UM I WANT TO NOTE ALSO THAT
[2:44:20] WHILE I APPRECIATE UM BEDFORD
[2:44:24] THE WORK MAKING SURE UM PARENTS
[2:44:27] HAVE ACCESS TO FUNDRAISING
[2:44:28] TRAINING AND THINGS THAT'S NOT
[2:44:30] ENOUGH.
[2:44:30] SOME PARENT COMMUNITIES HAVE
[2:44:32] THE SOCIAL CAPITAL TO ACCESS
[2:44:34] EXTERNAL FUNDS AND SOME DON'T.
[2:44:36] UM, FOR EXAMPLE YOUNG ACHIEVERS
[2:44:38] WHERE MY KIDS WENT TO LAW AT A
[2:44:40] LONG TIME HAS A FRIENDS
[2:44:42] OF YOUNG ACHIEVERS BUT THEY
[2:44:43] DIDN'T HAVE A LARGE STAFF LIKE
[2:44:44] THE BOSTON ARTS ACADEMY
[2:44:45] FOUNDATION.
[2:44:46] THEY DIDN'T HOLD FUNDRAISERS AT
[2:44:47] THE SEAPORT HOTEL.
[2:44:48] WE DIDN'T HAVE FAMILIES OR
[2:44:50] ACCESS TO WEALTHY DONORS WHO
[2:44:51] WERE ABLE TO PAY TOP DOLLAR FOR
[2:44:53] THOSE TICKETS.
[2:44:55] SO HOW WE ADDRESS THESE CLEAR
[2:44:57] AND RACIALIZED INEQUITIES IN
[2:44:59] NOT ONLY FUNDS THEMSELVES, BUT
[2:45:00] ACCESS TO FUNDRAISING IS FOR A
[2:45:02] LONGER COMMUNITY CONVERSATION.
[2:45:04] I'M VERY LOOKING FORWARD TO THE
[2:45:07] AGREEMENT AND HAPPY ABOUT THE
[2:45:08] AGREEMENT THAT WE THAT WE GET
[2:45:10] THE DATA FIRST AND HAVE IT OUT
[2:45:12] TRANSPARENTLY.
[2:45:13] BUT THEN AS COUNCILOR MEJIA
[2:45:15] SAID, WE NEED TO SEEK SOLUTIONS
[2:45:17] AND SO I LOOK FORWARD TO THE
[2:45:18] WORK WE CAN DO TOGETHER TO
[2:45:19] TRANSPARENTLY BOTH SHARE AND
[2:45:21] ULTIMATELY ADDRESS PRIVATE
[2:45:22] FUNDRAISING DISPARITIES.
[2:45:24] THANKS.
[2:45:25] THANK YOU, THANK YOU.
[2:45:26] JUST FOR THE RECORD, I DID LET
[2:45:27] MARY GO ON A LITTLE LONGER.
[2:45:29] SHE'S BEEN ON THIS.
[2:45:30] QUEST MUCH LONGER THAN ANY
[2:45:31] OF US HERE.
[2:45:32] AND SO I WANTED TO HONOR YOU.
[2:45:34] AND JUST HOW MUCH YOU'VE BEEN
[2:45:36] DEDICATED TO THIS CONVERSATION.
[2:45:37] SO THANK YOU.
[2:45:38] UM, I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO
[2:45:41] DOING THE GOOD WORK AND IT'S
[2:45:43] IMPORTANT FOR US TO GET THESE
[2:45:44] THINGS ON THE RECORD.
[2:45:46] UM.
[2:45:46] SO THAT.
[2:45:47] WE CAN THEN FIGURE.
[2:45:48] OUT WHERE DO.
[2:45:48] WE.
[2:45:49] GO FROM HERE.
[2:45:49] AND YOU GUYS ALREADY.
[2:45:50] WALKED INTO THIS WITH A VERY.
[2:45:51] CLEAR.
[2:45:52] MANDATE.
[2:45:53] AND SO WE.
[2:45:53] ARE.
[2:45:54] LOOKING FORWARD TO WORKING IN
[2:45:55] PARTNERSHIP WITH YOU ALL TO DO
[2:45:56] JUST THAT.
[2:45:57] UM.
[2:45:58] SO I AM GOING TO.
[2:46:00] CLOSE THE HEARING.
[2:46:01] I BELIEVE WE DON'T HAVE ANYONE
[2:46:02] ELSE SIGNED UP FOR PUBLIC
[2:46:03] TESTIMONY.
[2:46:04] NOPE.
[2:46:05] WE'RE ALL SET.
[2:46:06] A GREAT.
[2:46:07] SO I WANTED TO.
[2:46:09] UH JUST THANK UH AGAIN THE
[2:46:12] PANELISTS.
[2:46:12] AND EVERYONE FOR SHOWING UP THE
[2:46:14] WAY THAT YOU DID ESPECIALLY.
[2:46:16] UM WITH IT'S I KNEW IT WAS
[2:46:18] GOING TO BE A SENSITIVE TOPIC.
[2:46:19] THIS IS NOT A TOPIC THAT
[2:46:20] MOST PEOPLE WANT TO TALK.
[2:46:21] ABOUT.
[2:46:22] BUT I'M GLAD THAT MY
[2:46:23] COLLEAGUES SHOWED UP TO DO JUST
[2:46:24] THAT.
[2:46:25] SO I WANT ALSO THANK MY
[2:46:26] COLLEAGUES TO THE WHO SHOWED UP
[2:46:28] AND I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO
[2:46:29] THEIR PARTNERSHIP SO THAT WE
[2:46:30] CAN GET TO WORK.
[2:46:32] SO I WANTED TO.
[2:46:34] JUST NOTE THAT.
[2:46:34] FOR THE RECORD, THIS.
[2:46:35] HEARING ON DOCKET 0406 HAS BEEN
[2:46:38] ADJOURNED.
[2:46:40] THANK YOU EVERYONE.
[2:46:41] HAVE A BEAUTIFUL NIGHT.
[2:46:41] BYE.