Good evening, everyone. So welcome to our PVSD board meeting. We do have translation available in Spanish. So if you need that support, please see Oranía López. So tenemos solución en español. Si necesita de este servicio, por favor, pase con Oranía López. And if you would like to speak to an item on the agenda, please complete a speaker card and hand it to Alicia Jimenez prior to the start of the agenda item. Each speaker will have two minutes. So we will move on to item 3.2, our Pledge of Allegiance. And I will ask Trustee Scow to please lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance. And to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. And so we will move on to our superintendent comments. And our acting superintendent, Clint Rucker, will make a few comments. Thank you, President Holm, and thank you, Board of Trustees. I'll make it very brief because I know we have a short meeting and hopefully we can keep it a little bit short.  Just want to say thank you to everybody for being here. And really thank you to the board for being supportive during this time. Thank you, especially to President Holm. You've been super kind. Thank you, Vice President Acosta and Trustee D'Serpa for helping me through the agenda setting, which was new to me. And I think we got through it OK. And I just appreciate all of you being supportive and being there. And again, thank you to all of my staff who was understanding in the time of having to have a little bit more on my plate and try and adapt. Very excited to see that we could potentially have an interim moving forward. Because as much as I love the district and love being as supportive as possible, I love numbers. And I want to go back to my numbers. I do love that. So really, that's my passion and where I want to be. But I do appreciate the board for letting me ensure that the district kept moving forward. Thank you all. Thank you all for being here. Moving on to our governing board comments. So this is our opportunity for each board member to make a few comments. And we'll start with Trustee Flores. Good evening, everyone. And thank you for coming out tonight during your summer. I did not have any committee meetings within the last few weeks. But I did attend Watsonville High School football's fundraiser that they had last weekend at the high school. And it was amazing to see the turnout and to see the community come together. And I hope more of our campuses can do this and get more of the community involved. And I just thank them for putting that on and the invite to be able to participate in that. Thank you. Vice President Acosta. I'll keep it short and brief as well. I, well, other than the one committee meeting with our acting superintendent, which he did very well in. And I want to also take the moment to thank you, Clint, for stepping up to the leadership for, oops, on behalf of the board and this district and our community during this time. And I just hope everyone had a wonderful and festive Fourth of July. I can't believe that was just barely a week ago yesterday. So here we are. We're fast moving through summer. So thank you. Trustee DeSerpa. Thank you. I celebrated Independence Day by walking in the parade, both in Aptos and Watsonville, alongside Trustee Holm, President Holm. It was a, and actually, Trustee Skow joined us in Watsonville. It was a beautiful, beautiful day and it's one of my favorite days of the year. So thank you. Trustee Souter. Yeah, good evening. Thank you for attending tonight. And I just want to extend a thank you to Clint for stepping up and filling the roll and taking the reins. And from the sounds of things, we have some decisions to make with some other leadership positions. So we're gonna have our hands full from here on out for the next few meetings. So thanks again, Clint. Trustee Skow. Yes, good evening, everybody. Thanks for being here. And thanks to all those who watch our meetings on YouTube. Had a great time marching with Board President Holm and Trustee DeSerpa, the Watsonville Parade in front of our beautiful school bus drive by our very own Stacy Mendoza. So that was a big hootin', one of the highlights of the parade, no doubt. Also, congrats to Watsonville High School Assistant Principal Gregorio for a very successful event over the weekend. That was a lot of fun to be there. And just thanks to our entire team, management team, colleagues on the board, a lot of good things are happening, a lot of hires, very exciting to see that in our district and I'm looking forward to tonight. Thank you. Thank you. And yes, walking in the two parades was, it's great to be out in the community and see folks and see the celebrations. And I also just wanted to express my appreciation for all the district staff and their work during this transition time.  It's so important, I appreciate the input and just all the work that is going on to make sure that things are running smoothly. So thank you to everybody and to my fellow trustees. I just wanna express my appreciation for the communication and professionalism. So thank you. Oh, trustee.junior, did you have any comments? Thank you everybody for being here. Good evening. I just wanted to quickly say, you know, we had a good fundraiser at Once Upon a High this weekend. You know, trustee Skal was there. I think I missed trustee Flores, but I just wanted to thank the Once Upon a High staff, you know, everybody that brought their cars, coach, girl, girl, thank you. Just a lot of thanks.  Too many names and name, I saw you there and I just wanted to say thank you, once upon a time, PBUSD and everybody who was able to attend, so thank you. All right, moving on to approval of the agenda. Can I have a motion to approve the agenda? I make a motion to approve the agenda. Second. I have a first and a second. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries seven zero. Moving on to item 5.1, approval of the June 28th, 2023 board meeting minutes. Can I have a motion? Okay, I have a motion. Can I have a second? I have a first and a second. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries seven zero. Item 5.2, approval of the July 3rd, 2023 board meeting minutes. Can I have a motion? Make a motion. Okay, I have a motion. Do I have a second? I have a first and a second. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries seven zero. We'll move on to item 6.1, public comments. So this is our opportunity for members of the public to address issues that are not on the agenda. Do we have any public comments? We do, we have one. And that would be Chris Webb. And just to reiterate what President Holm said, I'd just like to remind anyone if you have any speaker cards for our other items, they need to be put in before that action item starts. Good evening. I just wanted to first off say at the, I think it was the first June meeting. I appreciated the PVFT remarks. They were reflecting on the connection between higher occurrence of sped students in our district and pesticides. And I have seen other data that show the air monitors at Oloni for the last decade have shown beyond what safe levels of air pesticide pollution. So I feel like we need to follow up on that. Like that's something where if we're gonna hire a consultant, I'd be, I would support hiring a consultant to study what is the exposure to all our students district wide. I think we should start adding purifiers. This is like a green team thing, I think. We should add purifiers, or not purifiers, monitors in like a radius extending from Oloni, like slowly over time. We need to lead the state because the state is, I don't feel living up to their responsibilities in terms of protecting public health. Also I wanna say that at the last May meeting, a math teacher came up, they talked about how the old assistant superintendents of YOR had more of an ongoing dialogue with staffs. And I agree with that. And I feel like we need that. We need that for just approved achievement, better culture, overall. I'm a little worried that like even though there's, you know, I've got the same kind of change that like the PV community has in that like new superintendent, new principal, like I do feel it's like an inflection point and inflection point and I'm worried that we won't seize it to change the culture, to be more collaborative so that we don't just say together, we rise like I feel it. And like I also feel like, and it should be okay to care with the students. I feel like there's been times where if you're doing your job and then like it reflects poorly on maybe others who put a policy that wasn't fully thought out because they don't know, then it can lead to not the best environment. Thank you. Thank you. All right, moving on to our employee organization comments. So now it's time we're here from our employee organizations and each will have five minutes, starting with PVFT. Good evening, Nellie Bucketta Boggs, president for PVFT. It's summertime. And I really, really hope that many of our teachers are out summering. I did go to one of our sites just to check in with one of my colleagues that I work with in the office, Roddy, she taught summer school. And so I got to see the joy at Minty White. They were having a carnival that day. It was a lot of fun. I worked summer school for many, many years. Through the ALAS program, it's Migran Ed. And it's just a wonderful time because you get to incorporate more arts and more interaction amongst the entire site than our academic year. So we look forward to moving through this summer. It's going too fast, but we look forward to moving forward with our board and the district in its search for a superintendent who is going to fill some pretty tall heels. And some important aspects of what we are, we as a union are looking for in a leader of our district. You've heard us say that we wanna be a part of this process is, you've already heard me say, bilingual is one of the major connectors for our community of learners, our families, and the leadership of this district, but also a person who's going to truly listen to the various stakeholders. The 2,300 people that are employed by this district, our CSCA, brothers and sisters, management, and the PBFT, we all work to, not only as your hashtag this last year was to lift up, ours has always been, together we rise, and that means together everybody. And we rise with our students, we have to be whole every single day, and part of that wholeness is ensuring that we have a leader who is listening to the needs and is making moves to make it sustainable, to make it a reality. In the past many years, the workload has become unsustainable and we have felt it. And I wanna give kudos to our human resources department who has been working diligently to get the positions out and filled as much as best they can. There are still some positions, but we're not going to start with like 50 vacancies. So that's like whoo. So we are definitely, I'm thankful knowing that. I attended an employee orientation for on incoming certificated non-management, the people we represent. And there was a pretty good crowd of some really, really wonderful people. So moving forward, we look forward to working with you in this search. I look forward to working with Murray Scheckman. I was a secondary teacher. And so he was the assistant soup for I think secondary at the time because I would see him. My husband and I both got to work with him. And he was present. And so I think another aspect of what we're looking for in leadership is a person who is going to be present. So thank you very much. Have a great evening. Do we have anyone from CSCA? Hey, how's everyone doing? Board of Trustees, cabinet. Surprised to see all the directors here. Michelle's gone. But anyways, our sun shines up. I'm sure you guys have seen it. I'm looking for some support in that. Also, appreciate Clint stepping up. You fill me some big shoes or heels. And you know what? It's a new year, new school year. I want a good, clean, fresh start. Hopefully everything goes well. And also myself, a lot of my members are in support of Murray coming in, sitting in as interim superintendent. And we support him 100%. And I'd like to actually meet him one day. I am sure sooner than later. And hopefully I could have those meetings with him more often. All right, thank you. Thank you. Do we have anyone from Fevem? I have a few photos for you. Good evening, Board of Trustees, President Holm, Superintendent Rucker. My name is Angelica Renteria. I'm the Director of the Migrant CISO Head Start Program. And I'm happy to be here representing Fevem. Have a couple of program highlights. On June 20, 21, and 22, we hosted the National Family Child Care Forum, where many Head Start programs from across the country gather to share effective practices. The goal of this event is to be able to showcase the Family Child Care Home Model for other programs that are new to them, to the concept of who might be interested in implementing this type of delivery model in the future. We had about 70 participants. And those 70 participants had the opportunity to visit 30 Family Child Care Homes in Santa Cruz County and Monterey County. They talked about how impressed they were with their learning environments. They talked about how safe spaces are set up in very small areas in a very creative way. They also had the opportunity to observe inclusive practices, opportunities for interaction and language development, as well as curriculum implementation. Also speaking of curriculum implementation, this month at the local committee meetings, the families that are attending can learn firsthand of curriculum practices. Teachers have the opportunity to share activities and materials. And as the parents complete the activities, are utilized in simple materials, they learn how learning takes place in the classrooms. As you can see in the pictures, families are very engaged and excited. This is Oloni, this is Hyde, and Calabasas. Thank you. Thank you. We have one public speaker to this item, Chris Webb. Yeah, I just have one request of Pevam, and that's in light of some of the experiences I've had with admin in the last couple of years. And I don't want it to take a semester for us to decide that students shouldn't wear a tire that promotes any kind of drug. And in the past, sometimes people of admin have had to get into situations where they're forced to take a step that didn't have to, like eventually their hand was forced in a way. So I think we can, if we can have a culture where we don't, that just doesn't come up. This is one of my favorite rugby jerseys, but I've never worn it to school because it even has my name and everything. But I don't wear school because of reasons I feel like you are aware of. So I feel like if you wouldn't want it from your staff, then you, probably it's not good for the students and like these things eventually they lead up and it's better to act ahead of time, I think. So thank you, have a good evening. All right, do we have anyone from CWA? Not today. So going on to item 8.1, proof of contract for interim superintendent. I will be presenting this item. So we received resumes and cover letters from a number of qualified individuals. And I want to take a moment to express my gratitude for everyone who either submitted their name or we had people who suggested people. This process demonstrated what a wealth of talent and dedication that we have in our district. In our special board meeting about this process, we stated that we would conduct interviews if the board could not reach a consensus around a candidate. As we deliberated, it quickly became clear that consensus was possible. With Mr. Scheckman, we have an opportunity to work with a highly experienced educator who is very familiar with our district, who is connected to our community and can take on this role in a way that allows our programs to continue without interruption as we embark on the process of searching for a permanent superintendent. With direction from the board, I worked with legal counsel to negotiate a contract with Mr. Scheckman, which we are submitting for your approval this evening. In short, the district will consider approving Mr. Scheckman's employment agreement as interim superintendent of the Parho Valley Unified School District. And a summary of the financial terms are as follows. So one, the term of his employment as interim superintendent will be from July 17th, 2023, and terminating on July, or in June 30th, 2024. And then two, the base salary of the interim superintendent during the term will be $1,000 per day. Three, the interim superintendent will be provided with the same health and welfare benefits that are provided to other district certificated management employees. Four, the district will reimburse the interim superintendent's actual and necessary business expenses, including expenses associated with attending professional meetings and conferences. Seven, the interim superintendent will have a work here of 220 days, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays. Eight, the interim superintendent shall be entitled to one sick leave day per month. Nine, the interim superintendent shall be entitled to an automobile allowance of 300 per month and a cell phone allowance of 100 per month. And 10, the board may terminate this interim superintendent for any reason whatsoever by providing 30 days advanced written notice. The full contract is available on board docs. But that is the summary. And I respectfully request your approval. Do we have any public speakers to this item? We have none. All right. Do we have any questions or discussion from the board? Just for clarification. When we were negotiating the salary, is that a pretty standard salary for an interim superintendent? My understanding is yes. Thank you. I'll make a motion to approve Murray Sheckman as our interim superintendent. I have a first or the second. I'll second. And I also just want to thank you, Dr. Holm, for your work in separating this process and all my colleagues on the board. I'm very optimistic. And I think we're in good shape and we're going to keep going in good shape. So thank you for your work. You're welcome. So President Holm, I just, with respect to how important of a decision this is, I respectfully ask that we give a roll call vote. You have your first and second. If you're calling for the vote now, there's no further discussion and this table is not bolted down. All right. So during the roll call vote, Lisa, can you do that? Danny, did you have? I would just like to say I've known Mr. Murray Sheckman since my days at E Hall a long time ago. And I trust Mr. Murray Sheckman and during this process, which was a good process that we had, you know, we've done our best to have special meetings. We had a meeting at E Hall where, I believe it was, you know, where everybody could attend. You know, I've talked to people throughout the district that I had good things to say about Murray Sheckman. You know, I know CACA members are happy with the choice. And I know a lot of people at Watsonville throughout the district support Murray Sheckman and I will support Murray Sheckman. And I look forward to working with them as a trustee, but as a member of Watsonville and a student of the schools that I represent. And I continue to listen to people in my area and I support this too. Thank you. Let me see what we did. Are there any for, okay. Here's our, oh, sorry. I was just, I just wanted to get that in before you did it. If anybody else had a comment. I just wanted to take a moment and note and thank our president, Trustee Dr. Holm, for her leadership during this time as well as our acting superintendent, Clint Rocker, Agenda Setting Committee as well, Trustee D'Serpa. Lots of things had to move at points quickly to make meetings happen in the absence of Dr. Rodriguez and President Trustee Dr. Holm did that very well. Worked diligently with our legal counsel. I'm appreciative to our legal counsel, Sarah Katz as well for her advice and counseling to the board during this time and this decision making because pretty much for six of us up here, this is new. Sorry, Kim, to date you. But, you know, with experience is wisdom, okay. So, but I just really wanted to thank you, President, Trustee Dr. Holm, that's a lot of words to get your name out for your leadership. I am appreciative of it, so thank you. Thank you, you're welcome. Really? You were ready. I'm ready for the local vote. Trustee D'Serpa. Aye. Aye. Trustee Soto. Trustee Flores. Aye. Trustee Skao. Aye. Trustee Daniel Dodge Jr. Aye. Vice President Georgia Acosta. Aye. President Denver Holm. Aye. The motion passes unanimously. Wonderful, congratulations, Mr. Sheklin. Did you wish to address the board? I'll, seven, no. I do. It looks, it sounds like my voice will show up with you, folks, a few seconds after I speak. We hear you. It's actually pretty good, pretty good. Okay. I'm just living in a world of gratitude. I planned this vacation probably six months ago, otherwise I'd be sitting there with you. I've read some just before, I've read some just beautiful things in posts and Facebook. I don't do Facebook, but I'm part of your, our community. And I'm really grateful. And this is a real challenge and honor. I look forward to being in the office and on school campuses beginning Monday. We get home Sunday night. I'll take my dog for a walk and I'll return with delight to the PVUSD. And my final comment is simply to echo some of the words that were already said, the young man who spoke and used the term collaborative, talked about culture, our two union representatives who talked about an environment where people work together. And I believe, I believe we have a good match and I'm really happy to be back. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you and congratulations. All right. Thank you, President Holm. All right, yay. Moving on to item 8.2, selection of superintendent search firm presentations for permanent superintendent by leadership associates in McPherson and Jacobson LLC. Clint. Thank you, President Holm, Board of Trustees. As many of you remember, we had the two firms come to our last board meeting, which was the June 28th board meeting. They did do a presentation explaining the services that they provide. Those firms again gave those presentations. Board were able to ask some questions, but it was asked that the actual action item be moved to this next meeting so that they could have some time to read over the presentations, really see what was to offer. In that process, we also found that it would be helpful to have those firms here again to answer any questions. We do have one attending leadership associates via Zoom, and I believe McPherson is here in person, was able to make it down here for us. So at this time, I'm leaving the board to make the decision to select one of the firms. We have both contracts attached to the item, so you can see the contracts that would be available for both firms. The presentations have already been done, but this is a time for the board to ask any questions of the firms, if there's any follow-up still needed, and then make a final decision on selecting a firm to begin our search for our superintendent. Thank you. Do we have any public speakers to this item? We have none. Do we have any discussion from the board? Any questions for our firms? Trustee Flores. I'll just start by saying that I wanna thank both firms for their presentations, and I looked over both of them. They're very similar. I know which one I would probably lean more towards, but I wanna say thank you, and I just, I look forward to working with them to find our future superintendent. I will just echo that, and thank both firms. I'm not sure if the other one of the leadership and associates is on on Zoom yet with us, but if not, I can listen to me on Rewind. But, and also thank McPherson and Jacobson for being here this evening to answer any possible additional questions that have come up from the board, because sometimes, and that's part of the process that we'll get a report and discussion and then often we vote on things at a next meeting, and it does give that lag time to sort of process everything and really get some perspective and also hear input from others. So thank you for your presentations at our second to last meeting, our regular last meeting, and for being here this evening. I appreciate it. Anything from that end of the table? I'll just echo, and thank you for giving us the time that you've given us already, and I'm sorry we had to bring you back in for a second presentation or to answer any questions, which appears that the board doesn't really have any extra questions. So I think we're ready to make a decision, right? Sounds like it. Does somebody want to make a motion? Well, I think the next step would be for somebody to make a motion about which group that is, and if the motion, if people want that, then there'll be a vote. If people don't, then the motion can just fail, correct? I'm willing to make a motion for the firm that I felt that I would, you know, can see us working with, and that would be leadership and associates. Okay. A second. Any further discussion? I'll ask you to roll call the vote. I wanted to say that I felt both presentations were great. I felt that we would be in good hands with either group. I did get a lot of feedback from my constituents about leadership and associates that that was my constituents' preference. I think I have an under control. Sorry about that. So I've already said thanks to both. And I'm pretty much gonna echo what Trustee Holm says. Most of the feedback I've gotten from those that have reached out to me to have a care or say in the matter have echoed leadership and associates. And some of the feedback on that, just to add to it, is as someone who's been a business owner for decades and teaches personal, professional, responsible business practices at our local university, and also not just business principles, but also ethics and equity. One of the concerns that was echoed that I have to say is there's something that we call in business in Arms Lake Transaction. And it's important to have that sort of distance. And there was concerns about the firm that just took our superintendent from us, being the firm to represent the next potential superintendent we'll have. And so it's sort of that thing in life that sometimes you say, legally you can do something, but how does it also look ethically and morally? And that can get called into question. And just because we can do something doesn't always mean we should. And so that's really, for me, been a leading point as well. I feel both presentations were wonderful, very professional, but that's pretty much why my decision is to vote for leadership and associates and to have second trustee Flores's motion. I do want to add that one thing that I really did appreciate about the McPherson presentation was that it was so clear. And I did appreciate how much I knew every step, and I felt it was very, very clear. I knew exactly the process. I did like that quite a bit. I, I'm sorry. Now that I'm over my coughing attack, I think officially. Sorry that distracted me a little bit in my thought process. I know I've already seconded trustee Flores's motion, but something that I want to point out of a concern that I have, and it's also been brought to our attention by our union, two union leaderships who both presidents are here this evening, that I have really want to make sure that this process going forward is very well thought out and well planned, and that has very active community involvement where we're really considering our stakeholders, not just all of our, you know, our cabinet management, our certificate and classified management, our confidential employees, our represented employees through both of our unions. I mean, we have a serious duty as trustees. We are the second largest employer in this county, the largest employer in the city of Watsonville. We have a real duty to these employees, and to have them be a part of the process. We also have that duty to our other stakeholders, our students, their parents, their families, and I think it is really important to have them be an integral part of this process, and I know that we're going to work the scope out with whichever firm, I know you have a first and a second, and if it goes to leadership and associates, we're going to work out the timeline at the phase one meeting, but I really don't want to see that phase one meeting happen at the very earliest before our regular board meeting in August, which is August 23rd at the very earliest, and the reasoning for that is our students, our staff isn't returning till mid August, our full staff, those that are seasonal employees that are off on summer vacation, I don't think it's fair to them. I did mention that at the previous meeting about at the university, we wouldn't even do something like this at this time when the bulk of our employment employees are out on vacation, so the very earliest I would like to see that the phase one meeting take place would be the August 23rd meeting or even the first meeting in September. I have to look at my calendar to quote what date that is. I think that's, is that the six? Or is it the 13th, whatever date that is? That's your job to know that. So that's just the 13th. So I know we already have a first and a second. I don't know that we can amend it to that, but I'd really like to emphasize that. It's also going to help our new superintendent. We're gonna only barely have our first meeting with our new interim superintendent on the 26th. So it sort of gets time for that. So I would hope that part of the process could be respected and that, you know, we could all hear to that because as far as agenda setting committee meeting goes, I'm only one on there. So I just wanted to make that point here. And when I'm also talking about that community involvement as part of this process, because we are such a large district geographically, which also we have so many different students that we service in different needs in different areas. I think it's important that we have some maybe community sessions, you know, one that's in Aptos, Aptos space, one that's in Watsonville, that's Watsonville based. And for goodness sakes, North Monterey County. I mean, it's always just considered that North Monterey County could just attend Watsonville, but I think it's really important that we have community sessions, at least in those three areas as part of this process. So I just wanted to sort of add that and echo, I support, I don't even know if Nellie's still here, oh yeah, she is. That I really do support that and believe the importance of that, to have a rich involvement from our community and all our stakeholders. Trustee Daz, you're new? I'd also like to say I support the motion for leadership and associates, just to kind of echo what Trustee Acosta was saying, that the search seems to be held throughout the district of the community, you know, through the city of Watsonville. Trustee Acosta talks about us being stewards of the people that represent and the only reason I'm here because I told the people that they should be making decisions. And I'm just here to, the people that are afraid to speak or who feel like their voice isn't being heard, I want them to be able to part of this decision. Watsonville High, E. Hall, Minnie Went, Radcliffe, you know, whatever decision we go to to kind of echo what Trustee Acosta was saying, hopefully we can have a meeting or a hearing at Aptos High School, Pajaro Valley High School, Watsonville High School and you know, Trustee Soto's area. I mean, you know, we had a once in a century flood and you know, there was a lot of miscommunication, you know, I'm not sure if that's a good way to say between, you know, Monterey County, Pajaro Valley and the Fife School District and they shouldn't be involved. You know, even if it's at the golf course or you know, Hall School, that's part of our district and that's part of our communities. A lot of our workers, our teachers live in Monterey County, Las Lomas, Pajaro and hopefully wherever we decide we can have something in Monterey County for the people of Monterey County. Trustee Soto? Yes, thank you. I also wanna thank both of our proposals and both organizations. I also like the leadership proposal as well and I won't make a long speech but I do think it is important. One of the reasons I think we chose Murray is because of his depth of experience in our district and also the region by the way and so I think it's valuable to get his input in a collaborative way on this process as well and not rush it. Thank you. Yeah, I also wanna thank both firms for coming up to bat and putting your irons in the fire and obviously we feel that we've made a decision and the firm that's being mentioned already has some previous experience with us and they're familiar with somewhat of our procedures and policies so that's always a plus. Trustee Dodge, thank you for mentioning my area. You know, they always seem to get recognized as the stepchild of the district which is unfortunate and it's good that we do get them involved because that's somewhat of a community that's kinda sits back and just watches but really doesn't participate and I think we need to start bringing them into the light and get them involved so thank you for recognizing that. Thank you. Trustee LaCosta. Trustee Dutton. He's just noting that I mentioned your area first. Trustee Dutton. Thank you, Trustee LaCosta and Trustee Dodge. Well, so I have been through this before and I've seen the process play out and search firms are expert at talking to us, getting our input and running these types of searches. This is what they do. I mean, I know everyone's talking about giving directives for how it's gonna go. They already know how it goes and they are experts at bringing in different portions of our community based on our feedback so I'm confident that this board will enjoy working with either one of the search firms and to the satisfaction of what our desire and wishes are for how to get the best person that we can possible to be our next superintendent. I think they should start tomorrow on this process. I don't think we should wait until September. I think we're gonna miss out on many good candidates that will get swooped up by other districts and so the sooner they can get started the better so I wouldn't be very opposed to waiting into September to start this process. Thank you. So we have a first and a second. Yes. I have a clarification. I thought I heard trustee to disturb a second motion but then I, did you say you had seconded trustee Acosta? Because I thought I heard. Oh, I'm sorry. So I just wanted to clarify that I did hear trustee to disturb a second motion. So I have a first and a second for approving the contract with leadership and associates. Amir, we had the, we roll called it. We're doing a roll call. Trustee D'Serfa. Aye. Trustee Flores. Aye. Trustee Soto. Aye. Trustee Scow. Aye. Trustee Dodd Jr. Aye. Vice President Acosta. Aye. And President Holm. Aye. So the motion passes unanimously. Thank you. You're welcome. Motion carries 7-0. All right, moving on to item 8.3, California School Employees Association Chapter 132, Sunshine Proposal for 2023-2024. Reopener year to the Pahoa Valley Unified School District. The report will be presented by Allison Miyazawa, our Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources. Yes, thank you President Holm, Board of Trustees and Mr. Rucker. So I have the Sunshine Proposal from CSCA to open up negotiations for the 2023-2024 school year. It is a re-opener year, which is why you're only seeing one school year and they are requesting to sunshine those four articles. So I respectfully request that you approve their sundown rebolo. Thank you. Do we have any public speakers to this item? We have none. Do we have any discussion from the board? I'll entertain a motion. I'll make a motion to approve. I'll second. We have a first and a second. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries 7-0. Are there any items to report from closed session? Yes, there are. So on closed session item 2.2, I move to approve the Certificate of Personnel Report as presented by District Administration on July 12, 2023 with 24 and seven additional action items and I will need a second. First and second, all those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries 6-0-1. On closed session item 2.3, I move to approve the Classified Personnel Report as presented by District Administration on July 12, 2023 with zero and 16 additional action items. I need a second. You have a first and a second. All those in favor? Aye. Motion carries 6-0-1. And we have two announcements out of closed session, announcement one, Pajar Valley Unified School District is pleased to announce the selection of Louise Burnside as a new program director of special education. Louise has been working with students since 2003 in a variety of settings. She has been an alternative programs teacher, a special education teacher, a county office of education coordinator of special services, a program director, and most recently an assistant principal at Leland High School. Louise holds a Bachelor of Science degree in geography from Queens University in Belfast, Northern Ireland, as well as a UK teacher's license from Goldsmiths College in London, England. She obtained her special education credential through the Santa Cruz County Office of Education and holds a master's degree of education and an administrative credential from National University. We are excited to welcome Louise back to PDUUSD into her new role. Welcome Louise. And our second and last announcement, Pajar Valley Unified School District is pleased to announce the selection of Rosamund Vivo as the principal of Landmark Elementary. Rosamund has been working with students since 2002 when she worked with junior college students in Sinaloa, Mexico at the Instituto Tecnología de los Moches. Since 2005, she has been part of PDUUSD working roles such as classroom teacher, new teacher project mentor, summer school principal, and academic coordinator at Rio de Mar. She holds a bachelor's of arts in history and language and master's of education and a multiple subject teaching credential with a BC lad and all from UCSC. She has also earned an administrative credential from CSUNB. We are excited to welcome Rosamund to her new role, Go Dragonflies. Welcome Rosamund. And that is all I have. All right. So our next meeting is a regular board meeting on July 26th and with that, the meeting is adjourned at 7.52 p.m.


Testing testing one two one two testing you guys can hear me. I can see you Good evening everyone and thank you for joining us for today's public safety briefing led by cheap chief operations officer for New York City's Office of Public Safety Justin Myers Following our last speaker. We will take a few questions from the media followed by some questions that have been submitted by the public ahead of Today's briefing. I would now like to turn it over to COO Myers Good evening everyone. As Derek said, my name is Justin Myers I'm the chief of operations for public safety in New York City led by deputy mayor Phil Banks And I'm joined here today by NYPD chief of patrol John Shell And John is here to talk about very a very interesting new technology that's being piloted in the police department And how it was used recently to help NYPD recover both the stolen vehicle and in another incident apprehended suspects safely and without incident We're also joined by Dept Department of Corrections Commissioner Louis Molina Who will be providing us with an update on the state of our correction facilities and some of the many improvements that the commissioner and his team have Implemented to ensure the safety of all individuals on Rikers Island during their tenure for the last year and a half and Last but not least we're joined by our taxi and limousine commission deputy commissioner for uniformed services Ira Goldapper who oversees the enforcement and safety operations for TLC Commissioner Goldapper will be giving folks at home a brief overview of what the uniformed services bureau does at the at TLC and Finally, he'll be highlighting a new safety campaign by TLC and the Department of Transportation To keep motorists and cyclists safe on our roadways here in New York City So first as I mentioned the new technology that we're looking at in the NYPD our first topic for today is How we're utilizing technology to improve public safety, which is of course a cornerstone of Mayor Eric Adams administration The mayor has made it very clear that he's going to be utilizing All the city's resources to be looking at emerging technologies both in the public safety sector as well as many other areas where we can improve efficiency throughout the government by leveraging technology The responsible use of technology is key to keeping our communities safe and preventing crime And the key word here is responsible. We're looking to adopt technology in a variety of different ways, but we're looking to do it in a We're looking to take do our due diligence in exploring what's out there Understanding it and figuring out whether or not it's the best use of our resources here in New York City to deploy that So the way we do that is a tremendous amount of research and then identify Potential technologies and then look to pilot those technologies to determine whether or not they can work in our environment the unique environment That is New York City. So over the last 16 months during the Adams administration The Office of Public Safety in conjunction with the NYPD FD&Y and a number of other agencies throughout The city government including the CTO's office the chief technology officers office We've been doing a tremendous amount of outreach Internationally nationally and across the state to other municipalities and companies throughout the world to identify and analyze the most advanced technological solutions that exist in the public safety sphere And as I mentioned, we need to know that those technologies can work here in New York City So when we identify certain technologies, we look to pilot them And as you may have seen a few weeks ago the mayor and police commissioner Kishan Tsuul Held the demonstration in Times Square to allow members of the public to see firsthand Three pieces of technology that are currently being tested out and evaluated One of those technologies is something called Star Chase Which is being used by the NYPD on a small scale as a 90-day pilot program right now That technology is essentially a GPS device that can be launched from a handheld device or an R a police vehicle And mounts to a suspects vehicle that may or may not be fleeing and then can that can be GPS tracked without incident So we have that in a couple of different areas I believe in the Bronx and Chief Shell if you could share a bit about some of the recent incidents that you've been able to deploy that And how effective it's been sure so just quickly Star Chase is a handheld launcher or a vehicle Mount launcher It's been around 10 years The company I said states is about the 1,000 vehicles recovered in the 10 years 85% success ratio and a million dollars in vehicles and contraband recovered We're using this because as we have an increase in what we call ghost cars right around our city We have an increase in stolen cars in the city So this device is used to for apprehent an apprehension tool But also to mitigate the risk to us and the public who who sometimes we have to pursue these vehicles in terms of Our success we've deployed it three times since we used it for the last three weeks One time was a miss on a highway and that was because of our fault because it's a pilot program The second time we got a hit on a stolen car that we recovered from Queens into the Bronx and the third time we had to pursue a car that was driving recklessly and It we deployed it again. We tracked the car into Nassau County and we recovered that vehicle So three deployments to successes and again, it's a pilot program we're using and we're very fairly confident We this should work well for us and again It's an apprehension tool but also a mitigation tool to limit some pursuits protect our cops and protect the public Thank you chief. I appreciate that The next up that we have is I'd like to talk about the Department of Corrections And we have commissioner of the Department of Corrections Lewis Molina here with us Commissioner Molina came into a tremendously difficult situation when he was appointed by the mayor last January Rikers Island in the state of the New York City Department of Corrections Has been a victim of compounded problems over many many decades and commissioner Molina was appointed 18 months ago to essentially be parachuted into that problem and try to chart a course forward with him and his team To address the many different multi-layered problems that were affecting Rikers Island in the corrections department Rikers Island has suffered from mismanagement and dysfunction for many years and it's known easy feet to turn the tide on those conditions And create a better environment for both folks who work there and of course people in custody however the commissioner and his leadership team have been constantly moving the ball forward and making Improvements and making the necessary systemic changes needed to move past this difficult time within the corrections department And I can honestly say that in nearly two decades of working in government it's I don't know that I've ever met anyone who is as committed to their mission and Honestly as effective as the manager in as difficult of an environment as you have and I've personally I've learned a lot getting an opportunity to work with you and watch the work you're doing with your team commissioner And I'm not sure that you know when in a time when there's so much negativity around the issues So much of the progress that you're making doesn't always get ink in the paper or notif People don't recognize how much progress has really been made So I want to give you an opportunity today to talk about the progress you and your team have been making at Rikers Island Thank you for the opportunity and the kind words and I think what's important to point out is just how we've been really rebuilding an agency With the support of the mayor as well as the support of the deputy mayor and the interagency task force We've been able to implement another of violent reduction strategies Not only to make the place safer for those that have to those that work for the Department of Corrections both uniform and non-uniform Staff but also those that are placed in our custody by the court Sentence of pretrial detainees to make sure that they're safe So I'd like to share some sort of in the violent indicators of where we are fiscal year-to-date Encounter year-to-date that I think are important for the public to know So fiscal year today We're about 10 months into the fiscal year and our slashing and stabbings with at the beginning of January 2022 Had reached very very high levels unprecedented levels at that time and fiscal year to date slashing and stabbings department Y are down 21% so that's 10 months into the fiscal year 23 Calendar year-to-date and I know we're only four months into the 2023 But calendar year-to-date we have seen acceleration in the reduction of slashing and stabbings department Y And that reduction has been 40 percent calendar year-to-date And as you know, we are um in court under federal consent judgment And the last time I was in court we had implemented an action plan And part of that action plan is to not only stabilize departmental operations But also to continue this reduction of violence the last time I was in court was in november We happen to be in court this afternoon and from that time period of november 2022 To present slashing and stabbings have gone down 34 So stuff is starting to take hold and it's starting to work Assaults on staff We had a number of staff that were assaulted on a regular basis in the prior administration And fiscal year-to-date we have reduced assault on staff by 40 percent And calendar year-to-date that reduction has been 18 percent And combined with that is holding those detainees accountable in partnership with the bronx da's office To make sure that would individual commit criminal acts of violence On another person in custody or on a staff member that that individual was re-arrested and the The bronx da I give a lot of thanks to them for partnering with us to make sure that that's done I think when we talk about the story of rikers island and the reduction of violence You can't speak about the beginning of that process without talking about the robin and daveron center Which is also known as rndc rndc when we came into office in january of 2022 Was the most violent facility on the island that facility is led by a dynamic warden warden walker So big thanks to her and her team What they were able to pull off and operationalizing a multi-prime violence reduction strategy To be able to reduce violence within rndc Which houses just over 400 of young adults age 18 to 21 And fiscal year-to-date slash and the staffings have been reduced their 63 And calendar year-to-date that reduction is 76 Those are huge swings not only engaging with those that are in custody The implementation of a partnership with our faith-based community Holding individual accountable and sticking to best practices and a lot of infrastructure improvement to replacing 850 cell doors at that facility and hundreds of Window proofing On top of plexiglass windows to make sure that those windows are now broken and turned into weapons that can hurt others In addition to that I would like to also share That absenteeism You know when we took over in january of 2022 we had upwards of over 2600 unique staff members out on any given day The department was on the brink of collapse There was no health organizational strategy for staff A lot of staff had survived a significant charm and not only of the mismanagement of the department But also dealing with that situation during a global pandemic Which was not only tough on new york city jails, but tough on jails and prisons throughout the country And what we did was we started to support staff We engaged in an organizational health strategy And we proactively engaged with staff on a daily basis at all levels from the first line supervisor all the way to the executive cabinet And what that has yielded today is an all a 70 reduction in staff absenteeism So to put that into context in any given day in january of 2022 We had upwards of over 2600 people out sick And today that number was about five hundred and sixty So significantly lower than where we were in january and having staff come back Not only allows us to provide level of stability Increased safety and security in our facilities, but allowed us to begin programming again educational and vocational programming and really institute in-person visits Now as of late we had in-person visits during the week And what we'd have been doing as we have stabilized operations beginning may 10th We are going to have in-person visits also available on saturday and sunday on the weekends So those so those families that want to visit their loved ones That happen to be just as involved and inspiring incarceration And they want to visit on saturday and sunday in person We'll be able to do that effective may 10th and there's no pre-registration that's going to be required to do that This is a big step forward to make sure that we keep community connections Happening with those that are in custody and making sure that we add another avenue for persons to visit with their loved ones In addition to maintaining on fridays our tele-visit program would allow Persons to visit with their loved ones from anywhere via a tele-visit video Visitation process. So we're excited. We've come a long way We recognize that we have a long way to go But what we've accomplished over the last 16 months Considering where we were has been a big step forward towards reforming and enhancing the city's jail system Thank you commissioner and you know, I think it's important to note that this is a a progress report not a mission Right, I mean it's a number of the things that you just listed off are incredibly impressive Accomplishments in when you look at a year and a half to have replaced 850 jail doors that weren't locking to reduce the number of people out sick by more than 2500 to less than 600 the the impact and the collateral impact that that has on an inmate's daily life Or on correction officers coming to work and then how that reverberates across the entire system is It's really hard to articulate particularly in a forum like this. How much of an impact that really does have Can you share it all about kind of You know moving forward your the future How you see things unfolding as you continue to make progress throughout the year Sure So I think you know one of the things that we've done and I've often talked about this is we've confused Infused a lot of outside correctional expertise into the department Not only at the executive cabinet level But also now at our facility levels and we recently appointed five assisted commissions to work as facility operations Over our facilities three of those individuals come with decades of experience outside of new york city And they're going to be leading three of our facilities So like you said, I think all of this is not only going to have a trickle down effect in the mentorship of our staff but in addition to being able to Have a rippling effect throughout the department that creates not only further stabilization But really keeps us on a pace of sustainable reform and enhancements of our city's jail system Excellent. Excellent. Thank you so much for that update commissioner And last but certainly not least We are joined by deputy commissioner ira goldapper who oversees the uniform services bureau in the city city's taxi and limousine commission And as I mentioned earlier ira is going to give us a look at what the bureau does to ensure that taxi drivers and other Vehicles for hire and their passengers are kept safe throughout new york city And then we're going to actually have a really great video really quickly today It's 30 seconds But it's a public service announcement that was created by tlc and the department of transportation And essentially what that video and what we're going to be unveiling here today is a public service campaign to Basically create a new learned behavior that here in new york city We talk a lot in the office of public safety about what is public safety? And of course when folks think of it we think the nypd maybe the fd and y department of corrections But public safety isn't just law enforcement. It's not just what government does It's what each of us individually do on a day-to-day basis that collectively Makes us safer as a community and as individuals And learned behavior has a big part of that right so, you know commissioner melina if if unfortunately knock on wood Your shirt were to catch on fire right now. What would you do? Oh, I remember my high school days you you stop drop and roll. That's right. That's exactly right and and chief shell if you were to Walk up to an intersection What would you do? I would stop and I would look both ways and check the signs That's exactly right and you know no one's born knowing either of those things right Those are learned behaviors that people teach us and collectively as a whole as a city of eight million people When we all know those rules And we follow them We are safer as individuals and we create safer roadways and safer streets And so this new campaign that tlc and the department of transportation Are running our our unveiling here today Aims to do just that is to arm the citizens of new york With a new learned behavior that ultimately will make them safer and individuals using our roadways safer as a whole So commissioner With that could you tell us a little bit about tlc and and the work you do in enforcement? And then we'll take a look at this video. Absolutely. Thank you coo mires And thank you for the opportunity to introduce taxi limousine commissions uniform services bureau or more commonly referred to as usp People are people also Are often surprised to hear that tlc has a law enforcement bureau So I truly appreciate this opportunity to give a brief overview of usp and what we've been up to usp is primarily made up of the safety and emissions division and the enforcement division We focus on cars and drivers The safety and emissions division Operates tlc's inspection facility where all tlc licensed vehicles such as taxi cabs and for higher vehicles the uber's and lifts Get inspected by dmv certified officers These vehicles must pass dmv safety and emissions requirements as well as additional tlc requirements before they may pick up passengers for hire to ensure that these vehicles are safe for the riding public Along with vehicle inspections Officers assigned to safety and emissions division inspect meter shops and the meters used in taxi cabs They review vehicle specifications to determine suitability for taxi cabs as well as wheelchair accessible vehicles Test and evaluate new vehicle technologies used in taxi cabs and for hire vehicles Just this past calendar year officers and safety and emissions conducted nearly 112,000 inspections to ensure rider safety I'm incredibly proud of the work that they do While officers within the safety and emissions division are inspecting vehicles for rider safety Officers within usb's enforcement division are enforcing tlc's rules and new york vehicle and traffic laws to protect riders and the public at large Officers within the enforcement division patrol the city 24 hours a day seven days a week Enforcing the city's vision zero initiative. They patrol taxi stands at high volume locations and conduct operations to combat against unlawful passenger refusals As well as refusals to engage the taxi meters Their enforcement act activities are not limited to tlc licensees. These are peace officers who also enforce the Law with respect to unlicensed for hire activity That is individuals who are not licensed by the tlc unlawfully transporting passengers for hire This is incredibly dangerous to the public Aside from not having a tlc licensed vehicle inspected by tlc or the appropriate insurance These drivers have not undergone a tlc background check And oftentimes do not have a valid driver's license at all During this calendar year officers have issued over 1600 summonses related to unlicensed for hire activity alone Sees the number of vehicles and made numerous arrests Along with their regular enforcement duties Officers within the enforcement division regularly conduct joint operations with nypd at high visibility corridors for vision zero enforcement The port authority police department at airports and major transportation hubs for illegal for hire activity As well as the sheriff's department Just earlier this week enforcement officers worked with the sheriff's department the tri borough Excuse me the tri borough bridge and tunnel authority and other city agencies for a successful checkpoint operation at the queen's midtown tunnel To catch persistent violators who use fake license plates or ghost plates to evade the law When they are not inspecting vehicles or patrolling the city in our airports Officers assist with the city with traffic control and manage taxi queues at large scale events such as the macy's fourth of july celebration The new year's eve celebration and the u.s. Open to name a few TLC officers are always ready and available when the support when the city needs them These efforts make a difference combined with our education policy prosecution and licensing units usb helps create an environment in which per miles driven tlc licensees are the safest drivers in the city To provide services and education to drivers in the public usb takes part in tlc's mobile outreach unit van halen A terrific program inspired by mayor adam's initiative to improve customer service Which allows tlc licensees to perform a variety of transactions that would otherwise require them To visit tlc's offices. You can stop by our next van halen event tomorrow at 130 avenue c Where we'll be there from 10 a.m. To 3 p.m. For the spring fling street fair with nypd and others I also want to mention our latest safety initiative to raise awareness of the deadly practice of dooring That is opening a car door without first checking to see if a bicyclist is approaching Partnering with the department of transportation and the mayor's office of media and entertainment We have created the do the new york twist campaign To raise awareness of how a simple little upper body twist to reach for the door handle with your far hand can save lives I'd like to take this opportunity to share this fun psa with you all and help get that message out The new york twist will save a life you twist one way to save your life Now twist again to save someone else's With your opposite hand reach towards the door twist your body to the window Look over your shoulder When it's clear open slowly and exit Again, this incredibly simple step can save lives and prevent unnecessary injuries. Thank you Thank you commissioner van halen and chubby checker. I don't think folks at home had any idea that the taxi and limousine commission was such a party That's great. That's a that's a really effective PSA and you know the message is very clear It doesn't take a lot to look over your left shoulder or your right shoulder Wherever the window is in the back of a vehicle and just check and see if there's a bicyclist coming down the road As you know, new york city has transformed dramatically over the last 10 and 15 years Devoting more space to bike lanes and encouraging folks to use Bikes and other modes of transportation outside of a traditional vehicle And as we make that transition we as a community as a society also have to make a transition in how we interact with that space And it doesn't take a lot. You just have to look over your shoulder and you could literally save someone's life Unfortunately pedestrian accidents do happen bicycle accidents do happen and they can be devastating Um, and it's all from just opening a door and if you just check before you do that You can literally save human lives right if this campaign catches on and people learn that behavior And everyone's doing this every day in new york city You will see a literal drop in the number of people who are injured severely or even lose their life Riding a bicycle here in this city So we're really urging folks at home to take this campaign seriously It's not a lot of effort take a look over your shoulder and save somebody's life So with that I'd like to kick this back over to Derek who can share some questions Thank you seeing as we have no hands raised in the chat We will go to the public question portion earlier this week The administration reached out to new yorkers asking them to submit questions for the officials that have joined us here today We will now get to as many of those as we can with the amount of time that we have left Our first question comes from stacey in brooklyn for the nypd and she asks How is the nypd working to stem the rash of automobile thefts and vandalism? So obviously we're we're using our technology much better Our plate reader cars our star chaser like we spoke about We also just added every priest in the city will will turn out extra autos with lpr readers to combat auto theft We're currently looking at our overall plan for autos in terms of investigations who's doing them where they're occurring Where are we recurring vehicles and we're building a better investigation apparatus for that? So like answer mentioned earlier our our stolen cars are up in the city and we're doing it We're trying to revamp what we're doing to combat that. So thank you stacey that question And do you see the future of star chase if the pilot goes well and the department opts to Um Leverage that technology or a similar type of technology. Do you see that having an impact long term in vehicle recoveries and stopping thefts like that? Absolutely, uh, first of all from this to crime prevention port of view if if the bad guy knows we have star chase out there Multiple cops have them multiple cars multiple boroughs. That's a game changer right there And the pilot program so far we're trying to use it and I think it will work well Because it'll allow us to recover autos Maybe grab the bad person doing this mitigate our risk to our committees to our cops doing chases and It's just the technology bringing us to a safer level to accomplish a task Our next question comes from graham in minhatten for commissioner melena. This is a two-parter Would commissioner melena discuss the changes to the duration of the academy training and the elimination of the college credit requirement Also Would he discuss the reasoning behind closing amkc and where doce will move the population? Sure. Um, graham. Thank you for your question. So the first question on the academy training I think first since poor for the public to understand that the minimum standards Are determined by new york state department of criminal justice services What are the minimum training hours needed in order to certify an individual to be a correction officer with peace officer standards um law enforcement powers and that standard is six weeks Our academy did an audit. Um, we brought in a deputy commissioner training and development who has over 30 years experience Not only managing law enforcement academy and instruction, but also in academia In addition to his assistant commissioner, um brings decades of experience in academia and law enforcement as well And when we did an order about academy Well, we determined was that it required us which is still double the amount of time that is required by the state Which is 12 weeks to do in-house academic academy training in order to prepare our correction officers properly To exceed the standards required by the state But in addition to that 12 weeks of academy training In addition, we give eight weeks of intense field training With senior field training officers that can be able to guide our new graduated recruits Working in our facilities. So when you think about the training of our correction officers We have pretty intense very involved skill development Training in our correction academy as well as our field training for a totality of 20 weeks of training Before someone is is released and still on probation to evaluate that training after they've graduated um, your second question regarding amkc Amkc is one of our our largest facility currently that's operating We have just under a just over 2000 persons in custody in amkc And amkc had similar in a like problems to rndc Where we had a number of locking mechanism challenges at that facility Now we had intended to replace all the doors in amkc But given the priority to make sure that we have cells that are optimal not only to keep people in custody safe But also the our uniform and non-uniform staff that work in amkc safe What we thought was a better action An immediacy to solve that issue was to reopen obcc Now currently obcc is not open But because there's nobody housed in obcc What that does is allow us to do minor infrastructure improvements within obcc For example, installing air conditioning Improving windows painting and other sort of things that we need to to get obcc functional We will be moving a majority of the persons in custody's out of amkc And into obcc and into other more functional facilities so that amkc can close down It is it is just outlive this shelf life to be a functional facility at this time Thank you Next question comes from jaleel in Manhattan for the tlc He asks how does the tlc work to improve the health and safety of taxi drivers? That's a great question. Thank you for that The health and safety of taxi drivers and all tlc licensees are a top priority for for the agency We've designated a specific unit to handle that the driver protection unit They provide assistance and guidance and as well as Direct licensees to resources that are made available throughout the city such as mental health consultation law and legal consultation Crime victim assistance and and many others I highly recommend you visit the The driver resources page on the tlc's website for more information about that Thank you Our next question comes from Vanessa in brooklyn Who asks what are you doing to alleviate the homeless issue on new york city subways? I'll pose this to coo meyers and possibly the nypd for follow-up. Yeah I'll have a chief shell join us, but um, you know I think well, I know that eric adams the mayor eric adams has made Our subways and the safety of our subway systems and the cleanliness of our subway systems a top priority of the administration He made that very clear in january when he took office last year And his actions and the actions of his administration Have underscored that commitment each step of the way over the last 16 months You know public safety is a lot of things as I mentioned before it's not it's not just police or fire it's A 21st century model of public safety looks at the city's entire resources and figures out different ways that we can deploy those resources to address the public safety challenges of our time and as our city has has grown and evolved and changed and what all of Its residents expectations are has grown and changed We as a government have to grow and change how we deploy those resources and how we address those problems And so the mayor took a very holistic approach to dealing with homelessness in the city that had really gotten out of control during previous administration and We did so by building together teams public safety teams that are made up of more than just traditional public safety agencies So our homeless outreach plan wasn't just ran out of or a homeless subway safety plan wasn't just ran out of public safety It was a cross portfolio plan that involved the deputy mayor for health and human services social services department of homeless services clinicians wraparound services from nonprofits organizations that provide Positionary housing job placement and of course mental health services and many other services that folks suffering from homelessness need and The mayor put these teams together and sent them out into the subway system Over the last year and a half every single night a team of nurses and clinicians And the nypd is there as well But instead of being the front the nypd is the secondary or tertiary They're there to provide security to the clinicians and the social workers who are down there working with these folks Trying to connect them with the services they need and we have done Literally hundreds over a hundred thousand interactions with homeless folks here in the city in the last year and a half placing thousands of them into housing and Connecting them with other services that they need to help address the challenges that they're facing in that moment and so it's a constant effort that is You'll see the results and we are seeing those results over time because every night these teams go out and they connect with 10 folks 20 folks 50 folks 100 folks night after night after night That number continues to grow and we get more folks into the services they need and that number in the subway system dwindles Chief director and and On the street our homeless task force Is a interagency task force with compassion to to help remove street encampments We go out 24 hours a day on each one of our shifts what our interagency partners. We identify encampments Uh, we give them an opportunity to move to other locations placements I would mental health services homeless services and this this year alone in the last year 13 months We've 6 000 homeless encampments we visited and we cleaned or placed All of the homeless so it's a compassionate approach. It's an interagency approach And we think we're seeing a difference and we will continue to do so Our next question comes from brian and brooklyn for the department of correction What is being i'm concerned about what i have read what is being done to prevent drugs from getting into jails Thank you brian for your question. So we've undertaken a number of strategies to mitigate drugs for coming into the jail One is we have increased our interdiction of mail A significant number of drugs are interdicted coming into the mail We have trained our canine dogs to be able to detect fentanyl Even if it's not mixed with another compound like cocaine or heroin or marijuana or even tobacco at times And what we've seen is uh in 2022 was about a 26 success rate in interdiction of drugs coming into the mail In addition to that we had increased tactical search operations and facility-led search operations in our facilities And that not only did we remove and recover over 5 000 contraband weapons from the facility But over 1300 contraband narcotics or narcotics paraphernalia from inside the facilities We've seen an increase in the arrest of visitors Bringing in contraband narcotics into the facilities and we work with the da's office to prosecute those individuals That attempt to do that and we arrest those individuals in addition to deploying body scanning Initially at our robert endaverant center has body scanning for all persons that are entering the facility And if an anomaly is detected then that person is sent for secondary screening To ensure that contraband narcotics or any other type of contraband is not coming in So it's not any one strategy that we employ to mitigate against narcotics coming into the facilities It's a number of different strategies so that we can lessen dangerous narcotics and other contraband narcotics from coming into the facility Thank you our final question comes from kelly in brooklyn In what ways can nypd work more closely with new york city parks enforcement to ensure public safety in parks property? Great question So upcoming once a year for the summer months. We have our uh, a big meeting with all the park supervisors citywide And just starting next starting monday Our youth courting courting officers our y shows as we call them Are transitioning to a later tour where they can do two things They can still focus on school dismissal and when the school dismissal is safely done They will transition to local parks where we might have issues or parks that need supervision So great question Uh timing is perfect and this is what we're doing with parks That's just some of the things we do parks, but that's that'll be the main focus starting on monday On behalf of the adams administration. I would like to thank everyone for tuning in to today's briefing We look forward to seeing you all at our next one. Have a great day


Hello welcome back on my YouTube channel. In this video we're going to calculate areas and densities. I'm going to calculate the percentage of area covered by buildings per neighborhood in Rotterdam. So I have a layer with building footprints and I have a layer with the neighborhood polygons. We're going to do the following steps. We're going to calculate first the areas of the neighborhood polygons. Then we add the neighborhood names and areas to the buildings polygons. Then we're going to dissolve the buildings that are from the same neighborhoods. Then we calculate the areas of the dissolved building footprints. And then we divide the area of dissolved building polygons by the area of the neighborhoods. Let's start with calculating the areas of the neighborhoods. Go to the attribute table. There click the field calculator icon. There we create a new field. Let's call the output field area square meter. And the output field type is a decimal number real. Then you can find under geometry the area function that is used to calculate areas of polygons. Double click to add it to the expression. Click OK. And there we have all the areas of the neighborhoods. Talk about the editing and confirm that you want to save the result. Now I would like to join the area attribute of the neighborhood polygons to the building polygon attribute table. However, these attribute tables don't have a common key field, so I need to do a spatial join instead of a normal join. So I will use the join attributes by location tool. Join features in buildings that intersect with the neighborhoods. Under fields to add, click the three dots. And we only need here bird now, which is the name of the neighborhood. We will need that later. And the area square meters. And the join type should be a one to many join. So each building gets the name of the neighborhood and the surface area that we keep the original buildings. Save the result to a jail package and call it buildings with neighborhoods. Click run. Click close after processing. Let's have a look at the attribute table and check the results. There we see that the buetnam, so the neighborhood name and the areas are added to each building polygon. The next step is to dissolve all the building polygons based on the neighborhood name, or buetnam. Go to the vector menu, choose geoprocessing tools and click on dissolve. For input layer, choose buildings with neighborhoods. For the dissolve field, choose buetnam. All the features with the same neighborhood name will then be dissolved into one feature. Save the output to the geopackage and give it the name buildings dissolved. Click run and click close after processing. Now let's visually check the result. Go to the layer styling panel and there choose categorized and there choose the attribute buetnam and then click classify. Now all the buildings that belong to the same neighborhood have the same color. So now we can calculate the area of buildings per neighborhood. So go to the field calculator and create a new field building area square meters. Use decimal number real for the output field type. There use the dollar area function again. So now all the building area polygons belonging to one neighborhood are used to calculate areas. So each feature here is all the buildings in one neighborhood and we have here the area in square meters. And in the same way we can now calculate the percentage of building area per neighborhood. So let's create a new output field called building percentage, which is also a decimal number or real. Create the expression by using the buildings area divided by the area. So buildings area is the total area of buildings per neighborhood and area is the area of the neighborhood. Let's create percentages. So I'm going to put brackets around it and multiply with 100 and there in the preview we can see that this will result in a percentage. Click okay to apply this and there we see the building percentage per neighborhood. So if I sort it I can find which neighborhood has the largest percentage of building cover. And that is this neighborhood and that is this neighborhood. You can see that it's still in editing mode. So it's nicer to toggle this off and save the edits. And that's a proven years like and probably it's the largest cover because it contains the roof of a huge station. I'll close the attribute table because it's much nicer to use the neighborhoods for visualizing the building densities. I'm going to create a join. Click right on neighborhoods and click on properties then in the layer properties go to the joints tab. Choose buildings dissolved as the join layer. And as a join field use the field that both layers have in common which is the buetnam the neighborhood name. So choose that as the join field and the target field. Then under joint fields we are not interested to join all the fields but only the building percentage. And under custom field name prefix remove what's there because we can just use the attribute name of building percentage there. Check this and then click okay. Then open the attribute table and if you scroll all the way to the right you can find there the building percentage added to the attribute table of the neighborhoods. Now let's use this attribute for styling the neighborhoods polygons. Remove the selection. Let's hide the other layers. Change single symbol to graduate it and we're going to use a ramp. Make sure to choose building percentage as the attribute and because I now still have the outlines I need to change it from simple line to simple fill and I don't like yellow there so you can make it white or black. We use white here and now we can change also the mode and the amount of classes. Let's use here natural breaks, janks, it's five classes. It gives us a bit of an overview of the different densities in Rotterdam for different neighborhoods. So to make it easier to interpret I'm going to add the labels and I use here single labels. Make sure to use as the field the buurtnam, the neighborhood name and I'm adding a space here on wrap on characters. So labels with multiple words will be split over several lines and here you see the distribution of densities in Rotterdam. We can also visualize the result in a bar graph using a data plot leak plugin. You can install the plugin from the plugins manager. In this case it's already installed. Click the data plot leak icon in the toolbar and make some space for the data plot leak panel. Choose bar plot. Make sure you choose as layer the neighborhoods and for x field buurtnam the neighborhood name and for the y field the building percentage. You can change other settings here but I'm going to keep it as default and go to the settings tab and here I just change the x label to neighborhood and change the y label to percentage of building area. Click create plot to check the result and if you enlarge the panel it will scale and now we can clearly see which neighborhoods have the highest percentages of building surfaces. So I hope this was a useful video. Please subscribe to my youtube channel if you're interested in more updates or become a member of my youtube channel to get personal support.


It's good to be here this morning with Dr. Tam and Dr. New, as well as Minister Leblanc, who's joining us virtually. I want to start this morning by addressing the unacceptable threats that were sent to a Toronto mouth, mosque, over the weekend.  We must always stand united against hate or intolerance of any kind. I also want to come back to the drama that came to Wendake at the end of the week. My thoughts are with the young victims of this terrible drama and with the people of the Wendake community. We must make all the light on what happened. These young children had life in front of them, and we are all overwhelmed by the situation. We are experiencing unusual circumstances. The end of the week of the Grace Act has just come to an end, and many have not been able to get together with their loved ones as they wish. But despite the difficulties caused by this global crisis, Canadians are more united than ever. In the spring, we have flattened the curve by doing our part. This autumn, I know we can do the same thing. By continuing to download the free COVID alert application, as we have already done 4.3 million people, by wearing our masks and keeping our distance, we will flatten the curve again and through this pandemic. And while you double your efforts to help your loved ones and your community, you can count on your government. It will always be there on your side. With rising COVID-19 cases, quick and accurate testing deployed with the right strategy has become more important than ever. That's why our government has been working around the clock with the provinces and territories to boost their testing capacity, while at the same time securing the world's best rapid testing technology. These efforts are paying off. As Minister Anand announced, Canada recently secured up to 28.4 million rapid tests from Abbott. And on that front in particular, we're continuing to move forward. Shortly, the federal government will be sending these new rapid tests, Abbott PanBio and Abbott ID Now, to the provinces and territories. Both of these new testing technologies are quick and reliable, so we're getting them out to the front lines as soon as possible. Our government is also continuing to provide surge support on processing tests, including for Ontario. And for the First Nations communities of Casabonica and Pecanjicum, national microbiology lab employees are on the ground with testing kits. It is vital that these communities, with cases of COVID-19, have the necessary testing capacity to control the spread of the virus and keep people safe. From day one, we've worked with the provinces and territories to protect the most vulnerable. Moving forward, that's what we will continue to do. Soon, more Canadian Red Cross support will be deployed to a number of long-term care facilities. Seniors must be safe and well cared for, and our government stands ready to help provincial counterparts in that work. This is a point I will continue to make with the premiers at our 20th First Ministers' Meeting this coming Thursday. Our government is working tirelessly to buy rapid testing tests, distribute them to provinces and territories, and ensure emergency support in communities for treatment of the results. As for the vaccines, progress is also moving forward. At the end of last week, Health Canada received an authorization request for the Pfizer and BioNTech vaccine candidate. As for AstraZeneca's request, there are two weeks ahead, it is another step forward for a safe and effective vaccine for Canadians. And on this subject, I would also like to remind everyone to get vaccinated against flu, this autumn. It is a good way to protect yourselves, while helping hospitals and clinics to focus on the fight against COVID-19 without getting distracted by the flu. Our top priority is keeping you and your family healthy and safe. That means protecting you from this virus. That also means ensuring you have the support you need to weather this storm. Yesterday, applications opened for the new Canada Recovery Benefit. The CRB provides $500 each week for up to 26 weeks for people who are self-employed or don't qualify for employment insurance. Since yesterday, over 240,000 applications have been received. If you need this help but haven't applied yet, go to CRA's My Account through Canada.ca or call 1-800-959-2019 or 1-800-959-2041. The application process is simple. In fact, if you've used the CERB, you'll find it very similar. Our government will continue to do everything we can to support people through this crisis, whatever it takes, as long as it takes. If you get COVID-19 and aren't covered at work, the Canada Recovery Sickness Benefit is there for you. If a family member gets sick and you need to care for them, look to the Canada Recovery Caregiving Benefit. If you're affected by COVID-19, we've strengthened employment insurance to be there for you, and if you can't access EI, the Canada Recovery Benefit is able to help. And for business owners, there's more support too. This crisis has been very difficult for businesses across the country, so we've strengthened major programs that we created that have been a lifeline for them. On Friday, we outlined the new Canada Emergency Rent Subsidy, an expanded Canada Emergency Business Account, and the extension of the Wage Subsidy. The new rent subsidy will provide support to businesses directly, not through landlords, and the SEBA includes an additional $10,000 forgivable loan for those who need it. We'll also work to help businesses that temporarily shut down because of local public health directions. Canadian businesses create jobs and drive our economy, and we will continue to be there for them every step of the way. Many people are back at work, but several are still affected by the crisis. So we've strengthened employment insurance to support you. Since yesterday, autonomous workers and those who are not eligible for employment insurance can ask for the new Canada Emergency Rent Subsidy. This loan is $500 a week for a maximum of 26 weeks. If you need it, but you haven't asked for it yet, visit my account on the Canada Revenue Agency, through the Canada.ca website, or call 1-800-959-2019 or 1-800-959-2041. The demand process is simple. In fact, if you have asked for the PCU by the past, you will see that the way you proceed is essentially the same. If you contract COVID-19 and are not open to work, also a member of the family is ill and you have to take care of it, there is also the Canada Emergency Rent Subsidy for economic recovery and the Canada Emergency Rent Subsidy for next year, which can help you. We also offer, of course, more support to business owners. Last Friday, we presented large-scale measures for rent, wages and interest-free loans, as well as targeted measures for businesses affected by local health authorities. Canadian businesses create jobs and stimulate our economy, and they can count on us. We're all waiting for the moment when this pandemic is finally over, for the time when we can once again have a big family dinner, go to a crowded festival, or just have life returned to normal. Those days will be back, but only if we all keep doing our part. The numbers are still rising. This is the time to double down on our efforts to stop the spread. Our loved ones, our vulnerable family members, our frontline workers, they're counting on us to do the right thing. So follow public health guidelines and wear a mask. Keep your distance and join the over 4.3 million Canadians who've already downloaded the free COVID Alert app. Together, we will get through this.