COMMUNITY BOARD SIX
YOUTH/HUMAN SERVICES/EDUCATION COMMITTEE
JANUARY 25, 2012
PRESENT:
P. BELLENBAUM J. BERNARD R. CERVONE
E. FELDER A. FORNECKER M. KOLMAN
M. SCOTT D. SCOTTO S. SHIFFMAN
B. SOLOTAIRE S. TURET
EXCUSED:
E. CHAN E. GOTTLIEB L. HILL
ABSENT:
M. RUIZ T. VAZQUEZ D.C. VITO
T. WILSON
*** MINUTES ***
Strategy session to consider and discuss future topics for committee agendas.
Committee chair, Ben Solotaire raised food issues – what can we do to bring awareness regarding food access issues? For example: • A survey of information on food pantries, etc. • Greenmarket program? • Is there a need? • Is education/outreach also needed – not just access to healthy food?
Look at old meeting minutes to see if we may have gotten presentations on these issues. Brad Lander and Steve Levin should have information we can distribute.
Where is the need? Where are the programs? The Coalition Against Hunger is a food bank that could be a good resource.
GUESTS/CALENDAR
- District Superintendent presentation in March on core curriculum - State legislators regarding revisions to education laws. - Human Rights Commission - Regarding core curriculum: should we bring in community PTA- need to get information to parents - We need information about how much information is getting to parents. - School leadership teams and teachers are setting the information - Wednesday, March 28 – invite PTA/parents – will need bigger room - Ask CEC to send notice for us – Jim Devore, President of CEC would be a good guest - Three turnaround schools in our district – Tom Tericko should be a guest – talk about plans before they make decisions. - Park Slope Armory Women’s Shelter
- Red Hook Initiative – What services do they provide? What impact has Ikea had? - the Red Hook Justice Center – Could be a Red Hook night – let’s try to do Red Hook on February 22nd. We will let Craig Hammerman know we are asking to schedule Red Hook.
Should we try to advertise our speakers and get a bigger room? Ask the District Manager to send notice to local papers/patch regarding board meetings with speakers.
Need for more pre-school reading programs.
Find fair issues with spoiled food and cleanliness
Fairway – what does it do with leftovers – they give some away.
Occupy Red Hook – guest for Red Hook night to identify problems/trends.
Brad Lander/Steve Levin can tell us what problems they are hearing – could schedule them for May or earlier? Steve – we want to find out what the City Council Committee on Education is doing so we can weigh in school construction authority.
April – homelessness
Merge with CEC? Discuss space and needs, possibly with Terecko. The next CEC working session is Tuesday, February 7th at 6:30pm. The next general CEC meeting is Wednesday, February 15 at 6:00pm. . Ask Craig Hammerman whether he has invited Terecko.
There being no further business to come before the committee, Mark Kolman moved to adjourn.