Q&A
Q&A on establishing bimonthly meetings for ECE issues
5:22:59
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90 sec
Council Member Adams proposes regular meetings to address Early Childhood Education (ECE) operational issues, and Director Jiha responds to this request.
- Adams asks for a commitment to formal bimonthly meetings between the council, city hall, DOE, and OMB to solve ECE issues.
- Jiha agrees to facilitate such meetings but notes he needs to discuss it with the chancellor first.
- The administration expresses willingness to work with the council, recognizing the importance of stakeholder input.
- Jiha ultimately commits to facilitating the proposed bimonthly meetings.
Adrienne E. Adams
5:22:59
What I'd like, director, is for a greater willingness to work with the council in addressing the operational issues we've had with early childhood education.
5:23:10
It's been an issue.
5:23:12
Will the administration commit to a formal bimonthly meeting between the council, city hall, DOE, and OMB so that we can all work together to solve some of these issues?
Jacques Jiha
5:23:27
I, will try definitely to facilitate, this kind of meeting with, all parties involved, but I will have to discuss with the chancellor to, get, you know, feedback from him as well.
5:23:41
But we're committed to work with you because it is a very critical program and we to the extent that we got input from all the stakeholders, we are all better off.
Adrienne E. Adams
5:23:50
We think it's really important to do this, if we convene a bimonthly working group meeting between us and the administration with the shared goal of solving the vast administrative and operational issues in the ECE system.
5:24:04
And if we add more investments extended seats and working with our providers, we really should be able to fill these vacancies.
5:24:09
I I really don't want our families to be in this position, and I don't want this to be an outstanding budget exercise come November.
5:24:22
We don't need a repeat performance.
Jacques Jiha
5:24:25
We are happy to facilitate, this meeting, this month, this bimonthly meeting.
