Public Enrichment Fund and we have a report from one of the committees. Yes we have a report from the bilingual Community Council and bcc and they will be presenting and kim garcia misa. All right. Welcome to the members of the bilingual Community Council. You may start when ready. Good evening president norton and honorable commissioners and superintendent carranza and welcome to our new commissioner matt haney. I have to say i really appreciate the fact that you hold these meetings and hear this very emotional kind of presentations. It totally drained me. My name is darlene inaya and i my colleagues are here to report on successes and the questions and the concerns of the bilingual Community Council, and we are your appointees and we want to thank you for having us here. We will begin by expressing our appreciation to all of those who help us in our work on behalf of the over 15,000 english language learners in our district, and we did provide you with some written data which i will
All right. Welcome to the members of the bilingual community council. You may start when ready. Good evening president norton and honorable commissioners and superintendent carranza and welcome to our new commissioner matt haney. I have to say i really appreciate the fact that you hold these meetings and hear this very emotional kind of presentations. It totally drained me. My name is darlene inaya and i my colleagues are here to report on successes and the questions and the concerns of the bilingual community council, and we are your appointees and we want to thank you for having us here. We will begin by expressing our appreciation to all of those who help us in our work on behalf of the over 15,000 english language learners in our district, and we did provide you with some written data which i will be loosely following in my beginning here. Were very grateful to our english language students and our representatives who continue to attend our bcc meetings and they voice their concern
To garner attention to them, and to make remedies. Were thankful for our translators who attend every meeting that we have, both spanish and can tonenies and some of the things that we were able to [inaudible] strict and with the help of our Kristina Wong and Jennifer Fong, the two people we work most closely with. We have a English Learner Program guide and we didnt have this before and its also translated into english into spanish and conton easy and serves as a guide to our english learner family who is find coming to epc and to the district very intimidating and very confusing. We work with the ioc and the mpd, the multilink welpath ways and they have given us a great deal of support, and we have they do come as guests to our meetings and we learn a great deal from them, and especially epc because thats [inaudible]. Thats an area where english language learners dont quite know what to do especially if they dont know the language and go to epc to try to get their child registered in
Okay. I think were going to close Public Comment now. Im going to call for a five minute recess. Lets clear the room and we will start the meeting again in five minutes. recess . Okay. Im going to call the meeting back into order. Public Enrichment Fund and we have a report from one of the committees. Yes we have a report from the bilingual Community Council and bcc and they will be presenting and kim garcia misa. All right. Welcome to the members of the bilingual Community Council. You may start when ready. Good evening president norton and honorable commissioners and superintendent carranza and welcome to our new commissioner matt haney. I have to say i really appreciate the fact that you hold these meetings and hear this very emotional kind of presentations. It totally drained me. My name is darlene inaya and i my colleagues are here to report on successes and the questions and the concerns of the bilingual Community Council, and we are your appointees and we want to thank you for h
Of the over 15,000 english language learners in our district, and we did provide you with some written data which i will be loosely following in my beginning here. Were very grateful to our english language students and our representatives who continue to attend our bcc meetings and they voice their concerns to us and were able to bring these issues forward, and to garner attention to them, and to make remedies. Were thankful for our translators who attend every meeting that we have, both spanish and can tonenies and some of the things that we were able to [inaudible] strict and with the help of our Kristina Wong and Jennifer Fong, the two people we work most closely with. We have a English Learner Program guide and we didnt have this before and its also translated into english into spanish and conton easy and serves as a guide to our english learner family who is find coming to epc and to the district very intimidating and very confusing. We work with the ioc and the mpd, the multilin