There hasnt been that collaboration. Potentially, the thing is that there is a strong overlap, between 13,000 people they serve and our 7,000 and its so important that we make that connection and we incentivize working together. It not about working in silence anymore. These are challenging conversations where we are challenging the sector, nonprofit, School District and city departments and we want to engage in a positive way to really ensure that we are doing the best by our constituents. Thank you. Thank you and congratulations again on 40 years serving our city. I hope you are coming. I dont think commissioner mendoza is going to be able to make it. Before i turn it over to policy, maybe i will discuss briefly what louis skipped over is the promise zones. Thats what we are working on with various city agencies and commissioner mendoza and others to develop this proposal that is really about integrating federal funds both from the department of education, from hud, from doj, you mak
Staying true to the vision many also just knowing and effectively engage wg our students and clients and families. I think we were impressed in visiting the harlem childrens zone, no matter how you enter the childrens zone, whether it an after School Program or social work service or you join one of their charter schools, once you are in, there is a stickiness, there is an embrace, we are going followup with you, we are not going to let you get away. Weve captured you and you are part of us now maybe there are some procedures and more importantly we get to know who you are and we make sure that you are successful. By linking our School Districts we have more boot on the ground to develop that embrace and to make sure we are making it through the system. We are looking at challenges of Research Base of allocating funding and working how to work more effectively. We just want to bring some of those details and ideas and any questions you may have we are welcome to it. Are there any quest
Think all members are learning to under and work across organizational cultures, expertiseings policies and practices. We all do things somewhat differently and have policy regulatory guidelines and different compliance issues as well as aspirational issues at times and those are important for us to learn how to blend. Thats the human sides and the developing of contract and mous. These are legal things and developing accountability. Sharing data which was raised earlier. Identifying meaningful indicators and our prep for this meeting, someone was telling us what you are interested and one is do we have the most ul indicators for everything in the city, do we have the full meaningful set of indicators and that we can connect directly to Health Services whether their city, cbo and schools touch the lifes of the children and family and showing compliance at the same time staying true to the vision many also just knowing and effectively engage wg our students and clients and families. I t
To develop this proposal that is really about integrating federal funds both from the department of education, from hud, from doj, you make the it. They are all working in the same way that we are trying to collaborate on the ground, they are trying to do the same thing at the federal agencies level in these communities that are in high poverty. So they will be working on improving Affordable Housing and improving educational opportunities. Part of the it is like working on the ground with organizations to cut the red tape to facilities working with federal programs. Actually on the ground, supervisor in those communities to navigate both the regulatory and bureaucratic barriers and access to fund. It a designation and not tied to any specific money. But you will receive a designation as a promised zone which gives you some benefits and future application. They are going to designate over the communities in those 4 years and there will be about 5. This will be tax incentives to build i