MINUTES

Advisory Council Meeting, BPSS-NYC, 116 West 32nd Street, New York, New York

April 9, 2002

The following members were present: Anthony Stanziani, Mike Hatten, James Devaney, Art Resso, Vincent Ferrara, Yerachmiel Barash, Cindi Frieder (OSC), James Dees (CPB), Howard Goldsmith (SED).

Absent: Wayne Wagner, Arlene Pedone, Denis Peterson (DOL), Vel Pillai (DOB), John Austin (HESC)

Call to order at 10:40 am.

  1. Introductions and welcome by Anthony Stanziani. Review of the scheduled agenda.

  2. Motion to approve the meeting minutes from the February 26, 2002 minutes. Art Resso, seconded by Vincent Ferrara.

  3. Old Business –

    1. WIA and Invest programs with DOL. Monica Borden of BPSS is continuing her joint efforts with DOL to issue memo to local WIA boards on the importance of school licenses to approved training providers.

    2. Dave Brieff of PBSS to arrange meetings with guidance counselors at NYC high schools. Mike Hatten requests that we secure a list of "codes" used by the NYC Board of Education to ensure that students who attend licensed proprietary schools are not coded as "failures."

    3. Thank you letter from the AC to former OHE Deputy Commissioner Gerald Patton. Motion by Rabbi Barash, seconded by Jim Devaney. Passed by the Council.

    4. The new Deputy Commissioner for OHE, Johanna Duncan-Poitier, would like to attend the next AC meeting. Howard Goldsmith will contact her office and try to coordinate a mutual date.
  4. Vincent Ferrara updated the AC on the Benchmarking form. Vincent would like 2 or 3 schools from each cluster to complete the forms as a pilot program. Schools in the audience that volunteered include: Seaview Institute, Drake, Chubb. Vincent will report back at the next meeting.

  5. Arlene Pedone was not present to report out on the Report to the Legislature. Anthony Stanziani will contact Arlene and follow-up by the next AC meeting.

  6. Dave Sherwood of BPSS provides a summary of the changes on the latest version of the Part 126 regulatory amendments.

    7. -Anthony Stanziani discusses changes to the GTR amounts needed to trigger an audited statement. Statutory amendments would be needed.

    -Mike Hatten proposes deleting the word "cumulative" for the attendance requirement of Section 126.4(e) of the Commissioner’s Regulations.

    -The AC would like to approve the next draft as the final draft to be forwarded to the Regents for review. A vote will be taken at the next meeting.

  7. Next meeting, Thursday, May 23, 2002 at the Education Building, Albany, New York.

Meeting adjourned at 12:40 p.m.