This is important because people are dying from the out of control spreading of Covid-19 and there is no plan to recover set in place.

The reasons for requesting this reversal are as follows: 1. This policy places an unnecessary burden on working parents during an already stressful situation due to the pandemic. For the HACA programs: Many working parents chose HACA for a variety of reasons, but a majority chose to do so due to health concerns for their children and family members. Working parents have rearranged their lives and work schedule in order to make sure their children succeed in the HACA program. And, many chose the HACA program over others in order to keep their tax dollars in the district. For all online education: To change this policy now, only 9 weeks into the year, may force parents to choose between their jobs and their children’s education/health or to move their children to an asynchronous cyber program outside of the district. 2. For HACA Program: The decision to change this policy should not have been made AFTER parents were required to commit to another 9 week term of the HACA cyber program. 3. I would direct you to the Intercultural Development Research Program’s guidelines for equitable teaching in an online environment: https://www.idra.org/services/ensuring-equity-in-online-learning-considerations-in-response-to-covid-19s-impact-on-schooling/. A lot of research has emphasized that asynchronous online teaching is the best practice for maintaining equity, because the requirement of synchronous learning widens the gap for students who do not have easy access to the internet or whose parents’ work situation requires flexibility. 4. The Department of Education lists the completion of work by the following day as a way to record attendance. In fact, they define attendance in the following terms: “students' physical exposure to or contact with learning activities.” Completion of work the following day meets this standard as outlined in Table 2: Sample decision matrix for remote learning days. For this information, see the DOE website on attendance: https://www.education.pa.gov/Schools/safeschools/emergencyplanning/COVID-19/SchoolReopeningGuidance/ReopeningPreKto12/CreatingEquitableSchoolSystems/FocusEffectiveInstruction/Assessment/Pages/Attendance.aspx. 5. For HACA Elementary: There is NO asynchronous option for elementary cyber education as there is at the secondary level. Without this option, it is unethical to require students to attend live, synchronous classes. It is for these reasons that we request the reversal of the attendance policy. We only ask that the district act in a fair and equitable manner that does not put undue stress on working families as well as those without consistent technological access. The district has repeatedly respected the needs of parents in the school district by opening brick and mortar elementary schools for 5 days a week and voting to keep schools open despite the recommendation by the Department of Health. We ask that Superintendent Wolicki and the HASD School Board do the same for cyber parents, respecting the unique needs and challenges for those enrolled in the HACA program. In addition, at the secondary level, students must follow the flex A/B schedule which requires student attendance online without considering the adjustment families must make to accommodate this hybrid format. The reversal of this new attendance policy will be the best way for parents, especially working parents, to help their children succeed in an online schooling environment.

The Climate Justice Committee calls on Biden to turn back Trump's Executive Orders that exacerbate climate change and environmental damage to the world. We call on Biden to sign Executive Orders overturning the damage done by Trump. These are by no means the only Executive Orders that need to go, but this would be a good start for Biden to show the climate justice movement that he takes climate change seriously. To do so requires nothing more than the signing of his pen, which is all it took for Trump to enact them in the first place. We know that is a drop in the bucket for what needs to be done to fight climate change and environmental destruction, so we hope you join the Climate Justice Committee in demanding these Executive Orders are rolled back, and also for real and meaningful action to save our planet. If you would like to co-sponsor this, please do so here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1qk0h4W7FWcu9H_HUFMCLVAaLQRDncWxCXbNpmxMOmyY/edit

Mr. Trump is a threat and imminent danger and threat to the U.S.A. His erratic decisions, tweets, and actions are dividing the country and leaving it open to a variety of international attacks as his decision to fire leaders and threaten elected officials, commending the actions of white supremacy to enact domestic terrorism against our elected officials- is more than enough cause for action. We the people request that Mr. Donald J. Trump, be removed from the White House and not be allowed to serve out his remaining days of his term. Additionally, we request he be taken off of Twitter and arrested for all of his crimes both before and during his presidency. We also ask that he be held accountable for all of the deaths of over 200k Americans.

We have all been experiencing limited exercise and social options due to the COVID-19. By not having lights at the elysian park basketball court it eliminates yet another opportunity of getting daily exercise and socializing. Hoboken loves basketball and almost every other court in the city has lights. With daylight savings darkness falls at 4:30 everyday. Putting lights in would make Hoboken more welcoming and allow many people to enjoy their daily life a little more. We see the benefits at Church Square Park where the courts have lights and residents of all ages benefit. Overall the choice to put lights in Elysian Park basketball courts would be a benefit to the residents of Hoboken at a time when we need it most.

Our children thrive on social interaction and learning from their peers. Dr. Fauci has said himself on numerous times it is more detrimental to our children to be out of school. In the best interest of our kids mental health and education we need to keep our kids in school as much as possible.

The Covid-19 pandemic has been a time of extreme duress for most people. Transportation shutdown for months and is still not back to full service. People have lost their jobs, lost loved ones, and suffered breakdowns in physical and mental health.

The City of Kingston and Ulster County need real living wage jobs. We see development after development granted pilots and tax breaks while offering low age retail and service industry jobs. The people who work in the businesses in our tourism driven area do not pay the ever increasingly high rents while they struggle to afford healthcare, pay students loans, keep up on car payments and other bills.

Workforce housing in Kingston needs to stay where the work is, in the heart of the City of Kingston because the working class is the heart of the City of Kingston. They need to stay where they are.

We have seen an abuse of power through a partnership of state, county and city police departments, at the behest of Mayor Steven Noble, blatantly violating the constitutional rights of Kingston residents through intimidation and illegal stop and frisk tactics. County and State police have been witnessed riding the same police cars. Individuals and families have suffered abuse, re-traumatization and humiliation at the hands of these police departments through illegal searches of cars after stops for minor issues such as broken tail lights and other minor offenses that do not warrant a search.

700 Iraqi’s were killed since October 25th, 2019 Innocent lives being killed in Iraq when the message to the Iraq Government is Peaceful. Iraq needs our help ASAP

For all rapes reported to police, only 34.5% are cleared by arrest, and even fewer actually lead to convictions. This is an alarming number given the fact that approximately 20% of women in the U.S. have experienced an attempted, or completed rape in her lifetime. According to aggregate data, for every 1,000 rapes, nearly 38.4% are reported to police, and only 7 result in a felony conviction. Given the disparity between the occurrence of rape, and the number of rape cases that result in conviction, it is apparent the system is inadequate at providing justice for victims. While the numbers are vague, experts estimate 200,000, or more rape kits are lying, unsubmitted in police departments all over the U.S. According to the Maryland Sexual Assault Evidency Policy and Funding Committee, there are 6,000 untested kits in Maryland. Not only does this impede the justice system’s ability to prosecute offenders, but it leaves victims tragically unvindicated. By these rape kits going untested, rapists remain free and justice is not sought out. Legislation will allow for offenders, especially serial rapists, to be arrested and convicted, giving survivors the justice they deserve. With this legislation in place, Maryland will be able to do our part in ending the backlog of rape kits. For too long, the voices of the raped and assaulted have been silenced by being relegated to the back of an evidence room.