HomeMy WebLinkAboutYouth Advisory Board - Minutes - 03/04/2020BOARD NAME
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YOUTH ADVISORY BOARD
REGULAR MEETING
Wednesday, March 4th, 2020
Fort Collins Street Operations
625 9th St, Fort Collins, Co 80524
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1. CALL TO ORDER
The meeting was called to order at 6:20 pm, following a tour of the City of Fort
Collins Street Operations building.
2. ROLL CALL
a. Xinyu Wu, Suhaas Narayanan, Doha Shahba, Louise Holland, Rahul Ghosh, Dylan
Lindsey
b. Members Absent –Jai Ramchander, Kavya Kaushik, and Kaustubh “K” Kaushik
c. Staff Present - Staff Present - Sierra Anderson (City Manager’s Office), Jason
Chadock (Staff Liaison), Dianne Tjalkens
d. Community Members Present – None
3. AGENDA REVIEW – none
4. COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION – Lily Weichert
5. APPROVAL OF MINUTES
a. Suhaas Narayanan made a motion to approve the minutes, the motion was seconded
and the minutes were approved as read.
6. NEW BUSINESS
a. Consolidated Plan: Draft Goals presentation (Dianne Tjalkens)
Dianne presented on the Social Sustainability Five-Year Plan specifically for housing
This plan will create a road map for how federal funding for affordable housing and
the City’s own funding for affordable housing will go.
The city receives 9 million dollars over the next five years from the federal programs
CBGD and HOME. The plan will also provide a road map for funding coming from the
City of Fort Collins.
o The federal money has more restrictions on how it must be spent.
The goals for this plan:
o Increase supply of affordable housing units.
o Preserve existing affordable housing.
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o Provide emergency sheltering and services for people experiencing
homelessness.
o Provide housing stabilization services.
o Increase access to services for low and moderate-income persons.
The discussed how homelessness affect youth in the community and suggested the
following areas that could help use in the community:
o Reaching out to should counselors, peer counselors, and teachers in schools
b. Nicotine Letter Review
Suhaas made a motion to readdress the advisory letter on nicotine and to clarify
where the youth Advisory Board will be sending the letter. The letter was approved by
the board.
c. E-Bike Letter Review
Suhaas made a motion to pass the letter to support e-bikes, the motion was
seconded and passed.
d. Recognition Letter Review
The board discussed the letter and agreed the idea of the letter of recognition for
school activities that have done well in competition is a good idea. However the
board also recognized that there are many school activities and writing a
specific letter for each one will be strenuous.
Louise made a motion to look at the agenda item at a later meeting and look
into making a form letter similar to a proclamation format already used by city
council. The motion was seconded and passed.
7. OLD BUSINESS
a. National League of Cities: March 8th-11th
There were no new updates on the conference.
b. Futures Committee: April 13th
Suhaas and Louise will be attending the Futures committee meeting on April 13th.
The board discussed possible topics Louise and Suhaas to bring to the futures
committee meeting these topics include but are not limited to:
o the environment including oil and gas
o Nicotine
8. BOARD MEMBER REPORTS (COMMITTEES, EVENT ATTENDANCE ETC.)
a. Parks and Recreation Master Plan: February 18th
Louise gave a review of The Parks and Rec master plan meeting reviewing top
points from the meeting.
The board talked about the following areas:
o maintenance vs. Construction
o Future expansion of Parks and Recreation.
o How the master plan can relate to youth in the community.
Louise said she would send out the PowerPoint presentation from the meeting to the
rest of the board.
b. Super Issues Meeting: February 24th
Dylan and Rahul gave the board a rundown about the super issues meeting on
February 24th
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The board discussed the following topic areas related to the meeting overview:
o What needs to be done in the future with boards and commissions as a
whole.
o Streamlining the connections between boards commission and the City.
o Incorporating quarterly topics that every board will focus on, examining how
wide reaching issues can be in the Fort Collins community.
o Signing up to receive the agendas to other boards so the Youth Advisory
board can go and Advocate others about issues effecting youth in the
community.
o Having an all board mixer to discuss issues in the community.
o The super issues meeting also had a presentation about oil and gas. The
presentation brought up concerns around natural areas. The board as a
whole would be interested in seeing the presentation given to those at the
super issues meeting.
o The Youth Advisory Board discussed making a list of presentations to other
boards to give feedback in order to expand the board’s reach and
connection to the community as a whole.
9. OTHER BUSINESS
a. Next Meeting(s) Focus and Location
Jason will try and get the next meeting to be held at the farm.
b. Agenda Items for next meeting
prepping regarding the Futures committee meeting
Send Louise a list for other presentations to other boards
discussing the letter of recognition
10. ADJOURNMENT
a. The meeting was adjourned at 8:01 pm.
Respectfully submitted by: Louise Holland, Secretary