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HomeMy WebLinkAboutYouth Advisory Board - Minutes - 02/01/2006YOUTH ADVISORY BOARD MINUTES Regular meeting — February 1, 2006 7:00 p.m. Council Liaison: Kurt Kastein Staff Liaisons: Peggy Bowers, Recreation, 221-6357 John VanderVliet, Police, 416-6095 Board Board Members Present: Lee Swanson, Kristi Thomas, Erin Rooney, Matt Strauch, Kai Stuckey, Laura Lamb Board Member(s) Absent: David Saperstone, Ryan Hennig (1 seat vacant) Staff Members Present: Peggy Bowers, Staff Liaison — Recreation Division Kristie Blackmon, Coordinator — Recreation Division Guest(s) Present: Linda Maher The gathering began with Kurt Kastein addressing the board and 22-25 visitors about "The State of the City". A 20-minute question and answer period followed his presentation Call meeting to Order: The regular meeting of the Youth Advisory Board was called to order at 7:50 p.m. by Matt Strauch who filled in during the absence of the Chair and Vice -chair. Approval of Minutes from January, 2006 On a motion by Erin Rooney and seconded by Lee Swanson, the minutes of the regular meeting on January 4, 2006 were approved unanimously. Agenda Review: No changes to the printed agenda. Citizen Participation: No citizen participation. Agenda: BATTLE OF THE BANDS UPDATE Five bands participated in the event that was held on January 27 as a fund-raiser for the Inspiration Playground. Brownie McGraw was presented with $750 at the event for the Playground. 376 people attended the event. Crushing Influence took first place, winning a $100 cash prize and Annex was the 2nd place band, winning a $50 gift certificate to Colorado Drums. SPEAKER SERIES Lee Swanson explained that the series had evolved from the group in an effort to get more people involved in the Citizen Participation portion of the meeting. Peggy Bowers updated the group that Larimer County Workforce Center would present on March 1 and Magistrate Barenato on April 5. Laura Lamb asked who the target audience was and how was it being advertised to that group. Peggy responded that the board had identified both junior and senior high school students as the audience. Posters were delivered to all the junior and senior high schools and Recreation facilities. A news release has appeared in the Coloradoan one time. Flyers were also delivered to PACE teachers for Youth Advisory Board Minutes February 1, 2006 Page 2 distribution. Laura suggested trying to get it in the parent newsletters at each of the schools. Peggy will continue to advertise the next two speakers. Another thought was to advertise the meetings at CSU. YOUTH PROGRAM UPDATE Kristie Blackmon distributed the February calendar for the YAC. Membership at the YAC has increased to $5.00 this year from $3.00 last year. A yearly membership is $45.00 and includes a free T-shirt. We currently have 258 members. If a youth cannot afford the membership cost, they are encouraged to fill out a reduced fee application. Ski/snowboard trips to Winter Park are filling. The Colorado Chill players have visited both Northside Aztlan Community Center programs and YAC programs. Club 56 is this Saturday evening and Club 78 is on February 18. Dellenbach has donated Nuggets tickets to both RAD Van and the teens at NACC and the YAC. YAC members were surveyed in January. 56% of the respondents felt the staff was always friendly, 58% felt the cleanliness was pretty nice, 64% always felt safe while attending the YAC. Most members use the YAC 3-4 times a week. OTHER After studying the Board's work plan, Matt Strauch felt further discussion should take place at the March meeting and the plan should be enhanced. Some of his suggestions included implementing a roving meeting at the different schools, and if the entire board could not do this, then maybe a sub -committee could go out to the schools. He also suggested that board members alternate attending or watching City Council meetings. Councilmember Kurt Kastein has added the following to the board work plan "review the inventory of existing City programs and facilities for youth". The goal would be for the board to comment on the geographical distribution of programs and facilities (recreational and cultural) for youths of all ages. Other possible ideas for board involvement would be a strategic plan including a timeline, plan and action items. Matt also suggested the idea of the board doing a community youth award. Matt challenged the board to start thinking and requested that enhancing the work plan be on the March agenda. Matt also requested clarification on the appointments made by TEAM Fort Collins. Currently there is a vacancy that should be filled by their appointment. Peggy responded that TEAM is no longer interested in appointing members to the YAB. When the board was formed, the board members TEAM appointed came from a youth committee run by TEAM. That board is no longer in existence. Peggy has recommended to Cultural, Library and Recreational Services Director Marty Heffernan that we consider revising City Code to change the number of board members from 9 to 7 and that we drop having TEAM appoint members. Youth Advisory Board Minutes February 1, 2006 Page 3 Matt recommended that we look at recommending a change to Code that includes the above mentioned item and a change to the functions of the YAB. He requested that this be added to the Agenda for the March meeting. Kristie Blackmon reported that YouthFest will be held on May 31. Activities will be held from 4:00-8:00 p.m. and a dance from 8:00-10:00 p.m. One of the items on the work plan is for the YAB to host a booth at the event. Board members want to showcase services available to youth and should be thinking of what information they want to provide, as well as an interactive activity for their booth. ADJOURNMENT On a motion by Kristie Thomas and seconded by Laura Lamb, the Board voted unanimously to adjourn at 8:35 p.m. Respectfully su mitted, � � Pe y Bowers for Janet Urban, Administrative Support Supervisor — Recreation 7_ 7 rn< �k r r 7