HomeMy WebLinkAboutYouth Advisory Board - Minutes - 12/05/2012YOUTH ADVISORY BOARD MINUTES
Regular meeting – December 5th, 2012 6:30 p.m.
Council Liaison: Aislinn
Kottwitz
Staff Liaison: Steve Budner, Recreation, 221-6861
Megan Greer, Recreation, 224-6032
Board Chairperson: Pranaya Sathe
Board Members Present: Siyu Wu, Pranaya Sathe, Nathan Welch, Sarah Pruznick,
Natalie Pederson, Patrice Quadrel, Langston Stuckey
Board Member Absent: Kelsey Hennig
Staff Members Present: Megan Greer, Administrator – Recreation Department
Guest(s) Present: Myles Crane
Call meeting to Order:
The meeting was called to order by President, Pranaya Sathe, at 6:35 p.m.
Approval of Minutes:
Minutes approved 6-0, motioned by Pranaya, seconded by Sarah.
Introduction of new members
None
Agenda Review:
None
Citizen Participation:
None
Chairman’s Report:
1. Team Fort Collins is interested in meeting with the Youth Advisory
Board and other employees at the Atzlan Center.
2. Pranaya stressed how much work needs to be done for the jobs fair
Other Business:
1. The Youth Advisory Board met with Myles Crane and Karen Buchanan
on Novemeber 15th to discuss potential collaboration between the
boards.
a. It was agreed that a lot got done and that it would be good
going forward for the boards to collaborate more.
2. Jobs Fair Planning
a. Voted 6-0 to hold the event with a panel discussion as well as
having booths for different industries.
b. Several groups were named as possible participants; including
CSU, The City of Fort Collins, Larimer County, PVHS, and Fort
Zed. Assignments were made to get in contact with these
organizations and ask if they would be willing to participate.
c. Several different venues were suggested, these included the
Lincoln Center, CSU, and Fort Collins High School.
d. A tentative date of Wednesday, April 17th has been set for the
event.
e. The name of the event will be “Jobs of the Future”
f. Promotion of the event was discussed, Myles brought up the
ideas of a Facebook event and radio advertisements being used
to get the word out.
g. 3 main questions were posed that the event should be focused
on
i. Where will the jobs be?
ii. What do you need to study?
iii. How do you get hired?
3. Nathan suggested the possibility of inviting a member of the City
Council to the January 16th meeting.
Ajournment:
Pranaya moved to adjourn at 7:48 p.m. and Nathan seconded.
Respectfully submitted,
The next meeting will be Wednesday, January 16
th
at 6:30 pm at North Aztlan
Community Center, 112 E. Willow Street.