San Francisco Youth Commission
Youth City Services (Transportation, Housing & Recreation) Committee
Minutes
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
4:30-6:30pm
City Hall, Room 345
There will be public comment on each item.
1. Call to Order and Roll Call
The meeting was called to order at 4:32pm.
Commissioners present: Baer, Brodwin, Chan, LaCroix, Marshall-Fricker, Tu Mutch. Student Advisory Council member present: Zhang. All members were present.
Staff present: Yedidia.
2. Approval of Agenda (Action Item)
Commissioner Tu Mutch, seconded by commissioner Brodwin, moved to approve the agenda. The agenda was approved unanimously by acclamation.
3. Public Comment on Items not on Agenda (Discussion Only)
There was none.
4. Election of Chair
The presenters for item 5A being present—and this item itself being redundant, given that the “Election of Chair” was also calendared as item 5B—this item was deferred.
5. Business (All Items to Follow Discussion and Possible Action)
A. Presentation on The San Francisco Safe Routes to School Program
Promoting active, fun and healthy ways to school while building school communities.
Seeking youth commission input on programs and opportunities
Presenter: Jesse Serafino-Agar, SF Bicycle Coalition
20 minutes
Jason Serafino-Agar (SF Bicycle Coalition Safe Routes to School Coordinator) and Matt Dove (YMCA Associate Director of Bicycle Programs) presented to the committee on the Safe Routes to School program (http://sfsaferoutestoschool.org/).
Commissioners Chan, Baer and SACer Zhang asked questions.
B. Election of Chair
Commissioner Baer was elected Chair and Commissioner Chan was elected Outreach Officer.
C. Mission Statement for FY 11-12
Through a collective writing process, the committee crafted a Mission Statement. The full text will be available shortly, after some syntactical clean up.
D. Crafting policy priorities for FY 11-12
Commissioners expressed interest in pursuing the following projects:
• helping to implement Chapter 12N of the Administrative Code requiring training of youth workers on LGBTQ youth cultural competency (Tu Mutch, Chan);
• improving SRO nonprofit housing conditions (Chan, Tu Mutch);
• furthering the production of more housing for homeless youth, especially LGBTQ youth (Chan; Tu Mutch);
• furthering the Youth Commission’s commitment to helping the City Family make MUNI free for youth, as established in Youth Commission resolution 1112—AL—01 “Free Youth Transportation,” adopted on September 21, 2011 (LaCroix, Baer, Tu Mutch;
• recreation and parks issues and field improvement issues (Marshall-Fricker, Baer, Zhang; though, to be sure, there were differences among committee members regarding the safety, utility and cost-effectiveness of turf fields); and
• creating a user-friendly database of youth programming and services in San Francisco (Brodwin).
6. Adjournment
The meeting was adjourned at 6:04pm.
Any materials distributed to the members of the Youth Commission within 72 hours of the meeting or after the agenda packet has been delivered to the members are available for inspection—along with minutes of previous Youth Commission meetings and all supplementary information—at the Youth Commission office during regular office hours (9am to 6pm, Monday—Friday). The Youth Commission office is located at:
City Hall, Room 345
1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place
San Francisco, CA 94102
Phone: (415) 554-6446, Fax: (415) 554-6140
Email: youthcom@sfgov.org
www.sfgov.org/yc
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