The San Francisco
Youth Commission
Minutes
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DATE
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Monday, April 5, 1999
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TIME:
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5:00
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PLACE:
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City Hall, Room 416
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1. Call to Order and Roll Call
The meeting was called to order at 5:15 PM. Commissioners present: Aliga, Anderson, Barraza, Blake, Castro, Isner, Mak, Ramlochan, Siu, Turner (10). Commissioners excused: Castillo and Cottonham (2) Commissioners Tardy: Joun (excused previously) (1) Absent: Crane, DeVries, Eliapo, Lugo (4). Youth Commission staff Susan Kim and Joshua Todd present.
2. Motion to approve agenda: Motion to approve agenda seconded and approved.
3. Motion to approve minutes of March 15: Motion to approve minutes seconded and approved.
4. Staff Report:
No reports at this time.
5. Working Group Reports:
Legislative Action- Outreach packets for the Peace and Safety Youth Advocacy have been mailed out and Advocacy day is April 12th. If any Commissioners are interested in going up the night before, to help out, let josh know.
Community Outreach and Input- Conference planning meetings have been changed to Thursdays at 4:30pm here in City Hall. If you have questions please call Susan.
Sexual Assault Task Force- Commission on the Status of Women will be taking over many of the duties that Camille formerly held. The young women are still planning on attending the CCYFC conference and have begun doing their workshops.
LGBTQQ Youth Task Force- The sensitivity training legislation the Task Force has been working on will be carried to the Board on March 22 by President Ammiano. The legislation falls under the 30 day rule and once 30 days is over will be heard at the Housing and Social Policy committee. We are working on developing Memorandum’s of Understanding with the different departments and hope to include those agreements in our final report to the board.
6. New Business:
A. Discussion and possible action re: Youth Commissioners currently in violation of the attendance policy (Commissioners Castro, Crane, Lugo, Mak and Ramlochan) . Discussion of Commissioners Crane and Lugo held over until they could be present to discuss their absences. Commissioners Mak and Ramlochan both called 24 hours prior to our last meeting but were unable to be excused due to lack of quorum. Commissioner Mak was in Denver and Commissioner Ramlochan was in Mexico, motion to excuse their last absence seconded and approved. Commissioner Castro was a student representative on the hiring committee for her school’s new principal. The interviews went on past our meeting time and she was unable to make the meeting. Motion to approve her absence, seconded and approved.
B. Discussion re: Report from the Violence and Education subcommittee of the HRC Youth and Education committee. No one was present from HRC to make this report, item continued until a future date when HRC staff is available to present.
C. Discussion re: Queer Youth Lobby Day. Commissioner Turner informed everyone that Queer Youth Lobby Day went very well and that over 700 young people from across the state were in attendance.
D. Discussion and possible action re: Youth Empowerment Conference Survey. Susan Kim presented a draft copy of the survey to be used during the Conference. Commissioners provided her with feedback on how to make it more youth friendly and what information we may want to collect.
E. Discussion and possible action re: Hiring for the special assistant position. Susan Kim handed out packets to Commissioners interested in reviewing applications and resumes for the open Special Assistant position. Recommendations regarding candidates should be forwarded to the hiring committee by April 16th.
E. Discussion and possible action re: Recruitment for Youth Commissioners. Applications for the Youth Commission will be available soon, all Commissioners should begin doing outreach to possible candidates.
F. Discussion and possible action re: Setting the next meeting’s agenda.
-Discussion of resolution supporting the Youth Leadership Institutes campaign to child proof alcohol advertising.
-Report back from the Peace and Safety Youth Advocacy Day.
7. Announcements
8. Public Comment- Eddie Kaufman from YLI came and spoke about child proofing alcohol advertisements and a member of the public came and spoke to the commission about time management.
9. Adjournment: Motion to adjourn, seconded with no objections. Meeting adjourned at 6:50 PM.