May 03, 1999

1. Call to Order and Roll Call: Commissioners Present: Aliga, Blake, Castillo, Castro, Cottonham, DeVries, Eliapo, Isner, Turner (9). Tardy: Lugo, Ramlochan (2) Absent: Anderson, Barraza, Crane, Joun, Mak, Siu (6)

2. Motion to approve agenda: Motion to approve agenda seconded and approved.

3. Motion to approve minutes of April 19: Motion to approve minutes seconded and approved.

4. Staff Report:

Susan Kim- Joanna Lee one of our conference planners is at the meeting and will speak about the conference.
-Saturday, May 29^th, is stand for children. Coleman Advocates for youth will be coordinating the Stand for Children event and would like a Youth Commissioner to speak at the event. Commissioners requested that more information please be sent in the minutes packet for our next meeting.
-Public Service Announcement meeting is tomorrow at the Commission office, we will need to get the PSA to radio stations next week.
-Monday, June 7^th, will be our end of year celebration, any Commissioners who have suggestions for where to hold the event please let us know.

Legislative Action- AB 202, 1 gun per month, was sent to the Assembly floor and was passed. This bill is now in the Senate and if passed there will go to the Governor for his signature.

Community Outreach and Input- Joanna Lee one our conference planners spoke and passed around the agenda of the Conference and asked for Commissioners to sign up for an area that they were interested in.
YCers will have name badges and shirts designating them as YCers and are responsible for serving as hosts (meeting and greeting, direct people to appropriate place).

Assignments
Alice-Registration
Herbert- Warm-up session letter
Chaz-Resource Fair
Gina-Registration, Warm up session
Blake-Artist Hospitality, Raffle
Lisa- Resource Fair, Set up/tear down (no Friday)
Gift Bag- Lohina (Friday)
Lena- Possible Friday work
Media/PR-
Raffle-Francisco & Linda Blake
Lena available on Thursday to do pre-Conference stuff
Isner and Blake will work on Friday pre-conference stuff, Isner- (gov’t guide)

Sexual Assault Task Force- No report.

LGBTQQ Youth Task Force- Commissioner Turner reported that Deputy City Attorney, John Kennedy, presented a training on how to write Memorandum’s of Understanding with city departments which create a legal document that details what each department will do regarding LGBTQQ youth issues. Commissioner DeVries also mentioned that the Task Force will be taking a hiatus during the summer months and will begin again in some form next year.

A. Discussion re: Interview with candidates for the special assistant position. Commission meeting went into closed session. Francisco and Lena discussed the process the hiring committee took to forward candidates to the Commission. Commissioners were given a chance to review the candidates resumes before beginning the interviews. Two candidates were interviewed and Commissioners were given a chance to give feedback on each of the candidates.

B. Discussion and possible action re: Commissioners currently in violation of the attendance policy. Commissioner Eliapo was given a chance to speak to the Commission regarding her absences. Commissioner Eliapo stated that there was a death in her family and she apologized that she couldn’t make it to meetings. Commissioner Isner motioned to excused her absence, seconded and approved.

C. Discussion and possible action re: Amending the Youth Commission Bylaws, Section VI: attendance policy. Commissioner Castillo stated that the City Attorney advised us that we could change our bylaws but that the attendance policy in our bylaws cannot be more stringent then the attendance policy in our charter. The executive committee met and would like to amend the bylaws so that if a Commissioner is in violation of the attendance policy they can be given one chance but if they are in violation again they are automatically removed from the Commission. Motion to approve amendment by DeVries, seconded and approved.

D. Discussion re: Report from Commissioner Mak on the Teen Courts project. Commissioner Mak was not present, discussion tabled.

E. Discussion re: Recruitment for Youth Commissioners. Applications have been sent out to the Commissioners, everyone should please be doing outreach.

F. Discussion and possible action re: Setting next meeting’s agenda.
-No items to be added to the agenda at this point.

-Workshop calls will need to be made this week, any Commissioner who would like to help please call Joshua at the Youth Commission office.
-A new Beacon center is opening in the OMI and the Bayview, these would be good events to do Commission outreach, Saturday May 15 from 1-5pm.
-The Youth Empowerment Award recipients have been chosen and Francisco announced who had been selected.

8. Public Comment: No public comment.

9. Adjournment: Meeting was adjourned at 7:10 pm.