The San Francisco Youth Commission
Minutes
DATE: Thursday, September 27,1999
TIME: 5:00
PLACE: City Hall, Room 278
1. Call to Order and Roll Call: Commissioners Present: Arreguin, Barker,
Barnes, Baxter, Bolden-Kramer, Bonilla, Castillo, Cottonham, Devine, Durkee,
Ervin Geodzhayev, Lau, Pang, Strohlin, Talton-Alunan, Yee (17). Staff present:
Susan Kim, Mario Balcita, and Jessica Smith.
2. Motion to move item C to beginning of agenda: Motion to seconded
and approved.
3. Motion to approve amended agenda: Motion to approve seconded and
approved
4. Staff Report: The Mayor is having a swearing in ceremony for various
city commissions and Youth Commissioners who have not already been sworn in
are invited to come. The event will happen on Wednesday September 29, 1999 at
4:30pm in Board Chambers. This happens to be the same time as the Increase the
Peace rally. Also, Jessica created flyers for the Increase the Peace rally and
asked commissioners to pass them out. Commissioner Bonilla and possibly Commissioners
Devine and Arreguin will be speaking at the rally.
5. A. Discussion and possible action re: Youth Commission Office Nominations
and Elections. No one nominated themselves for Media and Public Affairs
Officer. Commissioner Barker propose that Commissioners who wish to run for
this office should nominate themselves now. Commissioners Durkee, Geodzhayev
and Ervin nominated themselves.
Motion to close all nominations: Motion seconded and approved.
Commissioners will vote for officers. Commissioner Barker withdrew nomination
for Chairperson. She will facilitate this portion of the meeting to avoid a
conflict of interest because Commissioner Castillo is running for office. Each
candidate had 2 minutes to speak. First office up for election was Chairperson.
Commissioners Bonilla and Castillo were running and spoke on their own behalves.
Vote in favor of Commissioner Bonilla for the office of Chairperson from Commissioners'
Bonilla, Arreguin, Baxter, Devine, Ervin, Geodzhayev, Lau, and Pang. (8 votes
total)
Vote in favor of Commissioner Castillo for the office of Chairperson from Commissioners'
Castillo, Barker, Barnes, Bolden-Kramer, Cottonham, Durkee, Strohlin, Talton-Alunan,
and Yee.( 9 votes total.)
Next up for election was the Government Affairs Officer. Commissioners Arreguin
and Devine were running for this office and spoke on their own behalves.
Votes in favor of Commissioner Arreguin for Government Affairs Officer from
Commissioners' Arreguin, Geodzhayev, Baxter, Ervin, Durkee, Pang, and Bonilla.
(7 votes total)
Votes in favor of Commissioner Devine from Commissioners' Devine, Yee, Barnes,
Bolden-Kramer, Lau, Strohlin, Cottonham, Barker, Castillo, Talton-Alunan (10
votes total)
Commissioner Strohlin ran unopposed for Community Affairs Officer. All were
in favor for her to fill this position.
Commissioners Pang and Barnes were running for position of Operations Officer
and spoke on their own behalves.
Votes in favor Commissioner Pang from Commissioners' Cottonham, Arreguin, Geodzhayev,
Bonilla, Baxter, and Pang. (6 votes total)
Votes in favor of Commissioner Barnes from Commissioners' Bolden-Kramer, Talton-Alunan,
Yee, Lau, Castillo, Ervin, Durkee, Devine, Barnes, Barker, and Strohlin. (11
votes total)
Commissioners Geodzhayev, Durkee, and Ervin ran for Media and Public Affairs
Officer and spoke on their own behalves.
Votes in favor of Commissioner Geodzhayev from Commissioners' Geodzhayev, Arreguin,
Baxter, Barnes, and Ervin. (5 votes total)
Votes in Favor for Commissioner Durkee from Commissioners' Durkee, Barker,
Strohlin, Devine, Bonilla, Pang, Yee, Bolden-Kramer, Castillo (9 votes total)
Votes in Favor for Commissioner Ervin from Commissioners' Lau, Cottonham, and
Talton-Alunan (3 votes total)
B Discussion and possible action re: Strategy to Address Upcoming City Elections.
Commissioners called for a special meeting to further discuss strategies
to address upcoming city elections. The special meeting was set for 10/4/99
from 4 - 6pm.
C Discussion and possible action re: Establishing Youth Commission Meeting
Process. Commissioner Barker proposed a combination of Roberts Rules and
Commission House Agreements. Commission agreed to implement these process at
their next regular meeting.
D. Discussion and possible action re: Youth Vote. Commissioners Lau
and Devine announced that they will keep everyone updated on Youth Vote. Commissioner
Lau will send out a current copy of the Youth Vote Booklet.
6. Discussion and possible action re: Setting Next Meeting Agenda. Commissioners
agreed to table Items 5 E,F,G and 6 A,B,C until the next regular meeting on
10/4/99.
7. Announcements: Coleman Advocates for Youth is holding a forum
for youth to talk to all the mayoral candidates. The LGBTQQ Youth Task Force
is looking for individuals to join.
8. Public Comment: There was no public comment.
9. Meeting was adjourned at 7:15pm