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City and County of San Francisco

December 18, 2006

San Francisco Youth Commission

Meeting Minutes & Action Plan

December 18, 2006, 5:30 PM

Rm. 416

  2. Call to Order: 5:40 p.m.

    Roll Call:

    PRESENT: Antonio Ayala (M), Jacky Kwong (D3), Kemi Shamonda (D6), Cassandra James (D10), Krystal Kiremit (D7), Shadi Elkarra (left at 7:00) (M), Iqra Anjum (D11), Kenny Gong (D4), Samuel Rubin (M), Christine Revelo (M), Julie Gramlich (D1), Brandon Franklin (D5), Anthony Pico (left at 7:10) (M), Tony Albert (D8), Marc Lowe (D1), Cassandra James (D10), Luciana Carvalho (D9)

    ABSENT:

    STAFF: Rachel Antrobus, Kevin Liao and Diana Pang

    PUBLIC: Trisha Prashad (Mayor's Office); Hydra Mendoza, Marsha Zorriia (Health Educator, Balboa Teen Health Center)

  3. Approval of Agenda: Approved, removed 11 C, No Youth Empowerment Summit
  4. Approval of Minutes: Approved.
  5. Report/Check-in from the Mayor's Office

Trisha Prashad introduced Hydra Mendoza (Rm. 475) who highlighted the Mayor's investment in the City's school.

  • Weekly school visits
  • Partnership in Achievement

Revelo-Lee asked about the SAC, Prop. H

  • Hydra mentioned her ongoing and long-standing relationship with Prop. H and her interest in hearing more from the young people on how Prop. H can be allocated

Anjum asked Hydra how the partnerships with the City is helping drop-out prevention

  • Hydra discussed the DCYF mapping project and building on the partnership and resources that the City offers.

5. Staff Report:

Diana reminded folks about Wednesday's holiday party–bring dish and white elephant gift

Rachel reminded YC about the Youth Empowerment Summit (January 20, 2007)

6. Committee Reports - None

7. Officer Reports

  1. Operations (Carvalho)
  2. Media (Elkarra)–showing BAYCAT's PSA after the meeting, please watch after and get feedback

8. Public Comment on Items not on the Agenda–None

9. Consent Calendar–None

10. Legislation Introduced–No legislation introduced at this time

11. Old Business

  1. Youth Empowerment Fund

    Commissioner Albert told the YC about the development of the questions for the RFP

  2. Transitional Youth Task Force

    Commissioner Rubin updated the on the TYTF focus groups

  3. Youth Empowerment Summit: None
  4. Discussion/possible action: DCYF CSAP statement/feedback

The Commission reviewed the draft the of the CSAP and gave general feedback

  • Will be emailed out and voted on via email by Friday

12. New Business

  1. (Moved to 11A) Judson True and Peter

    Introduced Transit Effectiveness Project that the MTA is undergoing

    Commissioner James asked about the hiring of the people from D10 in the implementation of the 3rd Street light rail

    Judson said he would check on those stats and get back, contact Judson with more information @ Judson.true@sfmta.com

    Other questions and inquires continued, any further questions or comments can be directed to Judson.

  2. (Moved to 11B) Mayor's Office of Criminal Justice–Maya Dillard Smith

Updated the Commission on the Violence Prevention effort, a grant-funded program with UCSF and the Prevention Coalition.

For more information, contact Maya at maya.smith@sfgov.org PH 415.554.6297

Possible action items; Assisting with youth on planning council, youth engagement for focus groups and dialogues

Community kick off–Wednesday, Dec. 20 10AM-noon, 1550 4th St. SF

C. Discussion/possible endorsement:

Commissioner Gong introduced

[Resolution urging San Francisco Unified School District to implement California minor consent rights into health education curriculum of all San Francisco public high schools]

  • Health and Social Services Committee already approved with amendments, worked on their revisions and asks for the full commission's endorsement.
  • Amend: eliminate  with discretion of' and add  and' (13 Ayes, 1 Abstentions, 0 Nays)
  • Approved: Albert/2nd–Gramlich (12 Ayes, 2 Abstentions, 0 Nays)
  • Other feedback: Concerns with health education classes not taken early enough in the high school career, would like to see all freshmen take it their first year.

13. Next Steps/Items: SEE BELOW

14. Announcements: Holiday Party, Steering Committee WEDNESDAY!

15. Adjourned: 7:25 p.m., Next meeting, Monday, January 8, 2007 at 5:30 p.m., Rm. 416

16. Committee Breakouts (as needed)

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