Monday, February 04, 2008
Full Youth Commission Meeting
City Hall, room 416
Minutes
- Call to Order/Role Call – 5:35pm.
Anjum, Cabrera, Carvajal, Carvalho, Do, Franklin, Frierson, Gee, Gong, Gray, James, Macheel, Quesada, Shamonda, Tsibulskaya, Yan.
- Approval of the Agenda – all.
- Mayor's Office Report – none.
- Staff Report
- Diana Pang: Mayor Newsom meeting at 4:30pm on Monday, March 3 or March 17th, in room 278. Coleman Intensive training sign up.
- Kevin Liao - none
- Public Comment:
- Mesha Izarriy, Executive Director of Idriss Stelley Foundation (ISF): Ask: Looking for youth and Asian/Pacific Islander board of directors. Gave background and services (victim reporting of police harassment, know your rights training, translation services, Youth media projects and training) offered for organization. Red Stone Building, 2941 16th St, 94110 209.
- Mariposa Villaluna: POOR MAGAZINE, Indigenous People's Project. Mariposa commends the work of the Youth Commission and is
- Consent Calendar – none
- Old Business
- YEFAB – YEFAB is working on the
- TAY Initiative: meet every other Friday at 5pm, DCYF Mint, got lots of media coverage
- JAC: Gabriel Baca, Elvia Scheva, Juvenile Advisory Council
6 members, we hopefully can recruit more, as more people on probation can successfully transition Report out on Chicago trip.
Partnerships: CYWD suggested collaboration
Buy-Ins from Probation Officers (P.O.)'s: Where are we in out
Support, how can we help? Ask for support, constant check-in, new ideas and help come up with plan. More communicative with YGC. How to increase exposure. Set up meeting with Department. How they can benefit from it. Make it mandatory. Receive five hours of community service. How do we get involved as Ycers? Two fold:1) one stop shop at orientations: linking CBOs connections and resources for eventual case management, resource sharing and services Legislative training with JPD, 2) kick-off with JPD and violence prevention – word of mouth, outreach and endorsements. Save the date: Kick-off in March.
- Joint Education Committee – Yan
SAC: Ask feedback on school lunches, Point of Sales (POS) and MUNI fast pass strategy, BoE shadows high school youth for a day at the SAC (delegates). 1/31
- YouthVOTE Results and Press Conference – Liao
77.8% - voted YES on Prop A
43.3 % - voted for OBAMA
37.3% - voted for CLINTON
5.2% - voted for McCAIN
Professionally recorded, cross tabbed, social research designs by David Binder Co. Reults come out on March 1st, SAVE THE DATE: community meeting, March 5, 2008. Show major trends. Big differences.
How can we make different networks – eyes and ears.
- New Business
- SF Police Department's Department General Order (DGO) 7.01 – 2.28 (Carvalho, Franklin, James) YC will present stance at Police Commission hearing; has been on our radar since 2005; DGO 7.01 summarizes. Changing age limits. AsianWEEK article on Chief Heather Fong, Commander Sandra Tong – 2/20: Endorsed it to move forward to.
Motion James, Tsibulskaya, AYES, NAYES 0, and 0 ABSENTIONS. Motion: to move it to next meeting, Feb. 20th full YC meeting, read it. Questions: Ask Kevin and Franklin.
- Family Budget Coalition Budget Advocacy and Revised Timeline. Check in with Steering Committee meeting next week, and budget proposals, Tuesday, Feb. 12th at 4:30pm. BUDGET PROPOSALS DUE! New deadline is 2.22.
- Board of Supervisors' Hearing on San Francisco education budget issues for the City and County
Rainy Day – 30 million may be potentially covered by rainy day fund (out of 40 million).
Speak to Supervisors as Youth Commissioners.
Rescue mentality – CBO mentality
Action Items: set parameters, tight menu of options, transparency to the public. Go to hearing. Continue to continue Feb. 19th:, Anjum, Franklin, 1NAY, AYE, 0 ABSENTION
Violence Response DCYF MINT @ 5:30pm.
- Next Steps
IN BOLD
- Announcements
Housing Justice Tour – Meet at CPA at 5:30pm
- Committee Breakouts --
- Adjournment – 7:50pm. ----
- Next Meeting, Tuesday, Feb. 19th, 5:30pm, room 278