San Francisco Youth Commission
Executive Committee
Minutes
Wednesday, June 15, 2016
4:30-6:30 PM
City Hall, Room 345
1. Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Pl.
San Francisco, CA 94102

There will be public comment on each item.

Members: Jillian Wu (Chair), Jessica Calderon, Anna He, Luis Avalos, Cris Plunkett

1. Call to Order and Roll Call

The meeting was called to order at 5:01pm. Present: Commissioners Wu, Plunkett, and Avalos. Absent: Commissioners Calderon and He. Staff present: Leah LaCroix and Kiely Hosmon. There was quorum.

2. Approval of Agenda (Action Item)

Commissioner Plunkett moved to approve the agenda, seconded by Commissioner Avalos. There was no public comment. The motion was approved by acclamation.

3. Approval of Minutes (Action Item)

A. June 1, 2016
(Document A)

Commissioner Avalos moved to approve the minutes, seconded by Commissioner Plunkett. There was no public comment. The motion was approved by acclamation.

4. Public Comment on Items not on Agenda (Discussion Only)

There was none

5. Business (All Items to Follow Discussion and Possible Action)

A. Executive officer updates, check-ins

Commissioners shared personal updates about their week. There was no public comment. Committee decided to move meetings to 5-7pm to allow more time for those taking public transportation from previous school/meetings.

B. Debrief last full YC meeting

Last meeting was short but found the meeting from the City Attorney useful. Attendance issues were discussed and Executive Committee members will be reaching out to all commissioners by Saturday to do a check in regarding year end accountability. Next year there needs to be enforcement regarding attendance issues. Possible issues to remedy for next year: more transparency of what EC does and their role, newer commissioners not really understanding the process of YC so need to build a more solid foundation for them, creating a peer-to-peer ‘buddy system’ of pairing up returning commissioners with a newer commissioner as their point person for questions and/or concerns, EC modeling better accountability for themselves.

C. Committee reports

Commissioner gave general updates on their respective committees. EJI will have quorum issues for the summer but not likely there will be many action items. There was no public comment.

D. Update on budget and policy priorities follow-up

The committee is following up on responsibilities decided at last meeting. For priority 8, staff will contact Mia Satya for an update, Luis will follow up with the Mayor’s office as well as Supervisors Avalos and Yee, and Jill will follow up with Supervisor Mar. For priority 10, Jill will contact Supervisors Campos and Weiner. For priority 12, Cris and Luis will contact Supervisor Kim. Commissioners asked that staff follow up with Supervisors regarding Year of the Homeless youth. There was no public comment.

E. Update commissions annual report responsibilities

One pagers are due by June 29th. Fun facts are due by June 20th and are to be sent to Commissioner Avalos. EC suggested that commissioners also send in a quote or a favorite memory of being on the YC. There will be a check in on all this at the next full commission meeting. There was no public comment.

F. Review and update questions for the Youth Vote student survey

Commissioners reviewed the Youth Vote student survey. Here are the suggestions: 1) cross tab age and ethnicity for questions 3 and 5 2) for question 2 suggest a “select all that apply” option as well as offering a fill in the blank option 3) on question 3 commissioners need more clarity on the “counselors/recruiters” option. Does it mean career counselor? Advisor? Etc. 4) Commissioners would like another question added “What other things or issues are you struggling with and what resources would be helpful?” and have this be a fill in the blank with instructions to list all that apply and provide some examples. 5) there was a question if this survey is available in more languages than just English 6) commissioners would like all data broken down by demographics as that would be helpful for them to put in their year end policy reports. There was no public comment.

G. Review and update on recent youth-related Board of Supervisors legislation

H. Approve agenda for June 20, 2016 Full YC Meeting

Youth agreed that having a full commission meeting would be beneficial even if it was a shorter one. CHALK has asked to do a focus group with them so this will be the meat of the meeting.

6. Staff Report

Staff informed the committee on a number of summer outreach opportunities (Mo Magic event, panel/presentation to AAPHYLA training), and encouraged the committee to inform staff when they will be out of town. Encourage youth to give feedback on needs assessment from DCYF. There was no public comment.

7. Adjournment

The meeting was adjourned at 7:01pm.