San Francisco Youth Commission
Executive Committee
Minutes
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
5:00-7:00pm
City Hall, Room 345
1. Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Pl.
San Francisco, CA 94102

There will be public comment on each item.

Members: Nicholas Persky, Rachel Brodwin, Paul Monge-Rodriguez, Mia Shackelford, Vanessa Warri

1. Call to Order and Roll Call

The meeting was called to order at 5:22pm. Commissioners present: Nicholas Persky, Mia Shackelford, Vanessa Warri. Commissioners absent: Paul Monge-Rodriguez, and Rachel Brodwin. Staff present: Phimy Truong. There was quorum.

2. Approval of Agenda (Action Item)

Commissioner Shackelford, seconded by Commissioner Warri, moved to approve the agenda. This motion was approved unanimously by acclamation.

3. Approval of Minutes (Action Item)

A. Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Commissioner Warri, seconded by Commissioner Shackelford, moved to approve the minutes to the meeting of Wednesday, October 10, 2012. This motion was approved unanimously by acclamation.

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

David Pilpel made some suggestions to include in future meeting minutes. Mr. Pilpel expressed that he has been urging the Board of Supervisor’s Joint Select Committee to expand to include a City College representative.

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

A. Check in

Commissioners shared one positive memory about Halloween.

B. Continue work on forward calendar of department presentations at full Youth Commission meetings

Commissioners continued work on developing a forward calendar of presentations from departments and/or community based organizations. Commissioner Persky explained that he would include the dates of the forward calendar in a memo to the full Youth Commission. Commissioners agreed to have the tentative forward calendar go up to March 2013.

Public Comment

David Pilpel suggested commissioners think about issue based areas of focus or themes when planning the forward calendar. Mr. Pilpel also made the suggestion that commissioner’s look into infrastructure of the city.

C. Set the agenda for the full Youth Commission meeting of November 5, 2012

Committee members reviewed and discussed items on the proposed agenda for the full Youth Commission meeting of November 5, 2012. Members agreed to agendize the following items- - in addition to standing agenda items, to receive a presentation from the Department of Children, Youth, and their Families and United Way of the Bay Area, on Summer Jobs+, to review a memo from the Executive Committee to Youth Commissioners, and a possible revision to the 2012-2013 Youth Commission bylaws.

Public Comment
David Pilpel suggested that Youth Commission staff should add names of Committee Chairs in the committee report section of the full agenda.


Commissioner Shackelford, seconded by Commissioner Warri, moved to approve the set agenda to the full Youth Commission meeting of November 5, 2012. This motion was approved by acclamation.

D. Legislative Affairs update

Commissioner Persky gave a brief update on the free MUNI for youth campaign. As the two Legislative Affairs officers were absent from this meeting, commissioners decided to table this item. Commissioner Warri, seconded by Commissioner Shackelford, moved to table item 5D. This motion was approved by acclamation.

E. Communications and Outreach Officer update

Commissioner Warri shared that she and Commissioner Huynh will be coordinating specific outreach visits to community organizations, and invite commissioners to join.

F. Bay Area-wide YC summit

Ms. Truong updated commissioners on the status of the Bay Area-wide YC summit. Emails had been sent out to the various Bay Area Youth Commissioners to gage interest; so far most of the responses were positive. It seems Youth Commissioners are interested in either participating or planning for the summit. Commissioners agreed that at the next Executive Committee meeting, members should work on an agenda for the first summit planning meeting in December.

6. Issue-Based Committee Reports (Action Item)

Ms. Truong gave a brief update on each committee. Due to staff capacity, committees will be meeting once in November.

7. Executive Committee Report (Discussion Only)

Commissioners agreed to update their peers on the status of the Bay Area wide YC summit, and to encourage their peers to participate in the planning process by attending future Executive Committee meetings.

8. Adjournment

The meeting was adjourned at 6:21pm.