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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMN-YBAB-2010-01-01Youth:Resources:Executive Assistant:IYB Advisory Board:2010 Minutes:IYB Advisory Board Minutes Jauary 11 2010.doc January 11, 2010 Meeting Minutes Attendance: Valerie Weber, Chris Milner, William Murphy, Lizzy Noonan-Pomada, Kirtrina Baxter, Cameron Younger, Eddie Rooker and Jeri Gallucci Staff: Allen Green, Marty Schreiber, Jody Hallett-Harris, and Jen Handy. Excused: Jen Mainville and Gabriele Weber Absent: Joan Spielholz and Nancy Zook --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Meeting called to order at 7:02 p.m. by Chris Milner Review and approval of Minutes: The Minutes of December 14, 2009 w ere approved as written. William Murphy made the motion to approve the minutes and Lizzy Noonan-Pomada 2nd the motion. All were in favor. Officer’s Reports: Common Council (Eddie Rooker): Eddie is the newly appointed Common Council Liaison, introductions were made. No new updates. GIAC (Joan Spielholz): Absent – No Report – Tompkins County Youth Services (Nancy Zook): Absent – No Report Southside Community Center (Kirtrina Baxter): Kirtrina stated that new programs are starting at the end of the month and there are some really great new programs, including a DJ Class, a Beat Class, etc. Black History Month will be celebrated with numerous events including the showing of the video called Pass It On; there will also be a lecture series each Friday in February. The Kwanzaa event with Giac went extremely well. The RIBS program (Recycle Ithaca’s Bicycles) is getting the final touches on their building and will be opening in April, 2010. Staff and Committee Reports: Staff Reports: Marty Schreiber of the Computer All Stars Programs was invited to come and update us on his program. Marty passed out some information handouts for us, including the Application for a Computer, an Application for the After School Program and a general overview of his program. He has been doing the program for 10 years and currently serves 60 children in this program. Currently funding comes from a local foundation, The Re-Use Center and Tompkins County Solid Waste Division. Currently he is partnering with Fingerlakes Re-Use as a partial supervisor and is an additional revenue source as well as an education source for children. They have secured space next to the Reuse Center in the Triphammer Mall. He will continue to do the after school program where they do general diagnostics and repair on computers. He has an Assistant, Tim Crowley. In 2009 100 computers were given out and 26 were retailed out through the Reuse Center. Marty stated that they had a Pancake Breakfast fundraising event and it was a big hit and earned his program $700 and this will be an annual event. Allen handed out a 2009 Accomplishments/2010 Goals handout that was put together for the Mayor for the first Common Council Meeting. Allen briefly reviewed some of the 2009 Accomplishments, highlighting the Cory Booker 60th Anniversary Celebration and the establishment of Youth Council. Cameron Younger the current Chair of Youth Council Youth:Resources:Executive Assistant:IYB Advisory Board:2010 Minutes:IYB Advisory Board Minutes Jauary 11 2010.doc gave a thank you to the Youth Bureau, Common Council as well as to the Board for great support and giving youth voices! Currently Youth Council has a full board with one senior from Ithaca High School serving as a liaison. Allen also reviewed some of the 2010 Goals including the Cass Park Pool, possible addition of a spray park at Cass, the Recreation Survey that is coming out on Survey Monkey. Chris Milner gave a quick update stating that hard copies will be at the Tompkins County Trust company and Cristina Munk, Vista, will be going to DSS waiting area to interact with the public and hand out these surveys. Allen also briefly discussed the new program at IHS call the SET Program (Student Enrichment Program), this is run by Lisa Droege of the YES Program and set to start this week. Unfinished Business: None New Business: 2010 Advisory Board Goals: Chris Milner handed out an information sheet he put together, that he reviewed with Board Members. This included: Recruitment of 4-8 new board members, rework Bylaws & Duties, Complete Monitoring Sessions by end of 3rd quarter, establish liaison with Friends of the IYB. There were suggestions that a small attachment be sent out with the Recreation Survey for recruitment purposes and that as far as updating the Bylaws & Duties that maybe this is done at the Board Meeting and a certain section is assigned for each meeting until it has been completed. Monitoring sessions are March, April and May – Jen will forward Chris the information regarding these. Chris suggested that there be a liaison from the Friends of the IYB and that we should reach out to them and invite a liaison. Jen will look at the charter and codes to make sure that the subcommittees could be taken off the agenda. There was much discussion over recruitment of new board members. Chris asked Lizzy, Cameron and Valerie to find 3 youth members and provide their names to the Board for a personalized letter to be sent to them inviting them to come to the Board Meeting. As far as recruitment of other members, Chris will work on this and Jen will finish the recruitment brochure. Jody will check in with Julie and Annie as far as any applications at City Hall. Eddie will touch base with Deb Mohlenhoff about possible IC board members. Bill will be checking in with the BBBS and see if there are any applicants that are waiting to have a big or little placed and see if they would be interested in being on the Board. Jen and Eddie will check on the code before any changes are made to the Bylaws and Duties. Jody is to send out the existing Bylaws & Duties to Board members as soon as possible. Bill suggested that we have some sort of system to keep people on target and to make sure that tasks assigned are completed. There were some items brought up such as attendance of Board Members and also Justin Villiere’s report that was done last year. Jen is going to provide Chris with a copy of this report. Chris mentioned a fundraising campaign that Liz Vance had suggested in which the IYB and the Board would sell coupon booklets worth $50 of Papa John’s food for $5.00. Papa John’s would donate $3.75 of the $5 for each booklet sold to be put into the ECHO Fund Scholarship Program. Board Comments/Issues: NONE ADJOURNMENT: 8:40 p.m.