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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMN-YBAB-2010-04-01Youth:Resources:Executive Assistant:IYB Advisory Board:2010 Minutes:IYB Advisory Board Minutes April 12 2010.doc April 12, 2010 Meeting Minutes Attendance: Chris Milner, Jen Mainville, Valerie Weber, Joan Spielholz, William Murphy, Jeri Gallucci, Kirtrina Baxter and Eddie Rooker Staff: Allen Green, and Jen Handy. Excused: Lizzy Noonan-Pomada. Absent: Annabel Fowler and Nancy Zook Guests: Caroline Lees (manages the Trust Company branch at Community Corners) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Meeting called to order at 7:05 p.m. by Chris Milner Caroline Lees was here as a guest of Chris Milner’s. She manages the Tompkins Trust Company branch at Community Corners. Review and approval of Minutes: The Minutes of February 8, 2010 and March 8, 2010 were approved as written. William Murphy made the motion to approve both February and March Minutes and Valerie Weber 2nded the motion. All were in favor. Officer’s Reports: Common Council – Eddie Rooker - No Report. GIAC (Joan Spielholz) – GIAC is having its annual meeting at the end of the month. The building is supposed to be finished and ready in June. Southside Community Center (Kirtrina Baxter) – There will be a Teen Farm Program, they will employ about 25 kids to grow produce to sell at the Market. ACS, GIAC, IYB and SouthSide students will all be involved. Congo Square Market starts May 7th and will be held every week from 4-7. On Saturday April 10th an Agricultural Event was held and was a community driven event. Cornell Agricultural Department and Southside were involved and it was a jump start for the Teen Farm Program. Staff Reports: Allen passed out the April Happenings Newsletter for the Ithaca Youth Bureau. There are many fundraisers that have either just happened or are coming up soon: Youth:Resources:Executive Assistant:IYB Advisory Board:2010 Minutes:IYB Advisory Board Minutes April 12 2010.doc Hip Hop Dance Competition – Held at Ithaca High school on Friday, April 9, 2010. There were quite a large number of people, approximately 500 people. They raised around $1,000, after costs. Some of the prizes that were given to teams were donated by local businesses. Most teams were from Ithaca and one team from Syracuse. 3-on-3 Basketball Tournament – Held at Newman Arena on Saturday, April 10, 2010 as a fundraiser for College Discovery Program. Raffle tickets were also sold and approximately $1,000 was raised. Bowl 4 Kids Sake – April 24-25 at Helen Newman Bowling Center - The Sweet Tooth Soirée – The Soirée will be on the April 24th. The Cornell Panhellenic Association is hosting it, a black tie optional event and the 2010 planning committee is hosting the event to benefit the Ithaca Youth Council. Jen passed around invitations, ticket information and flyers. Board Members are encouraged to attend and spread the word. She is hoping that this event will raise a large percentage on their fundraising goal so that the group can focus their efforts on other issues and projects. They will also be having a silent auction. The City recently received a grant and the whole grant was initiated by an employee suggestion box idea that came from Suki Tabor, the Coordinator of Youth Employment Services, Allen was the consultant on this idea. It started with a proposal to have solar hot water heater here. When the Mayor and the folks at city hall got involved they found out about some Economic Recovery Act funding that is available to municipalities through NYCERTA the whole thing grew. It started out as solar hot water for IYB and two more sites were added, including Cass Park and the Streets and Facilities Building and the other items were some staffing funding for energy saving consulting positing for one year and the other is more energy efficient lighting at one of the parking garages. It will probably take a little while, probably around 6 months or so. Currently there are three proposals in front of the state government that would effect summer teen employment differently. No decisions have been made yet. Unfinished Business: Bylaws & Duties: Approval of changes to sections 3 and 4: Chris sent out an email with updated revisions to Sections 3 and 4. The changes were read in their entirety. These final changes will be voted on at the May meeting. The board will review next sections at the May meeting. Chris will send out an email specifying which sections members should review before the meeting. Board Recruitment follow-up: Annabel Fowler, sophomore at Cornell, has been appointed to the board by the Mayor. Papa John’s Fundraiser: Any money raised should go to Liz Vance, Jen or Jody. New Business: April 2010 Program Monitoring: B.B.B.S. – Valerie Weber and Lizzy Noonan-Pomada PSMP – Kirtrina Baxter and Jeri Gallucci Outing Program* – Chris Milner and Jen Mainville *Kim, the Outing Coordinator, prefers to be monitored as soon as possible, due to scheduling considerations. College Discovery Program and Computer All Stars will be monitored in May. Youth:Resources:Executive Assistant:IYB Advisory Board:2010 Minutes:IYB Advisory Board Minutes April 12 2010.doc Report of YES Program Monitoring (Joan and Eddie): Joan gave the monitoring report and shared her materials from the monitoring session. Suki had put together a wonderful folder of information for the YES Program. This folder will be available for review by the Board Members with Jody. Report of Youth Council Monitoring (Lizzy and Chris) Chris gave a brief overview of the monitoring report and he stated that he was given a large amount of material regarding the program. Board Comments/Issues: NONE ADJOURNMENT: 8:27 p.m.