Loading...
HomeMy WebLinkAboutMN-YBAB-2009-06-01Youth:Resources:Executive Assistant:IYB Advisory Board:2009 Minutes:IYB Advisory Board Minutes June 8 2009.doc June 8, 2009 Meeting Minutes Attendance: William Murphy, Chris Milner, Gabriele Weber, Valerie Weber, Cameron Younger, Jen Mainville, Lizzy Noonan-Pomada, Nancy Schuler, Jeri Gallucci, Joan Spielholz and Jen Handy Staff: Allen Green, Karen Friedeborn, Sandy Kim and Jody Hallett-Harris. Excused: Nancy Zook Absent: Haidar Assad --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Meeting called to order at 7:05p.m. by Gabriele Weber Review and approval of Minutes: There was a typo on page 2 of the Minutes, under Unfinished Business (under Treasurer it should say Gabriele 2nd the motion). With that correction the May 11, 2009 minutes were approved. Bill made a Motion to approve the minutes and Chris 2nd the motion, all were in favor. The Minutes stand approved. Officer’s Reports: Common Council (Nancy Schuler): Nancy reported that Youth Council is up and running and there have been two public meetings so far and there was press conference held recently. Youth Council is having a fundraiser at Moe’s Restaurant, Jen handed out the vouchers that must be presented on Thursday, June 11th and 15% of the check total will be given to Youth Council. She also reported that the basketball court on Wood Street is up and running and because of this some of the repairs have been addressed on the skateboard park. Nancy stated that the Ithaca Festival was a big success and that she was very pleased with all of the runners in the Festival Mile. GIAC (Joan Spielholz): Joanie had nothing to report as she has been out of town. Allen stated that GIAC was going to be moving to the old Family and Children’s Services Building but that did not work out. Construction starts in August. Allen stated that Marcia Fort will be doing the All Things Equal radio show on June 9, 2009, which is a ½ hour radio show. Tompkins County Youth Services (Nancy Zook): Excused - No Report – Allen stated that BBBS, YES and RSS 2010 budget proposals were submitted and there have been a lot of follow up questions on these. Southside Community Center (Vincent Sierra): Absent – No Report – Jody will touch base with Vincent and see if he will indeed be the liaison. Allen stated that Katrina Baxter has been hired to replace Stel. Staff and Committee Reports: Staff Reports: None Advisory Board Committees: Recreation: (Chris Milner): Chris stated that the committee is still working on the User Survey. They have put together a draft copy of the survey and they are currently having “outside” persons review the draft version. Youth Development (Gabriele Weber/Jen Mainville): The Monitoring Sessions of PSMP was done by Gabriele and Cameron. Eloise Barrett is the Coordinator of the program and she gave a brief overview of the program to them. The highlight was the Hip Hop Dance Competition, this was a great success and was a good fundraiser. They are going to try to Youth:Resources:Executive Assistant:IYB Advisory Board:2009 Minutes:IYB Advisory Board Minutes June 8 2009.doc make this an annual event/fundraiser for the program. Currently they have 30 students in their after school program (both Boynton Middle School students and High School students), in which both College Discovery and PSMP are sharing services. Jhakeen Haltom works with both College Discovery Program and PSMP. There are two remaining monitoring sessions that need to be completed, Outing Program and Computer All Stars. Chris and Bill will be doing the monitoring for Outing Program and Bill and Jen Mainville will be doing the Computer All Stars monitoring. Gabriele encourage that these monitoring sessions be done before school lets out. Jen Handy will email the questions for the monitoring sessions. Finance (Chris Milner/Gabriele Weber): Nothing to report. Allen stated that the 2010 Budget Guidelines haven’t yet been received from the Mayor. Operations/Facilities: (Bill Murphy): No Report –Allen stated that the Cass Park Pool repairs have all been completed and it is up and running. The Ice Rink Project is back on track. The Stewart Park Dock had a small issue during the Ithaca Festival wherein there were unsupervised children playing on the floating part of the dock and Mayor Peterson is the one that noticed this. DPW will need to come up with a plan regarding this. Gabriele brought up the issue of the large amounts of bird feces on the docks and if there is anything that can be done about this. Recruitment/Training/Orientation (Jeri Gallucci, Cameron Younger, Bill Murphy): Jen Handy stated that a teen recruitment draft letter was put together by Jody and she is currently working on it. This letter will be sent to the teens that indicated on the Youth Council applications that they would be interested in joining a board. Staff Relations: (Not Active): Unfinished Business: Bylaws Revision – Set up meeting time: Jen will be emailing folks to get this set up. April Minutes have not yet been approved and should be sent out with next month’s agenda to review and will be placed on July’s Agenda for approval. Allen stated that Jen Mainville’s Application for Advisory Board was forwarded to the Mayor for possible appointment to the Board. Allen stated that a letter was sent to Roy Westwater and a response was not received, so therefore there is now two possible positions available for mayoral appointment. New Business: The summer meeting schedule was reviewed by all Board Members and Geri and Chris will attend the Executive Committee Meeting on July 20 and all board members were encouraged to come. The July 27, 2009 meeting will be a regular Board Meeting along with overview and highlights of the 2010 Budget. Chris would like a copy of the full 2009 Budget prior to the 7/20/09 meeting. Lizzy and Cameron will not be able to attend the 7/27 meeting as they will be out of town. Karen Friedeborn put together a letter that needs to be reviewed and signed by the Board for the Vista Program. Karen read the letter and every approved the letter and Gabriele signed the letter. Sandy Kim one of the Youth Bureau’s Vista workers put together two great handouts regarding long term funding needs for each program. This was a great help and wonderfully informative and it was suggested that these be put into the By-Laws Book. The Board members would like to have the RSS come to the next meeting and do a short overview of the RSS Program. Jody will follow up with Joanie Groome regarding this. Board Comments/Issues: None ADJOURNMENT: 8:00 p.m.