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Joint Youth Commission , Town of Dr
Villages of Dryden and F reeville.
Minutes from January 20 meeting
Attending: Steve Kirsch, Vicki Alexander, Loretta Camillo, Tracy Kurtz, Nita Baldwin, Inshik
Lee, Laszlo Engel, Joann Myer Foland, Karen Coleman, guests: Allen Green, Monica
Bosworth IYB Outings Program, Sara Sybert, April Tompson, Christina Sears.
Call to Order at 7:40 PM.
Introductions welcome Inshik and Laszlo as prospective members and the Outings program.
Corrections to the December minutes; the plaque has been received and needs to be presented
to the Summer conservation Corps for the building of the bus shelter
The spelling of Laszlos last name corrected Engel. With these corrections Tracy made the
motion to accept the minutes Vicki seconded motion approved by all.
Outings group presented a slide show put together by the students. they share highlights of the
activities emphasizing team work, exploring, making new friends, learning new skills such as:
® rock climbing, ice - skating, snow shoeing, camping, swimming, canoe trips, and more. Monica
recruits volunteers to help with activities, this results in extra adults who have expertise in
areas that she may not be expert in. this year the group has had up to 13 young people
involved currently has 11 participating. the group expressed learning safety skills, life skill,
communication skills self confidence. Students learned of program by association with other
programs , advertising, recruitment at the school. and friends. The group meets once a week.
throughout the school year.
Club Dryden:
Students liked the idea of Club Dryden. Bob Slocum Pres. of Kiwanis is in support of Club
Dryden. Some hesitation on part of the Police and Mayor of Dryden, concerns of large
numbers of youth congregating in one spot, supervision and other concerns which will be
addressed. Locations need to be explored. The commission will be formulating a plan to move
ahead with this project for the summer months. At this point we are in the very beginning
stages and will explore all options for programming.
Varna Homework Club has started, only a few students at this time. Taking donations of
resource materials. One program did participate in a group project to get donations to die
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Coop Extension received two applications for Program manager. One was a strong candidate
® Barbara will advertise again. Hope to have hired a new Program Manger by mid Feb.
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1998 Goals reviewed and will vote on them at the next meeting when we have a quorum.
Calendar for 98
This is a working calendar, quickly reviewed work that needs to be done. Will correct the
dates of the meeting time calendar okay as it is presented. Move Feb. meeting to the 24th
because of school vacations and gives us time to gather information for making decisions at
the meeting.
24 hour. relay - Fund raising project Video will be shown at coop extension on sat Feb. 28th at
10:00 am . will bring the video to a commission meeting soon.
Steve thanked hishike and Laszlo for coming and invited them to .join the commission
Adjourned at 8:50 AM,