HomeMy WebLinkAbout2001-11-20® Dryden Youth Commission
® November 20, 2001
Minutes
Attending: Penny Green - Brown, Kristen Blackman, Colleen Emerick- Daniluk, Nita
Baldwin, Amanda Verba, Kris Bennett, Karen Coleman
Absent: Wait Matyjas, Mary Bachner, Jean Simmons
Meeting called to order at 7:05 PM
Cornell Cooperative Extension
Youth Program Reports - Amanda presented Brooke's and David's Reports. Both
are running very successful programs. The Girls' group is very active with new
participants each week and the Creativity Club has slowly grown and boys are
participating. The greatest success is the Bicycle Awareness group that traveled to
Groton to a workshop with a professional biker. The group has also gone to RIBS
(Recycle Ithaca's Bicycles) and participated in a local bicycle rodeo. This program
had 7 boys and 1 girl attending. David reported that his programs are also going
well. Primetime had only 30 participants, 12 from Dryden, which was disappointing
but the day was very successful. He thinks turnout was low because the day was
planned by high schoolers for middle schoolers (without middle schoolers involved in
the planning).
Future plans include more craft opportunities, an overnight to the MOST museum in
Syracuse and a regular family /open swim at TC3 on Tuesdays from 6 -7 PM. Swim
will be free to all Dryden families.
Publicity Discussion — Working to get a mailing list together (including trying to get
the school's mailing list) and will continue to work on increasing publicity of programs
with the traditional mailing lists as well as E mail, web page approach. There is some
exploration of town -wide mailings which may be a better way to get information out.
More on this in December.
There was discussion about changing to a quarterly (rather than monthly) program
listing. In December there will be a brochure for winter /spring activities for the
Commission's approval.
Other CCE Discussions include:
• Hiring youth to update the Youth Commission Page at the Town Site, as well as
exploring possibilities to link with village pages.
• Brooke and Dave will be asked to attend the Commission meetings once a
quarter, perhaps linked with brochure /activity planning. They will forward a report
to Amanda who will be sure that Kris receives this in time for inclusion with the
meeting agendas so Commission members can read them before the meeting.
• Amanda will attend every other month at this time. This may be amended as the
Commission takes on other work.
• Future program descriptions should include a list of equipment necessary or any
® costs for materials, as Commission members believe that not knowing what
might be expected may cause parents to hesitate to sign their kids up. For
example Outings or Primitive Pursuits or MOST overnight: do the kids need
special equipment, what will be provided ?. This request will be shared with
Amanda before the December meeting for inclusion in the brochures.
Budget Update — Kris and Karen
There is likely to be a substantial cut (approx. $3000) in our anticipated County,
State and local revenue for 2002. When the TCYB has this information, they will
share it with the Commission. Also the villages will experience a substantial
decrease in funds which they receive directly from the county. The Commission will
look at this and consider how to best address these changes when the figures are
firm. This will also require a dialog with municipal boards/trustees.
Evaluations — Karen - Members listed information that they would like to get from the
youth and their families. This was then compared with evaluation forms used in other
municipalities. Kris and Karen will compile this information into a Dryden
questionnaire for approval at the December meeting. How these evaluations will be
distributed, to whom, and how tabulated is still under discussion. It was decided to
go ahead and purchase paper, envelopes and postage for this project with 2001
funds.
Membership — The Commission still needs a town representative. Members will
think about this. Concern about attendance (should meeting day /time be changed to
improve attendance ?) and roles of members will be discussed in next few months. A
roster of Commission members and other contacts was circulated for updates to
addresses, phones, E mails. It will be distributed to all members when done.
Meeting Adjourned at 9:05 PM.
DYC Minutes Page Two November 20, 2001