Bicycle Pedestrian Commission - Regular Meeting

Wednesday, June 10, 2026

The Bicycle Pedestrian Commission discussed summer events, approved past meeting minutes, and reviewed the Teen Resource Fair and Recreation Event Volunteers programs. They also discussed upcoming teen programs and speaking opportunities for commissioners, concluding with a decision to cancel the July meeting.

About this meeting

Government Body
Bicycle Pedestrian Commission
Meeting Type
Bicycle Pedestrian Commission
Location
Cupertino, CA
Meeting Date
June 10, 2026

Transcript

218 sections

0:00Speaker 6

I'll pass it over to Lindsey for the roll call. Commissioner Hsu.

0:06Speaker 5

Commissioner Krakow.

0:08Speaker 5

Commissioner Lau. Here. Commissioner Kumar. Here. Commissioner Holambi. Here. Commissioner Gao.

0:18Speaker 5

Commissioner Deshna.

0:21 – 0:33Speaker 5

Vice Chair Lue. Chair Misra. Here. All present was Commissioner Prakash, Commissioner Lau, Commissioner Gao, and Vice Chair Liu absent.

0:35Speaker 2

Thank you for the roll call. Did you say I was absent?

0:42 – 0:56Speaker 6

No. Okay. Let's move on to ceremonial matters and presentations. The first item is summer events presentation, and the recommended action is to receive a presentation on summer events from Coordinator Christina Lopez.

0:58 – 2:28Speaker 8

Hello, everyone. So I'm going to go over all of our summer events that we have in a busy summer. So we have our 4th of July celebration, which includes morning activities here in Memorial Park. And then we have our fireworks show in the evening with three different viewing sites. We have our summer concert series, Disco at Desk, Cupertino Campout, Shakespeare in the Park, Movies in the Park, and our Kids and Fun Festival. Our concert series actually starts tomorrow. It's every Thursday, June 11th through August 20th, 6.30 to 8 p.m. It's open for all ages. And it's a fun family event outside at the amphitheater. Disco at Dusk is Hollywood themed this year. And it's on Friday, June 26th. And if you guys are not familiar, it's like silent disco. And it'll be at Community Hall. That one is a registration-based event. And then as mentioned, so for our 4th of July celebration, we have pancake breakfast here in the morning, 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. And then we have our flag raising and children's parade at the Veterans Memorial at 10 a.m. Following that, we have our summer concert. It is actually going to be Fire Peach is the band name, 10.30 a.m. to noon, and that'll wrap up all of our morning events. We will also have games and activities outside for everyone to enjoy.

2:34Speaker 9

We'll also have swimming at Blackberry Farm. So during the day, Blackberry Farm pool will be open.

2:40 – 5:02Speaker 8

That's 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., I believe. And then in the evening, we have our three viewing sites, Creekside Park, Sedgwick Elementary, and Miller Avenue will be closed off for viewing. The fireworks will go off around 9.30 as long as weather permits. And this one is also a free event as well. And then we have our annual Cupertino Campout event. It is an overnight event at Creekside Park, July 18th through Sunday, July 19th. And you can register and visit our website if you guys wanted to have your family experience camping for the first time. It is a fun family event with s'mores, different activities, a movie, and just a nice experience in the park. And we have Shakespeare in the Park. This year's theme or show is Anthony and Cleopatra. And they will begin on July 25th. They have two weekends, or three weekends, sorry. End of July and then through August. They will be doing an hour and a half show. And no breaks for that. They'll just go straight through. It's at the Momoa Park Amphitheater, and it is also a free event. And then Movies in the Park at Creekside Park. This year's lineup is Goat, Bud's Life, Freak Year Friday, and Superman, the newest one. And August 7th through the 28th, and movies will start around 8 p.m. depending on sunset. And then last but not least, this is our Kids and Fun Festival, which is presented by Taiwanese Cultural and Sports Association. They are a nonprofit organization, and they put on this event every year. It'll be here in Memorial Park. There's a lot of vendors, activities for everyone to enjoy, and this is from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. It's free to attend as well. Okay. Alrighty, and that is all of our summer events. That does not include all of the summer camps and everything else we got going on too. So we're busy this summer.

5:03Speaker 6

Thank you so much. Let's start with questions. Are there any questions? Okay. Are there any public comments?

5:13Speaker 5

We have no speakers, Jim.

5:15 – 5:35Speaker 6

Okay. So now for comments from the commission, this is the best place to give your guys a speech. Okay. So for the movie events, is the lineup in that order, like Superman last?

5:35 – 5:50Speaker 8

Yes. Yes, Superman will be last, just because of the more older age range, and a lot of kids will be in school by then. So I wanted to play the kid-friendly movies first before they go back to school.

5:50Speaker 6

Okay. So for the viewing sites for the July 4th event, did it change from last year?

5:58 – 6:10Speaker 8

No, it hasn't changed. It might be confusing because Miller Ave is a street, so people don't realize that you guys can sit on the street, bring your chairs, blankets, and stuff, and see the fireworks from the street.

6:10Speaker 6

Okay. And for the Blackberry Farm Wolfing, is that free of charge for anyone?

6:18Speaker 8

I believe for residents, it's $8, and non-residents, it's $13 per person.

6:25 – 6:36Speaker 6

Okay, sounds good. So for the movies that are more targeted towards the younger residents, are those happening towards the beginning of the event?

6:38Speaker 8

For the season, yes, but they all will start around 8 o'clock. So when the sun sets, when the screen, you're able to see the screen.

6:47 – 7:18Speaker 6

Okay. Yeah. Are there any suggestions? Okay. Thank you so much for the presentation. Okay. The next item is approval of minutes. Subject is approval of minutes April 8th. Recommended action is review and approve on April 8th. Okay.

8:26 – 8:38Speaker 9

Thank you. We have these chairs right here and then the speakers.

8:40Speaker 6

Whenever you're done, feel free to look up. Okay. Are there any questions?

8:47Speaker 7

I was absent at the last meeting, so I just wanted to ask, why did we decide not to grant the youth-led organization highlight to unfit tabs?

8:56 – 9:23Speaker 6

Yeah, for that one, I think what I remember is that it seemed like a really new organization, and they mostly had plans for things, but they hadn't really executed anything yet. Is there anything to add on? Because that's just what I remember. Okay, that was the first. Are there any other questions? Any public comments?

9:24Speaker 5

We have no speakers.

9:26 – 9:47Speaker 6

Thank you. Any comments from the commission? I'll pass it over. Not yet. Is there a motion to approve these minutes?

9:49Speaker 5

April meeting minutes.

9:50Speaker 6

Is there a second?

9:56 – 10:29Speaker 5

Commissioners to. Commissioner for gosh I. Mission to allow this mission to mark. The mission of the lobby that's sure yeah yes. Sure that's right yes. By sheer loot. Chair is sir yes. Mission carries with commissioner to mark and vice chair of the absent in this. And Commissioner Sue.

10:33Speaker 6

Thank you. Now we have no post comments. Do we have any oral communications?

10:42Speaker 5

I see no speakers virtually. Would any of you guys still speak? No? Okay. I see no speakers. Okay.

10:51 – 11:11Speaker 6

Any old, okay, no old business. Okay, moving on to new business. We have a bunch of items here today. The subject for item three is teen resource fair and the recommended action is receive a presentation and provide feedback on the 2027 teen resource fair from recreation coordinator Robert Kaufman.

11:12Speaker 9

Hello, teen commission.

11:16 – 12:02Speaker 3

We had a great year. Happy to be here. I got a few things to present to you tonight to bookend a strong school year. So here's the agenda. We're going to kind of briefly go over the event. Most of you were there that day, so this will be kind of like a refresher for you. And then, yeah, you'll give us feedback on what we did right, what you feel like you want to add, and what we can maybe try to Get cooking for 2027. I know I said... 2027. Yeah. Do you have questions? This is our... Oh, okay.

12:02Speaker 9

We all have questions.

12:08 – 14:21Speaker 3

You were all at the 2016 Resource Fair. Most of you were tabling for, well, you were all tabling for Key Commission. I might have peeled off one of you to table for a different program that you might have been a part of, such as Leaders in Training and whatnot. You know, just to kind of give a rundown, that was, I think this year was our third year doing the Teen Resource Fair. Sorry, a couple years back. Kind of an amalgamation of a few other events and You know, in one of our commissioners' siblings, Trudy Holambia, a former commissioner, kind of helped with us kind of forming a partnership with FUHSD. FUHSD is a lady see the wellness committee to kind of help us put this event on. So each year we collaborate with them. They bring some their booth partners. For us, it's a great opportunity to showcase our city jobs. Other coordinators are recruiting for part-time positions, whether it's a year-round position or like a building attendant, or a big one for us is all the summer jobs that come up, such as lifeguarding, rec leaders, stuff like that. For me, it's a great place to showcase all the teen programs. I love having my little, like, teen program corridor between Teen Commission and Youth Activity Board, and now, like, you know, now we have Rev in there, and now Techie Teens, too. Great place to have all those things. And yeah, we do it on the, we do it in the quad area of Main Street, the little lawn between Philz and I think what's now Boba Shop. It seems to change every year, but I believe it's Boba Shop now. Is it 18? No. It's 18. It's 18, right? Okay. So it's a few hours. We're all tabling, showcasing our programs. I'm just kind of interfacing with other students trying to talk up everything that we do here in the city. If I'm interested for some of our programs.

14:24Speaker 9

Yeah, that's really giving the combination of the combination of job fair.

14:32 – 15:55Speaker 3

Yeah, I mean, also, you know, this event is a, so the amalgamation I've talked about before is we used to have a summer jobs fair, and then we used to have a health and wellness teen event, and we brought them together to kind of, you know, kind of consolidate, but also create like a place where we can try to offer as many things for teens in one spot. And not just jobs, not just volunteering opportunities, not just like, not just mental health and wellness partners, but, you know, it gives us the opportunity to do many things or stay at the place that we have. So there's a lot of opportunity to, you know, look for new things, new things to add to this. This year, we had some we had a partner that was from the county kind of showcasing like, share a summer internship. And I've heard internships being kind of, um, you know, they want in the past too. So that's the main kind of recap for this year. These will be, well, don't let me distract, don't let me confuse you, right? But these, just want to hear your feedback of this year and what you want to hear out of next year or see out of next year as well.

15:56 – 16:09Speaker 6

Thank you. So the structure for this is we're going to ask if we have any questions and then public comments, and then we'll move on to all the feedback that we have. So do we have any questions from the commission? Are there any public comments?

16:11Speaker 4

We have no speakers.

16:13Speaker 6

Thank you. Okay. So comments from the commission, what are the feedback slash suggestions we have?

16:20 – 16:39Speaker 2

Oh yeah. Like, like one of the big things was like, I think the two boots that most people thought that we were the same thing. And so I think next time we should like separate the tables instead of sharing one table. And the youth activity board, I think.

16:41 – 17:18Speaker 1

Oh, yeah. So there's almost mentioned was that, like, instead of just randomly scattering each of the programs, Like, I noticed there were some things related to, like, cancer and, like, assisting people with cancer already. And then there's a whole other thing about jobs. So one thing we could do to make it a lot more easier for someone who comes there is we could, like, bracket off certain sections. Like, this is about jobs, volunteering opportunities. And specifically, like, if this one's about, I don't know, cancer research, and this one's about getting involved in the city, that would make it a lot easier for them.

17:22Speaker 3

Yeah, that's a good idea. I mean, that sounds like you need more signage to kind of denote who's where.

17:31Speaker 6

Yeah, because, yeah, for the structure part that Commissioner Dismuk was just saying, I remember it was kind of like a U-shaped thing.

17:40Speaker 3

Classic horseshoe.

17:41 – 18:18Speaker 6

Yeah, the horseshoe. And this part was like all the Cupertino programs. And then here's the Santa Clara County thing. And it would have been more convenient for the people specifically looking to get involved in programs if that was like right next to the other program things. um so if we could like go to maybe where stuff's next to like the city stuff yeah yeah because that's the area where everyone looking to get involved is going and then there was like the the music production club from pubertino high and then like the cancer awareness club and all that the clubs could be off to one side because that's like um

18:19Speaker 4

area of its own.

18:21 – 18:40Speaker 6

I totally agree about the about separating the different program table things idea because a lot of people like just went to the YAB representative and then they like skipped us or other way around because they thought and then that way it was hard for them to get like one visit to every person.

18:41 – 19:31Speaker 6

Yeah. I think it would be even better if there were, like, more tables that were dedicated to, like, nonprofits or other student orgs, especially ones relating to FUHSB. Not sure if you want school clubs specifically, because that gets school-specific, and the involvement scope for those is also school-specific when the event caters to students all over the district. But I think it would be, like... even more vibrant if there were all kinds of different clubs there um oh and for the applications and stuff um relating to those hupertino events was there like a flyer that had like all of them consolidated into one flyer or was it like separate things no um

19:33 – 20:32Speaker 3

You're pretty broad on the flyer, just in case there's anybody that kind of like drops or anybody that gets added last minute, like the county booth actually was kind of the week before I was like, hey, actually, you know, we have a little bit of space. We want to join us and they were able to just not like, pack up and come, you know, the The school district booth partners, though, I usually get them to confirm a few weeks in advance. And that kind of reminds me that, you know, the thing about the marketing is usually it's done well in advance, right? It coincides with our brochure cycle. And with the resource fair, we're making the flyer in, like, October, November. Yeah. and we don't really know who's coming, you know, well into winter or spring at that point just because everybody's busy.

20:33 – 21:00Speaker 6

Yeah, that makes sense. I was wondering for the flyers that we give out to the actual people at the event, the attendees, for the Cucurtino, that segment of the horseshoe. I think all of them were kind of... What I remember is we would give one flyer out to one person, and then there was something about the flyers where we also had visiting cards with little...

21:01 – 21:53Speaker 3

Okay, so for all of the teen programs, I had all of you consolidate onto one web page. And they all had different links to each specific program's application. And so then for every group, I had a different like sign that had like your logo or maybe there was a supplemental flyer. So maybe that was a little confusing. I thought it would be easier to make, we produce one thing where it's all there and then you are just representing your program so they can specifically talk to one of you to be like, you know, what's up with team commission? What do you guys do? Like, give me some advice on the application, right? And then it's easier for all of you because you could literally are all handing out the same flyer, the same business card for it. So that was my thinking.

21:53Speaker 6

I think that's a good idea. It's better to keep the whole thing consistent and then you just go to each person and be like, oh, what's this part about?

21:59Speaker 3

What's this part about?

22:00Speaker 6

I like that. Yeah.

22:01 – 24:08Speaker 3

So kind of like, kind of going back with, for what like Commissioner Dishamukh and you are saying about like, you know, finding a way to at least, like, make it, make you all more identified, distinguishable between each other. That's something I'll, I still think, like, you know, the fly, like, all of it comes all day at once makes sense, but maybe just bigger signage, maybe separate tables. I'll tell you there's a human element to having more booths, right? That's more stuff that we have to lug. But yeah, definitely, like, a lot of food for thought on that. Can I give you guys a little more? Actually, I just, I thought of something, but, you know, every year we kind of have the opportunity to use the other, the other big lawn. It's a little detached, so I haven't jumped for it yet because it's still like, that would be a big, a bigger undertaking to go and use both spaces. But seeing as like, you know, the IDC portion is a little more student organization and now we can, we have more space to kind of like create new like neighborhoods, if you will, neighborhoods with partners, kind of like what you were saying, right? Like we have our city, then we can have our kind of like external opportunities, but like adjacent, right? Like the county feels adjacent. I'm assuming to you guys, it's all local government too. So we could have like some, some county partners, um, of course, our mental health and wellness booth partners, and then like a student booth section. This, of course, what I'm proposing or what I'm like suggesting or talking about here is like a much bigger undertaking. It's already hard enough just for the handful of us to like load the van and bring all of these booths over. So we might have to talk about some other details, but that's something that is like possible, you know, and I don't know. How do you guys feel about that? If you think it would be worth to make it a much bigger fair and just have to spread across to the other lawn? I know you think about that.

24:10 – 24:40Speaker 4

I think I like the idea, but it really only works if you've got all those boots to come over. I think that YLO should be more incorporated in this. especially YLOs that were built like Cupertino are in the base that they could like market more closer to their audience. That's what I would say that if we've made it bigger, we could include more YLOs.

24:42Speaker 3

I mean, there's even like maybe an opportunity for like the team commission highlighted YLOs. They could be like a higher priority to be included. Yeah.

24:56 – 25:22Speaker 7

The thing I wanted to mention is that I'm actually really happy this year. We had a lot of attendees. Even though I was in one of the later shifts, we still had a bunch of people coming through and checking through all the booths, which is something that I really like. But personally, what I saw, it was more parents than maybe 12 and under kids who maybe are not really able to join YB or our commission. So maybe, I don't know, somehow we can find a way to market to teens of those ages.

25:27Speaker 3

Well, if they're already coming, why should, are you talking about the unique teams of like 14 and up?

25:34Speaker 3

Okay. Yeah. Do you have any suggestions for that? We're trying to capture the audience that we most more desperately want to be in.

25:45 – 26:05Speaker 7

I think when we work with the IDC, I feel like there's a lot of opportunities that we can talk about. I mean, for IDC, I'm not sure if I saw, but I didn't, I don't really remember seeing any videos about like, being made to promote the teen resource fair. So that's one of the ways you can reach out to students. And obviously something that we can all do is probably get it in our school blasts, like make sure that people are able to see that.

26:06 – 26:23Speaker 4

Especially with IDC, like I think at least in our school, all of the members are part of ASB. So they have that connection with our announcements and with like our Fremont TV and things like that. So if they could send out reports to their school, which the school advertises it, then we could probably get more.

26:29 – 27:46Speaker 3

Yeah, I think marketing's gotten harder on the school district side over the last year or two. I don't know if it's because they feel like they're so inundated between, you know, certain agencies such as us putting in with us and, you know, there's like a new student youth-led organization popping up every day. I'm sure they got a lot, right? They kind of are on like a two-week cycle. schedule where it was like, hey, we can only really put this up. You know, with teens, it's like, I know we all do stuff last minute, but there's also something to be said about being told something in February. Okay, that sounds interesting, being told something in February. Oh, yeah, okay, that sounds interesting. And then in March, being like, oh, you know, actually, I have a free Saturday and then coming. So, I mean, Definitely, for me, it's important to continue working with the school district because, you know, they're the ones that are most involved with you all and your lives. But I'm curious of, like, there are some things outside of the school district that we can try to, like, that we can try to explore to get to more of these, you know, our exams demo that we're looking for.

27:48 – 28:49Speaker 6

I think discussing marketing with IDC a little bit more might be a good idea because IDC is the only commission that has representatives from every single school who are also directly connected to ASB, which is the organization that goes back to each campus and does whatever they're particular blast style is. Like I know for Cupertino High daily announcements, our announcements usually aren't that long. Like there's a lot of like announcements that I'm sure they could fit in some extra material. And even if it's like two weeks leading up to it, that might be like the perfect timing to get people to remember. Because if, yeah, like how you were saying, you know, if you find out about it right before, that's at least what I've noticed is it's more likely for people to then look at their schedule and mark it down. So I'm sure it works differently in each campus. Like there's like Fremont TV and like other stuff, but yeah.

28:49Speaker 3

Do you know? Yeah, I know it's a little different between all of them.

28:56 – 29:33Speaker 6

Yeah, so I think IDC would definitely be able to connect you with each campus' marketing thing. And I think in terms of external marketing, the only way... So it's... With... the teen age group, you either market with them in school, through the school, or social media, because those are the only places where they're all consolidated. So that and, I guess, Instagram would be the two best places to make sure we get reach. I know every single time we say Instagram, but that is kind of the best place.

29:33 – 30:51Speaker 3

It's a good time to remind you we have our new Cupertino Parks and Rec Instagram. So yeah, that's a good point. We created that, by the way, kind of like with this exact feedback from you guys, really deep commission over the past few years. And we probably couldn't have even gotten one without the feedback from you all directly. So maybe that's something for us to explore next year is also like, indirectly, but directly related to this is kind of like how do we promote and push our, our newfound Instagram, get our numbers up on there. We're kind of in like a rebuild phase now that we have that. It's like, it's amazing that we have it, but we do have to kind of rebuild the population that is on the like general city, city of Cupertino Instagram. Um, But it's a great opportunity because, you know, we're not going to be, like, right next to, you know, reservoir emergency and wind warning. You know, it's going to be, like, you hit our Instagram, it's team commission, it's team resource fair, it's summer camps are starting soon. Like, we're excited about that. So.

30:52Speaker 9

Yeah. And stunning videos.

30:55 – 31:09Speaker 3

And more of the videos that we made this year, reels and stories and stuff like that. We have a lot more flexibility with that. So sorry for the little tangent, but that like just reminded me like it's kind of all related. Yeah.

31:10 – 31:34Speaker 6

Do you think it would be Do we think it would be a good idea to help increase the reach of this account, repost their posts in our stories or something? Because I feel like if everyone was to start following this account the way they follow their school's ASB account, then that would be a really good way to make sure they get everything about their events.

31:36 – 31:50Speaker 3

And reposting, you know, when we get back into our, our round of teen events, again, you know, stuff like hack and you guys didn't post share. Oh, cool. Did you put fires up anywhere?

31:50Speaker 4

Which one? The team is fair.

31:56 – 33:03Speaker 3

We do. I mean, we get them into this, we get them over to the school district's IDC, post them at the library, all of our city facilities, but put in pay frame, post her out. trying to get it up at Main Street's a little harder. That's a different facility. That is one of the hardships of working with a different facility, but we try to get out there in the parks too as well. We definitely try to push this one a lot just because it's a very important event for us in terms of just connecting with our community directly and showcasing what we do. Other events obviously have their, I mean, obviously we want every event to be successful, but we do try. We do try very hard for this event just because, like I said, really just trying to get in front of students and get them information and showcase everything.

33:07Speaker 6

Any other comments? I think that's it.

33:13Speaker 3

Thank you for having me, Team Commission.

33:16 – 33:33Speaker 6

Be right back. Okay, next subject is Recreation Event Volunteers and the recommended action is to receive a presentation and provide feedback on 2026 Recreation Event Volunteers from Recreation Coordinator Robert Kaufman. I'm back.

33:34Speaker 3

Thank you. Thank you for having me, Team Commission.

33:40Speaker 1

Is this our main slide?

33:41 – 37:01Speaker 3

Okay. Recreation Event Volunteers. What is REV? The name REV is derived from the title Recreation Event Volunteers. It is a year-round volunteering program that was started two school years ago. This was our second year. It came from one, us utilizing volunteers at events more and more coming out of COVID. um and then two having the inspir the being inspired by some of those volunteers that came to a lot of our events um sothick um i believe is his last name i apologize if he hears this but um he's like one of our key like early event volunteers that just like love coming you know, obviously was doing it to put some hours in at Harker, but like also just kind of loved doing it with us. And so we, um, we just felt like there was an opportunity to like create a new program, find, you know, like reward the students that do want to like join us often for events. Um, and you know, we get what we need, which is volunteers for our events. Um, This also came in combination with, once again, of course, team commission giving us some advice and kind of like helping us, helping guide us a bit as we, you know, ideated this program into existence. how it fits into our existing programs. We have King Commission, our advisory body that advises city council and us on various projects or issues that are important to the use of Cupertino. The Youth Activity Board, as you may know, they plan and implement teen events throughout the year. And then our Our summer programs are leaders in training, which are like our camp counselors, volunteers that are helping run our summer camps over the summer. And then we also have Techie Teens, which is a little more niche, but it's another summer volunteer program where they provide tech support for seniors over at the senior centers. REV adds to our year round. offering, you know, we have team commission, we have the app. Rev gives another avenue for leadership opportunities and volunteer experience. I think I said all of this stuff already, so we'll go ahead and skip this slide, but yeah. That's Rev. That was kind of overview. We just ended our second year. We did have to say goodbye to our inaugural leadership. Joyce Chung and Granov Gupta, who were also former team commissioners, kind of helped, also helped this program from the idea phase into existence, into reality.

37:03Speaker 9

We're very grateful for them. We hope they have a great first year in college next year.

37:07 – 37:19Speaker 3

We had a very successful second year. We're looking forward to our third year and our new leadership for the program, seeing who's excited to take up the mantle.

37:21Speaker 9

Yeah. Talk about the change from the first year and second year?

37:29 – 41:38Speaker 3

Oh, yes. So when there's been, you know, we also want to just kind of talk more specifically and talk about like, the progression over the last two years. You know, there's been plenty of like, really pains of this program, like I say, everything is PG King. Um, You know, one thing when we first created it was the program, every event was going to be like a point-based system where we had our major events where we really wanted a lot of volunteers to come. So we weighted those heavier, but it was points. So it was like one and two. So then we went stuff like Earth Day and Big Bunny, which take a lot of people to help run that event, would be weighted at two. But we realized very quickly after the first year that like not all events are weighted or cost the same in terms of like energy and time, right? You know, first day is a long event. You know, one event that may be a major event may be a longer event than another one, right? So we converted to an hours-based system took kind of an average of our total, like, offerings and based on our gold, silver, bronze reward levels based off of that. And I think that's going pretty good so far, especially because, you know, ours are something you want to give them anyways. It might as well be based off of that. And it's something that, like, I think teens, like, it makes more sense to teens, like, offer it, right, because they're already looking at stuff like the Presidential Volunteer Service Award And other programs that are all, you know, they might be submitting those hours elsewhere. So to kind of like condense it into a single currency, if you will, probably just makes it simpler for our REV members to process and keep it going. Yeah, that's probably the big change from first year to second year. Going into our third year, we're looking into changing our calendar a bit. Commissioner Halambe has been here since the beginning, so she kind of knows it's a little confusing, but when we first started, we were doing like July to August was our year, right? It's just slightly off the school year, but with the idea that like, you know, we have a couple of July events. We have July 4th, then we have camp out, and those require volunteers So, you know, trying to find an end point. So where you can, like, kind of end and then celebrate everybody was kind of hard. But after doing a couple of times, we realized, like, it just makes more sense to just follow the school year once again. It's like a don't reinvent the wheel kind of thing. Like, let's just keep it simple for you, for us. Like, fall school year will go August to June in this case. Really, it's July to June. But July is kind of like a bonus month because students are either here or not here based on vacations and summer programs. But yeah, those are kind of our two big lessons we've learned over the last couple of years. It's still going strong. We still have about... You know, I think we've had, like, almost 70 members total, like, lifetime so far, and, like, probably, like, somewhere around a little over 30 in terms of, like, active members throughout this year, throughout each year on average. We have a ton of applications waiting for kind of going into next year, so we're kind of looking forward to, you know, to the expansion of this program and just kind of the really like the, um, just building the name for it. Um, it's been a lot of fun. It's been a huge endeavor actually. It's been a lot of work, but, um, it's been very rewarding and it's been like, it's been fun to see how like it kind of ties into the rest of what we do in this department.

41:40 – 43:01Speaker 9

I'll just add that, um, Robert Kaufman is our team coordinator. We've been really lucky that he took the feedback and he took the two founding members and worked with them and kind of initiated this entire program and has been growing it. And our events just cannot happen. Most of you have been out to some of our bigger events. They can't happen just with staff. We need to have volunteers. And so the combination of that need, but also recognizing the need of a lot of students and teens in our area need to have documented volunteer hours And they want to do those hours doing something kind of fun and meaningful. So kind of taking all of those and putting them together. And that brought us a lot of extra time and really had the sudden speed to start it. And it's been phenomenally successful for our events. So it's brought such an added quality to our events to be able to have volunteers come in in bulk, for lack of a better word, that we can get a lot of volunteers to come. All at 1 time, kind of through a streamlined process and. They're all background checked and ready to go. So very much. It is to. Our coffins. Yes.

43:02 – 44:12Speaker 3

Yeah, and I'm sorry that kind of remind me, like, the last kind of thing that we hope, like, this program keeps growing is just. you know, that, that usual thing that I always talk about is like, the tangible thing that teams usually like, will apply or come out for is something that's going to like bolster their college application, right? Like, that's why you guys do anything. Let's be honest, right? But for me, it's like, okay, we know you want that. So we're going to try to provide that we're trying to develop these things with that in mind. And then the hope is that you get the bonus, like intangible stuff, you know, the actual experience of being there, the actual experience of like engaging with your community, really just doing the things that us as a Parks and Rec department like value in terms of our work, you know? And I feel like I see that in a lot of you that you talk about. I feel like I see the little word there. Yeah, both sides, the tangible and the intangible. Anyways, I feel like we've waxed the lady.

44:13Speaker 6

Back to you. Any questions from the commission?

44:19Speaker 7

So do you guys partner with volunteer clubs at high schools? Because I know sometimes the school is a non-social organization.

44:27 – 45:51Speaker 3

Yeah, so REV being more of like a... I wouldn't say drop in, drop out, but the goal is to incentivize their members to come out rather than just force them to be out. You know, depending on the timing of certain events, some Rev members are just, like, way less available than ever, right? And, you know, some events are pretty big. So often I might have to reach out to kind of, like, one-day volunteers. I do have, like, my lists that I used to use before Rev to kind of help bolster our numbers. And usually I have, like, one... other like volunteering group that kind of like helps supplement this year. Homestead NHS was James Pablo, I think. the volunteer opportunity director there, he loved whatever I would throw something out. Whenever I threw a REV opportunity out, he's like, yes, I'll have some REV members there. So yeah, we definitely still utilize outside volunteers and it's a good opportunity to be like, hey, you should join us, join the program officially, especially if we see them a couple of times, you should be here and with us and I think frankly, you could double dip if you want to, right? Like we do both, so yeah.

45:53Speaker 6

I was wondering, you mentioned like bronze, silver, gold. What is that like? Like do the volunteers get like an award or something?

46:02 – 46:49Speaker 3

Yeah, I mean, it's really just symbolic of their commitment, their dedication to the program. It's an hour, like how many hours they put into it, right? You know, for now, we mainly do meters for the second end of the year, shout them out on social media and on the web page. And yeah, that's what we do. Hoping to kind of up that as we go, because I know, you know, even just talking about like YLO highlights, I know students kind of like want more. Like I know you guys are pushing for more in terms of the highlighting aspect of it. But yeah, for now it's, it's, that's, that's what.

46:50Speaker 6

That's a good incentive.

46:52 – 47:22Speaker 3

Yeah. You know, it's, it's kind of like based off of the PBSA a little bit, right? Like it's taking, borrowing from their playbook. It's like our gold level members put in, I think it's 50 hours in the year, you know, and that's just like in the one school year, you know, you've been a leader in training, like, you know, at 50 hours, I think, well, you know, like, 20 to 30 hours in one summer can feel like, right? It's a lot, you know, so it was great. But yeah.

47:24Speaker 6

Any more questions? Okay. Is there any public comment?

47:30Speaker 5

We have no speakers.

47:33 – 48:00Speaker 6

Okay. Comments from the commission? I just want to comment that PDSA had been paused. Probably know about this. Yeah. So when you advertise Rev, do you usually talk about the PDSA and that routine hours are eligible for PDSA? Because you might want to shift that marketing to like congressional.

48:00 – 48:13Speaker 3

But I really appreciate you kind of thinking about that. We don't just because, you know, we're talking about our own program, but that's a great point. Some of the things for other things, actually.

48:14 – 48:38Speaker 6

There's this other one. It's a little more niche, but I think it's called the Congressional Service Award, something like that. But you can start talking or you can look into that and see. They have a bunch of different tracks and maybe you can, like, whenever you're explaining the program to potential members, you can be like, this would be good for the Congressional Congress.

48:38 – 49:06Speaker 3

Yeah, it's like an analog, right? A comparison point. A lot of our comparison points the first year was like, well, it's like PVSA, but you know. Yeah, exactly. It's always good to know about other things. Always good to know whether it's a comparison point or just something to borrow from, like borrow ideas from. So I always appreciate you guys throwing out

49:07 – 49:41Speaker 6

other other programs or like agencies that are doing some some either similar things or different so thank you i think um the the rev like one of the big incentives for joining rev would be that you're able to like use these hours to apply for like Awards that are like kind of on the national level, technically. Because like PVSA, you could, in your college application, you can check national. So yeah, good to know.

49:42 – 50:29Speaker 4

Are there any other comments? I think from my experience, like this year I wasn't able to participate a lot because field hockey got in the way of literally every single event. But especially from like last year, It was a really fun experience, and there were, like, a lot of learning experiences, but also just, like, it was just a really fun time, like, for every single event that I volunteered for. The only thing that I would say is, personally, for me, like, the emails don't work as well because they often get, like, flooded, and then, like, I either, like, miss an email or, like, I highlight something to go back to later, and then I, like, forget about it because it's just flooded through. So maybe working on like a different communications system. Let me comment that.

50:30 – 51:04Speaker 3

I appreciate you saying that. I definitely like feel that. Nobody said it to me up until this point, but there's just like that feeling of like, am I just communicating into the void? Like I have plenty of Rev members participating and coming, but like, you know, the thing with working with teens is they don't necessarily talk back to you. So like half the time I'm just like talk, I'm just like, hey, There's the thing, please. Hello. And then, and then, and then a group of y'all show up, you know, and then it's great.

51:05 – 51:24Speaker 4

But, um, yeah, that's definitely something that you could use, but like, I feel like that just needs to be a little bit more like streamlined. That's the place that we can go to more of.

51:26 – 51:43Speaker 3

Yeah, there's nothing in particular, but emails just in general are kind of like a... It's definitely hard for you guys to keep track, right? Like, how often do you check for, like, school emails and stuff?

51:44Speaker 4

I think the thing is, all my emails, like, all my accounts are condensed into ones. Like, per day, I get, like, 20 emails, and then they all, like, it's filtered through them.

51:53Speaker 3

Okay. Okay, I figured that out. But thank you.

52:00Speaker 5

Yeah, I totally agree.

52:10Speaker 6

It's like there are no other comments. Thank you so much. Thank you.

52:15Speaker 9

So we just finished.

52:20Speaker 5

And then we have three agenda items.

52:23Speaker 9

You have much on staff report. Yeah.

52:27Speaker 3

I have a couple items.

52:31Speaker 9

So we're probably, just depending on how much feedback you have, we're probably at around 7.30. If you guys want to pause and text for rights, we'll do that.

52:46Speaker 5

Can I go to the restroom real quick? Yeah, this would be a great time. Quick pause.

52:52Speaker 9

We still have a quorum, so we can move on if you're not back.

53:01Speaker 3

Try to keep it all easy. I ate dinner before I came.

53:08Speaker 6

Oh, where did you have?

53:10 – 53:25Speaker 3

I had a marfuku ramen. Yeah, I don't want to take any teams. I was like, I'm really hungry right now. Like, I just want to. And I just like drove that I like ended up there and I was like, it's perfect.

53:26Speaker 6

Yeah. Where is my speaker is on. Oh, it's your dice.

53:32Speaker 3

Yes. So sure.

53:35Speaker 6

Have good courage.

53:38Speaker 5

And we all have been waiting.

53:49 – 54:05Speaker 6

Okay, so item number five is teen school year programs and recommended action is to receive a presentation and provide feedback on the school year teen programs from recreation coordinator Robert Kaufman. Back.

54:08Speaker 9

Thank you very much.

54:21 – 57:54Speaker 3

talk about some teen programs as much. Some of them we've already talked about today, so I'll gloss over those ones pretty quickly. These are our teen programs. We have the activity board, Recreate the Vet volunteers. Those are year-round, school year-round. And then we have LIT and Tech Teens, which are our summer programs. We have teen movie nights on Fridays. I'm told not to click my pen anymore. We usually do like a Friday in September, Friday in February, and a Friday in May, which I think we're going to reevaluate. To be honest, we might do one less this year, one or two less, just because I'll tell you now, Teen Movie Nights didn't do as well this year as it did before. So, looking kind of ahead and about the other things that we do, we might shuffle. That priority into something else. Um, last year we did team speaker series really for the 1st time we started it. Sorry, I said last year, this year. We started the year before when we did one instance. It wasn't really a series. It was a team speaker instance, if you will. But this year, we had a very successful real run of team speaker series in November. And so we're planning on bringing it again. And these are our proposed dates. Gab and I currently have some topics based on You know, brainstorming, but also some of the advice that you that over the last couple of months, stuff like being more niche with the topic, right, being more specific rather than broad. We really took some of that advice to heart. Actually, it was very, very salient advice. Um, so yeah, team speaker series, definitely coming back. We're very excited to kind of like grow that program. And just like, it's just a great opportunity to like, do something short and easy, but also like provide a lot of value to our other teen events. We have the Ritino Cafe December 13, which is our, um, our, uh, final study hall of our community hall. We have our human resource fair in late March. And then we have HACC on that second weekend in April, the beginning of spring break. And then we have Splash Bash in June. And I'll say we just ran Splash Bash until Sunday, literally three days ago, for the first time in two years. And we actually had a good turnout. We had over 60 in each event. So looking forward to running it again. It's a fun way to kind of kick off summer. Some of our YAB teams were also either LITs or rec leaders. So it was kind of like running a short little fun camp before camp starts the next week. So yeah, that's kind of like our calendar tentative count. Something we're missing on here, but something to start thinking about and we'll talk about in this topic is pizza and politics this year in October. Is that the last slide?

57:58Speaker 6

Thank you. Are there any questions from the commission? Is there any public comment?

58:07Speaker 4

We have no speakers here.

58:10 – 58:21Speaker 6

Okay, any comments from the Commission? So for the movie nights, what did you guys do differently this year from the year before?

58:25 – 1:00:02Speaker 3

Honestly, I think we did better this year than the year before. I think we did more decoration. We had better food, and I thought we had more exciting movies. You know, we had, like, Superman, and I think the new Lilo and Stitch, whereas, like, previous years, we probably showed more, like, kiddie movies, like Minions, which I know is, like, throwback to y'all, but it's, like, you know, at some point, we've got to show some more, like, current stuff, right? I'm not really sure, you know? I'm not sure we had less of a turnout this year for our movie nights, and it just kind of, I think, I know... I think, yeah, I've got a little deflated on running a movie night for less and less people. Yeah, so going into next year, we're thinking about maybe pouring more energy into some of the other stuff that we have on the calendar that is, frankly, all of them better than ever, actually. Hack had its biggest year since 22. No, 23, sorry. 23 was the first year out of COVID. Hack had its biggest year since 2023. It was awesome. Yeah, it was fantastic. And Team Speakers really surprised me. Flash Bash had a much, much bigger second first time. So, you know. At first I was a little worried that we were just kind of down in general, but really overall actually we're up. It's just certain programs are clearly more valuable to at least our day-to-date students than a couple years ago.

1:00:05 – 1:00:32Speaker 6

Honestly, I'm not too sure why the movie night attendance would be down this year. But at least for me personally, I noticed that this year a lot of like fun events, at least like even on campus and relating to those, they just seem to have less attendance than in the years past. So maybe it was just something about this year, but... I don't know why.

1:00:32Speaker 3

It's like your generation's gotten very serious all of a sudden. Although you were pretty serious before, but it's funny, yeah.

1:00:39 – 1:00:52Speaker 6

Yeah, I don't know. Job fair is going to be super crowded maybe next year. I don't know why we're all getting so serious. But I think it would... So are you planning to cut down to maybe two movie night events or something like that?

1:00:53 – 1:02:08Speaker 3

Yeah, I mean, even maybe one just to not... you know, just to focus more on like, we have, you know, we have Pizza and Baltic and we have Teen Speaker Series. We have also talked about bringing back Supertino Cafe in the May, in the May, in May instead. And that might be more beneficial than like running a movie night for just a few, at least we'll probably have more that will want to come and like enjoy the space, study, you know, eat some food. It's, it's not, you know, it's just trying to figure out the priority. And it sounds like the value is seen more in like the kind of educational aspect or, you know, whatever is best for like your futures, right? It seems to be the priority here. I'm trying also not to lose the concept of the fact that we want to provide to socialize, to stress, because I feel like you have enough of that already. It's push and pull.

1:02:08Speaker 6

Are there any comments about this specifically?

1:02:11 – 1:02:50Speaker 1

Yeah. So I guess one of the ideas for V-Night is that probably just to schedule it on a long weekend, because I feel like most of the time people are just going to be working on something But the only time that they'd be really interested in going out was like long weekend, because even for people that don't go out to luxury events that much, a long weekend's a pretty nice, like, little thing you can go to. Like, hey, Olympic Saturday, I got nothing lined up for the entire weekend. I'm just going here. I feel like that would definitely help attendance. Yeah, it's good. Good points.

1:02:52 – 1:03:19Speaker 7

would like to comment on or kind of ask is that i know personally at my school we also post movie nights so if you want to find a way to maybe like work with them or like part of them to host movie night that way you have like your audience about the entire entire district or city and you also have the audience of just like that specific school cool yeah i like the idea i don't know like how feasible it would be but like maybe

1:03:20 – 1:03:48Speaker 4

collaborating with IDC again with like a district-wide movie night. I don't know how that would work or if it would work. But the other thing I had is also like just being very particular with the dates. I think, I don't know what the rest, maybe in May it was because of like finals and AP season because I know that even in like some of my classes when we were trying to plan events, it was just really hard because everyone was like, oh, I need to prep for this and things like that.

1:03:50 – 1:04:29Speaker 3

I think for me, the shocking thing was like, we had a movie night in February. It didn't do that good. After having a movie night in September or October, it was kind of like, oh, these aren't even like... These aren't even like the key, like nobody's showing up times, right? Like May is hard because we're working around finals and AP week. It's like two weeks of May and you can't do anything, right? You can't do anything like before and after, right? It's going to be scary. It's going to be hard to find it. But yeah, October, February, I feel like it's a little easier.

1:04:32Speaker 7

Yeah. This is kind of separate, but I just wanted to ask, like, why do you not have the study cafe thing in spring?

1:04:39 – 1:05:36Speaker 3

for the funds? We used to do it in December and May. The May one was a lot less attended than December one. That was why we said the first place to open up for like a May movie night or a splash bash that maybe doesn't happen on June 7th, right before summer camp, you know, just give us a little more flexibility, but you know, might be time to just bring it back to throw something in May that, that might be like easy for us to run and also like easy for teams to like, not feel like they're committed to. I mean, like it literally also coincides with study finals. So it's kind of like a, a win-win theoretically. So,

1:05:44 – 1:06:36Speaker 6

Oh, that was, I don't have any comments for movie night other than like, I look forward to seeing what happens next year. I think it might've just been, this was a weird year for movie night kind of things, but I don't know. The point about discussing things or at least like connecting with school campuses is I think really valuable because it might also, be a possibility that a school movie night and a Cupertino movie night might just be happening really close to each other. And that would be making people choose the school one because it's closer or more comfortable. Because we all have kind of the same idea of what month is usually most free for these kinds of things.

1:06:37Speaker 3

That's a good point.

1:06:38 – 1:06:56Speaker 6

So even if you don't plan to... collaborate with them per se, it would be valuable just to try to find out what their movie night scene looks like whenever you're playing yours. Yeah. Also for pizza and politics, what does the event look like, mostly?

1:06:56Speaker 3

Like a gist of it.

1:06:59Speaker 6

I was not there.

1:07:01 – 1:08:06Speaker 3

You weren't commissioned yet, were you? So Beats in Politics is a speaker-based event that is definitely upscale in production. Our video team helps produce it. They're the same masterminds that are kind of the backbone for stuff like the Crest Awards. So we run it in community hall, same place where the council chambers are. And up until this point, it's been a three-segment event. live event where we've had mayors and politicians, a lot of local politicians. We've also had like school district board of trustees. We try to put on three segments that were flexible on that, of course, but yeah, it's a cool event with the hopes of getting teams to be more civically engaged, more involved, and have a little more access to, like, local policy. Will that kind of affect policy around them?

1:08:08Speaker 6

How does team commission usually be a part of that event?

1:08:12 – 1:08:42Speaker 3

Yeah, so... We're kind of, we're kind of skipping ahead here. I was going to bring it up in the next topic, but it is teen commission. We usually have the chair or the vice chair be like the MC for this. And we usually invite commissioners out to, you know, be part of the audience or maybe be part of it a little bit. YAB generally runs this event these days, but it's definitely a key speaker opportunity for teen commission chair.

1:08:46Speaker 6

Are there any other comments from the commission?

1:08:51Speaker 3

Yeah. You didn't mean to make this a team movie night presentation. We had a lot to talk.

1:09:02 – 1:09:22Speaker 6

Okay. Next item, item number six, subject is speaking opportunities for team commissioners. Recommended action is review and provide feedback on speaking opportunities for team commissioners in the 2025 to 2026 term with recreation coordinator Robert Kaufman. Welcome back.

1:09:23 – 1:10:43Speaker 3

Okay. For our penultimate item of the evening, you're going to quickly go over next year's speaker opportunity if it doesn't apply to the second year. Two, right? Sorry, oh, and Jonathan. You're not a 2nd, you're currently. Okay, I was going to say, I was going to say, commissioner gals do I could have already was I heard that going into signal. Okay. Okay, sorry if you're, you're turning out this year. I apologize the list of the apply to you, but you 2 know these things very well. I guess you've been around. So, for the remaining commissioners. I know some of you participate in this year's speaker opportunities. Really hope to see you out next year. You know, representing team commission, representing group regional teams, and kind of flexing some of those public speaking and professional skills I know you all have. So next year, we have Monster Mash is a big one. Did you do Monster Mash this year?

1:10:44Speaker 5

Commissioner Willoughby? Okay.

1:10:48 – 1:11:28Speaker 3

Commissioner Hsu? No, because I think Commissioner Kumar did Team Speaker Series. So anyways, going into next year, we have Monster Mash MCs. We're gonna be a little less datey with this one, okay? But they're around the same time, so you should generally have an idea of when these things are happening. But Monster Mash is probably gonna be Either the first or the second thing. The other one might be pizza and politics. Both those are in October. Pizza and politics will be, like I said.

1:11:28Speaker 9

These are the old ones. Oh, sorry.

1:11:30Speaker 3

We're getting old. Okay. This is what we had this year.

1:11:37Speaker 9

We had this last year. Okay. Yeah, sorry.

1:11:41 – 1:12:29Speaker 3

So we had Monster Mash, two Monster Mash MCs in October, and then forgot to add this, but we did have our Teen Speaker Series MC, which was two out of three was Commissioner Kamara, the third was Vice Chair Lou, spelling bee was open to a few of you. I know Commissioner Koch also joined us for that one. And then I think also Commissioner Lau, were you there this year for spelling bee? Or was that last year? That was last year. Oh, no. Commissioner Kumar was also there. Sorry we couldn't have you this year.

1:12:30Speaker 7

Oh, no. It does so happen on that day.

1:12:32 – 1:15:07Speaker 3

Yeah. So spelling bee is always a good opportunity to have some of y'all out. We generally try to reserve pizza and politics as like a chair opportunity and then spelling bee as a vice chair opportunity. It doesn't always necessarily work out that way. Sometimes also the strongest public speaker might be the more important person, especially for something like he's in politics, we need somebody who's very, very strong stage presence, very, very well composed when talking to a mayor. Going forward, we had team, so Spelling Bee was in January, Teen Resource Fair was in March. That one is more of a, like, you know, I want everybody to come out. So I think almost all of you came out, if not all of you. And then Big Bunny at the, in March as well. Big Bunny was in March before Teen Resource Fair. on the 7th and 8th. And that's another twin MC. I don't know why I called it twin, but you know, dual MC situation where you can play off each other. HACC, this bullet point's a little out of date in the HACC judges, but we invite commissioners to come out to HACC to either participate as mentors or maybe host workshops. We'd love to have y'all next year as well. We used to have team commissioners as judges, but then, you know, just realized like some of these students might be your peers. It'd be a little funky on the judging, right? Earth and Arbor Day, we have three MCs for that one. Also, it's a long. So, I don't know. You all. Sprite, there you go. Is there anything I'm missing? I feel like there's, I think Teams speaker series is the big one that's missing off this slide. But this year we have also pizza and concerts. So we actually have a ton, we have more speaker speaking opportunities, more team commission presentation, like representation needed than ever. So next year, I really hope, It's not so busy because we're going to need some of y'all, okay? Yeah, that's pretty much it for now.

1:15:07Speaker 9

That was the experience, but we can do that as part of the feedback.

1:15:13Speaker 3

Yeah, we'll get the feedback, but mainly wanted to ask you if you did, were out to some of these things and had a presence, let us know what you thought.

1:15:24 – 1:16:59Speaker 9

And then I'll just add that as just part of the team commission, because we came to a time where we really had to define that team commission wasn't like running programs because you have the Brown Act. And so it's very difficult to have like subcommittees and meeting about an event. So it's very difficult for you as a body to run any kind of event. So we really define and split that Youth Activity Board runs the events. you advise, but we also tried to add back into your experience that you're given these opportunities to represent teens in the community. And it kind of started with Big Benny, I want to say, and people, Pizza Politics was always there. And then we started kind of putting the team commissioners in the spotlight at Big Benny as like a citywide event. And they were like, hey, how about like Monster Mash? That'd be fun. And then we've been adding like Monster Mash used to be one person and now it's two. So we're trying to expand that. your presence in the community. And like, that's what you are doing. You're representing the team teams in the community. And we've gotten some like really amazing feedback, especially at the venue when you're in front of, you know, thousand people and they're like, Oh, who did you hire to be your MCs today? I'm like, those are our team commissioners. And so people were really impressed and amazed. So, Anyway, just wanted to add in that that's something that we've tried to expand on as much as possible for the program for you.

1:16:59Speaker 3

You guys make us really proud of these events.

1:17:05 – 1:19:14Speaker 6

So are there any questions from the commission? Any public comment? Thank you. Okay. Comments from the commission. Feedback on these speaking events to everyone who has MC'd before? I can go first. I have some stuff. And then everyone can follow if you would like. I did a bunch of events up on the slide in the past few years. The most memorable one was Big Bunny. Because it was a lot of fun being able to improvise what to say exactly. Because all the other ones, we get scripts. We have to say it word for word. But Big Bunny is always really fun. It would be great to... not warn, but just tell the MCs for next year and beyond that it's something that requires you to be really upbeat, even if it's like 6 in the morning, maybe 7. And yeah, that's the only thing. But if you find the right person for the job, it would probably make them have a lot of fun and make it a very upbeat event. And for Earthen Arbor Day, Sometimes I felt like we had more MCs than we needed. I think this year and the year before that, I was there and we had three MCs. When really you can make it work with a duo, it also sometimes... makes it, like, a little confusing when all three of them are up on stage. There's been times where, like, one of us, like, kind of tripped on one of the wires because, like, everyone's setting up, the whole band is there, and then there's three of us also. So that's just something I thought. Hack, I only did it for one year, but... And I was a mentor in the 2 a.m. to 5 a.m. shit, so it was pretty fine. And then... What else was... Oh, and the Spelling Bee.

1:19:15Speaker 3

Oh, you were the MC last year, right?

1:19:18Speaker 6

Yeah, the last time. Spelling Bee was great. I have no notes.

1:19:22Speaker 3

No, were you MC this year? This year, yeah.

1:19:26Speaker 6

Yeah, that was all my feedback.

1:19:29 – 1:19:48Speaker 4

All right. I did the Big Bunny 5K, and Yeah, it was a lot of cheering, but it was very fun. And I think really enjoyed it because part of it was thinking of things on the spot. And like she said, always being really cheerful.

1:19:53Speaker 1

I honestly didn't go to any because my schedule is really screwed up this year. I'm going to go to like a ton next year though.

1:20:02Speaker 1

That's a promise.

1:20:03Speaker 3

Okay. I saw you about a few things. I want to see you next year. Okay.

1:20:09 – 1:20:26Speaker 1

Okay, so I gave up my feedback team, which was fair, and I haven't really got that many organs outside of it. And even if I went as a non-MC or judge, it was nothing that would be redundant in this case. Yeah, Karthel.

1:20:27 – 1:20:57Speaker 7

Honestly, for spelling, which I did my bit a year prior, really, the only thing that I really remember is, like, there's not as much speaking, but it's more like recording information, making sure, like, The system is going quick because there's a lot of kids that you have to go through. I think it was pretty fun, honestly, like the entire day. And also Earthen Harbor Day, which we all also did this year. I really enjoyed that one. There's a lot of good food there. So if you want people to come volunteer and MC, definitely make that a point.

1:20:57 – 1:21:45Speaker 3

Good food. Yeah, Spelling Bee is like mostly it's the MC doing all the talking, but we consider it like a you know, you're kind of representing, you're still the face, right? Being up there at the judge's table, you know, kind of being in, like, a business formal and, like, you're the ones kind of awarding the kids at the end. I think even if you don't, you're not, like, on the mic saying anything, like, just that physical presence means a lot to the kids. Like, it really does. Like, y'all are, y'all are their, like, their older siblings, you know? Like, kind of, like, putting on this show for them and making it how important it is, you know? So... Very much appreciate it. Glad you had fun.

1:21:47 – 1:21:58Speaker 2

I mean, I, I judged for the spelling bee and I think it was pretty nice because like it's testing your attention, right? So I, I couldn't like, like zone out because I had to record everything.

1:21:59Speaker 2

And then, um, and then, uh, I, it was nice to get to know the, uh, yeah. People who are also judging right next to me. Yeah.

1:22:11 – 1:22:27Speaker 3

I like having those collaborative opportunities between y'all. So thank you for being there this year. Appreciate it. Okay. Sorry. I'm going to just go over the message with that. Okay.

1:22:28Speaker 6

Oh, just one quick question. When is Pizza and Politics? October?

1:22:32Speaker 3

October. I have a tentative date right now.

1:22:37Speaker 3

That's why I'm not saying it at the moment. Yeah.

1:22:41 – 1:23:01Speaker 6

All right. I think that's it for item number six. Thank you, Mr. Kaufman. Now, item number seven, subject summer meeting schedule, recommended action, discuss summer meeting schedule and availability of commissioners to attend.

1:23:02 – 1:24:20Speaker 9

Okay, that's me. And I don't have the presentation because we're just going to really quickly talk about, we have July and August, and then the term will be done for our second year commissioners, second term. So business-wise, as far as agenda business, I don't, Don't really have anything for July and that's usually a very tough month in historically. That's been a tough month. So my recommendation was going to be that we cancel July and that we meet in August and then. Next year we will have a, like, more of a calendar and so that will be what I'll propose on the calendar and. So anyway, we'll do cancellation July is my recommendation, and then attendance August, say goodbye for our last term people in August. And then September, we'll start the new term. So as it being then on one year, that will be the start. And we'll have our new commissioners in place. And we'll start our new term. So we'll kind of be goodbye and hello in August. And so I wanted to pass it over just to see if there's any questions about that. Okay.

1:24:21 – 1:24:51Speaker 6

Are there any questions about that? Okay. Any public comment? Any comments? Are you all like planning to be somewhere in town for July slash August or? So I was looking at the dates and it's July 8th and August 12th. Yeah.

1:24:53Speaker 1

I know I'm gone for July 7th.

1:24:56 – 1:25:11Speaker 6

Okay. Is anyone else for sure gone for July? Okay. Oh, I'm gone. Okay. We should probably cancel. Yeah.

1:25:11 – 1:25:29Speaker 9

Okay. That just confirms that we'll go ahead and make that the plan, but we will do that. And also probably for a little bit of lack of business as well. So, okay. So that will be planned. I'll put that out officially and let you guys know. And that's it for my item.

1:25:30Speaker 6

Thank you. Now. Oh, yeah.

1:25:35Speaker 9

You're welcome.

1:25:37Speaker 6

I'll answer staff and commission reports. Are there any?

1:25:43Speaker 6

Did you say you had a couple things?

1:25:46Speaker 3

No, I don't, actually. Okay, cool. I have one quick.

1:25:55 – 1:26:35Speaker 9

So everybody should have received, because I went out to your team commission email, that the calling for submissions for America 250, the X-ray, So, and then I believe you're going to get an email in the future about the trust awards, which will be in the fall that the nomination forms will be due. They usually accept in August. So I don't have the exact information, but yet it might be. And then just a reminder that every current commission would not be eligible to be nominated for a customer.

1:26:39 – 1:26:50Speaker 6

That's it. Thank you. Now on to the future agenda setting. Item 8, subject is upcoming draft items.

1:26:50Speaker 9

I can speak to that. That's pretty good. Everything on that.

1:26:58Speaker 4

No, usually the future agenda items.

1:27:01 – 1:27:58Speaker 9

So we have a link and I did throw two things on there for August and now I can't remember it's a link and so but we are going to be in the habit of trying to put like the next two meetings for the agenda items so kind of making things as much as a little more formal. A lot of your team commission meetings do kind of come together at the last minute, but this will be a regular June meeting that we'll kind of go through and like review all of our team programs and get feedback on. So those of you that are going into a second term should expect a similar meeting in June of next year. So we'll start to get more of established calendar, looking to having like presentations from divisions on certain months. So you can kind of know like, we're gonna get a sports center presentation in this month. We'll present that calendar to the new term in September.

1:27:59 – 1:28:12Speaker 6

That's good. Yep. Would that be all for this item? Yep. Okay, great. So time for adjournment. I adjourn this meeting at 7.29 p.m.

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