Senior Advisory Committee - Regular Meeting

Meeting to order at 06:10. I'm gonna

get started. Sorry.

So we're calling the June 10 meeting of the youth advisory committee now, and the secretary the secretary

of the state role. You go. Not here. Alicia. Can't say your last name.

I'm sorry. Sorry.

How do you

say it? Shay. Shay. And my first name is Alicia. Alicia. Okay.

And Alicia Alyssa who is not here. Avery Bowen? Juliana Mumsey? Yes. Mason Yu? Here. Priya Gupta? Here. My name is Priya. Priya. Okay. Thank you.

So.

T and U? Yeah. Brad Wood? Yeah. Vanessa.

Okay.

We can do the oath of office now. So I'm gonna stand up. Is you guys official? We stand up. You may raise our right hands. You can repeat after me.

Let me say state your name, then you'll state

your name. Okay? So I state your name to solemnly swear I may say that I will support and defend That I will support defend the constitution of The United States The constitution constitution of the state of California the state California all enemies, foreign and domestic all enemies, foreign and domestic that I will bear true faith and allegiance That I I will will bear bear true faith and allegiance. To the constitution of The United States. To the constitution of The United States.

And the constitution of the state of California. And the constitution of the state of California. That I take this obligation freely. That I take this obligation freely. Without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion. Without any reservation or disassembly. And that I will well and faithfully discharge. And have a vow and faithfully gift card the duties upon which I'm about to enter. The duties upon which I'm about to enter. If I can have you sign the oath in front of you, I will take that. There are only a few menus, so we can start to take them.

Our next item would be we're gonna be doing the pledge of allegiance. I will lead us in it. I pledge

allegiance to the flag of The United States Of America.

Right now, we'll be opening the meeting for a couple of comments. If anyone should have any comments about any items that are not currently on the agenda, please feel free

to speak now. Sounds good.

Yeah. We have no microphone. Sorry. Okay. No. It's fine. I'll I'll just stop by. I just wanted to say that I really respect the efforts and that all of you are dedicating toward, you know, the endeavors of this group. And I think it's great. I think we really need young people involved in, you know, local government.

And I think there's a lot of opportunities specifically in some aspects of, you know, city planning that could given a really great perspective potentially by this group, and that's one of urban forestry. So, basically, all of the richer trees throughout the city, you know, at parks, trails, you know, along streets, These are all essential for the physical and mental health and well-being of our communities. And we specifically need mature trees and efforts conservation now more than ever with, you know you know, hotter summers and, you know, really, the need for communities to, you know, be able to just take a walk down, you know, their sidewalk, you know, to their grocery store with the, you know, expectation that, you know, you'll have mature trees shading, you know, your your walk. There's a lot of communities around Fullerton that don't have well shaded sidewalks, and I think that a lot of data can be collected in this regard just off of, like, observations, Google Maps, Street View, and tools like that. So I think, you know, with, you know, clearly inspired, you know, young people such as yourself that, you know, you took it upon yourselves to be here that, you know, maybe these are some things that might be of interest.

And so, you know, and any of your ideas, I think, you know, looking at the physical and mental well-being of Fullerton residents on, you know, the quality of our parks and open spaces and our urban forest on school campuses, especially we're losing mature trees on school campuses, you know, left and right, and that's not necessarily within the purview of the city. But there could be collaborations between the city and school districts that could, you know, you know, work toward the end goal of improving conservation of mature trees. And, you know, this is something that I think would be really a great educational, you know, and in engaging tool, you know, that anybody can plug into the idea of simply gathering data toward making recommendations to the city to improve tree conservation efforts. So, you know, I just really wanted to say thank you guys for for being here, and really interested to see what comes up the screen. Thank

you. Anyone else? Yes. Yes.

I would like to thank all of you for taking the time to be involved. And I think, you know, for a lot of us, you know, adults, we are entrusting you because you are the voice of the future. And for you to to take the task, you know, the how we can, you know, help people like, let's say, me to bring us, you know, to the future. And what is very important to each of you? What is, you know, what you really you wanna advocate for or what is really move you?

It can be mental health, environment. It can be, you know, politics, the city, you know, in general. What is what you really see as students, as a young man and woman that you envision for the city? And I think for us to have you as that voice is so important because sometimes, you know, we don't take seriously our youth, and I think that is a horrible mistake. We have to trust you because you guys are our future, and I think you guys are gonna do an amazing job.

And I thank you for the time that you're taking to to help all of us to, you know, to understand your generation, and you're talking to people like me, my generation. Bless you. Okay. Thank you. That's all. Thank

you. K.

Do we have any comments on Zoom? We do not. There are closed public comments if there's no one else, and we will move on to staff communications, which will be committee members and staff communications if you guys have any questions or anything that, or we can give you guys updates. So in the future, in future meetings, we might have, like, a PowerPoint that will present here of things that have been going on or anything that's been going on in Parks and Rec. Because tonight's our first one, we don't have that.

Mainly, I would like to introduce myself and introduce Miriam as well. So my name is Amanda Arviso. I'm the Parks Immigration Manager here at the Community Center that oversees our youth and our family and our senior programs. And this is Miriam Mahia, our, sorry, Miriam Borte. She's a park foundation supervisor that helps also oversee the community center, our youth programs, our senior programs, the Hunt Branch Library as well.

She'll be participating in these meetings with us. Right now tonight, she is our secretary since we are off-site, for the meeting. Also, just looking forward to us finally being able to meet. It's been a long year of us not being able to do this, so very excited for us to finally meet, get to our quorum, and just talk about we do have some city events coming up. So we do have the fourth of July or summer concerts, which are it's events that you guys are more than welcome to come volunteer in as well. I do believe that's part of, like, our resolution and goals that we'll discuss later on in the agenda items. But I do believe Sierra, is it nine? Is it the same number that they can all be at one spot before we come? Is it nine? Yeah.

Yes. So at any point at any of the events, we have 13 currently members, but only nine of you could be there. Pretty much the safe number is eight because once we hit nine or 10, that means there's enough of you to technically be holding a meeting if you guys were to talk about anything. So we'd really wanna stay at the safer number of eight of having you guys volunteer at any of our events that we do have coming up. It could be any of our senior programs, anything along those lines. We have a variety of different programs that we have in Parks and Rec. Do you guys have do have any comments? Do you guys have any questions or anything right now for the committee before we can move on

to the next one? Next item.

Okay.

And so now we will move on to we have no consent item That's we haven't had a meeting. So in the future, consent item right now would be our minutes from our previous meeting that you guys would be able to view and then vote on, and pass it yes or no if there should be any questions just so you guys get a feel of how our next meeting should be. And then since there's no consent items, we will move on to our regular items, which is pretty much Sierra, our city clerk here, to take over the first few items of hers.

Okay.

Now do the right view. The chair selection. Do I do the vice chair selection?

I can run that remotely if you'd like me to. Yes, please. Hello. Strange voice coming from the room. Hi, everybody. I'm Lucinda Williams. I'm the city clerk here in Fullerton. I probably have horrible lighting in Zoom because it's late and the sun's setting behind me, so sorry about that. I'd be over there with you, but I'm over across the street at City Hall running your broadcast. So you're on TV. You're on Zoom. So you can watch the recording later. It's riveting. It's one big camera shot of what you see on screen on Zoom right now, so you're all TV stars now. Exciting.

Selecting a chair and vice chair. So you guys have had, what, all of three minutes to get to know each other. Hopefully, some of you knew each other already. But, if you wanna pick a chair and vice chair, the process is someone makes an well, we open the floor to nominations. Anybody can nominate anybody to be chair, or you can nominate yourselves.

And then we'll close the nominations, and then we'll vote on the names that were put forward. So don't be shy if you wanna be chair or vice chair. It's okay to it's a good time to nominate yourself if you like or someone, that you wanna have lead the meeting. So I will open the floor to nominations for the chair. Don't all speak at once. I see a very timid a couple of hands raised. Everybody wants a chair. This is a good group. Okay. I might need help with someone in the room because what we would do is, you named your nominee.

So maybe go around the table and state your name if you would like to be the chair. I may pick on Juliana just because you're closest and I can see you in the corner. So let's start with Juliana. And if you would like to be chair, go ahead and say your name, and we'll go around the table and get our list of nominees.

K. I'm Juliana Nancy, and I would like to be chair.

My name is Ria Gupta, and I also like to be chair. My name is

Zeke Winters, and I'd like to be chair.

My name is Chen Nguyen, and

I would also like to be chair.

My name is Alicia Shay, and I want Savannah to be chair.

Okay. Are you folks taking notes? You got a list of our nominees? I love that I'm not the notetaker today. This is this is a treat for me because usually I'm the one doing all the notes at the meeting. So great. Now, we will need a motion from one member and someone to second that to close the nominations if there are no more We

haven't finished all

the way around yet. Oh, I'm sorry. We're still in

the four? In the far end.

Yes. Savannah.

Oh, I

said it. Oh.

We couldn't hear if we could talk

to My name is Savannah. I'd like to be chair.

Hi. My name is Mason Yu, and I'd like to be chair.

Can we skip?

Yes. You don't

have to. It's okay. Just kidding. Yes.

My name is Teen Yu, and I like to be chair. Okay.

This is the fun part of doing remote. Apologies. I didn't realize you weren't all the way around yet. Did we get to all the nominees now before I Yes. Step you over the process again? Great. So now we will need someone to make a motion to close nominations and someone to second that, and then you will do a roll call vote to close the nominate to approve closing the nominations. And anyone can make a motion.

To close the nominations.

I motion to close the nominations.

I second that.

Okay. Notetaker, did you get your motion and second in the names? Okay. I can see the back of my head nodding from here. It

won't say that.

No. I could hear you. You're fine. Great. And then someone will please take the roll call vote. And a roll call vote means we go around, the room, and when your name is called, you vote yes or no or aye or nay or however you wanna say your vote in favor or in opposition. So this is just to close the nominations.

Elim Contreras, Susan here. Alicia Shay?

What do I say? Or you say you're saying yes or no. Wait. We're closing the nomination. So we're not voting for anyone yet. We're just closing it, and then we're gonna vote after this. So you're voting to close the nominations of the six seven poll.

Yes. K. Alyssa Hernandez isn't here. Avery Ball is not here. Juliana Newsy? Yes. Mason Yu? Yes. Ria Gupta? Yes. Savannah Pruitt? Yes. T and Yu? Beth. Trondwin? Yes. Vanessa Gonzalez? Yes. Eiryama Chica is in here. Zeke Winters? Yes. Perfect.

Great. Okay. Now for the fun part. The next step is to go back around the room, and you can each name your preferred nominee. When you get to a majority, which is, let's do math, 15% plus one, so that would be five of you, all vote in favor of the same person, That person becomes chair. We may have to do a couple rounds because we have a lot of names. We can do speeches if you like, or, all of you can talk a little bit about why you'd like to be chair first so that would be make it easier for you all to make your decision since you don't know each other, or we can go ahead and vote, whatever the group wants to do.

Speeches. I think they want speeches.

Mhmm. Okay. You can go in whatever order you like. Maybe just to mix it up, start on the other end of the table from Juliana since she got to start last time. We can go in reverse order. So whoever's or whoever wants to go first, whatever you guys wanna do. It's your committee.

I would like to be chair because I think it's important that everyone has their voice, and I feel that if I become chair, I'll make sure that everyone puts their voice in and we get to, like, a consensus where no one feels left out.

Oh, hi. My name is Mason. I'm currently a sophomore at Sonora High School, and I'd like to be chair because I already have, like, prior experience in a role like this. I was part of my elementary superintendent's, like, advisory committee. So we did, like, a lot of work for the district through that. And, also, I'm the sophomore class president at my school, so I'm able to leave my, like, ASB members within my class. So yeah.

My name is Samantha Good. I'd like to be chair because I just graduated high school, so I only have a month or two left on this committee. And I think that's the best way that I can make the most amount of difference in the short amount of time that I have until August 31 when the time runs out for my, time here. And my past experiences, I, I've been in the International Baccalaureate program at my school for two years. I've been choir president, for two years, and then I also was secretary of that IB program. And I'm just I'm very I've been really excited to be here. So

Hi. My name is Tram Moon, and I would like to be chair because I have a lot of past, leadership experience. I've been really big sister president at my school and California Scholarship Federation vice president. And I also mentor at Valencia Park Elementary School for a lot of the elementary schoolers through Big Brother Big Sister. So I feel like I have a lot of connections with, you know, the community.

And I personally I feel like I am friends with a lot of people from a lot of different high schools. So I feel like through my connections in elementary schools and with, like, my friends and stuff and other scholarship programs like, Simon Scholars, just like a countywide but also, like, citywide. A lot of other high schools are a part of that. I think I can have or I can bring in a lot of voices around our city, and I think that is a good thing to have. My name

is Zeke Winters. I would like to be chair because I've had a lot of past leadership experience. I've been in ASB for four years now, once as class president, once as treasurer. And I last year, I was in the student advisory committee for Park Junior High. And in the last two years, I've done over a hundred and eighty hours of community service, and I think that'll help me make connections along with the city.

Hi. My name is Ria Gupta, and I think that I wanna be chair I wanna be chair because I'm in leadership at my school for the past year, which means that I have a lot of connection within my school and also talking to

people outside my school who've also been in my school.

I also I'm in

the Fullerton Education Foundation through my school, which means that I represent my school for grants and receiving funding. I also think that I should be chair because I like to talk to different people and make sure that everyone has said and that also different ideas are being brought in so that we're not just hearing the same idea over and over again, but also different ideas that cause diversity and other versatile ideas.

Hi. I'm Julianna, and I want to be chair because, well, I'll listen to all of you guys, and I think it's important that we all have a voice here and that we all share our opinions, that we all have a say,

and I will make sure

of that as shared. And then I also have a lot of I do a lot of community service, like, at school districts and then in my school. And so I think I have a lot of connections there that I can bring to share.

Great. Alright. You guys have a tough choice because you have a lot of great options here. So what the secretary will do now is call your names, and you will name your preferred candidate for press what are we doing? Chair, not president. You guys can be president after you're 35. You can't be president yet. But you'll you'll name your preferred option for chair. And when we get to five people voting in favor of the same person, that person will become chair. So we can do the first round, see if we have five in favor.

If not, we can have more discussions, see if anybody wants to stay in the mix, doesn't want to stay in the mix. But let's see where we go with the first round first.

Alicia Shay? Yes. Who would you like to be

president? Tram.

Juliana Nucci? Mhmm. Maria? Okay. Makes sense? You?

Me.

Yeah. I should've asked added. You can't vote for yourself.

Wait. We can

and can't.

You can.

Okay. Myself. Okay. Are you still okay

with your choice? I'm gonna. Yourself? K.

Good. Yes. Teagan, you? Myself. Tran what? Myself. Vanessa Gonzales? Savannah Pruitt. Zeke Winters? Myself.

K.

Do we go again, miss Cynthia? You didn't say Savannah's.

You didn't call me.

Oh, I'm sorry, Savannah. Myself.

Do I skip anyone else?

You guys are a in great engaged group. I love it. Okay. Here's the here's the fun part. Now you have to get to some cooperation and and dispute resolution possibly conversation. So would any of you like to reconsider your nomination, discuss further what your qualifications are? What do you guys wanna do to find a way to get a consensus of five people supporting one of you?

We could maybe say what we're like, why not need to do or what our goals are as, like, a commission of what we want to bring.

There also is a vice chair, just so you guys know that as well too. Yeah. So it's not just one position. There is a vice chair.

Charlie, I'll have my school for vice chair.

When when we get there.

Okay. But if you would to withdraw as chair, from your nomination as chair and wait for vice chair, you could do that also. You could limit the field of folks you get to pick from right now.

They won't stay in steps. Yeah.

We have a bunch of leaders. I love it. Alright. So maybe do the more discussion?

Yes. If if all of you can the ones that are nominated, discuss what your goals would be moving forward this year.

Okay. I can go first. So I feel like a theme that, like I don't know. I feel like it was we represented this at my, like, church, and I feel like it's, like, such a great theme. It's come as friends, leave as a family. And I feel like we could work that into the community by, like we're not only a community, but we could kinda be seen as, like, a family helping to benefit each other. So I feel like one way we could do that is, like, playing, like, more community events that, like, are, like, shared throughout, like, all ages can come and enjoy and, like, all different cultures and backgrounds and also just sharing, like, all different cultures and backgrounds. I feel like that would be, like, a great way to get a lot of different participation within our community.

Up next. I feel like

at a lot of

our, like, public places, there's a lot of, like, trash everywhere, and it's really not a good thing for environment. We should really be cleaning up our trash. And I feel like also kind of what Mason said, we can also bring people together. By doing that, we can all have, like, a common goal, and we can all like, that our common goal could be, like, okay. We need to clean up our city. We need to make our city clean. Like, we need to be clear cleaner than the other cities nearby. So we should, like, all we could all, like, organize events and everything that we could all, like, come together and clean up our city working towards a common goal.

Okay. I can go next. I know you mentioned first thing, I'm very passionate about, like, mental health, and I think a big part of that is having a big strong support system. So I I kind of agree with all you guys. So I think we could start adding programs and really advertising for our community to be more together with, like, all the different high schools and just everyone in our city so everyone feels included.

Okay. I can go next. And I'm also really interested in mental health. Other than that, I think it would be nice to have, like, events at each of our individual schools that we can come together and plan, like, maybe something to just spread awareness about certain topics or give resources that help our students know about the community. And I think, you know, just regularly coming together and maybe, like, doing events together or, like, creating own events that we can all participate in would really help, you know, create a bond with each other and strengthen, our passion to help our community.

I'm honest. So I'm also really passionate in mental health, education, and community. So I have done speech and debate for around four years, and the community there is so tight. Like, everyone can, like, rely on each other, and I think that's so sweet and so supportive. So I feel like we should make not just beach, but Fullerton as a whole into a community like Mason said.

Furthermore, I think education is really important because, like, for example, the library. Lately, I'm pretty sure it's been running a bit low on books, and it was seeking a book drive. So I organized a book drive at my school. But the next time that happens, I can advocate for, like, other schools or other people to take initiative to help out, like, places like the library. And I think mental health is also very important because at our age, we are teenagers, adolescents, and there's a lot of struggles that we might face. So advocating for help is also very crucial.

I'll go next. So for me personally, I'm very passionate about politics. And with everything going on right now, I think anything that we can do, anything, any of your ideas, you guys have wonderful ideas, is wonderful. And me personally, I think that any fundraising events that we can hold to donate to our community will be really important. For example, one in five children in Orange County are starving right now, and I think food drives is really important.

And especially getting the word out, the fact that there are that you've not you should not waste food. There should not be all these extra food that is wasted. And I think that that voice aspect that we have is really important to get that out to the community so they know. And I think also the fundraising that we could do within this room or planning within this room and dedicated the fundraising, the funds from that to our schools and to our children, I think that would be really important. And I think just overall, that'll contribute to the overall wellness of Fullerton.

What am next? I think it's very important to create a community in our in Fullerton if that's by activities, events in our area. But if we can if we hold more events, I feel if we can draw our community more close and be more supportive.

Everyone?

Yes. Okay.

If you're ready, we

can try

another vote.

K.

Alicia Shay?

I'm voting for Tram.

K.

Juliana Muncy? Mason Yu? Myself. Ria Gupta? Myself. Savannah Pruitt? Myself. Tegan Yu? Myself. Brown Wynn? Savannah. Vanessa Gonzales? Savannah. Zeke Winters. Mason.

58 to five, correct?

Yes.

Okay. Couple of options. We can keep discussing until you get to five, or perhaps you want to be a little more creative. And I will double check that this works with your with all the regulations. But would you like to well, let me ask you this first. Would you like to keep discussing until you get to a vote of five? Do you think you'll get there?

I feel maybe we should all vote for not ourselves. Feel like that would be more productive.

That could probably be fine. I feel

like if everyone's gonna vote for themselves, it's just gonna be the same cycle.

Does that work, Lucinda? That's a explanation.

Okay. Alright.

I'll try this again.

Can I see people's names? I can't see Bobby's names. So sorry.

Alright.

You can completely fill those spaces.

Thank you. Alright. Next

time, we'll double slide those.

Yes. And on curbside.

Alicia Shay?

Fire. You take my vote? Yes. I want to switch my vote to Savannah.

Juliana Nussi? Savannah. Mason Yu? Priya Gupta? Chewadonna. Savannah Fuet? Tran. Phegan Yu? Tran. Tran Nguyen? Savannah. Vanessa Gonzalez? Savannah. Zeke Winters. Mason.

Not there yet. Almost. It's not close, but not there yet.

Is everybody good with their vote the way it is? Does anybody want to rethink things to get someone to five?

What are the numbers for everything?

Juliana, 1. Raya, 1. Tram, 2. Savannah, 4, and Mason, 1.

Everyone's going remote? Yes.

We're getting closer. The other option is, maybe you have someone chair each meeting a different chair, and you can rotate.

Can't grab yet. That's fine.

K. So, yeah, there's nine of And if you make you all get dibs because you were here first. No. I can't do that. It's, like, different chair each month maybe, and you can we can rotate somehow. We'll find a good rotation. Draw names out of a hat unless someone doesn't wanna be chair, and then we can take your name out. And then once you've been chair, we'll take your name out of the hat for the next meeting, something like that.

I like that.

Perfect. They

go on that 50

yard dash, something like that. So potato sack race. We'll figure our way to, to pick it out. But, since you can't come to agreement, that should be we should be able to do that. Do you wanna do well, let's let's try vice chair, see where it goes. And the vice chair would, well, normally step up when the chair is not here. But if you're going to rotate, you'll just have a vice chair just in case we need one.

Does anyone nominate themselves for vice chair?

I nominate someone else.

Or nominate someone else. Sorry.

Oh, I nominate myself for vice chair.

I apologize. Your name?

Vanessa. Vanessa. Sorry. It's easier when they're.

Vanessa.

Else?

Okay. So

and that's the only nominee?

Yeah. That that case, because there's only one nominee, you guys went from the hardest way to do this to the easiest way. So with this, because there's only one nominee, you can make a motion and a second to close the nominations and accept the one nominee by acclamation, which means there's no one else running, so we don't need to vote. We'll just accept the one person who who volunteered to be vice chair. So if someone wants to

make a motion You

can just say, I make a motion about what she just said. You don't have to repeat it all verbatim if you don't want to.

We have a second. Someone just needs a second. S o p. Alicia

Shay? Yes or no if you approve. I'll be yes. Yes. Yes.

Okay. Juliana Nancy? Yes. Mason Hu? Yes. Ria Gupta? Yes. Savannah Pruitt? Yes. Tegan Hu? Yes. Charnouin? Yes. Vanessa Gonzalez? Yes. Sieg Winters? Yes.

Alright. There you go.

Good job. You

Nice. Got one done.

Hopefully, that's the hardest thing you guys do today.

K. Now we'll move on to the second item, which is I apologize. Have my agenda in front of me.

I know. I lost my screen.

Yes. The member orientation.

I think it's me, though. Okay. Hang on one second while I I'm on four different computer screens, and my mouse isn't working right when I need it to. So bear with me for one sec. Share screen. I think I want to share this one. Now I got to find my PowerPoint. Oh, you guys can see this. This is the fun board that we use to put you on the air. Okay.

I had this in presentation mode. Where'd it go?

There it

is. Okay. All my screens are back. Alright. Well, I already introduced myself. Again, I'm Lucinda Williams. I'm your city clerk over here broadcasting your meeting, making you all TV scars. Most of the time we do this orientation one on one over Zoom, so we're still doing Zoom with me. It's just not one on one. It's one on nine of you. So we're getting it all done with one one meeting, so I don't have to say the same thing nine times over and over again. So thank you for that. You're doing me a favor. Normally, you would have Diana Aguilera. You've probably gotten emails from her with you over there at the community center.

She's on vacation this week, but she will be doing the secretary work for most of your meetings, so you'll get to meet her soon. Sierra Zara, she did your oath of office. She's our deputy city clerk, So I couldn't be in too many places at one time, so she offered to go over there and take care of the oath of office for you, make you official. So the city clerk's office, we have three main areas of responsibility. We do elections.

We do the citywide records management program, and we have legislative and council support duties, which is a great bucket of all kinds of things we do. We do the city council agendas and their meetings and their minutes. We take in claims, subpoenas, and summons. We accept bids. We do public noticing and legal advertising. We process ordinances and resolutions, and we update the municipal code. We process agreements. We record documents. We're the custodian of the city seal. We do conflict of interest and campaign filings.

We, as we did today, administer the oaths of office. And as you can probably tell, we manage the city boards, commissions, and committees. So as far as our at least city the clerk's relationship with you guys, we are kind of the HR department for the committees. So I get to tell you congratulations. You've been on the board. And then most of the time people say I'm nagging you with rules. So please don't ignore my emails. They're not exciting as getting the agendas about your meetings, but they are important things you need to know about being on your committee. So I lost track of where we were trying to get the committee organized and who's got a handbook and who doesn't. We have a committee handbook.

So if you haven't received it, let Sierra, Diana, or I know. I'll put our contact info is on the last slide here, and we will get you a copy of the handbook. But I'll go over the highlights of it with you in this presentation. We'll give you a quick look at how the city functions. So the city government here is set up as a it's called a city council, city manager form of government.

It means that the citizens elect the City Council and the City Council hires a City Manager to run the day to day operations of the city. And then the committees like yours, we have 10 committees right now. They are all advisory to city council. They are the link between you, the citizens, and city councils so you can give your input and give your ideas, communicate values of the committee, bring up specific issues and topics that you think City Council should be aware of, and give input on items where City Council will ask for your advice on things. Ultimately, Council makes the decisions on City policies and topics, but they definitely want your input to help them make their decisions during their City Council meetings.

Excuse me. So for those of you who are like me and like pictures, this is just the organization chart of how the city is set up. So at the top there are the Fullerton citizens. They are the folks who really run the show because they elect city council. Then city council appoints people to commissions and committees and also to the library board. The library board is spelled out a little differently there because they have some different rules they work under because the government code says so. But they all report to city council. And then city council hires the city manager. The city clerk's office is part of the city manager's administration of the whole division in the city. And then under the city manager are all the different departments in the city.

So they're all listed there. So you guys are cool. You're at the top of the chart reporting right to council. So as far as making committee appointments, city council will do some actions on their end to create the body such as your committee, which they did about a year ago. And then they appoint members. So for this committee, you have five of you who are directly appointed by City Council. You're in a very small box, but raise your hand if you know you're appointed by City Council. And I'm just going to pretend like I can see you raising your hand because your box is too small right now. I'm sharing the slides. There should hopefully are five of you there.

If you don't know it's okay. We'll fill you in later Look it up. It's also on the website if you need to know. Even though we don't have all the seats filled, there are seven seats for high school representatives that are ratified by city council. So if you're one of the high school reps, if you can I'm gonna I can see you raising your hand. So I'm gonna just assume you're doing it there. I think I saw motion in my little tiny box on my screen. Great. And then we have five junior high school reps that are ratified by city council. So if you're a junior high rep, raise your hand so everybody knows who's representing what.

And again thank you all for volunteering. That's great that you're here. So we have FMC which stands for Fullerton Municipal Code. We've got a section in there that talks all about commission and committee and board rules. So just wanted to let you know there's a rule in there about attendance. And if you miss three meetings in a row without letting us know that you need to be excused, you have to file a letter with the city manager within ten days asking for consideration to continue on the board. If you get to that point, don't panic. We'll help you through it. We're not gonna make you go talk to the city manager directly unless you want to. He'd be happy to talk to you.

The reason we have these rules is because if we as you know, we need a quorum and we wanna make sure if someone's not showing up meeting after meeting, maybe they moved and forgot to tell us or have got a job and can't make it to the meetings anymore, we want to make sure those people let us know that they can't serve on the committee anymore or have a way to politely take them off the committee if they're just not showing up and we can't get in touch with them and put someone else on the committee to make sure we are meeting quorums. So that's there. Don't worry. It's we will if you get close to any of triggers, we will work with you to make sure we keep you going if you're still interested. But if you do want to resign, which I'm sure none of you want to, but if you do need to, we ask that you let your staff and your department know when you resign.

If you're a member, let me know too, but definitely let your staff know because we need to do a whole bunch of legal stuff in the background, posting vacancies and things like that before we can, make the seat officially vacant and start another recruitment to fill it. But just stay on the committee. You saved me a lot of work. Plus, we like having you here. So just wanted to let you know with that.

Now city council adopted a resolution about the rules of procedure for all the boards, commissions, and committees. They are generically set up for folks that meet in the council chambers. So a lot of the rules in there say council chambers. Obviously those won't apply to you quite so much. A lot of the stuff in the rules of procedure is where the public can sit if they want to show up at a meeting and hold signs support of or opposition to something the committee is talking about.

And the public has to behave nicely during the meetings, things like that. But it also says some things about how you conduct your meeting. So it covers things like there's a thing called Robert's Rules of Procedure. I'd ask you to raise your hands if you ever heard of it, but I can't see you on the screen anyway. But if you want to admit you heard it, the people in the room, go ahead and put your hand up.

But Robert's Rules is, it's a set of parliamentary rules that were set up for English parliament to talk about, like, when we did the motion in the second and how to do nominations and the process for things like that. It is written for for parliament, which if you're familiar with English parliament, is a few 100 people. There's there's not a few 100 of you there, so we follow it very loosely just to give your meetings some sort of structure so you all know how to do the business and take your votes properly. If you wanna get really nerdy about Roberts, talk to me later and we can go down that that rabbit hole of making a motion and a substitute motion and putting something on the table and pulling it off. It it it can get very detailed, some people love that, and some people are like, it's a little much for them.

So but that's the what you go to to generally guide how you run your meeting. It talks about a quorum. A quorum is 50% plus one person. So 50% because 50% will put you at half a person. We figured we better round up because we don't want half of you showing up. So your quorum would be half of 17 plus one, so nine people. Talks about your agenda packets and the order placing items on your agenda and what materials go in it, things like that. And you should have a copy with your staff report. So I won't go into all the details on there. I'll just give you the highlights.

It talks about how to do motions and voting. That nomination process is also listed in the rules of procedure in case you come up with another nomination you need to do. You can just use that for reference to follow it. What else is in there? You don't have to worry about business cards, things like that. Address oh, minutes. The minutes are done as what's known in in the clerk world as action minutes. So we don't capture verbatim every word you say. That's a transcript. We're doing minutes, not a transcript.

But the minutes just capture who was here, who made a public comment, and whether a general idea of what it was or whether it was support or opposition of something. And then when it comes to your business items, we capture public comment if you have any and the sorry. There's a bug in my office. And the who voted, who made the motion, who made the second, and how the vote went. We have to record how everybody voted in the minutes.

So really really action minutes there. And, any of this stuff that you want more nerdy detail on, please come talk to me about it, and we I can talk to you for a long time about this quirky stuff. So that's what's in your Rules of Procedure. Did anybody warn you that you have lots of rules and laws when you have these meetings? So we have a couple more to go over.

California Brown Act. This is the state's sunshine and transparency law which sets a lot of rules for how these public bodies have to run their meetings so that the public has access to see what's going on and how the people who represent them are conducting their meetings and give the public the ability to comment on those items like you had today at your public comments. So thank you public members for giving me a good example for this. So the Brown Act promotes transparency. We talked about that.

It mandates how you conduct your meetings. It applies to city council and to any legislative body that council or a legislative body forms. That means because council took formal action to create your committee, the Brown Act applies to your committee. So that is why we have these quorum rules. The Brown Act requires that a quorum is present to conduct business.

It requires that your meetings are open to the public. And as you saw, we have public at your meeting, is awesome. It requires that your agendas be posted at least seventy two hours in advance of your meeting. You can only discuss what's listed on the agenda. If it's not on the agenda, you can't talk about it at that meeting, but you can ask if it's within your purview that it be agendized for a future meeting.

And it that sounds cumbersome, but it's there to make sure the public knows what you're going to talk about at your meeting so they can decide that they want to show up or watch your meeting on Zoom and watch what you're talking about and maybe even comment on it. And here we are, public participation. Like I said, the public has the right to attend and participate in your meetings. And they can comment on individual agenda items. And they can also comment on your non agenda items like they did at the beginning of your meeting as long as it falls within the jurisdiction of your legislative body.

So that means if someone comes to your meeting and during public comments they want to talk about the potholes, that's great. None of us like potholes, but your committee doesn't have jurisdiction over taking care of the potholes, so they should take their comments and go to either city council or one of the other committee meetings and they can address, bring it up there where it's the appropriate body that can do something about their comments. But if someone wanted to come talk to you about maybe doing that book drive or like Mr. Halstrom did about trees in the park, something like that, that's within your purview and that's what they can talk to you about during that public comment section. The Brown Act also prohibits secret ballots.

So that roll call voting we were doing earlier, it seems a little tedious, but you can't have a secret ballot when you're on a public legislative body. And there's another little nuance here. Because you're on Zoom, the state law says if we do a teleconference remote Zoom meeting like this, we also have to take the vote by roll call. Partly because if someone's just listening in, they can't tell how people vote. And, like, right now, when I have you in a little box while I'm screen sharing, I wouldn't be able to tell how people voted if you all voted at the same time with with a regular say yes or no or all in favor say aye kind of vote.

So that's why you have to do roll call voting. And no informal polling. And again, we mentioned no discussion of items not on the agenda. So there are some ways to hold accidentally usually an illegal meeting. If we don't get that agenda posted within seventy two hours, you can't meet.

Serial meetings, which Amanda alluded to a little bit at the beginning of the the meeting. Serial meetings are when one of you talk to another one of you, talk to a different member until eventually all of you have talked one on one with enough of you that has been nine people involved or more involved in the conversation. So that means a quorum of you have talked about something and you shouldn't do that or you can't do that unless you're here at a meeting with a something that agendaizes that discussion. So we avoid doing that. You can't discuss items not on the agenda.

We covered that. You have to make sure to allow public comment on in participation on your agenda items and on your regular public comment. And secret ballot, we already talked about that was on here earlier. So everybody gets to know how everybody voted. Now that doesn't mean that you can't all be in the same place at the same time, for some some events.

So the exceptions are social or ceremonial events. So if you all showed up to, like, airport day, that would be alright. That's that's a community event, a social event. Just don't talk about committee business while you're there. Talk about, I don't know, latest TikTok trend or something like that while you're there or how much homework you have or how happy you are you don't have summer school, something like that. Community meetings. So if, for example, you all showed up to a workshop at the library in the conference center that someone put on. That's okay. It's someone else's meeting as long as you don't talk about your committee business there. You can all come to a city council meeting or one of the other committee meetings if you want to.

But, again, at all of these, don't talk about your committee business while you're there. You can have individual contacts with members of the public. And here, you can talk your committee business, but don't talk about it with your other committee members. Just with that individual from the public. And if you know that individual from the public has been talking to all the committee members, remind them not to share what the other committee members said because that's also making one of those serial meetings.

If for some reason there's a workshop or a conference that you all get to go to, that's okay. You know what I'm going say next though. Don't talk about committee business. And then if you have any standing committees of legislative body, which you probably won't, but that is allowable under the law. Hang on with me, I know this is all boring technical stuff, I only have two more slides.

So and if you don't find it boring, you're my kind of people. As a well, then you took that oath of office, so now you are a public official. So congratulations on that. But that also means that any records you create that apply to your public official business are public records and the public has a right to view and inspect them. So that means anything you create that's on either your personal devices and your personal accounts, on social media that has to do with city business is a city record.

More than likely, you're just going to communicate back and forth with staff and that's totally appropriate and okay. And we'll even manage those records for you because we have them on our email server. Again, you can't communicate with each other if it creates more than a quorum, so don't reply all on the emails. Don't don't email each other as a group outside of a meeting because that also creates illegal meetings. Be careful with social media.

This is this is actually a real life bill that came out a couple years ago, Assembly Bill nine ninety two. There were council members. A council member had posted something probably on Facebook because, you know, it's old school adults that still use Facebook. They enough council members actually just gave it a thumbs up or a smiley emoji, did some sort of reaction, and the courts decided that was enough to get to show support or opposition to whatever the original council member was talking about, and that constituted an illegal meeting. So it's a lot of details, and it's really easy to accidentally you know, you're not gonna go through every single comment on on a Facebook post where it probably has 300 comments to see if all if there are too many committee members in there, but just be careful of that.

It's better if you just don't say anything if it's something to do with your committee business. So but you can thumbs up and comment on anything that's not city business. That's totally okay, even if it's the entire committee does it. And then if you have any records that you generated that are outside of something we can pull off of our text or our our email server or even the city social media, leave it with the clerk's office, and then we will manage it as a city record and you can just forget about it once it's in our hands. So that's the end of that in a nutshell at your orientation.

So thank you again for your service to Fullerton. I can answer any questions if I can't tell if you're still awake on there. I think you are. If you have any. And again, here's that contact info if you need to get in touch with any of us or need to grab the handbook.

So hopefully, didn't scare any of you off either.

Are there any questions?

You guys have anything? No? No. K. We can move on to our next item.

I take public comment. I

was gonna I was wondering on the first one. I was like, I wonder if we had to take public comment on that. So we'll open it now. Sorry for public comments. From the public. Have any comments on it? No. Any comments on Zoom? No. Okay. Those public comments? Let's receive and file. Yeah.

You can read receive and file by order of the kind of chair. You can just say receive and file.

And file. Good.

There's another parlum another parliamentary, bit for you. When an item is receive and file, it just means that there's a report and you don't need to take any action on it. So you don't need to vote on it for receiving file. You can just all say, okay. We're good. But if there were any if for some reason out of that conversation, you wanted to make a motion and a second on something related to that item, then you would have to vote. So but here, receiving file is very fine. So

Now on to item number three, which is the advisory committee meeting schedule. Also, you've listened to that.

Forgot about that one. Was already starting to turn myself off. Well, technically, your term goes through August 31. Do you all want what's your plan, Amanda? I should let you lead. Are going to have July and August meetings? I know we're talking originally just through

June. Yes. On the

resolution, it says that we'd only meet October to June. So then we go dark, dark, like July and August. That's what's on the resolution.

Okay. So you can either pick a date and time that works for the whole group now, or you may want to wait till they do the next round of appointments and do it for September. But whatever the group wants to do, it's up to you. Or we can keep doing it like this for now until we can find it. Because I have a feeling you won't know your schedules for next school year necessarily yet.

Do you just want to stick with the status quo where I email you? Hopefully not as quick as this one was, but a little more notice of it. So our next meeting would be in October. Right, Lucinda? To follow

the resolution.

September, October, whatever works for the group. Yeah. What you can do in the meantime is if you think you know what your schedule is going to be generally, come September, shoot, I guess, Amanda an email and let her know, like, the first Mondays don't work for me. The third Mondays of the month are great, something like that. So you know a a day every month that's convenient for you or days that are good, and we can find a date in there.

Because because we broadcast and we have 10 committees and council and some of the committees meet more than once a month, we've got limited dates that are available. Maybe oh, you know, now that I'm saying that, I just thought of another idea. Maybe we can poll with the dates that are available and see what works, like a monkey survey or something. Survey monkey. Monkey survey.

So that's why our dates have been so skirt like, not consistent on the dates. Like, either the second, third, Tuesday, Wednesday, and like that, why it's been so random. It's off the availability that we have for the Zoom meeting. Yeah. Okay. So I guess we'll table that and go with I will email you guys as we get openings. Yes.

Don't table it, then you can't bring it back. That's another parliamentary thing. You will you will continue it.

Yes. Continue this to our next meeting. We'll carry it on to our next meeting.

To clarify, if the term ends August 31, then we can still meet after that or no?

Yes. Right. You said it's toward your position. You're you stay in your position until it gets replaced by someone. Yeah. And

more than likely, unless you're changing schools, if you're a school appointee, we can probably get your principal to reappoint you for next year, get you ratified. And if you're the council appointees, they'll go through the process of they'll have to do it again just legally because the term is up. But if you're interested in reapplying and being reappointed, we can definitely have let counsel know your interest. There's So a very good chance it'll be the same group.

Yes. Communicating with all the principals of the school appointments to try to keep you guys the same because we didn't get to meet all year. So try to keep you guys on. Ask them if they do wanna change a representative or can you continue on. We'll be sending that email in August. Okay.

Thank you. Mhmm.

K. Since it's getting carried on to the next one, is there any public comment on that one? Or I just move on to the next? Yeah. I don't know the rules on that one.

No. And, technically, if you're going to continue, the comment should be only on continuing the item. And if you wanna make it super I was gonna say super official, and I was gonna come out saying superficial. No. Super official. You can do a motion in a second to continue to the next meeting and a vote.

K. Does anyone want a motion that we continue this on to our next meeting?

I motion to continue this to our next meeting.

I second.

Alicia Shay? Yes. Juliana Nunzi? Yes. Mason Yu? Yes. Ria Gupta? Yes. Savannah Kruett? Yes. Teegan Yu? Yes. Tram Nguyen? Yes. Vanessa Gonzalez? Yes. Zeke Winters? Yes.

Miriam's got your names nailed down now. Okay.

So now we'll move on to the next item, which is our item. It's a little more, I would say, the fun one, I guess, to put it. So we're gonna be discussing the goals and the expectations of your guys' role here on the youth advisory committee. So what we passed out, during the sending presentation was the resolution. So I'll be going over the duties that are on there, but, really, the goal of this item is to hear what you guys wanna do. So we're creating, like, a working plan going into next school year already. Like I said, I'm going with the anticipation that you guys will all be returning, said Savannah, but majority of you will be returning to your position. So you would have an idea of going into next year should, for some reason, we don't eat quorum or something goes on. We at least already have our plans going into next year. Hopefully, we do keep making our forms.

So with that, I will go over your guys the duties that are for you guys. So it's on the bottom of page one of the resolution, which is attend all of the committees and in the city council functions, participate in communications to city council. So today, we receive and relay input and suggestions from anyone out. You guys would communicate that to city council. Normally, be the chair, or there is monthly agenda reports or updates from committees and councils that we can put little communications to council through that so you guys don't have to actually have to go and present to them And then participate in publicly fundraising recruitment of activities that we put on as we get more on.

Complete any activity assigned by the chair or vice chair. Attend all orientations and training programs, which you guys have three times done. Participate in all city events, so the July 4, New Year's Eve, concerts of the park farmers market. We actually do have one coming up on Monday. I can go to my phone to read the flyer real fast. It is for help design the new Union Pacific Park playground. It's gonna be on Monday the sixteenth, and it will be here at the community center. And it's a kids workshop from four to 5PM and then the adults workshop from four to 6PM. So what they're looking is to get ideas of what you guys would think they would want at that park at the new Union Pacific Park Playground.

What do

you guys want? Most slides, basketball courts, anything along those lines. More monkey bars. So I've had a four and eight year old, so I'm gonna say monkey bars and swings, but that might not

be what you guys are

looking for. Workout equipment, pickleball courts, anything along those lines would be this what this meeting is going for to hear what the community input is for that. And then what's next? Tracking. Promote the understandings for young people in the community. Encourage young people to participate in city activities, make recommendations to city council, and then coordinate with city council, city manager officer hold. This is our biggest thing is we're looking to host a youth in government day, and then we should be offering a mock trial city council meeting. So you guys would be sitting in the council chambers. We'd be actually running, like, how they do every first and third Tuesdays. We'd be doing that.

And then another goal that we have for it as well is to invite all the directors that we have to come speak to you guys about their different departments and what each different department or division oversees and what they do as well on that government day. Should it not be exactly the youth and government day like that, we could do it for once a month. The directors possibly come and speak to you guys at these meetings, or we set up a date for them to come and talk to you guys as well. See, the meetings, we're just gonna carry that one on. And your terms, sure you went over that.

So everything else pretty much already discussed. So now would be the part where I'd like to hear your guys' ideas and goals of what you would like to see of us moving forward. A few examples are on the agenda letter. So, like, for education support and opportunities, work with local schools and community centers to develop an after school tutoring programs, college prep workshops for exploration. It was, like, maybe we host a day and we work with FJC, and they come in and help with college preparation paperworks. Or what is needed? What are the new colleges looking for? Is SAT still a thing? SAT preps? Anything along those lines.

Leadership development and skills building, we can offer those training sessions either with the directors or possibly ask someone to come in and speak from the colleges to come talk to you guys about different organizations and leadership skills. Youth access to recreation safe spaces. So you guys would help us do surveys with the local youth to identify gaps in recreational facilities or programming. What are we doing or not doing that needs improvement or doesn't need improvement, or what's a new activity or program that we could be offering that we haven't touched or done yet? Those are just some different examples.

So my ideas would be to whatever we come up with. So I know you guys a few of you mentioned mental health. So I know there's the mental health month. Maybe during that, we have a goal as we raise awareness, for mental health issues in youth, and maybe we have a day where there's someone comes in from an organization and comes to speak, and it's open to all the two youths and the teens at the city. So with each goal that we come so you guys would give us your ideas. And then by the time we meet again in September, October, we'll have Nirav and I would have drafted up a plan of everything that you guys said and put together. You'll review it, and then we vote on it at that next meeting to really get it going. So this is really just to hear your guys' ideas and see where you guys wanna go and what you wanna do.

Questions? That make sense?

I apologize too. We do talk fast, so I'm sorry. Try and talk slow.

I have a quest yes. You mentioned that we must participate in all city events and, like, the one coming up on Monday. Yes. What if you are

That's fine. There's still, like, the where we can't have too many of us Lucinda talked about where nine of you can't show up. So it's not like it's mandatory for you guys to be there. You're not gonna lose your spot. It's just a way of, hopefully, you guys would participate and bring your friends and help spread the word at our community events. So it's not a mandatory that you have to. You're not gonna lose your spot on the committee if you can't make it at community events.

Any questions

before we talk about Fentanyl? Hear your guys' ideas? K. This is it's open floor. So if you guys wanna start tripping out ideas, wanna start with if you have you talk about the mental health, what do you guys look what are we lacking, anything along those lines.

What do you guys wanna do? How about we start with that? We can go around to each person one at a time, and you guys tell me what you want to do. What is one of your things that you wanna make sure we accomplish next year?

I can pick. You don't feel comfortable?

You can start random. Okay.

I think we should have, like, more, like, community events for, like, kids our age, like, teens, like, middle school and, like, high school so that, like, we can, like people can meet new people, and, like, there's more community, like, stuff happening.

I can go next.

I don't know this was, but

I participated with St. Jude for May Mental Health Month, and it was group like, we painted, like, a venture in honor of mental health awareness. And I think just, like, painting and, like, even, like, exercising and stuff with, like, the whole community and, like, junior high and high school students are really bringing, like, everyone together in front of them like that to really help with youth's mental health so we can do something like that for May.

I can go next. So my school has something called the Kyrie Corner. I go to one park, and it's basically a place that is partnered with the Orange County Department of Education where it helps set up a place for any students who wanna go in. If they feel stressed, they have professional mental health professionals to come in or are there that they can talk to, and have, like, stress relieving, activities and fidget toys to that you can play with and just a relaxing environment that they can help de stress in. So I'm not sure if other schools have that, but I think it would be something nice for all the schools to have.

I can go next. I think fun community events are really important to bring people together. And an interesting one that my school does, it's called IFF International Food Fair. And it's basically an event where people from all different cultures come and celebrate and, sell their food from their culture. And there could be music, and there could be just, all types of activities, and it could be a free event except for the things that you buy there. And I think that would be a really good just casual, community event that people can go to and meet others and learn about other cultures too.

Yeah. So I feel like as a student, I feel like there's a lot of, like, stress involved, like, in a lot of people's studies. So I feel like during, like, finals week, something that, like, we could do is, like I know there's, like, stress relieving pets. So, like, if we could, like, host maybe, like, a I wanna say petting too, but I don't think that's it. But, like, just have them come in, like dogs or puppies, for example. Yeah. And then just, like, kinda, like, ease off the stress of, like, upcoming finals or, like, upcoming tests.

Okay.

Or so the question. Are all your finals around the same time? I mean, it's obviously elementary schools. I don't think you guys have finals. But for high schools and is it all around the same time for you guys? Mhmm. Yeah? Okay. So if we were gonna do something like I wanted to make sure it's not like I pick the second week of pain. It's like, no one's having finals at all. So okay. Sure.

I wanna build on Mason's idea and add my own. So he mentioned the pettiness, and I feel like it'd be good to bring, like, shelter animals. So maybe people that are looking at the animals, they might want to buy one if they feel well, adopt one. Adopt one. If they feel very connected to it.

And I also do a volunteer for Meals on Wheels. It's a drive where the elderly or the sick or the immobile volunteers drive and deliver food every day of the week except Tuesday. And I think since the meal drivers are, like, the only the only conversations that the old people have during the day, it'd be nice to set up gifts or little things to give them. I just wanna add on to your guys' different ideas. So for mental health, I think that, for advocating that, I think that it's really big that we remove the stigma around mental health because I think that people who suffer with that don't really feel comfortable getting help for that or they don't know where to get help.

So I think that, at my school, we did a mental health fair. So we had different, organizations who advocate mental health and educate people on mental health, come and, visit. And our students were able to engage with the different activities they had, and it not only focused on mental health, but, like, physical health and just their different aspects of health. So just holding a mental health fair, not only just at my school, fighting for the whole city would be beneficial for everyone. For the food fest that I believe Santa mentioned, Savannah mentioned, I think that can be integrated with a food drive and also, a leadership program that you, was mentioned before because I think that we can kind of integrate different ways that we can teach people to become leaders by also helping the community through food drives.

Like, for example, with the food fest, we could have different, not like small businesses come and sell their foods, and the profit from that could go towards making food drives for people who can't really afford or struggle with getting food or having access to it. And also oh, for I believe college prep was mentioned earlier. I'm a very good advocate for college prep because I think that being a high schooler, we kind of have some access to going into college, but not really an entire support system. So I think that if we have one open to not just all high schoolers, but also middle schoolers as well, like, a head start kind of, then having someone speak there or kind of show, like, a workshop on how you could get started or what kind of the whole college application process is like or what you kinda wanna do beyond high school would be helpful for people to kind of plan their future to think of what they want to do.

Those are all really good ideas. So sounds like for sure we're right now at least. We definitely wanna do something for May for mental health month. So that was one of the goals. And then the food festival as well. And then I was also going down. I believe, Ray, you talked about trash and picking up and making sure we were clean. So, like, an example would be environmental awareness and sustainability. So we get organized through recycling drives, sustainability fairs, campaigns for energy conservation and green practice in schools and local communities. Like, for example, I know the city is going into all of our different types of trash cans. You won't be seeing, like, empty trash can like this anymore. It'll have the three where you have to actually put the trash in the right trash. So maybe it's a day where it's a compost day. I know we can work with public works or something like that. Would that be, like, something you guys are interested as well too?

I know we do do a compost day. We do have Arbor Day where we plant trees. That's normally in April. So maybe would you do you guys want to do almost like a community event, big or small, once a month throughout the year? Because it seems like we're already at April. We're at May. We're gonna have your food drive, maybe think of Thanksgiving and the holidays. So maybe we organize a food drive. We do something then as well. Like, is that one of your boys' goals where we can come up with a different event for every month next year at least?

Yes. Okay. Okay.

And then those Okay. Sorry.

Can I throw a suggestion out there for you guys? In addition to youth in government, would you be interested in doing a mock election? Election? If you'd like to do that, we can add that in the mix too. So I might have a connection or two with the registrar of voters if you were interested in that.

Something to roll over.

Do mean by a mock election?

We can do I know when the county's done it sometimes, they have had, some silly topic or not silly, but a fun topic to vote on. Like, are are are you a Taylor Swift or a Beyonce fan or something like that? And and you went through the entire voting process. You got to learn what it was like to be a candidate and all the paperwork you had to do there. And you got the campaign, and you got to some people got to set up the vote center and run the elections.

If you're interested in learning about the whole voting and all the rules that are in the background, or even maybe even if there is some topic that you wanted to have an election on, we could set up a mock election on something you all wanted people to vote on and give you input on. So if that's something that you want to play with down the road, let me know, we can set that up. So let Amanda know.

I also have an idea that I would like to add. I'm very into, like, what's the word, community preparedness or disaster preparedness, faster awareness. I've spoken to some members of the Florida Police Department and the Fire Department, and they said that they found that when people are prepared, it helps them a lot with the whole process with dealing with the aftereffects of a disaster or, like, during the disaster, how to, like, evacuations and things. And really it's really helpful to them when people are prepared and they know what to do that makes the whole process a lot more organized and easier for them. So I'm really advocating for spreading disaster awareness and preparedness, so maybe hosting like workshops for not I know that four ten they have CERT workshops or community emergency response team workshops for people to attend and participate in to learn more about disaster preparedness.

But they don't really have those available for, like, children or teenagers. So I find that when I'm in school, when people talk about disasters or they usually, like, they don't have an idea of what to do when a disaster does strike. For example in California we have a lot of earthquakes. They all mostly in their heads it's just drills at school but there's also situations where it's outside of school and I'm concerned I'm concerned for the community. If the disaster does strike, what would everybody do, and would everybody evacuate?

And I want everybody to be more familiar with the plans that our, government has, I guess, like, implanted for us. And I feel like also for elderlies. Elderlies during disaster, I felt they're more vulnerable too, so I would like the workshops to be more, promoted for more people to, like, be for more people to know about these workshops, for more people to be able to attend them, and I feel like that would really help the the preparedness that the entire community has and make this disaster district. It will make the whole process a lot easier for our response teams and for the community.

Yeah. Going back on the food drive, I don't know how your guys' school if you guys' school do any, but, my high school, what we do, we have, like, an annual holiday food drive. So we'll have, like the whole school comes together. It's, like, real it's a really cool scene, but, like, the whole school comes together and, like, all, like, pitches in, like, canned goods or stuff to, like, help out with, like, families that are in need throughout, like, the holiday season. And then it's, like, we all set up, like, this fair.

So it's, like, one side, you have, like, the baseball team setting up boxes, football teams, like, carrying them over, and then, like, the ASP is, like, organizing the gifts. And it's just, like, a really cool, like, experience because I think, last year was my first year working it. And I think just watching that and then seeing, like, just how much this, like what can seem like to many people, like, a little meal, like, much it could actually, like, affect, like, the community in a whole, it, like, really brings it all together. So I feel like that's something that we could really implement over during the halls holiday seasons for, like, schools or just, like, big community wide one.

I was trying to think of categories to put all this in. So I was going with swimming crate bowls, at least. So it seems like we're gonna be so you I like this one. Like, mental health and white well-being as a goal, and that would be touching on, like, the event in May. Anything else that we talked about? The I think, fitness got brought up at one point and working out and doing different types of stress release things. I feel like all that would fall into the mental health one. And then education support and opportunities could be another goal, which that would be talking about college prep, trainings about being volunteers, anything along those lines. And then, of course, we have community service and volunteering. And then let's see what else is on this.

There's one here. It says youth access to recreation and safe spaces. So increased access to safe recreational spaces for youth in Fullerton. Survey local youth to identify gaps in recreational facilities and programming, then work with parks and art department to improve and expand these opportunities. Maybe think of your mental health, something corn it was called a corner.

Coyote corner.

Coyote corner. Yes. Something along those lines for that. And then let's do let's see. So That's funny. So and then on your what this is what I was trying to find. Sorry. Public safety and youth relations, maybe that could be one of our goals is the public safety is worth the prep of working and getting everything up to work with our fire department. We have a CERT person. We have a safety person in fire and PD. So so we can host forums with local police to discuss the youth's concern, maybe in your schools or neighborhoods, and then promote initiatives for police and families or safe space and emergencies emergency disasters. So does that sound like a good thing?

Anything

else? Advertising. If you guys wanna help, we can create flyers. We can have you guys pass out flyers. Your friends can come to these. Come do their public comments. It is open to the public. As you saw, we didn't do public comments. So if your friends wanna come, anyone wants to have inputs, anything along those lines, anyone is welcome to come to these meetings as well too. We are just not meeting council chambers because we are 13 members in our council and we hold tonight up there. So it'd be very hard to squeeze you guys all in, so that's why we're here. And it has to be televised. We do need the cameras while we're in the border with the community center. K. Any other ideas?

And if anything you think of, feel free to email me or Miriam with any or Diana, any ideas that you have that comes up after today because I put this on the spot on you guys. So do understand that you'll have other ideas between now and then. Feel free to always just share them. Miriam and I are normally always here at the community center. You can also just stop by and talk to us if you guys want to. I don't know if guys come here often or if this is your first time here.

Anyway, if you do email, I recommend adding probably all three of us so at least one of us sees it. Yeah.

For public safety, can I

add, like, a specific detail? Yeah. For oh, at least for in my experience for high schools, I think the safety with driving should be something emphasized and, like, taught to use because I just think there's, like, people drive past the speed limit. And I think I'd like a it's like a norm, but sometimes it can be, like, abused in a way, or it can be dangerous around school zones, especially. So just, like, emphasizing, like, safety and driving. And

Thank you.

Another idea I have that really can be used any time, but I feel like during the holidays or during, like, if we're focusing on, like, environmental, at my school, our thrift club for what we call eco week, which is, like, environmental awareness, they did a, like, upcycling, like, donation drive, which basically you could donate all the old clothes that you don't like, and then they would give it to, like, homeless shelters and, like, children's hospitals. So we could do that.

Maybe every week, we can, like, highlight a different small business or philanthropy. So it could be, like, the spotlight of the week and more people would know about, like, a small, like, help out because this is important.

Anything else?

K. That's kind of where we're at for oh, we have to do the honest. No.

I'm not receiving that. This is not receiving that.

So our recommendation is review and discuss the ideas and goals of the committee and then direct staff to develop a working plan based on these discussions and return with a comprehensive proposal for the 2526 school year for approval, which would be all the items that we talked about creating specific goals, but the goal, and then I'll have, like, an action plan there too. And just because we created it does not mean that's the final version. When we present it, you guys can make the changes to it. And you'll get the agenda a couple days before, seventy two hours prior, so you'll be able to see what's on there because our plan will be part of that agenda when we meet so you can prep, and it's not like you're seeing it for the first time right when we meet as well.

So right now, we can

go into getting a motion, a first and a second, to pass what we just all discussed right now, just on the side.

Does anyone have motion?

I need to where she could pass, Sophie, just deciding that.

Alicia Shay?

Yes.

Brianna Zumsey? Yes. Mason Yu? Yes. Maria Gupta? Yes. Savannah Pruitt? Yes. D and Hughes? Yeah. Fran Wood? Yes. Vanessa Gonzalez? Yes. D. Winters? Yes. You. Okay. Passes. K.

So our next if you look at the agenda, the next item on the agenda would be the items pulled from the consent calendar, which, of course, we didn't have any. But that'd be should we have the minutes there and someone wanted to make a change. Right now is when we would discuss about the items pulled from the consent or if the public requested that you guys pull any items. That's when it happened. And then if not, I will be adjourning our meeting at 07:39PM.

Well,

a bit of loss because you guys all should be councilmember and mayors. Brady, yes. You're amazing, bud. I'm very happy you're next.

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