Senior Advisory Committee - Regular Meeting

Alright. The October 27 meeting of the youth advisory committee will now come to order at 6PM. Would the secretary please call roll?

Kait c Kait c Yoon? Here. Olivia Wu? Here. Ria Gupta?

Here.

Alicia P. Shea? Here. Avery Bowen's not here. Juliana e Nuncie? Here. Zeke w Winters? Here. Alright.

Thank you. I will now lead us in the pledge of allegiance. If you please stand. Alright. Thank you. Kinda moving through our agenda. May the secretary please call the oath of office?

Juliana Nancy,

do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the constitution of The United States and the constitution of the state of California against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the constitution of The United States and to the constitution of the state of California, and that I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation, purpose of evasion, and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties upon which I am about to enter. Alright.

We'll collect those at the end of the meeting. Feel free to just leave them on the side there. Kinda moving forward. Alright. Public comments. So at this time, we will now hear public comments on non agenda and consent calendar items. Secretary of view, may you please call the first speaker to the microphone?

So happy to see this group here today, and thank you very much, staff. We have been on this journey for over a year now, and it's fantastic to see you here. And I'm here to welcome you officially to let you know how important your role is in terms of being able to represent a segment of the population that is important to us, not only from the city's perspective, but in in terms of what we do with the Bulletin Collaborative. And our role is to really support you and all the all the things that you are gonna discuss tonight. We hope that your ideas that you have, that you can reach out to some of your your your fellow students, and that way you can represent them in terms of what they see as needs.

We have needs that we're working on around the community, that we'd love to talk to you about, to let you know that, there are active groups out there looking to better everything for the youth in our community. So on behalf of the co chairs, which is myself, Dave De Leon, Bev Berryman, and Amy Chow Wan, I'd like to welcome you and wish you well on your journey, and remember that we're here to support you. You'll learn more of us about us as we move forward. Thank you.

Hello. Good evening, committee. My name is Eglin Nunzi. I work for the Center for Healthy Neighborhoods, which is part of Cal State Fullerton. I am very, very honored to be in front of all of you because you guys are the future decision makers, you know, of our community, and you are the bright, you know, future of our world. Thank you so much for taking the time. I know it's very hard with the homework and your schedule, and you really wanna be involved. And you're serving your community, and we are very grateful for that. It's, you know, my pleasure to welcome you, and I feel so happy to see all of you being so involved. I wanted to make changes for our city and community, and I wish you all the best.

I'm so proud of you. I'm gonna talk in this as a mom, all of you. Your parents must be very proud of all of you. Thank you for your time. Thank you.

Alright. I don't think we have any more public comments. Moving on.

We have no one registered on Zoom either.

Thank you. I forget we're live on Zoom too. Apologies. And at this time, are there any committee member or staff communications? On the staff side, we do not have anything. I don't know if there's anything on the committee, any communications. Probably not. This is our first meeting. So moving on, we do not have any consent calendar items, for this meeting. So going to our first regular business, it is the youth advisory committee chair and vice chair selection. So I'm going to leave it to our city clerk.

Good. It's not afternoon, really. Good evening, committee members. I think all but one of you were here last time we met. You can, I think so? For for who's who's who's our new one? Is she not here? You've all been here before? Oh, Kate. Okay. Last time we did this, selecting a chair and vice chair, you guys are all go getters, so we had a hard time narrowing it down to one person. So all of you who remember that, we can go through that process again. But let's try this based on our last meeting. Is there anybody who is not interested in being a chair or vice chair of the committee? You can raise your hand.

Okay. That's what I thought. That's okay. That's a good thing. But theoretically, what you could do is you could take nominations for a chair and vice chair and keep voting until someone has a majority of the of your board to become the chair or vice chair. Or we can if you'd like, you could agree to just rotate your chairs throughout the year. Maybe everybody take a meeting. There's nine of you when you're full. There'll probably be nine meetings. It'll work out really nicely.

So, I'll let you discuss amongst yourselves, and then maybe you could figure out who can start out as chair tonight. Don't be shy. Someone just hit the button on your microphone, and you can let us know what you think. Or would you like to start from one end or the other and go in order and tell us what you think about that?

I'll start.

Okay. Thank you, Zeke.

I actually think it's a

I think I'm fine with doing the rotation. I feel like everyone is already a leader. I think everyone can remember.

Great. Anybody else have a comment?

I also agree. I think it's a good idea to switch. It gives everybody a chance and that nobody's like, didn't get in or anything. Like, everybody's able to try it out.

Great. Anybody wanna say anything else or anybody have a different opinion? It's okay to have those also? No judgment?

Would we rotate would we

rotate just the chair position or would we rotate chair in?

Good question. I would recommend rotating both. Although if you're communicating well with your staff, if know your overly, the vice chair becomes a chair in absence of the chair. If you're all communicating well, we'll know in advance whether the chair will be there or not and can pick someone else since you're rotating. That makes it a lot easier. But you can also rotate vice chair if you like. And maybe if you want to do that, whoever is chair tonight will chair tonight's meeting. Whoever is vice chair will chair the next meeting. That way you kinda know you're on deck. There's a good baseball term for the World Series tonight.

You'll know that you'll you'd cheer your next meeting. So and whoever's chair tonight, you can be vice chair at the last meeting because then there probably won't be another meeting after that, just to say you did it.

Me too. Okay.

Now you guys get to have the tough decision and figure out who's going to be chair tonight. You could just decide amongst yourselves. You could decide to go alphabetically, by birth date, I don't know, your favorite color, however you wanna pick it, or just pick amongst yourselves. It's up to you.

Does anybody wanna go first?

I would like to be

I can go first.

Okay. That's okay.

Okay. Never mind.

There's no public comment yet. I think Juliana has withdrawn her offer to be chair tonight. Can I throw another idea out there? Some of you folks in the middle are kinda sitting in the chair seat already.

How about we go oldest to youngest?

You could do that also.

Who's the oldest here? Yeah. I know. You're one of the youngest.

Why don't we just go by birth?

It's like oh, yeah.

I was here in April.

I was born in March. I was born in November. It's been what? August. I said March. Me. Anybody else before March?

Okay. You wanna go by calendar date? You wanna go by whose birthday is closest to today? And that would be no You're welcome, mom. I

wanna do it first. No. I don't wanna go first.

So if I may suggest as well, if you are the first chair, we do have kind of a guideline for you so you don't we're gonna walk you through it. So don't don't let that stop any of you.

Okay.

Thank you, Alicia. That means you get to put it on your resume sooner too, so smart. What are you applying for next month? It'll be on there now. So okay. Thank you, Alicia. And who would like to be vice chair and be the chair next meeting? Or do you have a rotation already you've on?

Can I go next time? Can I be vice chair this time?

If the rest of your committee's okay with that?

Yeah. Oh, okay.

I'm sorry. Continue to use your microphone. Volunteer.

Okay. She's saying, like, we could go youngest to oldest because she's the youngest,

she thinks.

So then I'm the next youngest. Yeah. So just go in that order.

If your committee's good with that, have you guys ever done parliamentary procedure? You someone would make a motion to go in that order if you like it, and then a second, and then you can vote and see if everybody agrees.

You want a motion?

I kind of heard a motion from Alicia if she wants to say that one more time and say, I move that.

I move that.

We go youngest.

It's too oldest. Okay.

I second.

Olivia, did you second? No. Yes. Can you guys make sure you're speaking in the microphones too? Because I think at least one of your parents is watching. They wanna hear what's going on at home.

Second here.

Perfect. There you go. See. It's all friends in here. You can signal the mics. Thank you. Okay. And now, chair Alicia, you will call for the vote.

Do I just say call for the vote?

Yeah. And your secretary will read your names. And then when you she reads your name, you'll say yes or no, I or nay, however you like to say

it. Yes. Oh.

Ask for the vote.

Call for the vote?

Mhmm. Yeah. Okay.

And this is for the motion of going from youngest. Yes? Okay. So committee member Kate Yoon? Yes. Yes. Committee member Wu? Yes. Committee member Gupta?

Yes.

Sorry. You were vice chair. Wait. Did we do that yet?

It'll be both in the same motion. Yeah.

Member Shay?

Yes.

Okay. Member Nancy?

Yes.

And member Winters?

Yes.

Okay.

Passes.

First decision made by the committee. Good job. Now, chair Shay, if you would did you see the supplement up there with the script to follow? Do they have it all up there?

Yes. I see.

Good, because I don't have an agenda up there. So you'll have to tell me what's next. It might be me. Okay. So you did committee chair selection. That was item one on your regular business. I know you're reading this cold. So do you see on there where your next item now is, your regular business is item two, the youth advisory committee member orientation?

Yes. I see it.

There you go. So that's the item you should ask for next, which is my way of stalling while you ask. I can share my screen.

What's, like, the phrase I should oh, secretary, please call the first speaker to the microphone.

Oh, that's right. We didn't do public comment on your voting. Do we have any public comment? We had whispering you wanna okay. Just back on the

Yes. In the nomination. Well, I would like to thank so much, you know, our president Alicia. Ish, thank you so much for taking the role. I know it's hard to be the first one, but thank you so much for because you start everything. I'm very grateful because I'm a mom, and I thank you for that. Thank you.

And Chair, if it's Okay with you, we'll take item number two now.

Secretary, please call the first speaker to the microphone.

Oh, that's after the presentation. So if we didn't build that in, we'll write it in for you next time. Because you do take public comment on the item, which we'll talk about right now, actually. So by the way, I did introduce myself. I'm Lucinda Williams.

I'm the city clerk here in town. Your first thought was probably what does the city clerk do? I have basically three big buckets of things I do. I run the city elections. I am in charge of all the city records, and I have this big third bucket of things we do, which is city council legislative support, which is do their agenda packets and their minutes, coordinate all the committee and commissions, do the training on the Brown Act, do all kinds of statutory filings for campaign finances and economic interest finances, a whole big bucket of other things that we do.

A lot of it is legislative support for city council. I won't go through the whole list, but if you're really nerdy and wanna hear more about it, I'll do it at another time. Diana here is part time in my office, so she's helping to clerk this committee, and she also takes care of the agenda packet for the city council meeting. So she's got a really big important job to do. And, Christian, did you get a chance to introduce yourself?

No. We got right into it, so I did not. I'm Christian Hernandez, Parks and Recreation Manager for the Parks and Recreation Department.

And, technically, your committee falls under Park and Recreation. So I'll be around because I'm also the other thing I do is I put all you guys on the air, so that's why I wasn't here right at the start. I was making sure you were you're all on TV right now, so smile. You could watch the replay later. Don't worry. There are no close ups for your meeting. It's all just this one camera in the very back. So it's basically got the back of my head and all of you sitting up there right now. You'll have Christian and Diana at most of your meetings, and I'll be here for support. But today, because it's your first meeting, and some of you have seen this already, we did an orientation at the end of last year.

But just as a refresher, I'm gonna go through this a little more quickly than last time, but feel free to interrupt if you have any questions. Kate, I know you're new. So if if I'm going through too quickly and you need to ask me a question later, if you don't wanna you wanna get on the better stuff right now, my stuff is good, but it's not the meat of why you're here. Let me know anytime I'm available for you guys. So I gave you a copy of the city boards and commissions handbook and a copy of the rules of procedure.

Those are the two documents that provide a lot of guidance about how you do meetings because you are an official city legislative body, which means you get to follow all the state rules that the state sets up for all of the body like you. You have the same rules more or less as Planning Commission and the Park and Rec Commission and the infrastructure committee. So you get to play by all the same rules that all all the the adults do on the other committees. So this is just a quick introduction about how the city government is set up other than you are all advisory to city council. They appointed you to give them advice on things within the purview of your committee.

The city itself is run by city council and the city manager. So city council actually sits in these seats that you do on the first and third Tuesdays of every month, doing what you do on different topics that go to city council. And they are like the the board of directors of the city, and the city manager is the CEO that implements all the direction that city council gives them as a board. So that's how the city's run more or less, and the manager delegates to the other departments to get things done. Again, the council wants you to provide input on on items that are in your purview of your committee so they can know what's going on in in the youth realm and make decisions coordinate accordingly.

And you can make lots of recommendations to city council, and then city council controls the ultimate decisions on things that go forward in the city. My slide is cut off at the top there. Sorry about that. I should have tested this first. But that thing at the very top is the citizens of the city. They elect city council. City council appoints the commissions and committees and the library board, and they also appoint the city manager. The city clerk's office is part of the city manager's division. And then within the city, under the city manager, are all the various departments. So unique things to Fullerton is we do have a city library.

Not every city has its own library. Sometimes it's run by the county. And we have an airport, which most cities don't have. So that makes us kind of really interesting in that respect. Your committee appointments, five of you are directly well, not five of you here, because we're not done with that round yet.

But the we're full. You'll have five members on this committee appointed directly by city council members and then another four of you that were appointed by city council as at large members. So those of you who went through the interview process last week, it feels like whenever it was very recently, you were all appointed at large. The rest of you were appointed directly by council members. Not that I don't expect you all to show up every time, but just to let you know, in the municipal code, there are some rules about attendance to make sure we can meet quorum, which we'll go over what quorum is in a minute.

So, if you're not going to make it to a meeting, please make sure you let Diana know so we can count you as an excused absence so we don't have to worry about you hitting any of the absence regulations in the code. If for some reason you have to resign from the committee, we we don't want you to go. But if you have to, please let Christian and or Diana and me know. If you're appointed directly by a council member, it's polite to let them know you can't proceed either. That way we know there's a vacancy because there are some noticing requirements before we can fill a vacancy on the committee and wanna make sure while we're sad to see you go, we also wanna make sure the rest of the committee is here and all the seats are filled and we can have quorums.

The city council can remove appointees. I don't think that'll be a problem with all of you because you are more ambitious than some of our grown ups on some of our other committees. So I'm not worried about you guys. I surely shouldn't have said that on recording, but oh, well. He he's on the committee. I'm talking about him. No. I gave you a resolution, which is the rules of procedure. It's the the rules that city council adopts for how you run your meetings. A lot of it is stuff like what the public can do while they're here, how they have to behave.

They there's no AV equipment available for public use. What when the agenda packet goes out, what makes a quorum. So just so you know, a quorum is a number of people you need present to be able to conduct your meetings. So per state law, you have to have 50% plus one of you here. So math, you guys are probably better at this than I am, but half a nine would be four and a half. So you need five people here to be able to hold a meeting and make decisions. There's instructions in there about how to do the motions and voting. There's things in there about doing nominations, all kinds of stuff that if you're up there and trying to run the meeting and you're like, wait, can we do that here? I'm not sure. Look at that rules and procedures.

It probably tells you what you need to do on there. And don't worry if you don't have it memorized. We'll get you through it. I did mention the Brown Act. The California Brown Act is a state law that talks about how you do business for the public. And since you are a public body, it applies to your committee also. Ultimately, the Brown Act makes sure that the business of the people is done in public, they have a chance to participate. So transparency is really important, and the ability for the public to know what's going on with your meetings are really important. And it applies to your committee. So like I said, it requires a quorum.

The meetings have to be open to the public. We have some people here just to prove that to us today, so thank you for showing up. And your agendas, per the state law, they have to be posted at least seventy two hours in advance of the meeting for proper notice to the public about what's going on so they have a chance to review the agenda and, watch it or show up or make a comment or all of the above if there's something on their interest then. The public does have a right to attend all your meetings, see what's going on, because you're making decisions on the public's behalf. What you can't do is have a secret ballot or informal polling, because your voting should be on the public record.

Everybody gets to know what you're thinking and how you're voting on behalf of things that affect the community. The Brown Act is in place for really good reasons. There are some very easy and innocent ways accidentally hold an illegal meeting. Don't worry. It's not that big of a deal. There are really easy ways to correct it if you do. But you have to have a proper notice of your meetings, which means your agenda has to be posted seventy two hours. Otherwise, you can't meet. You can't have things that are called serial meetings. So I'm gonna start I'll start on this end. If Kate talks to Olivia, talks to Juliana, talks to Ria, talks to Alicia, one two three four five. Yeah. It's a quorum. No offense, Zeke, but you don't we don't need you to make a quorum. We could talk to Zeke too if you want, though.

But if you guys all talk to each other even separately, but in a chain, and it's outside of here at the dais, and it's about something that's going to be discussed during your meetings, that's an illegal meeting in the eyes of the Brown Act because the public didn't get a chance to sit here and listen to you talking about business of the city. So it's no secret meetings. You have to do it all from up here. Also, while you're up there, if something isn't on the agenda, you can't get into too much of a discussion about it. You can say, we'd really like to talk about this topic, but it's not agendized.

So can we please agendize it for the next meeting? That's totally okay. Just you can't get into decision making too much without proper notice to the public that in case they want to show up and listen or make a comment that they know how to get there. So that's basically it. So just be careful that you don't have a group more than a quorum of you, which is five people, talking about stuff outside of the meeting.

It's really best way to remember just not talk about it with anybody else on the committee outside of the meeting, and then you're safe. Because you never know who's going to talk to someone else later on, and all of a sudden more than a quorum of you are involved in the conversation. The other fun part is I may have a slide for this already, so I may be getting ahead of myself, but that also applies to social media. So including just liking posts. So if someone said on online on TikTok that said, we need to have a an event that where the youth committee hosts what's something cool for you guys to host?

A big a shuffle dance contest or I know shuffling shuffle is getting old, but someone a video popped up this morning on on old school Facebook about it. So say you all wanted that, and one of you posted it on TikTok, and then more than a quorum of you liked that post, you've basically held an illegal meeting because you've already weighed in on, yeah, that's a good idea, but you discuss it from up here. I know rules aren't fun, but they're there for good reasons. They want to make sure all conduct happens up here. But there are some exceptions where you can all gather as a group of five or more.

You can go to social and ceremonial events. You can go if you all wanted to go to the next city council meeting and see what's going on, you could do that. That's not a violation of you all being in the same place. You can talk to individuals that aren't on on the committee. You can. That's Okay. You can go to conferences, things like that. Just be careful that you're not talking about business of the committee outside of being up at the dais. And I probably said that enough times now. And now, come on, Next slide.

There we go. And then to make it even more fun, the state just adopted a new bill, Senate Bill seven zero seven, which makes even more changes to the Brown Act starting next year. Most of them won't affect what you're doing from the dais, but it will require a lot of stuff that staff will need to do, including translations and remote participation, which we already do. So we're a little ahead there, things like that. I'll give you a big briefing on that later next year because we wanna make sure what we're doing before I start telling you about it.

So sorry for all the HR speech. It's almost always fun when you get to listen to me first, but thank you for that. And I also wanna make sure you guys are conducting your meetings properly and and, doing it all the right way. But thank you for, signing up for this and for your service to Fullerton. And if you have any questions, I can answer them now, or you can always find me later on if you have questions, later on. So And I suppose you should take public comment on this even though it's a receiving file. Chair, continue with that script where you said, secretary, please call.

Secretary, please call the first speaker to the microphone.

You may not.

We don't have anyone in the chamber or on Zoom.

Do we have any remote public comments?

No. No one on Zoom.

Yes.

You wanna walk him through? Yeah.

So since this is a receiving file, there is no action on the items. Just literally receiving file. But you still have to move motion to receiving file. There's a second and then we go for the vote. So anyone's welcome to make a motion to receiving file.

I motion to receive in file.

I second.

And, again, then you would call the secretary for the roll call of the vote.

Secretary, please conduct the vote.

Member Yoon? Yes.

Member Wu?

Yes.

Vice chair Gupta? Yes. Chair Shay? Yes. Member Nancy?

Yes. And member Winters?

Yes. Perfect.

Okay. So I have a quick, the next item on the agenda is going to be about the youth advisory committee goals and expectations, as you shared previously. And and, again, it's a pleasure to meet all of you. I haven't been involved in the youth committee prior to today, but I'm excited to, you know, go on this year with along all of you and, see your goals kinda come to fruition at the end of the year. So at this time, I don't have a presentation, but it is an opportunity for the youth advisory committee to identify and discuss ideas and goals for the current year, which is the current school year 2025, 2026, that we would then staff create a work plan and have updates, at every meeting on the progress of those.

Some of the examples for the work plan or goals and topics that you you're more than welcome to include are educational support and opportunities. So how do we work with local schools or community centers to develop programming, after school tutoring programs, college prep workshops, or any career exploration opportunities? Another goal that you can discuss and develop is also leadership development and skill building. So how do we offer or offering leadership training sessions and workshops on either public speaking, teamwork, advocacy, encouraging members to run for leadership positions. And then, another example can be access to recreation and safe spaces for youth.

So this would require surveying local youth to identify gaps in rec facilities or programming, and then working with staff to improve or expand on those opportunities. Again, those are just a few very limited examples, but anything that you're encountering at school or in your kind of circle of friends, that you find is important or for this community in Fullerton, we're definitely welcome to, kinda draft those and create a work plan. My recommendation would be that because we do have, I think, till August is when the term ends, so about eight months, and we probably have, yeah, eight meetings, eight, nine meetings, including this one that we we created, very worthy list and of activities and goals. Nothing too ambitious where we may not be able to successfully meet all those, but we can work through the process, and I can and I'm here to guide you and answer any questions. And then one more that I'd like to add on here is along with the NextGen committee that, one of our speakers referenced is creating a youth in government day.

And that can be that's a partnership with the NextGen committee, the school district, the Fullerton Collaborative. So that, for example, that can be one of the goals that we are already making progress towards, that can be including your work plan. So I'm happy to answer any questions and provide any additional information. Thank you. Apologies. At this time, amongst yourselves, you guys can discuss, the items unless there's any public comment, which I'm looking at your script. And I believe there may be some public comment.

Remember your ID? So long ago. Right?

So just for clarification, we're just like pitching ideas right now.

Yeah. To that point, if there's ideas that you did present at the last last time around, we can include those as we're kind of combining and starting new a new work plan. So we can always include those as well. I don't think any of them were there was no progress on last year's work plan.

And I

believe there may be public comment, though. You can call them.

Secretary, please call the first speaker to the microphone.

Mr. Dalian, go ahead. Yes.

Again, congratulations and welcome. The NextGen Committee is there to serve and support the wishes or the things that are important to our youth, and you represent that. In the beginning, it's a little difficult because you're trying to figure out what that is. We actually had a couple ideas that we think would be useful and something to consider, one of which Christian mentioned, which is Youth and Government Day. And as he mentioned, we're kinda rolling in that direction.

And and and so I think that that's that's a good that's a really good one. The second one that we're actually talking about is is called a youth summit. And the youth summit is where you invite youth to one location, you talk about some of the things that are important to you and and important to the community, and then not only looking at present day, but also looking at the future. That's something that we wanna work very closely with you to figure out whether or not this, this can actually come to fruition this next year. And then the last thing I did wanna mention is is we have a group called the Valencia Park Safety Committee, and Christian made reference to this about safe places to play.

For those of you that don't know, Valencia Park is next to Valencia School, and that park had needed some attention because there were many kids that were afraid to go to that park. We have since then have provided positive programming there. And if you go there on a Friday night, it's extremely active. The the city had put a big investment in improvements on facilities, and the school district did the same thing. And that is an example of working collaboratively and working in partnership.

Those are things that we would like for you to to to to see and witness because those are the kinds of things that we feel are important to helping to provide this, not only access to safe places to play, but also be able to find those gaps that exist and we probably are not aware of. And so your your role in all this is extremely important to us, but I think the most important thing to to to note, and I'm trying to be very careful when I say this, it is not us wanting to make these decisions. This is about it's you. But we're right now, we're just trying to help you get through that. The last thing I do wanna mention is every Monday at 02:30, two, 03:30, we have the Fullerton Collaborative meet here at the library.

I would welcome the opportunity to invite you all at one time to come and visit and meet the people that have heard so much about this opportunity that exists here and would like to meet you. So, hopefully that'll help you stimulate your mind and think about what you can do. But remember, we're here to support you in every way we can. Thank you.

Do we have any remote public comments?

I don't have anyone registered on Zoom.

So at this time, you can close public comments. So you'll say, now we're gonna close public comments. You bring it back to the committee, and you guys can discuss on the items to add to the work plan.

Now we close public comments and bring it back to the youth advisory committee for more discussion.

So there was an idea brought up last year. I don't remember it was from who, but I remember if somebody brought the study up. Not in high school yet, but I know that a lot of high schoolers, especially, like, actually not especially anybody, but a lot of high schoolers struggle with, like, college resources, I feel like. And I think, like, maybe having, like, college application prep classes. I don't really know how to explain it, but, like, getting people ready for college.

Because there's a lot of stress that goes into it, and they need a support system and more support for for college.

I'm gonna sorry. I'm gonna be scribbling some notes and then off if I'm not looking directly at you. I apologize.

Another idea I have I don't know if we pitched it last meeting, but finals can be really stressful. So maybe if it's possible, we can host a party, maybe, like, at the Hunt branch library around May. And there could be, like, arts and crafts, food vendors, and just music, and just a place where all, like, the young youth can unwind, especially since it's such a stressful time with all the studying. Okay. So another idea that

I

had was for, like, an art competition that we could all do, like, everyone in Fullerton. So, like, ages 13 through 18 since we're, like, youth advisory. And then there could be multiple winners and their art can be showcased, like, throughout the city. And we could even discuss as a whole committee if we want, like, a theme for, like, a special month or something like that.

Kinda expanding on, you know, like, we all know how stressful finals week can be. When I was, like like, I'm also part of a club called Interact. And when we were talking with, like, Rotary about ideas for student mental health, we brought up ideas of something called a mental health walk where students can, like, run or, like, walk, like, maybe on the Fullerton Trail. I don't know what it's called, like, the loop trail close by, and we can, like, hand out goodies and, like, encourage them, and it can be, like, a big event, kind of a feel good exercising.

I feel like that could also go with, like, your idea for destressing Yeah.

And then expanding on I know you said you're not in high school yet. As someone who is in high school and, like, kind of sees firsthand how stressful it is for college apps, I really like your idea on, like, mentoring and support. I think it would be helpful maybe if, like, upperclassmen can help out lowerclassmen and kind of prepare them for the next stage. But I know upper like, seniors right now are trying to get in their college app. So maybe once that process is over, seniors can help juniors who are gonna enter that stage.

I do wanna share that. There's a couple comments that you guys have shared about events and hosting events. Our department in parks and recreation does host multiple events throughout the year, So we can always add on to those events that seem fit that seem fit, one of the elements that you're sharing as well. And, including into that, having, the youth committee in attendance at those events. So that can potentially part your work plan so you can advocate for the youth because all these events are youth oriented per se.

Most 99.9 of them are mostly for family and youth oriented. So if that's something that you would be open to adding to the work plan in attendance to these two parks and recreation events, we can always have you as, you know, a guest, along with all the commissions and city council, and and we can, you can either you can also volunteer and enjoy the event. To that point, the mental walk, we have a five k November 22. So that's kinda where the idea comes in of maybe probably advocating for the high schoolers to attend, and and we can we can package it to, like, an a nice invitation for your local schools. Are there any interest I know we were honing in on the school side of the college prep.

Any interest, like, citywide, like, things that you guys programming. I know there was a comment made about safety and access to the parks. Like, is there anything that you've encountered that is kind of is important to you?

Something that's important to me is disaster preparedness. I know it's like it's implemented in, schools when there's, like, the monthly drills and stuff, but I feel like children don't have enough, like, I guess, interaction with it for disaster preparedness. Like, they're not given, like, actual any good instructions. Instead, they're just told to, like, get in a straight line, follow teachers. I feel like they should be able to prepare themselves, like, outside of school, even in their own homes if a disaster does happen, like, how would they react to it? What should they do? So I feel like there should be some kind of training for them. Maybe there could be like a workshop for, say, elementary school kids and middle schoolers.

Yeah. No. That's that's a really good one. I think in my experience, our city here, we have a really invested fire department emergency manager who that can definitely be doable for sure.

I just thought of this idea, but, you know, like, a lot of kids in, like, first grade, second grade, they're, like, still trying to figure out their interests. So if you could have, like, some sort of event where, like, kids could kind of, like, like, different, like, station setup and, like, there's, like, a sports area and, like, an arts area and, like, theater, and, like, kids could, like, go around, like, learn about it and, like, get out, like, a little chance to, like, try it

out and, like, see if

they like it so they can, like, use their interest, like, find their interest and, like, develop it over, like, their elementary, middle school, and high school years.

Something like a program open house of the different programming that we offer and putting into one? Okay. Are there anything kind of general wide, like, policies or issues that are important to the committee that as we can as part of your role is to provide recommendations to counsel, anything kind of on the on a higher scale that's important? I know we've done school, the recreation programming, but anything citywide that may be of interest to you that we can maybe add to your work plan or explore.

I don't know how feasible this is, but this is something I've always noticed where I'm not sure if it's just my neighborhood, but I've noticed my neighborhood and kind of the neighborhoods around it are very dimly lit. Like, there's probably maybe two street lamps per block. So I just feel like that's a bit of a safety concern. Again, I'm not sure, like, how realistic of an issue that is for us to address. But

Yeah. So when I talk about those issues, absolutely, you can always provide recommendations, ask for direction on those, and we can I know this, like, when I talk about citywide issues, we have different departments that can provide more information? So we can always explore how to best fit it into your work plan to make it feasible.

And, Drew, in a quick suggestion, if you'd like to learn more about how the city works generally, perhaps you have a department make a presentation to you each meeting so you get to learn a little bit about the department. Because what I'm hearing from what all of you are saying are things that would fit really well in collaboration with another department, like the street lights. You could learn about public works, and they can tell you all about why some of the lights don't work because of the whole this is what you learn when you're a city clerk. You learn that the power source is really old, and it's not doesn't play nice with the new lights, and that's why there are no lights. And why you can't have solar in some places because the trees are too tall and they block the sun.

Fun stuff like that. So that if you're interested, maybe you can invite a different department every meeting. You might wanna bring the library in because they were just assigned one, the library is just cool. But, also because they were just assigned maybe a year ago, the duties of cultural arts. So maybe some of your idea about the art program and stuff, you can work in conjunction with the library through the park and recreation department. So and you could learn a little bit about what each department does and be that much further ahead when you're planning your youth and government day too. So

So in that case, will we just email them? Or would be, like, the best way to reach them if we want, like, a presentation from them?

We can we can include it into your work plan, and we can we would schedule that Okay. For every meeting.

Yeah. It's not appropriate under the ground.

You should

check with the chair. As long as she said, you should eat okay. I

know many of you are impacted by traffic around your schools, especially in the morning and evening. When you mentioned street lights, I think Safe Routes to Schools is a project that right now the traffic manager is working on, and it's Michael Plotnick. And so that I think that might be of interest to you because that's probably something you deal with every day, and he also can help you with the street lights.

There. So just to kinda recap what I currently have just to make sure I don't miss any of them on the college prep classes, support, mentoring. That's all kind of in one. Having kind of an end of the year celebration for after finals, art competition showcasing art throughout the city, some form of, like, mental walk, feel good exercising. We added special event attendance, disaster preparedness, explore various interests of kinda having, like, an open house for our recreation programming, street lights, leading into department presentations.

We also I can include, like, safe routes to school, traffic around school. Are there any other items? And am I missing anything from last work plan that you'd also like to carry over into this year's?

Something I would like to add is kind of in relation to, like, college prep and resources. Could we add, like, SAT prep, like, alongside the college?

And and I can so I can draft all these, present them at the next meeting if there's always if you in the meantime, you're you don't have you have an idea until then, you can always email us to include, or we can discuss it further at the next committee meeting unless someone else has additional items you'd like to include now.

If we think of things at, like, the next meeting, can we also, like, talk about it next meeting, or it's only this meeting?

No. We can it can be a working document. I'll just kinda draft it. And if you do think of something, we can make sure to include that so you guys can vote on it. Because, ultimately, you will have to vote on a work plan so you can establish that for the year.

I believe that was also a receiving file, if I'm not mistaken. Unless anyone else has any other questions.

Alright.

Chair Shay, are you ready to call a vote? Ask for the vote or receive and file?

We'll need a motion.

We'll need

oh, I'm sorry.

We need

a motion, and then we'll need a second.

Motion to receive and file.

I second. By criteria, please conduct a vote.

Member Yoon?

Yes.

Member Wu? Yes.

Vice chair Gupta? Yes. Chair Shay?

Yes.

Member Nancy? Yes. And member Winters?

Yes. Motion passes.

And so that takes us to the end of the meeting. There's no other items that you can adjourn the meeting. So you'll base you would say, I adjourn this meeting at 06:55PM.

For the fourth Monday. Fourth Monday.

Thank you. Good

job, Cher. Thank you for Thank you. Stepping up.