Youth Council - Regular Meeting

Welcome everyone to the monthly Youth Council meeting. Today is Monday, December 1st, 2025, and it is 5.32 p.m. And I'm going to go ahead and call the roll. Chair Lucia LeCoultre? Here. Vice Chair Ella Garcia? Here.

Council Member Sofia Valdori? Here. Council Member Sofia Chavez-Saifah?

Here.

Council Member Isaac Pack?

Here.

Okay, does anyone have anything they'd like to edit from last week's meeting minutes? Okay, you want to add something? Okay, so sorry, going back to agenda or business. I'd like to add one agenda item for a youth council. No, no, no, like a youth council meeting like, recap guide for, that we wanted to talk about, like, me and Lucia, since we're, and Denise, since we're having dinner. Like, yeah. Fine. So, do you, do you want to add it under, you can add it under new business. Yeah.

Okay.

Okay. So, you're going to make a motion? I motion to add, uh, under new business, a youth council guide. So were there any edits we wanted to make to last meeting's minutes? If not, is it favorably upon a motion to pass the minutes? I second. Good to make the motion.

I make the motion to favorably approve the amendments we'll ask for.

I second. Who's second? Cichano.

Good.

All those in favor?

Aye. Okay, motion carries.

Thank you. Uh, yeah.

Okay, so just under item 5A first, thank you so much for being here. And you guys would know this is Laurie Diaz, who's the acting town manager. We replaced Mr. Goldstein, who we sort of all knew. Thank you so much for being here.

Thank you. I appreciate being here. I'm really excited. I see a lot of the stuff that you all are doing, and it's always amazing to see how the youth of the community is really engaged in how the town grows and what it's doing. Your involvement's really, really important from the very beginning, not only for the town, but from civic duty standpoint, because you all are the voice and the future of our community, so it's really exciting to see you engaged. There's a couple things, Madam Chair, if you don't mind, if I can have a few extra minutes. that I wanted to kind of toss a quick idea maybe for you all to put something on the January and let you kind of think about it and see what comes out of that I'd love to task you all with. Starting probably in January, if not this month, but I want to put you all in contact with our communications team and Rudy you can help parks and comms as well. Something that we got support with in the Parks and Rec board was, how do I verbalize it? Sorry, tongue twister. I want to create a little bit of a vibe going on within the community, especially with our younger families and with little kids as well. And so one of the things that I've asked our communications team and our parks is to do a stencil with a, it's not a permanent, I guess it's called a semi-permanent chalk. It's environmentally friendly and it'll wash away kind of like sidewalk chalk that you use when you're painting in front of your house or on your driveway, right? That just says, I love Surfside with a little heart on it, right? So it's I heart Surfside. And what I'd like for that to do is to start creating a little bit of a buzz. It won't be put everywhere. We'll just put it in a couple different places, and then I'm hoping our communications team will start kind of teasing a little bit, almost like a scavenger hunt, so that we can get people to start talking about what it is about Surfside that they love. And so I'm hoping that you all can kind of come up with ways to start promoting that concept, and it can grow into something else, Surfside. The whole point is that I want our community to be talking about and focusing on all the good stuff that happens within the community and all the things that we love about what makes Surfside Surfside, right? It's an amazing community. It's 90 years, but it's held this very unique. I remember driving down these streets when I was much younger than you all. And for the most part, it was motels. Right along the beach right and it's really changed, but we're still able to connect to that access to the beach we're still able to connect to that unity in the Community so. i'm hoping to start generating a little bit more buzz of what makes us such an awesome place place to live and play and work and all that kind of stuff right so. I'm hoping that that can kind of come organically out of the community and hopefully you all can help kind of work with our team and say, okay, this is where you're, you're going to do it. This is how we think this will start generating a little bit more buzz. And so with that, um, a little birdie told me that you all wanted to experiment with your own social media accounts. So here's my feelings on that. Um, my initial early career background is in communications. I was a communications director, even for a transportation agency for several years, about five or six years. Um, I am cool with it, right? Because the way that you communicate to the community and among your peers is not how I communicate. I'm on the old cheesy dad joke type guy. It does not always work. Um, so I want to hear your voice now with that. This is the other part of the homework. Obviously, there are rules as to what government is allowed to do and what we're not allowed to do. And a big part of that is because of public records. Every comment, every like, every reply, all of it has to be tracked because someone can put in a record, and if we can't supply it, they can sue, and that's at least 80 to 100 grand that we got to write off on a lawsuit. So sometimes you're like, Why would they say this or why don't they interact even more right with the people in social media is because of that right like there shouldn't be. The town shouldn't have a policy that they'll go on somebody else's page and start communicating because we can't control or not only control, but we can't. preserve the public record that we need to do if it's on somebody else's page. Because they can delete the comment, they can do that, and then we lose that content. On our pages, we have software that automatically archives all the conversations, so we're protected. So that's why we shouldn't be commenting on it. But, all of that said, if you guys can put a proposal together, a little bit of a presentation of where you want your account to be, what's the purpose of it, right? Because we want to make sure that the channel is going to live on, that it's going to be focused on, hey, this is what we want to do with it, not just start randomly talking about all of the other stuff. The typical stuff that you don't want to talk about at Thanksgiving dinner, since we just passed it, right? It's probably off limits, right? We're not going to be talking about politics, whether it's local to the town or federal or anything between We're not going to get into religion and stuff. We're open to everybody. So I want us to kind of think about what's the purpose of your account and be able to start putting that plan together and then who is going to have access to it and all that. I want to do this not only so that you guys have a little bit, or you all, it's not just guys, sorry, old school, so that you all have the opportunity to learn what it means to manage this type of program but start thinking about things strategically yes it's a lot of fun to oh this is really cute let me take a quick picture or do a quick video and show but in these type of roles whether it's for communications or you start thinking strategically from my end as an administrator or you want to be a doctor or anything oftentimes people want you to be a leader but the leader thinks beyond just the task at hand. They start thinking about how does this benefit the overall goal of what we're trying to accomplish and what we're trying to be as an organization. It's going to be, okay, what type of posts are we going to be talking about? It doesn't have to be like super dry or anything, but it's putting a little bit more thought as opposed to what you might do on your own personal where, hey, this is a really fun moment. I'm just going to capture it really quick, do a quick post, and I'm done. You've got to put a little bit more thought to it. So those are going to kind of be your two little homeworks that hopefully maybe in January – you guys can kind of come back with, and then I can just sign off and get you off and running. Rudy will help connect everybody with Sydney as well, because I know she has her own policies and stuff, and she'll kind of help guide, but once, as long as you all kind of agree to the rules, then you guys are kind of just off and running.

And would the account be, like, officially an affiliate on the Stark side, or would it be on the Stark side?

Yes. I can't control your own And if you have your own posts that you want to say it's for the youth, but it's your personal account, I can't control that. But if you want to talk as the youth council for Surfside, then it's officially affiliated with us. And I think that would look really great on whether it's college applications or, you know, I don't know if we can work on maybe getting them volunteer hours, even just for this, we might be able to kind of work something out so that you guys, you all sorry. I will do better. You all will be able to use that for anything moving forward that you might need or even requirements that you have at school for volunteers.

Do you want us to present at a commission meeting or is this more of like a private meeting?

Not a private meeting. You'll do this here, right? You'll come through. We'll take a kind of look at it, make sure that the presentation is kind of working. And then I think what we'll end up doing is Doing a few different posts, seeing what the engagement is. And then we can go to a commission and do a presentation of, hey, we've worked with the manager. We have this opportunity. We're already seeing how positive this is. Here are a few different posts. And then we'll start sharing that a lot more going forward. But I think we do kind of what is called a soft launch. It's kind of going out, testing things, seeing how it works with you all, how it works with us. And then we can do a major push once we all kind of feel comfortable and we know exactly how it moves forward.

We also already have like full access to the Surfside Florida account. So we've been posting since like, what was it? March or something. So we have like some... Because our thinking is, like, that's, like, the style of post that we're already doing on the account, like, with our event a couple weeks ago or with our event in June is sort of going to be the same style. We just want it to be a more specialized audience only with teens who will, like, posting, like, I know, like, the town does a lot of, like, posting their flyers or posting other stuff, but we want to get sort of, like, our faces out there because we feel like that's what's going to resonate with youth, like, seeing their friends on it. Okay. We'll also include in that presentation stuff we've already done and the impressions that that's gotten. Since Lucia has access, I think on Instagram there's a feature, especially if you have a business Instagram, you can look at insights. So she can look at the views.

I think on there you can look at the ratio of follower to non-follower views.

So we can present that. We can present that.

based on our people's posts perfect okay wait that's awesome this is such a good stuff in the right direction thank you so much no problem thank you all for volunteering and for willing to take it on the not for anytime soon um i'm assuming some of you are seniors three of us three uh okay well you're not allowed to leave for college you gotta stay local okay um no but if um One of the things you might want to start thinking about as an organization is succession planning.

That's what Ella brought up with the guidebook.

With the guidebook, okay.

Perfect. And who's been on... Yeah, I guess all the underclassmen. None of the people from last term came this term that aren't seniors, right? Oh, that's true. But... but yeah we're yeah we're thinking about that no problem that way we can help promote um for signing up and see who's interested as well yeah also i know that there's a good amount of kids especially after a college event that go to um like go to beach hut and they weren't really aware that there was a youth council and they're like hungry for something to put on their college app and at this point they're going to be seniors next year so if we like obviously also our council only started last year but If we get that word out there, I think we're going to have a lot more participation from the youth for many different reasons.

And it'd be great if they can come in before anybody leaves. That way they kind of start understanding what's the point of the youth council and get a little bit more of a mentorship.

That's true. If you have folks that are interested in joining the youth council, this is going to come to this meeting.

Yeah.

That's a good idea. And then for your idea with the status of your old type, are you basing this off any other city campaign you can look to for reference?

I'm sure there's stuff out there. The idea came, I saw a product in a conference that I was on where a guy in Seattle it's a spray and when it rains it keeps it dry so they use that to do stencils and stuff I didn't really want to do that I thought I like colors so I wanted to see different colors and the chalk and all that and I thought that it would be a little I'm totally cool with having a little kid grab a piece of chalk and then start drawing all around it. I love that kind of stuff. So I wanted to kind of try that first. But outside of that initial stencil, the whole point is just to have positive conversation developing around town and not getting drowned out with all the negativity that could come about.

And that's for January, like that's when it's going to start?

I'd love to start it earlier, but I think you all need a little bit of time as well, right? So I want to, and we might test it out here and there, and again, soft launch, okay, look, it rained, it's still kind of there, we know how long it's going to take and all that, and then you guys are the ones, hopefully, that really drive that conversation into the larger audience.

So what you need from us is more like, it's market, we're not like doing the talk or like

No, no, no. We'll have staff do that. We'll have staff do that. Um, I don't want it all over the place. So we might put it very first one, maybe that the 96th street park where it's obvious a lot of people will be able to say it, but then the next one might be like, where else can you find it? And then leave like subtle hints. So if you want to develop, or you can be like, Mr. Manager, that's really cheesy. Um, this is what we think might be better. I'm totally cool with that. It was just the initial idea that I had. how it grows or, you know, hopefully it grows. If it doesn't, it doesn't, but hopefully it just gives an opportunity for conversation.

Also in the past, we've had other council members bring up like wanting to do some sort of pick a ball event. I think that was your idea. So we could, you know, promote the, the I love suicide stuff through there too.

Yeah, we can do that. One of the things that I hope to be able to do at one point is generate enough conversation where we can have, especially at our events, our communications team, film people talk about what they love about the town. Because then that starts becoming part of an archive and helps become part of, 10 years is gonna go by in a flash. And when you're doing your 100 year anniversary, having these type of videos that talk about all the, you know, what they remember, all of these memories, that becomes a much deeper connection to the town. So we gotta kind of start somewhere. And instead of starting, oh my gosh, we're turning 102 months, we can kind of start planning a little bit better from now.

And I think, I mean, she's not here today, but Denise is into film, I'm pretty sure. So I can run the idea by her of helping out with those videos, just like at any event.

I am all for creativity, whatever we can get out there and have everybody. There's plenty of organizations that, There's awards for communications, video production that cities and towns and all the stuff that they do. So I'm all for taking your stuff and saying, look what our youth council did and trying to go after national awards because that would be great for you all as well. So I would love to see you all more involved and even to the point where, hey, this person, I know they're on the youth council, but they're so amazing. We want to create an internship here in the department because we could use their help and stuff and then that can grow as well. So I'm open to all of that. I need to take off because I have another... committee meeting that I am required to attend, but thank you for entertaining me.

Thank you so much.

And hopefully at the next one I get to sit a little bit longer.

Thank you.

If you need anything, this guy knows how to bother you.

All right.

Have a great night. Okay. Yeah, Ellen, we can go to, I invite you. Okay. Amazing. So finally, we have gotten somewhere. So I kind of abandoned the idea of trying to reach out to school, because I, it was really- Does everyone know what she's talking about? Yeah, okay. Yeah, so, no more school, and so after I saw how much turnout we got from the college prep event, the collaboration with the Beach High College Club, I remembered that there was actually a new club at the school, the political philosophy club that I think the P.E. juniors started, And I just got an idea that, oh, we could do a similar thing that we did with the college prep series, but instead with that club. Because my biggest, and honestly, just the youth council's biggest problem when it comes to hosting events is turnout, I think. So I reached out to them, and they confirmed today. The sponsor of the club, there was going to be a meeting, but the sponsor wasn't there, so I didn't get to speak because they didn't have a meeting. But either way, the board is very on board with it. And some ideas that we were thinking of, I was thinking of making this kind of like a series similar to the college prep. But I was thinking maybe five events over the course of three months, something like that, like in January to March. situation and the ideas that I presented to them so obviously as the town manager said it's very risky to be you know openly discussing things like at the Thanksgiving dinner table those types of subjects but I think that with this It's a political philosophy club. So discussing political ideas, like certain theories and certain frameworks of thought, is not taboo. It's not controversial. It'll just be more of an educational thing to base civic engagement off of, rather than a debate. We're not going to be hosting debates. What I was thinking that we could do, also since there's an election in March, one of those events could kind of have voter registration things, a little table of voter registration, maybe in early February. But how are you thinking? So I remember you said something about it's going to be, the theory is going to be power.

Yeah, so I had an idea.

I told them that the Youth Council could host more of a, like, the practical application side of politics, like maybe bringing in a commissioner to speak about their experience in governance, or talk about advocacy, like how last year we went to Tallahassee and how that went, and making relationships with legislators. things like that that are a little more like real life and then their club can specialize more in certain theories like for example there's a political theory of power that talks about different types of violence and it's like direct violence structural violence and like cultural violence and then we could just talk about how that plays into like real life governance and things like that just just um you know little educational events like that pairing together what we can do and what they can do because i i think that's i think this is super cool i just want to make sure that it ties back to like civic engagement because like that's what we're there to foster so like i like your idea of like bringing in a commissioner because that like ties in more to like what we're good at or like advocacy stuff like that i think that resonates well with the council's mission so i think like as long as we balance the political theory with like We could talk about different internships with different political places and your offices.

Yeah, I think bringing it in.

If I'm interested in this stuff, what can I do in my community to get involved? And that can also tie into the intergenerationalities. I think we're here at political power theory. Would you, would it be a discussion in a kind of Socratic seminar, like everybody gets to make their point?

Yeah, I think that's a good way to do it.

I think what we would do in an example where there's a commissioner We introduce it, because we would be the ones hosting it, similarly to the college prep series, but then, so we introduce it, we have a speaker, and then the club does a little presentation on the theoretical, and then we have some sort of interactive section, and I think that's how we should structure every event.

Do you know how big the club is?

The club? I don't know the number, but what I've seen from their Instagram is that they have pretty good turnout, and there's a consistent amount of kids that go to those meetings recurrently. I know that they would be interested, and then we'll also advertise it to other people. I think the main thing, though, is to make sure it doesn't get heated, because there's a lot of people... We'll be the moderator. Or I'll be the moderator.

Absolutely, like a little bow. Yeah.

Yeah, we'll keep it simple. That's the whole point. That would foster the entire point of maintaining stability, the stability in action thing. That's what's going to teach people also about civic engagement. contrasting I think we should brainstorm ways that I mean I don't know anything about political theories so I think this would be better from you but like brainstorming different combinations of like political theories with something more like advocacy something like your experience local government like because I don't know that like violence is something that we can really tie into advocacy, unless we're talking about safety, but I don't know. Because structural violence means like institutional violence, so like abuses of power and things like that. So that would be kind of what they would specialize in more, but I've taken the class, so I kind of, I could, we could coordinate. Also, I liked your idea about the voter registration. I don't know if this is written down in mine, but I know like 16 and 17 year olds, they can start pre-register. So maybe we can encourage that. I don't know if we can print out the papers for them to do it, to try to advocate for them to start.

I'm sure there's a way to log in. Are they sure? I'm sure. That's what I was going to say.

When I log into a college board or any classroom, I swear. Oh, they can't even tell, right?

Yeah. But anyway, yeah, I think that's a good thing. I don't know if we could do an entire event about that.

No. Off of the paper. But that could be the interactive event. Yeah. Yeah. And yes. So what is the next? Are we, we're aiming for what February? Or what was January?

Oh, like a January to, we could maybe start in the last week of.

Yeah, mid to late January could be our first event. I feel like we should maybe try the first event and then go from there. Not start publicizing all events, but go one by one. Unless we get really good turnout on the first event.

I mean, I don't know if this is a crazy idea, but like, what do you think about offering community service hours for the kids who come and really participate in the discussion? Do you think, I mean, would that count as service to the community? I mean, they're coming, they're participating in community discussion. I feel like maybe that might draw... We can do that.

Does Parks and Rec do the community service stuff?

We have volunteer hours. You would have to fill out an application through HR to actually receive those hours. And then I would have to find out the guidelines because I don't know if the discussion counts technically for the service to the town. I could follow up with you and check.

Maybe the club could offer. Yeah. Sponsors can offer hours. Yeah, that's what our school does. Well, I think, but if it's, well, maybe you're right. Maybe it's only clubs that are based in on them.

Yeah.

Jen could do tapestry. She and I are separate. Yeah, and like, honor societies can get out. Because they're organizations. What were you saying?

The UN has gone away with giving away tons of community service honors.

But that's like an official... This club is not based in any organization. It's not like a political philosophy organization.

I was going to say, food and stickers are always great motivators.

Yeah, I mean, food was my... Your backup. Yeah. That was the... Yeah, I like that I did research, but I don't, I don't know.

I always talk about non-profits. I do a little field trip to a non-profit or invite people, like the Lotus House. Right.

If you invite, if we invited a non-profit to speak, technically they could give community service to our student. Okay. That was good. question. Things like that. And then as a whole, I mean, Jen would be great to have. Yeah, she could be good. She this is like a lawyer. No, we know she's a great environment. Yeah, she's a great speaker.

That's a good idea.

She can think about that. Maybe I'll probably text in the group chat. Like I'll, I'll speak to these guys, the board and see when they're free, and then maybe we can do a Zoom, like a brainstorming Zoom. We definitely need that. Awesome Sunday. So are you guys all free on a Sunday evening? I feel like probably Sunday evening.

I mean, specifically this Sunday. I just know I can't. But normally, yeah. But I'll be there.

Oh, yeah. Sunday, Zoom, we'll have MDSH. Yeah, that's a good first step. All right. Anything else? I think having a Zoom to talk about this with you. Yeah, and see, I know those kids are smart, for sure. They're into their stuff a lot. Alright, the next item is the college series recap. First of all, you guys, Tafia, Isaac, Jack, you guys are amazing for coming up with that and like doing the brunt of the word. That was awesome. You guys did really great. And Parks and Rec, thank you so much. You guys really save us every time we have an event. We need to, like, I feel like, Jorge literally... like worked with Ella and I for like six hours for the event in June. And he didn't have to do that. And you guys were amazing. The chairs and like all this stuff. Going forward, how can we like help make that better? Like how can, like if we wanted to get the crumble or get the drinks and stuff like that, like we were wondering like how to tap into like our account so you guys don't have to keep buying it for us.

So, what I've heard last fiscal year they didn't budget for the youth accounts oh okay so unfortunately there isn't nothing to tap into because there's nothing there um obviously if we if we coordinate correctly and we communicate correctly maybe we could pick and plug from like rgl accounts or obviously you guys do a lot of like service work with PD and like communications and like if you have an overall with like all the departments maybe I could contact some of the directors and see how we could all like come together and help you guys when you do host events so it's just not all targeting Parks and Recreation for my sake um Thankfully, like last one, we did look out for you guys and obviously it was already in the, it was already, you already threw it out there so we had to cover it. But like I said, if we properly communicate and all come together and take like steps. So make sure your events run smoothly.

Okay. And I know the next event is being sponsored by the Community Relations Board.

What date is it?

December 9th. I think it's December 11th.

I think that's a mixture of them and PD. Okay. I think I overheard Chief say that they were going to buy the pizza or something like that. And then obviously, we're going to provide the layout for you, the projector. We're going to be there earlier, so if you guys come in and you guys want to put your own touches on your decorations and stuff, obviously, we'll be there to assist you. But yeah, it should be a good turnout. This one is more of an educational one. It's not really one of college prep that was fun. This is more of a reflecting kind of event.

So in terms of who we go to for getting the stuff done, we should go to community relations and be like, well, because I know we need to make candles or something. Should I contact CRP?

To order candles?

Yeah, like a candlelight something. Like is that something they're taking care of or should I?

Did someone mention candles to you last meeting or?

Yeah.

So whoever mentioned it and whoever you had that conversation with, that's who you should want to reflect, I mean, have a conversation with.

She's, okay, okay. Well, I think she's like an outside, she's not on any board, but I think her husband's on community relations. Oh, hilarious.

Oh, yeah, well, have a conversation with Hillary. Okay. And then see what she can do with you, if she can assist you with that.

Okay. All right, the new chair, you should also probably include Frank, because he's the staff liaison for community relations. Okay.

Is that right?

Yes. Pretty good. Include Frank as the liaison. Okay. Okay. All right. Is there anything you guys want to say about the event? Or, like, next steps? I know you were thinking about what comes next.

I can go. I think it was great. I think thanks to everyone who came out and helped set it up. I think it was really nice. I think everyone had a good time. I think Mr. Cabrera gave a really interesting talk. I think people enjoyed it. And the panel, too. I thought people thought that was interesting. to hear not just from another adult, but from their peers, what the actual application process is like.

I really liked it.

Yeah, I mean, I learned.

I think next time we should make it a little smaller, though.

Yeah, it was easier.

Oh, for sure. Maybe we should cut it in half.

I would say five people maximum, because you guys just start to repeat or drag on a subject for too long. Yeah. So that's a reflection, for sure, a smaller panel. But I think definitely taking that panel model and using it forward, I think, isn't a bad idea. If there are other events that it lends itself to, I think it could be interesting. I always think talking to other, I mean, at the end of the day, we're a youth council, so talking to other youth is sometimes more interesting than also talking to adults. And kind of mixing that, I think, is good. In terms of next steps, I think we were thinking, I was thinking about the sports events that we discussed earlier in the year. I think getting on that could be a good idea. I think that could be kind of a natural progression from this. Now that people know that it's, because this kind of college preparation series could kind of transition maybe over to Pacific Sparks, is what I'm thinking. Because that kind of sticks more with the academic line that people might be following. No, I'm saying the civic sparks. So we can direct people towards that and also at the same time to the sports. So we can start to separate that we're going to have fun events. What do you mean sports events? Academic events. Yeah, so we were thinking about having a couple small sports tournaments for youth in the community. So initially we were thinking about doing a pickleball tournament. That was one of our ideas. Like almost yourselves? Like a pickleball tournament, maybe, I don't know, basketball, black football, kickball. Yeah, like that. That's cool. So yeah, not like super involved, not like an official competition or anything.

Yeah, recreational, like more friendly, not competitive.

Exactly. But like still publicizing it as like, this is a tournament, everyone's welcome, come. That's fine, right?

You should try to focus on like co-ed, like friendly sports. Because if, for example, you do like a 303 basketball and you've got girls, girls are technically, they don't want to participate in that. Right. If they're not... Or like flag football, they're not really, unless you have it like all girls and all males. Pickleball is a good example, like a kickball, dodgeball, like both can play. And it's still friendly.

I think people advertise it a lot to like younger families. Like the time that you were saying, like...

I'm just saying from at least the sense I've gotten, like being at the park and stuff, like the high school boys are completely different from the high school girls. Like you guys, yes, you guys will play friendly and have fun and make it a positive atmosphere. These guys, they get a ball and they, like...

Even as a girl, if you want to play, you go and it's like a bunch of guys.

Yeah, you're going to shy away from that as well. I know the guys, for sure, like, from what I've seen, you give them a ball, and they're, like, they just went from zero to 100. Like, they're not trying to play for fun anymore.

And if you guys want to start with pickleball, how would we go about, like, reserving the tennis center or, like, a couple courts?

So most of you guys are residents, so your parents already probably have household accounts with us in our server. But if we could find a date and a time to try to, like, coordinate that correctly. Or if you make it far enough that we could block maybe the tennis court for you guys, then we could actually, obviously, I would speak to Cindy to make like an e-blast or make sure like a social media blast comes out and we let residents know that hey, activity happening at the tennis center for youth council, all teens or all youth come out, And then you guys will make the details of what the regulation is of what you want for participation.

Yeah, I mean, I think what I was thinking we could do is, like, we have the two nets on, like, the far court, the one that's, like, farthest west. And so we have those two pickleball courts, and I was thinking if we could possibly, like, rent temporary courts, like, temporary nets, just for the tournament day, so that we could have, like, two nets here and two nets here on the other two courts. That way we could make, like, a total of six courts. instead of just the two there. So yeah, I was thinking if we could figure out a day in advance, then we could block off three hours or four hours.

You would make it a weekday or a weeknight? Like a Sunday morning?

I feel like a night, you think is a night better than a day?

It depends on what night.

But if it's younger kids, I think it's Saturday morning. Yeah, what's our target here? Is our target young kids and their families? I don't know how many teens would come out.

I mean, I was thinking we could also maybe think about doing different divisions, so it could be teens and adults, just because I feel like adults are into it and they might drive along their kids to come if they're already going.

but also I don't want us to like it's like that's a dangerous game because then you can get stuck and that gets you to become some adult thing too so I feel like I feel like it's hard to say like okay 10 through 15 year olds or like but if you don't set that limit then it gets hard I feel like we should say like open to all ages and then four minors only. Should we do that? Minors only? No, I think we should just say all ages. I think we should just say all ages, but bring your kids. You could do a little gift basket for the kids, like I said before. Because if I was a little five-year-old and I saw a shiny gift basket, and all I had to do was put something over it. What are things that people want, that kids want? For a night.

Fortnite, like, I guess you need to, like, you know, definitely do, like, a little, like, a little candy and stuff.

Oh my god.

Yeah.

For the dude. For the seven creators? We're not, we're not gonna, like, imbibe it. But I feel like having, like, a prize for the winner or whatever is, like, fine.

Yeah, like, first, second, third. We can do something. It has to be something that's, like, age-appropriate for everyone.

Age-appropriate for everyone. Yeah, I mean, if you're too young to use it, your parents will use it. I don't know. And if you could get it catered by some place that offers ice cream, like Rita's, for example.

I know they do catering.

I work there. Me too. Yeah, or we can do Chromebooks.

Or a sponsorship. Maybe we can try to pursue that.

Yeah, I've tried to get sponsorships from...

I mean, I just reached out to a bunch of restaurants and I'm already... Everyone said no.

Yeah. What the heck?

Yeah. You've got to go to, like, Publix. You've got to go to the label. It's not small.

Have you been sponsored? Are you guys been sponsored by Publix? No.

Here? No, I have never received one. Well, I haven't looked for it.

Oh.

But in other governments that I've worked for, yeah.

It's sponsored by Publix. That makes sense. Publix has so much money. Yeah, but I feel like why... It depends on what season you guys want to do this. Do you think you're going to get it done during the colder seasons or when it's hot? You definitely shouldn't do it during the... Because our cold is not cold. At all. It's 65 degrees.

I mean, I was thinking, I mean, we're in December right now. So, I mean, maybe we could aim for, like, late January, early February.

Do you think that makes sense? I don't know. Is that far off in advance?

You should try to target spring break. Spring break? Right.

When is that?

Either spring break or a teacher planning.

That's true. I think spring break.

And you could kind of, you could kind of, how I would do it. being with this town is smaller well i've done it another thing in other governments too if you want to divide it by age you could do like 8 and under 10 and under 12 and under but then to make it like town friendly competitive you could do it separate the kids have the parents show you like their address and you could say kids running um that live in households that run, that the street runs east to west, and houses that run from north to south. That's interesting. And instead of doing pickleball, you could do like a big kickball game.

That's interesting. That's a good way to classify.

There's a holiday January 19th, and February 16th, and, February 16th is so long though. Oh, there's a... There's another school day before spring break starts.

I think it's an early release, that Friday before spring break.

And it's like an opt. It's a teacher planning day. So no, it's not. It's available to opt. So it's like they might switch it to that. But there's no school... February 15th isn't bad. It's a good one. The day before the film comes out. After.

What day of the week is it?

Monday.

I don't know.

Like a Monday evening, of course.

I think Saturday morning would be the best set up. Yeah. Because then all the little kids are happy.

Oh, well, the only thing about Saturday morning is that people who are religious Jews, they won't be able to come. So Sunday morning, maybe.

But then Sunday morning, there's some people that go to church. Oh, yeah. That's true. Like, what time do you want? Because I feel like most people go out at the afternoon.

Right. I think afternoon.

We could do spring break. We could do, like, spring break pickleball tournament. Like a Wednesday. Like three or four. Oh, wait. People still work during spring break. I feel like it's the most out at those times.

Uh-huh. I don't think they're going to want to get up in the morning. I agree. I agree.

In spring break, the thing is the people who aren't traveling might be bored out of their minds. So pickleball tournament, like, yeah, it works. So we want to do spring break. Yeah, like I think the afternoon break. But either the end of spring break or the beginning. Make sure March break aligns. Oh, it doesn't? Yeah, it doesn't. Oh, it doesn't. Because when's your day?

I don't know, but it's... Usually the week before or the week after, you guys.

Okay, so we're aiming for a spring break, like a Like, it's a whole week. Do we want to do the weekend of spring break? Yeah, because people still work. Yeah.

Well, people, like, won't kids be going out and stuff?

Yeah, I feel like a Thursday would be good. That's true. Like, the middle of the week, that's exactly when people are dropping. Okay, so do we want to do it, like, the Sunday before spring break starts or the Sunday after spring break starts? Sunday morning before school starts again? No, no, yeah, do it like when the weekend of spring break, the first weekend of spring break. That Sunday morning.

Yeah, we can do that. You guys should get feedback from like your classmates. Oh, yeah. And text them and like make a group chat and see if they got siblings and see what they would like to play.

Okay, so we're, but just.

So we don't have to decide on a date.

You don't have to pick a date now.

You just want to get the word out to see what they want to participate in first. Yeah.

Why don't we do like. Yeah, we can post on the Instagram, like, we should be interested in, yeah, a poll.

And we can just pick six sports right now.

Six? Oh, oh, oh.

You know, like, six options, you know what I mean? Or, like, five options. Or, like, three. I don't know. Leave it at three. Leave it at three.

Yeah, I think pickleball. Pickleball. Pickball. Pickball. Pickball. Pickball. Pickball.

Pickball. Pickball. Pickball. Pickball. Pickball. Pickball. Pickball. Pickball. Pickball.

Pickball. And the volleyball, do you, do we have notes?

I got to ask, but I can follow up with you.

Okay. So we're thinking, so honestly, we have, like, well, we have the event in December. Yeah, and then your event, potentially in January. I guess this is in Georgetown, so. We had, um... bike safety, but she wants to do it in March. But we can have two events a month. And, oh, I wanted to ask, like, are you guys wanting to do any follow-up on the college preparation stuff, like some sort of resume workshop, something like that? Yeah, are we sure we want to go straight to financial aid? I guess you could do FAFSA, that's a big one. A financial aid workshop, that's a financial... Absolutely. I mean, we should pull that, too, to be so honest, on a different day. Yeah. Yeah, with financial aid, you can talk about merit-based and need-based, or just being a Florida resident. Yeah, I actually, I have information on that, like, I could do that, or Kavira could do that, too, but, well, we definitely should have Kavira. Yeah, he'll definitely explain the FAFSA. He actually did a FAFSA workshop at my school for parents. Yeah, I remember that. So would we want financial aid or resume?

I think both are good ideas. Why don't we just combine them into one?

Yeah, you could.

I feel like if you have a two-hour block, one hour.

The scholarship is low-key loaded. It's kind of low-key. I feel like, wasn't there, there were some girls asking about financial aid. These girls asked me about scholarships, and I gave them a few resources. But, like, there's a lot of scholarships. So maybe that can be our next core characters. I can see, I know Carlos Krausser. because she wouldn't know anything, though, in financial aid. She doesn't, I don't think she's an expert on financial aid. She's more admissions, right?

Yeah. So I think Cabrera, Denise can reach out to him again.

So would we want to do that before the college, before the sports? Maybe we do that in February and then broadcast the idea about the sports. I feel like if we're thinking about doing the sports in March, we've lost the momentum from the college workshops. That's true. Also, but I also don't think they're the same audience. I don't think the people who do the college workshops are going to the same audience. Of course, people younger, too. We get more younger people. Yeah, definitely. College is very specific. Yeah, no one wants to go. So would we want to do the FAFSA? I think financial aid would be right. I think financial aid, we got more questions about at the event. Okay. And then would we, like February? I feel like February is like doable. Yeah, that makes sense. No, the physics works. We could just do once a month. Instead of, I said like five. Yeah, I feel like we could do once a month. And then we can drag and drop. Our term ends in August. And I feel like we should also see the turnout for those that go from there. OK, so wait. So we have ARIA in December. Then our next real, I mean, we're going to be working on that proposal for the Instagram, but then the next real event that we want to start thinking about and planning and doing all this is the FAFSA financial aid stuff. Or is it the civics part? In January. Okay, yeah, yeah, in civics parts. Okay.

So I think we need to, so we're doing civics parts starting in January, then FAFSA, and possibly maybe also resume in February, if you want to do that, or just FAFSA?

No, I feel like just FAFSA. Resume, we'll think about that later. Resume, we could really just merge it. Because that, we could, like... Um, resume, uh, internships, like that's kind of a career oriented. So we have like an admissions advice thingy, then we are doing financial aid, and then our last one for the year can be career. Yeah, career. Yeah, because some are jobs.

Yeah, internships.

That, yeah. Internships, resumes, all that.

Yeah, and that's like leading into the summer season kind of. We did that in like April, you know what I mean?

Okay, so then that's three college years events. We'll start the civic sports in January. So maybe should we touch base about the sports like in January or do we want to like, are we like?

Yeah, I think that's a good plan.

I also think a sports event is, I mean, I don't know how active our community is, but I feel like they're pretty on the active side. So it wouldn't be as, like, maybe difficult to attract people to that than, like, a specific event like a plant journey. Okay. So do you guys want to be the same people to take the lead on financial aid? Or Sophia, do you want to review? Oh, no. This is just an idea for the sports thing. It's the easiest thing that we could do. A race. A race. A race. I mean, we do, the town does like a 5K. Yeah, but I'm thinking about like a little kid. I would not have one. Yeah, but. We'd do like a little raise, like a 100 meter dash, little sunhills.

It could be an add-on to the other events.

Absolutely, because that is like a little consolation prize. Yeah. Wait, once again, Aria Gray in December, January we start civics sports, and then we have FASA, and then March we have bike safety.

And sports potentially.

And sports in March, February, March, April.

Yeah.

And last college thing, career-oriented, like end of tournament. Yeah. Should we try to reach out to other boards and get sponsorships for our college events?

Like the food you were saying?

Yeah, the food. Because I thought we had a budget. We should. Okay. Okay. Do you think a couple would win? No. No, I'm just going to reach out to other boards.

I mean, I doubt it. I don't think a couple would win. I'm just buying it. Oh, we can ask. It never hurts to ask. I think we're going to buy it anyway.

I think maybe you could ask community relations. Okay. Do you know who the chair is? It's David Karp. Oh. Should we reach out to Tina about the budget?

I think she thought that you guys had a budget, right?

She thought that we had a budget because I thought that, like, I was at the commission meeting where they were allocating money, and I thought that the Utahs got $5,000. Then when we went back and we checked, like, it wasn't approved.

Like, it wasn't part of the budget. So I'm not sure if... Maybe you could bring it up.

I mean she talks, she's always said that you can bring in something about the budget, like maybe.

Right, an amendment.

An amendment. An amendment, yeah. Okay, then I think we should, I feel like that's more sustainable than just coming up to other boards and like. Okay, so that's, yeah, that's definitely something there.

Yeah, I mean, what could they do on the amendment? Is there like a certain date or deadline that they need to meet? Or it could be at any time.

I'm not sure. I think they just have to approve it to get it on the agenda, but I'll be sure if possible.

Because just in case it doesn't get... I don't think it's going to meet the next... January.

It could probably be maybe January.

But try to push for it to be in January.

Yeah, so just to sum up what everyone is working on. Well, I know we're not on to your... I didn't yet, but Sophia, Isaac, and Jack are going to start planning financial aid stuff?

Yeah.

I can help with that as well, because I have a lot of stuff. And you'll reach out to Denise again to talk about? Yeah. Okay. Ella's civics works. That's what you're working on. So then I guess I'll work on the budget. I didn't mind helping out with the seven stars if you need anything else. Yeah, definitely. That's good. Okay. Yeah.

With any Instagram?

Oh, I, yeah. I guess. I'll help you on that. Okay, yeah, you can do that. Does anyone else want to? Instagram. What else did you want to do? The chalk. I didn't mind helping with the chalk thing. Yeah, I like that idea. Yeah. Can you say Sophia? Sophia and Sophia. I wasn't like. That's, like, this is immediate things that need to get done.

Yeah.

That's it, right? Budget.

I'm going to ask the guys, like, really right after this meeting.

And eventually you guys have, like, time, but it's good to start with an outline. So should we just start reaching out again, like, letting them know?

I would start.

I think it's a bit early. I think you can just start with an outline.

Cabrera's first.

Yeah, no. I would just start making an outline for the event. What do you want to cover? Do we want to do another panel? Is that really the right vibe for this? Have a little bit more of a detailed agenda, like concrete agenda, so that they can be clear on everything. We also, okay, and then I'll reach out to community relations to make sure that they have all the stuff they need for the event. For Are You Great? For Are You Great.

Like the candles you were saying, maybe?

Maybe, who's not here? Denise and Jonah. And Jack. And Jack. Well, Jack's doing the... Jack's doing the, yeah, maybe, I feel like Jonah, oh, whatever. It's in like a week or something.

I have Jonah's number. I guess we all have Jonah's number. I can text him.

Okay. Does he have the link to this doc? Yeah.

I thought I sent it. I have to reset it.

Yeah, I shared it with him. Okay. All right. Anything else? So college... We're going to have a FAFSA, and then we'll check back in January about sports. Anything else that you wanted to add? I mean, I had a new idea, but it's kind of a lot.

Okay, so one thing I was thinking about, so like, yeah, yeah, that's true. We have that internship database, and like, we were talking about kind of the resume building workshop, like kind of going into the summer season where people are looking for opportunities. I wonder, like, you know how schools sometimes have, like, we have community service fair or things like that? what if we had kind of like a miniature version of that where we can invite these organizations to come in and then it was an event where then local youth could then walk around like you know we have a couple different booths set up and they could kind of preview and we try to get as many places or organizations to come as possible and then they can preview these organizations.

I really like that. My issue is that like in doing all this internship database stuff like it really is like these businesses, especially with internships and jobs, are sort of doing you a favor by hiring them and stuff. Like, it's not like they're seeking out you that want to do this. So I think, like, it would be, like, we would need to convince the businesses to come. Like, especially, like, I know the opportunities are in the database. And I'm thinking, like, they're either places further south or they're virtual opportunities or stuff like this. So, like, in that regard, it might be hard. But if we... expand the database to the point where we have like five or six that would be willing to come in. That's a good idea. I think we would both have to focus on community service and jobs that actually want youth. Like there's so many And they wouldn't necessarily be paid, but it's more of like a resume building thing. So there's plenty of youth ambassadors of like the Adrian Arsch Center is a position.

But then you couldn't get the Adrian Arsch Center to come here and be like, oh, let's.

I mean, there are some organizations that care for that. So like Gen Cleo and those people. If we look up youth-led organizations, like political science. Please do, because then we can add it to the database. Yeah, and if you guys ever come across any internships, anything volunteering that you guys do, just email it to me and I can add it to the database, because that's really good stuff.

Yeah, I mean, or it could be an add-on to the resume event, you know? Like, the first half we discussed resumes, second half, look, there are a bunch of these people here you can talk to.

And it doesn't even, honestly, it doesn't even need to be the people from your organization. Like, a lot of the stuff that I found on the database is, like, stuff I do, so I could just be there and be like, okay, hey, I do these things. Like, come talk to me about my experience. Like, Ella, it's on the, or she interned with Miami-Dade County. She'll tell you about that. You or GetRitas, like, tell you about that. So... Okay. We're so booked, guys. We're so booked and busy. This is good. Okay. Last item. Yes. It can be short. Yeah, same thing as last time. Okay. He still didn't respond? Oh, no. He did respond, and I ended up attending a photo shoot that they were doing at the Flip Garden. That's about as far as I've gotten. But we were talking. And as, sorry, oh, Vice Mayor Paul talked about in the last meeting, they're doing the rededication of the park, and they're going to do the whole signage and everything, and he wants to combine the event I proposed with that. Okay. So the commission has to decide when they want to do that, and then I'll start an act with my father again. Okay.

Okay.

That's great. That's progress. And when is that, like, when is he thinking that? When the commission says that they want it. Okay. Hopefully it's that provincial. Yes. Okay. Okay, last one. Can I ask one more question about the stencil? Definitely. So what are the next steps? I'm a little confused on what our job is. I think he wants us to like

Generate buzz.

Tell your friends about it. I feel like social media, I feel like communications would probably handle this if it's this big of an event. Because he says that communications would have a role and that they're going to do stencils. I'm not sure what he wants us to do.

How to get it trending. How to get it trending? That's pretty much it. Okay.

Does he want to create social media posts and stuff?

No. We have the design and we have the materials already in place to do the actual design, to place it whenever he decides where he wants to place it. I guess his vision is to see people take pictures and videos around it. I love Surfside.

Oh yeah, we can do the Denise thing in the movie. And what if we did like a hashtag?

Like a hashtag. That's ultimately what he wants to be.

And then we can start doing it. We post a pretty picture of the beach or us somewhere on Surfside. On I love Surfside. And then since we can hack the Surfside account, we just repost it.

Wait, are we allowed to do that? Repost our own stories?

Yeah, we've done it for the college.

What do you mean? Like the Town of Surfside reposts our personal stories.

Yeah, Town of Surfside's always reposting stuff that people tell you about. So yeah, we can just start doing that, like taking pictures, putting I love Surfside, and then start getting our friends to do it. And then once the stencils come along. That's good. Do we need to approve the official hashtag? We can just make it, right? But like, does he want it to be...

The stencil's not out yet, and we haven't laid it out yet, but that's probably... Cindy, you have to ask Cindy.

Because I don't think we need the stencil for the hashtag. You can just, like, that can be, like, a piece.

You can make any hashtag.

No, I know you can make any, but if he wants it to be certain branding that, like, is aligned with what the stencil says. Like, is it, oh, my heart serves I, or I love serves I.

Like, there's no difference. Oh, we could do the hashtag I heart. Like, as a pencil.

Or you can do I actual heart. So, like, you don't have to. Okay. So, who would I have to talk to about the hashtag? Should she... Why don't, oh, okay, so if you do this, okay, YouTube or whoever's involved in this, send an email to Cindy and, um, where? No.

Mario.

Mario.

Mario. You should probably include him in it.

Yeah, send, send an email to Cindy and Mario, and, like, literally, I think you can just, like, list the ideas you have. Like, I'll start posting, and, like, we're posting getting our friends to post pretty pictures with iOS Surfside. What was the other thing you had?

Yeah. She posted pictures.

What was the other thing? You had a hashtag. There was something else you said that was really good. I don't remember what it was. Hashtag, she was on the server side. And tag? I don't know. Three posts?

Yeah.

Maybe it's just that I swear there was something else. I don't know. But, like, literally just, like, that idea, and if you come up with something else, like, if you want to talk to Denise about, could she maybe, or even you, like, I don't know if you're into film, or, it's literally just, like, with an iPhone, like, filming people talking about, like, what do they love about Surfside? Like, go to beach to the people that live in Surfside. Like, what do you love about Surfside? Like, 10 seconds. Yeah. And, like, just put all that together. Like, that could be another idea.

Those are always fun to do that. Like, what do I want to do? Yeah. When clubs do that. Yeah, like, it's always so engaging.

Yeah. And I feel like, Especially, like, you know a lot of kids your age that go to VH or that go to wherever, but that live in suicide, and I feel like that'll Because I don't know, I get engaged when I see people I know, or see people that I'm a friend of.

And then you repost it and then more people see it.

Okay, so should I just email both of them asking about... I would just say, I really like this idea, here are some ideas I have on how to market this. What should my next steps be, really? Okay. Is this fine? What should my next steps be? Okay. Dude, that's fine. Ready? Okay. Okay.

And then that's all I wanted to clear up. Yeah, that's a valid question.

Okay. Did I ever, yeah, you guys know, like for the, if I didn't show you too much, making an outline, outline is what you're doing.

I don't have any notes.

Okay. I'll send it to you. Okay. Okay. Should we do, we'll figure it out. Okay.

Text would make it easier, but whatever you guys want to do.

I don't know. Okay, last item. New business. New business, our youth council guide. So, this is very quick. This is quite quick. What are things that, I mean, I kind of have an idea of what we should add. Like, the first thing is the terminology. Things like, I motion to the fact that the chair cannot motion and that we should, you know, all the youth council should know that we should just, yeah, practice that.

You have to motion to start the meeting and end it. Which I didn't know.

And then the chair needs to sign the minutes and you should review the minutes and you need to

Check your email.

That was the one last year. But basically, if you were starting from, like, if you, like, I guess it wasn't too long ago and you didn't know anything, what is something that you would have wanted to sort of know ahead of time? Like, is it really, like, this procedure stuff? Would you want to know, like, would you want to have, like, templates from, like, past events on how to, like, organize an agenda? Oh, yeah, that would help. Yeah.

And definitely procedural, a database of who we can email who

That's good, like a database of contacts.

I mean, maybe also how to format an agenda item. How to format. Or how early you can do that.

We're very bad at formatting sustainability and resiliency. They send memos and stuff. What about sample emails to reach out to? Yeah, sample emails. Or that actually work. Like email templates? Yeah. I think we should include our goals of continuing certain events. Yeah, like what you want to happen.

Okay, awesome.

So...

I mean, also, like, photos and videos of past events, like, if you... I don't know how you're formatting, whatever this is, but it's always good to see, like, an example of a great example like that.

You should do a little archive of every youth council. A little group picture. Cool.

Yeah.

A little time lapse. Okay, so I'm just going to go over, and if you guys want to write down what you're responsible for. Sophia Isaac-Jack... outline for the financial aid event. Ella and Sophia Vittori, or I guess Ella's going to reach out to set up the Zoom, but collaborate with Sophia Vittori about stuff. I will reach out to Tina about the budget. Ella and I will start making a presentation for the Instagram. Two Sophia's and maybe Denise will reach out to Cindy and Mario with their ideas. And then I'll reach out to Community Relations to make sure they have everything for Aria Gray. All right. And maybe you and Jack take the leads as if you can also do, yeah, she's doing this stuff.

Yeah, I can text. Do you want to add Jack to the, Jackson and the other group chat?

So we have a group chat.

Yeah, so just use the whole.

Yeah, you can just use the whole. I think, I don't know if that's the number. Okay, we can do this later. 305-726-3600. Okay. And then, guys, our next meeting is January 7th. Does anyone have any known conflicts? January 7th. Yeah, it works for me for now.

Yeah, 530.

I think that's fine. So it's fine with everyone for now, the January 7th?

Yeah.

Okay. All right, so I move a favor be it's only a motion to adjourn. I motion to adjourn. I second. All those in favor say aye.

Aye.