Youth Council - Regular Meeting

7th, 2026, and it is 5.31 p.m. And I'm going to go ahead and call the roll.

Chair Lucia Lacombe. Here. Vice Chair Ella Garcia. Here. Council Member Sophia Vultori. Here. Council Member Jonah Epstein.

Here.

Council Member Jack O'Malley.

Here.

Councilmember Isingpack?

Here.

Councilmember Denise Demetrius? Here. Chair, you have the floor. Thank you. Okay, hi everyone, happy new year. Okay, so before we move on, does anyone have any edits they'd like to make to the last meeting's minutes? Any way to change? Okay, then can I have a motion to approve the minutes of last meeting? I MOTION TO APPROVE THE MEETING MINUTES FROM LAST MEETING. ANY SECOND? SORRY.

JUST SAY IT AGAIN.

I MOTION TO APPROVE THE MEETING MINUTES FROM LAST MEETING. I SECOND. YES.

ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

AYE.

Thank you. Okay, so we have a lot of people here today. Thank you guys all for coming. To start, yeah, she'll remember here. She's been here before. She's great. She's here to talk about, we had talked before about a community bike safety event, and that's still going to go on as planned, but Cheryl's had a new idea that she'd like to present to you guys and introduce, so you have the floor.

Okay. Hi, Michelle Weinberg, 624 92nd Street. Thank you so much for having me here. The last time I was here, we talked about designing a safety program, especially with micromobility. Since it's on the rise, it's here to stay. But I'm currently going through, I'm a doctoral candidate in occupational therapy. that I'm specifically advocating for a grassroots approach of helmet safety, a helmet safety campaign. And what I've done so far, so I'll get you up to speed, is I've gone to middle school and I've spoken with them. I had them fill out surveys. I created a focus group and I got feedback from them as middle schoolers. because I think the best place to get the information is from people that actually ride them that are young and from peer to peer. And then I also spoke with experts that are in the field, four different experts, that gave me their own opinions in what they've been working on. So I am here today, fast forward, because you guys are leaders, clearly. You have higher level executive functioning skills than other high schoolers and teenagers that I know. And I think that you would be the perfect people to help me design a campaign. So last time I was here, I kind of created that design so that we can shell it out in the community. I'm still happy to do that. I would love to do that. That's easy peasy. But I actually want to take a step back and design it with you. What would be a real peer-led design helmet safety approach. It would be two sessions. One would be, I think, in person. And we would, first I would give you the information that I had received from the middle schoolers from the experts. And then we would break out into groups. We would design something. We would fill out a prototype. AND THEN WE WOULD MEET ONE MORE TIME AGAIN. I WOULD CREATE THE DESIGN BASED ON YOUR FEEDBACK, AND THEN WE WOULD MEET AGAIN, BUT NOT IN PERSON, KIND OF REMOTE, BECAUSE I THINK THAT WILL MAYBE WORK BETTER FOR ALL OF YOU GUYS. IT'S HARD TO COMMIT TO TWO AND TAKE AWAY FROM THIS MEETING AND OTHER THINGS YOU GUYS HAVE GOING ON, AND THAT WOULD BE A 60-MINUTE PROGRAM. AND THEN WE WOULD DESIGN SOMETHING. AND BASED ON THAT, IF YOU WOULD LIKE, we could then pilot it. But the pilot is not We don't need to pilot it. We can create a community event with our commissioners and town commissioners, a helmet safety program, but it doesn't have to look like what we created. And it would be research evidence-based. It would be an IRB study. It is an IRB study, so I'm in the works of all of this being submitted with IRB, which is the Institutional Review Board, if you're not familiar with that.

Through the chair. We also have a public speaker on this item, so. After. Okay. Okay, so does everyone, so basically, Michelle, what we're asking is like one session in person, maybe at the community center, and we'll all get together and do what's described here, help plan it, and then there's a follow-up session that's virtual. I have a question. It says ages 13 through 17. If you're 18, you can't do it? Oh, no.

I would change that. I didn't know. I didn't know. Actually, that's a good point. You can do 18, and you wouldn't need a consent form from your parents, actually.

Okay.

Yeah. It makes it easier.

And I know you were aiming for around eight people. Do we want to just keep it within the Youth Council, or should we still try to publicize this? That's up to you guys.

Yeah, I think the bigger you make it, the harder it is to keep the group focused. So if you want to leave it to just you guys, because you are the group. But I'm open to your feedback. I think you should open it.

I think definitely setting a date and seeing, like, when is a date that everyone can come or most people can come and then going from there, like, maybe asking, like, friends or something like that so it's not just, like, mass publicized at the beginning unless we need a lot more people.

Okay. The most important thing is if you are under the age of 17, 18, you need a consent from your parents, because you're a minor. And then I would need a cent from you, but that would be done, a consent is like, a cent is from you guys, and that would be given at the time.

So would this be like an exchange for the event we were talking about last time, or is this like a precursor to the event?

This is separate. Let's say it's separate, yeah. Okay.

And you said the age range is subject to change?

Yeah, I'm looking at teens, I think. But what are you thinking?

Just since you said that you could go to the middle school, if you could just reinvite that contact and be like, hey, can you advertise this? Or finally, just for middle schoolers?

Middle schoolers, they were an interesting bunch. And I learned a lot from that experience. And I'm open to doing it with middle schoolers, but I think people are actively committing, it would be fine. But I think that because of my focus group, they were kind of all over the place. Maturity level is tough at middle school age.

So, wait, sorry, because I'm just trying to understand it a little bit better. So the part where, like, NSU would come in to the picture?

No. So I'm NSU. Oh, okay, okay. It's just you. Yeah. Okay. I'm the principal investigator. I'm designing the project. But NSU is, I'm doing the study under their review. So anytime you do a study, a university has to be involved. FDA, usually there's a university backing it or there's the government backing it, but anytime anything is evidence-based, it's usually some kind of university. Yeah, it's confusing, but...

Okay, so... Is there any questions about the content of the sessions in detail?

Just two sessions to create a campaign, implement the campaign, and then do the event.

Not even necessarily at all, right? It's mainly to help with your PhD candidates here. Yes. You're helping me.

You're helping me, but also you're kind of like, in a way, understand and shaping something that's really important that could grow into something that could be piloted in the future, not only in Surfside, but all over because Miami-Dade County doesn't have this, Broward County. This could be national. There's national safety coalitions all over trying to figure why aren't these trends working with kids? What are the social norms? Why isn't it being accepted? So that's what we're trying to figure out. I need to hear it from you. I can't be in your head.

And you get to say, oh, I co-designed a safety campaign. I was part of a group that was part of an IRB-recognized research study. We helped do this to promote safety in the community. There's a lot of ways, if you want to make it sound good. And also, I think we could write about it for our youth council writing.

Yeah, contributing to research is a big part of the special agents. So yeah, that's where it is.

So then in terms of setting a date, Like, I don't, like, I use a calendar. Like, I know when I'm available. Do you guys, like, all have something like that, or do you need to go home and, like, ask things?

Depending on work.

Depending on work. When do you work? Because we would want to do this on a weekend, right? Whatever works best for you guys, yeah. Saturday. Like a Saturday. Sunday, right?

Saturday mornings and later Sundays. Okay. On Sunday? Yeah.

Okay, so let's try to, I... What about like a 10 to 12 on a Sunday at work?

Yeah. I can do that. When do you start working?

I work this week to next week, 9 to 6. 9 to 6?

Okay, what about like... Well, how about I give you guys like a couple weeks, you know? Or do you want to come, like why don't I give you a month and we'll do it in February?

Yeah. I could do the 21st of February. I cannot do the 21st.

Okay.

Wait, you're saying that would be session one? Session one, the fall is virtual, so it's easier to schedule. You said it was like an hour and a half-ish in person?

Give yourself two hours, though. We could also do you guys evening, would it work? Are you off President's Week, any of you guys?

Yes. President's Day is the 16th.

Oh, like the Monday? Yeah. February 16th. We have school.

We have school. But we can also just make a group because we don't go to... But we can make a group chat maybe and just send a few dates that we're going to do a poll or something on WhatsApp. Okay. So I have your number and I'll make a chat with all of us on WhatsApp and we can send a poll. I'll put a few dates. Okay. Perfect. That might be easier.

Yeah, I don't want to use up your time trying to figure out a date, but definitely when you guys are all here together, it'll probably be the best way.

Yeah, okay, so we're going to aim for some time in February, and we'll aim for at least eight participants. Excellent. Okay, so yeah, the next step is just to plan the date, and then we don't really need to do anything until that day to prep or anything.

Bring your brains. So one step back, we're not opening this to the public.

No, I mean, if you know someone who would be interested, I feel like there's no harm. I think the issue is we don't, I don't foresee it being like a 30-person thing, but we definitely don't want to get that big. But if it's like 12 or 14, you can send it out this flyer.

I feel like if your goal is research and study, I feel like the more people, the higher the quantity. Absolutely.

The bigger the numbers. And if we need to create a second round of the first session and then a second round of the second session, I'm open to that as well.

I think we could post something, but not make it that much pressure for us to be pushing people.

Just like if they want to.

Okay, yeah. And should we make, like if we're pushing it out, like normally what the council does is have a QR code where people can register, so we know approximately how many people are going. Would you want me to do that? Would you want us to do that? And if so, should we cap it at a certain number, or you're fine with that?

I don't know how many people are actually going to sign up, so I'm not worried.

We can just send it out, and with no QR code, and just, like, whoever comes, just gets there, and it's no surprise. Okay.

It's a surprise if people... And what I'll do, I'll create a Google form for the consent form that if you are under 18, that your parents just have, that we need to ensure that they sign it before. So I'll send that to you. Okay.

And do you have like a flyer version of this or just like a one? Okay, and if you could send that too because that's easy to like post and stuff. Perfect. Perfect. Awesome. So just so I can write it down, the action items are just setting a date and publicizing the flyer.

And potentially that 16th, the President's Day, that afternoon. All right.

Awesome. Does anyone have any questions or anything?

And if any questions do arise from now and then, just send me an email. Yeah.

Thank you for the opportunity. Yeah. Thank you.

Thank you.

Chair, if I may have a public speaker. We want to talk first. Oh, hi.

My name is David Carr, 9341 Collins Avenue. and i'm the chair of the community relations board so commissioner gerardo brought up your project at our meeting and last month we have another meeting next week and we wanted to partner with you somehow we were looking more at the bike safety point part with helpless i talked to chief press the other day he would like to be an audit We were looking, he was looking at a bicycle rodeo where one of our committee members is trying to get that J&B bike in person on 70th, somewhere, to have kids in your age group bring their bikes, make sure they're the right height, give helmets. Even what we did in my town, we engraved the bike with a coat, so if somebody stole yours, You could, you know, when you call the police, you could say it's this code. They could be on the lookout. A relay, you know, an obstacle course, even with the scooters, just to show, you know, they put a stop sign, make sure you stop at count four, you know, STOP. So if you can use us, our committee, at any time for this, even after you do the initial one, or even before, we'd like to help you out.

That's awesome. And I know, maybe not with this design session because it's kid-focused, but with the community event we were planning, that's a really great thing, especially for CRB and the police department to be involved with. I feel like it would help the turnout. I like the bike rodeo idea. I remember Chief Press came in and talked about it and was very excited about it.

So if you want to talk to Angie when our next meeting, and if you want to, it'll be on our agenda. And I'll just report what you guys are doing, and that I did share what we'd like to do. But I think you would all, you would need to agree that you want to do something like this. With us. When's your next meet? Next Thursday at 3.

Next Wednesday?

Wednesday. I don't know if that's too soon for them. Next Wednesday at 3.

Okay. Does anyone get a TV there?

We wouldn't need all, you know, just someone that wants to come in. I'm working. Okay. So if... Or we can go ahead and you can be a third group. You know, we put your name on it also.

Like you guys are already starting to plan it?

We could start to plan. Yeah, my group, like, let's take it and go. So, but we would certainly, you know, if you do a vote and want to be involved, you know, just you guys would just come up and use your resources to get some of your friends.

Yeah.

And we have some money, too, we can use. And Michelle, if you'd like to... We're going to talk about it Wednesday at 3 o'clock at that meeting over there. Any of you are welcome also. We can do the planning. It would piggyback and then you would be right on the invitation of those.

Awesome. Yeah. And, like, yeah, definitely feel free to get started.

Get started. You want us to get started?

Yeah, you guys can get started. And we'll help in whatever way we can. I'll be there Wednesday. Oh, that would be great.

And then, so when we motion to approve this, I'll put your committee on it also.

Great. Okay, good. Would you like to make a motion, too, or just wait for them to have a motion? Motion to approve the joint event? I feel like, should we wait for you guys to talk about it more? No.

I think we were already throwing out ideas. Okay. We would probably come up with a couple dates so that you guys would know about it. But if we wanted to start planning to get the bicycle person in, if you wanted to be there for helmet safety, we'd set up stations just like you have planned here.

Do you want it specifically bike safety or micro mobility?

We mentioned scooters also. Okay. So that would tie in with yours also.

And I could work on helping you with getting helmet fitters.

Oh, that would be great.

Yeah. Because you want someone, you can't just hand a helmet. It has to have, it has to be consumer product safety rated. Perfect. And each helmet that's given out has to be properly fitted to each individual. Okay. So it becomes like more of a thing. But I'm helmet fit certified, and I know, and Bike 305 Sue from Bike 305 is helmet fit certified. She would love to help, and probably we could get more trainers.

That would be great. If you can't be there, you could just send, I think Adam has my email, send what you just said, and I can read that, include that in our meeting. Okay. If any of you remember what you guys did for a bike rodeo when you were little, send that to Angie and she can send it to me and we can see if she pressed, you know, we can include that as one of the stations. So you have to go back far in your life.

You have to say it.

So we'll just, do you need a motion from that too?

So, would you approve our motion to support a joint community event about bike and micro mobility safety? Yes. Second. Wait, you have to say, like, push. They can't make a motion.

Okay, I motion to. I said.

I motion to approve a joint meeting between the Youth Council and Community Relations Board on bike safety joint event. That would be great. Yeah. I second. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye.

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When is that? Brain Injury Awareness Month is in March. Is there a date where it doesn't happen? The national break. It's the whole month.

Okay, March. You'll remember that. Yep. Okay.

Awesome. Thank you.

Thank you very much. Thank you. And we can't get personal privilege. Thank you for the gotten awareness. Thank you for your help. That was very good. You were all great.

Thank you to our two speakers for coming to speak on this item. Next, we have the Native Planting event, and we have Commissioner Bildus. Thank you, Chair, for talking to us about that. Thank you for being here. Always a pleasure.

Thank you, Chair. It is always a pleasure for me to come visit this committee. I think I've met all of you individually, but it's my first time seeing this group all together. So I wanted to follow up on a topic that we discussed maybe at your first meeting, and I think it was thanks to Board Member Vittori who brought it up. As you know, I've taken a great interest in this native plant garden that the town has recently replanted on the corner of 92nd Street and Bay Drive. If you haven't seen it, I'd encourage you to go by and check it out, and I'm always happy to give a tour of it. I'm really into it. Just in very broad strokes, in case you're not familiar with the issue, almost all the plants you see around Surfside, and certainly pretty much everything you buy at a big box nursery like Home Depot, is not originally from Florida. And what that means for the environment is that the insects and birds and wildlife that need food from native plants can't always get it from the non-native plants that we have in so many of our yards. And so there's a kind of growing movement nationwide to go back to planting the kinds of plants that were originally in areas before 1492, before European contact with the Americas. And the grant that we got to plant the garden from the wildflower for the Wildflower Foundation actually required that a scientist review the landscape plan and confirm that every plant in there was something that could have been on this island before 1492. And so that was kind of a cool thing. And that's the level of rigor that they required. Board member Butori had proposed the idea of trying to expand native plantings in the town, and I'm all for that. And I guess one of the things we talked about the last time this issue came up is that it's just a hard thing to scale up, because especially if you want to provide a habitat for wildlife, you can't really use pesticides, and you can't use weed killers. And so to weed the garden, you need someone to do it by hand, and it's very labor intensive. To do it exactly right, we don't have to do this at every site in town, but for a little contained garden like that, it requires a lot of work. I'm happy to report that the town has contracted with a sort of specialist gardener. Her name is Ivy Hernandez, and she runs a group called Green Spirit Miami. And she's going to do five hours of work a month, which is really all it takes to kind of pull the weeds and do that. So anyway, that's just a bit of background. I want to try to plan some events in the spring that promote the garden and the issue of And there are two things that are kind of in the air that I wanted to float to the committee and see if you'd be interested in participating in any one of them. I'll be shopping this around to the Parks and Rec Committee and Community Relations Board, but I want to give you the first dibs, especially because I want to support Board Member Vittori's interest in this subject. So the two things are, one, I talked with Ms. Hernandez today. And she's willing to do a community gardening event, like a volunteer event, where people participate in the maintenance of the garden a little bit. And she can talk a bit about the plants that are there. And you can learn what's involved in that. This could be a nice project for a high school service club or really anybody who just wants to get started with gardening and see what it's about. I'm going to be working on that. I'm going to be seeing if the town can have a small budget to buy gloves and clippers and trowels and things that would allow volunteer gardeners to take part. And she's game for that. She's also going to be doing things like making cuttings of the plants to give away, harvesting seeds, that kind of thing. So we could have an event that's kind of built around the maintenance. I've also talked with a woman named Mary Benton, who's really wonderful. She runs a group called Bound by Beauty in Miami Shores. Actually, my interest in native plants took off five years ago when I saw her speak at an event. She's marvelous. She does an interactive talk on native plant gardening. I'm trying to bring her to Surfside to give her talk. She's excited to come. She likes to do talks like a weekend morning, like sometime around 10.30 or 11. And we could pair that with a plant giveaway. I'm actually taking care of a bunch of plants from the garden that we need to get rid of. We could do this kind of cool event with Mary Benton giving her talk, have a plant giveaway, and try to spread the word that way. So anyway, those are the two things I'm kind of working on. I'm also open to suggestions, but I'd love to get the youth council involved. And so I'm happy to answer any questions and see how we might work together on this.

I already have a volunteer group at my school that would be dying to help out with the community garden events. Yeah, we have our own native garden at school.

That's great. And that's masked, right? Yeah. I mean, I've been working on both events, so I'm curious which ones might interest the council. But yeah, I definitely want to coordinate with your group for sure.

It's easier to market than volunteering, I'd say. And I'd like that we would be tending to the garden as well if it needs that maintenance so often. I would go to that. I think that's fun. And would the Ivy Hernandez girls, she would come to that?

Yeah, she would lead the event, I think. I talked to her on the phone today, and she's willing to do a kind of, to lead a community service event.

Did you already unveil the new plaque?

Oh, no, thanks for reminding me. We have to, at the next commission meeting, we'll be voting, I think, to ratify the name and the plaque design, you know, that we had talked about, and then I'm hoping that's going to happen

soon too but we've got to have a commission vote on tuesday of the signage could it be sorry i'm forgetting the word it's going to be conjoined with mary benton speaking oh yeah because i think that would be able to bring a bit more attention to the events unfortunately i don't think many kids our age are too interested in native gardening. So if we could combine the unveiling of the signage, maybe some food, and then a speaker as well, as well as a plant giveaway, that would be a mega event that a lot of people would like.

I do agree that if we could join multiple different aspects, it'll probably get more people. I love earth and stuff, but I do agree that many teams don't really have a particular interest. But it's a growing thing, so I think it's a good idea.

So I just want to say I'm happy that you're here with this project because I think a couple of meetings back, Mr. Tori mentioned doing a butterfly garden, was it? Oh, not the butterfly garden.

No, was it this? It's exactly this.

Okay, because I suggested that she work with you and use the new garden, so. Thank you. Yeah, I think it's wonderful. Thank you for that.

and wait yeah we would love to help with that if if you two are in contact then sophia can do you want to take the lead on it yeah definitely and we can do the um what is there like a certain date that we have in mind i've got to i've got to check that with with you know that that event will depend very much on uh her day hernandez's availability she's coming she's looked at the garden before but i've not met her in person and she's going to come check it out

either Friday or Saturday. Friday is a school day, I figure, but I can let Board Member Vittori know. In any case, I'll be meeting her and we can make a tentative plan at that point.

And then if we were to, you know, market it to youth and they would come, I think they would come for the community service hours for all things. So in what How do we go through with that, getting those hours? Because I always forget.

The approval for your volunteer hours? Yeah.

Yeah, we've had a few requests for that from other past committee members that have done volunteer work. I'll have to relocate all those hours. It definitely was, yeah. I mean, I'm sure somebody could confirm.

this is awesome this sounds like a really cool event so like i guess any updates or anything you can communicate with her and she'll let us know and then we're happy to help in whatever capacity you need we'll we can like make a flyer we can we'll definitely go to the event yeah i think uh the beach high ecology club could also come in nice okay great thanks sorry um just related to a date

Do we have any, like, do we want to, like, correlate this with, like, Earth Day? But that's kind of far, but it is sort of, like, April 22nd, which is far, but it is, like, because Earth Day is a pretty big thing, and this would be, like, because I think we usually do around the same thing for Earth Day every year, so this could be, like, something new. Yeah.

I think the community center already has. Or if you do something at the Garden on Earth, if you do this earlier, then do something at the Garden on Earth.

Yeah, I'm just saying like around that time or something.

That's a great idea. He has two events, so maybe the second one could be done in Conventional Earth Day. Because the Park and Rec Earth Days usually ends early. So it could be a later afternoon to keep the Earth Day going.

One more thing I was wondering. Also with the new garden, we're trying to revitalize the new garden. I wonder what if we were to create maybe a youth, if youth were interested. I know Sophie said you have some friends who are interested. Maybe other youth in the community are interested. like maybe a youth kind of committee, like volunteer, garden volunteer committee that meets there once a month or something like that. And then like we could use the event to introduce that if we wanted to establish that. So I don't know, or even like if you wanted to get more people in the community involved, like maybe we could have kind of a monthly series where people come in, like people can come in from like 10 to 12, like the first Sunday of the month or something like that and garden.

And it's, you know, it's a small, a relatively small space in many hands. make light work so it's one of those things where like if you had a group of even five but certainly ten people looking for weeds and pulling them you can You can get it done pretty quickly, have coffee and donuts or something, and get a service hour or two.

Is there certainly certification or training that would be needed? I don't think so.

I think that's why it would be good to have someone like Ivy Hernandez on hand, because she can ID the plants and tell you which ones are the weeds and which ones you want to cultivate. And she can provide that kind of information. Also, she'll be knowledgeable about how to harvest seeds and how to do cuttings and things like that. I'm a gardener, but I don't have that level of knowledge, but she does.

I think with that student group, we may get a low commitment thing. More people are likely to sign up and just relax one day.

I think if you're going to do it in the first place, you're probably already very interested and already know so much about it.

If we have the ecology closed up, all of our respective schools, we market it to them especially, and people come, I think that's a good idea. Try to get them to keep coming back by saying, oh, we have maintenance days every two weeks. You get multiple hours.

Is Ivy Hernandez the current ed gardener that we've employed?

Yeah, she's going to be coming five hours a month. So probably that means either one or two hours.

So five hours a month, could you maybe, like, coincide that with, like, teaching? Because I think that also takes more work off her hands. Right. Like a teaching experience. Yeah. Because she's already doing it once a month. She might as well wait. Exactly.

I'll see her this weekend. So I'll ask her about that. But I think she's game.

It might be also good to involve communications with vets because maybe they could video her. And, you know, that could be something on the website. Oh, yeah. And it would be a lead-up to the actual, you know, official event. Will this be posted on the website? Well, that's what I'm saying. If the communications department gets involved, I was really thinking if they could film her lecture, so that way it would be on there for people to be able to learn when they watch it. Yeah. But it could also be a lead-up to the actual event, and then also a way of promoting the monthly...

I mean, you would go every two weeks to do that.

Nice. Thank you all. We appreciate the interest and I will definitely work to bring you back some more concrete ideas. But ideally, I'd love to get something on the calendar maybe for late February. So perhaps at the next meeting, I could have something very concrete for you.

Awesome. And go free to email. I mean, I think you have my email, but email any one of us with updates or email me or Cynthia. Thanks. Awesome. Thank you for coming.

Okay.

Any other thoughts on this item? If I may, Jim.

In terms of the order of business, I know Frank wants to speak on the Snow Moon Soiree, so we could move that up after this item. Is that okay?

Right now? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So, do you have a question? No, the thing is also, oh, also Cheru, I don't know if she talked to you or not, but she's going to come, I told her to come at like 625. Oh, okay, then we'll wait for her.

Okay, so.

I saw her yesterday, so I didn't know if she was here.

Yeah, she's walking over, so I don't know. No worries, just do your thing and we'll. Okay, all right.

We can switch 5E and 5D. I feel like if she's here at 5D. If she's here. 625, I think, then yeah.

Yeah, we can talk about the college cabinet last.

Yeah, once this item is done, we'll see what time it is and we can switch it. Oh yeah, this item might be fast. So everyone knows that we've been trying to get an Instagram or social media. So the town manager asked us to make a proposal and we made that and sent it over to him and then forwarded it to Cindy. They're both very open to the idea. It was like, so I can like, can I read the email? I can read it into the minutes? You can, or you can just forward it to me. Okay. But basically what she said was, because this is like an official Surfside account that there needs to be like sustainability and a consistent commitment to posting. She said three times, a minimum of three times per week. I don't know how like rigid that is. I feel like that might be, that's a lot, but I don't know. I think we're, what I'm asking here is who's interested in like really like pushing forward with social media? Because I know some people are like.

I think, well, because you said, you know, it has to be like to continue, obviously. So could we just do maybe two people take on that role of having to post on the social media so everyone splits up the work, and then for next year's youth council, I guess they also just pick two people? Because it would be...

I think it's less like... Oh, throughout the week, like, okay, I'm going to post this right now. It's more like they plan out all the different posts. I think that, so she's looking to meet with whoever wants to take the lead to develop, like, a content calendar. Oh, it's okay. Oh. So it's, like, that kind of thing. But, like, yeah, I agree it should be, like, two to three people, like, maximum. Like, everyone can contribute, but, like... I don't know. I feel like some people are very social media savvy, if any. And I think someone should take the lead who's not a senior, because we want this to be sustainable over into next year. So are we going to take the juniors?

Except so.

Yeah? OK. I think that we could, for the mapping out and stuff, because three times a week is kind of a lot. Well, I think we need to talk about that. But if you come up with at least once a week, just like, oh, we have some sort of poll. that we want to get engagement on, or something like that. Something minimal, not like an actual event that we're posting about, because we only have events like one per year. Yeah, and I think we can address, we can ask all these questions and stuff when we meet with Sydney. So, you're interested? Yeah, I can work with Jackal, so. Okay, you're interested? And I can also be a part of that if you guys want. So all, are you flying home? I, I, whatever you need. Okay. Well, I can't see you, okay.

I can make a Pinterest.

Okay, so I'll email her back. You can set up maybe like a virtual time to meet the three of us. And yay! Okay, so what we said in the proposal, we gave a few accounts that we want to follow the style of, and sometimes it's not like, it's not just events. It's also like Oh, meet Jack O'Malley. He's a youth council member. What do you think of the time? Or you can do a throwback Thursday highlight of last year. Or you do a meeting recap.

There's so much from last year that we have pictures of that we didn't know.

Guys, I sent you the proposal. So if you're able to look through it, there's a lot of content on ideas on there.

And I've also taken pictures of almost every single event that we've been at.

So we just like

repost those, because they were not really.

And just to hear our, like, more, like, if Parks and Rec has an event that they want volunteers for, sort of like how it was for, what was it, like the winter gospel, that, yeah, we could have a better way to reach youth and just post stuff, like, Go to this, if you need volunteer hours, go here. We can do educational posts. Like, here's how you run a commission meeting. Here's how you make a motion. Here's how you contribute to your local Native community. We can just take a screenshot of their flyer, and then the first slide of the post is volunteer opportunities, and the second slide is just the post review. And I mean, if this comes to fruition, then every two weeks we'll have, like, join us for the Native gardening thing. We have community terms hours. And...

Wait, who did you say was, um, the, that wanted to meet with, for the, um... Somebody needs to talk to someone. Who did you forward the email to? It was to Mario, and then to Cindy. And Cindy was the one that wants to talk to us?

Yeah, Cindy's the head of comms. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So she's the one that wants to meet with us? Like, the three of us? Oh, okay. Because, like, so she said, like, a hard, like, thing. Okay. Um...

Yeah, and also as Ellis said, like polls. Like there's like a lot of things we can do. Like it doesn't just need to be a bench promotion. There's just, there's like a lot of evidence if you go down. But okay, so.

I think the polls would be good to get like opinions from home.

Yeah.

Like the suicide, and then maybe like plan an external draft.

Yeah, and if you guys continue the junior college prep series, anything like that, and just get ideas of what you want to do or what kids are willing to repeat, because there's always going to be new high schoolers, so if you repeat some sort of fast event or whatever, you could engage that with them. Okay, so that's sort of all I wanted to do with this item, was pick some leaders. Okay, so... Should we go into 5D? I think we should go into 5D. Okay, so this is kind of how the Civic Sparks thing has evolved. So we met with the, we had a Zoom with the Beach High political philosophy club. They agreed to collaborate with us on anything we could do. And as we were talking about what kids would go to target audiences, we decided that instead of making an event that's specifically civic engagement, which is kind of a limited audience that want that and we saw how much of a success the college prep series was we decided that our next week we can implement like civic engagement into our next college prep series or kind of implement the political philosophy club and other beach high clubs so our idea was to make like the title of the next college prep series would be your future field. So our plan was to kind of reach out to multiple clubs at Beach High, not too many of course, but to represent different career fields. And so kids would be able to go, it'd be kind of like a club rush, but more of a career fair. And those clubs would be assigned with talking about that field, not obviously advertising their club, but advertising the field that they're in, giving some advice, maybe talking about, if it's like a senior who had an internship, we can talk about that, and including the philosophy club, and then maybe later we can see if we can do that. Yeah, so we were thinking of doing maybe like five major fields, like healthcare, like law, tech.

I run the medical pre-med program at my school.

Awesome. Yeah, so, I mean, and if we have connections to certain clubs that are outside of Beach, then we can, of course, invite those as well. We're just thinking we have a lot of connections at Beach, but the idea would be these students would help, like, underclassmen or even, like, middle schoolers, like, truly understand what the job opportunities are in that field, because, like, if you're like, oh, I like healthcare, what exactly do you want to be doing? Do you want to be a nurse? Do you want to, I don't know. There's more, yeah. And also, on top of that, here are the ways you can get involved in your community. Because all these clubs are doing volunteer stuff. All these kids who are interested in medicine have had an internship. Here's how you can actually get involved right now. And we can put them on to our internship database. Yeah, and we can also put them in that. And Ellen and I were thinking, because this is like, This might be our biggest event of the year, just because it's a lot of clubs from beach, and we were thinking to secure it. Because we were thinking, Rudy, I don't know if this is feasible, but could we do it on the 96th Street Park field? Just have a lot of stations and tables set up on that field.

Depending on the date and time, because we have athletic programs there.

Every weekend. Almost every day.

So if you give me enough time Probably give an alert to parents and let them know what we're trying to do. I'm sure they'll accept it because they'll see the benefits of it. But if I have a window to communicate this out.

But if we're doing it in March, is that enough time?

Is there any teacher planning day or anything in March?

I know there's spring break.

You guys have spring break.

I think they said February 16th.

Are we talking about Miami-Dade County?

Yeah.

Okay. Well, that would be you guys are trying to get seniors or students from Miami Beach High, right? Yeah. So try to coordinate with them.

The thing is, like, with our college prep series, how many people we got? Like, a third?

Yeah.

And so let's say we reach out to a total of six clubs at Beach High, and they advertise to their members and stuff. I don't know. Like, the max people, maybe it would be, like, But I thought we were saying that if clubs want to participate, they need to bring at least eight members. I thought that was very good. The board should be like three people. Because at least with their part. But their members have to attend the event. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Like for example, I don't know if you would want a student government, because we can totally cut. I know that could be cool. But if you guys are already having the Stefanos group or whatever. Yeah. I don't know, if it's like, they're too similar maybe.

Yeah, we don't want to have too many people talking and representing their thing if there's more presenters than participants. I'm saying that to bring their message. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, but what I'm saying is that, I mean, it's, I don't, they're not going to fit in our room. Like, they're not going to fit in our room.

I was just thinking of the room and if the wine table is on the edge of the room.

But that might be too many people. There's a teacher planning day on the 20th of March, but there's also a teacher planning day on April 3rd.

So a week after spring break. I think April could be good to get all those kids together and actually plan this thing.

But my thing is, are kids going to want to spend their... extra day off doing this. I feel like if it's a Sunday or something, like the college prep series, yeah.

I mean, if we weren't doing it on the field, maybe doing a 5 p.m. through sunset, you know what I mean? So it's not too hot.

That's fine, but I would still need a date so I could get the notice out to let... Because it's a public park. Residents still will want to come in. But if I let them know there's an activity going on, so at least they're aware of it.

Right. But is March too soon? Or would we want April 8th?

March is fine. March is fine. That's more than enough time.

Okay, so if March is fine, then we can... look for a Sunday in March, like maybe the 14th, 27th? That is during spring break. Okay, then the 8th? 8th or 15th?

The 8th probably works.

The 8th is good. I think that's a good amount of time to find your field about this. Yeah, it's on the field. In relation to March 8th, great idea, love the idea. However, I won't be able to attend.

Okay, so March 8th, March 15th.

One of those two.

I also think it's, maybe we should have a dedicated tent for us to talk about internships. Like, do you want to talk about the internship database? You guys use AY Miami? Yeah.

Is that like? No?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. At Beach High, we do. AY Miami. Yeah.

That's like the Miami-Dade County, like, internship pool of, like, everything.

Oh, you mean for the elective? For the elective classes.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. What should I do with my plane? She's the best. Okay, so for Ella, what do we need to do going forward? Do we need to start? Okay, so our next steps, I think, would be, well, first of all, there's no events planned in March yet.

We have two events in March, but they're at the back end. It's at 28th and 29th.

Okay. So we have that scheduled. I think text the Velocity Club, then each... person who reaches out to one club, or meet like me and Denise.

Yeah, Beach High, because I don't think no more than like six clubs.

But I think, first of all, who wants to take the lead with Ella on this?

I can, because I mean, I did like basically the last college, I did with Cabrera, and it was good, so I can help you.

Does Sofia Chavez go to Beach?

She does. Maybe she, I'm sure she works.

And she can recruit more in the classroom.

Okay, so this is going to be Sophia Chava. Is there anyone else besides Sophia? Who reached out for the food? Oh my gosh, you? We'll need food for that. We'll need money for the event.

That's true.

I did want to ask you, because I read the minutes to the last meeting, I guess I missed it. But did the funding for your committee get sorted out?

Well, I emailed you an . Yay! We did it! What? How much?

I don't know the total dollar amount. Should be what you asked for, but enjoy our faces. I spoke to Adria, our budget officer, and I explained what was going on. I expressed the conditioning that happened over the summer, and then Mario also touched base with her, and then we, for January, February, and March, when you sent us the the actual layout of what your, that could be covered. So whatever you budget for, whatever you submitted, I don't know what you, I think you sent it to a vice mayor. That total dollar for January, February, and March, that's what you have for right now.

We have $17.50 right now, so that should be enough to cover this event.

And pizza is good for this one.

Yeah, pizza. We don't need anything else.

We only use this dish is like $5 per thing.

Our residences are a little more oomph than Little Caesars.

They need the fiat cops.

Yeah, exactly.

I was really good, though. It was really good.

It's like $15 for a pie.

We can't be doing this. It's too much money. OK, if you guys ever want to look at the budget for Merce and the dog, Okay, so reach out to clubs, right? Sorry.

Yeah, okay, so let's try to think.

do like six fields. I think, let me just look up career fields. Yeah.

So I think- And I just have a pedal club. Well, I know, like, I have a friend, Lola's STEM for Hope thing. Yeah, her project.

Oh, she's good, yeah.

Yeah, and hers got Silver Knight with us, right? Yeah.

But there's a new, there's a club called, some girls started a new club.

But I think, I think that- I think that we should do Lola's one, because that one is a little bit more, I know it's not directly school related, but.

She can talk about getting internships at hospitals.

Yes, yes, she can talk, so we should do that organization.

Okay, we have STEM? So we have STEM. And law, public safety, then?

Civic Week. Is there anything, is there, yeah, would you start at a school? Oh, wait, STEM and TAG is separate. Oh, yeah. You guys got the primary. Okay, so, but. This is kind of funny. Wait, so you were saying, what kind of club would you do? Do you have a lottery club? I... Do you think you could contact them? Yeah. Okay, then he could do maybe robotics or is that STEM?

I'm thinking healthcare, STEM, arts... Civic life. So STEM versus art. Sorry, STEM versus healthcare. What would be the STEM? STEM is like tech and engineering.

So he would get the I prep robotics team.

And you can get your medical.

So should I not do the STEM?

Oh, business. Is that a good thing? Yeah, business is good. People are in DECA.

We have a big DECA chapter at our school. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I do.

And oh, for law and politics, we have political policy and debate kits. Okay, yeah, so law slash politics.

Okay, so we have five here. The debate kits could be lawyer. Yeah. Law slash politics.

Okay, healthcare, tech slash engineering, arts, law and politics, and business. I think that's perfect, yeah. Are we missing it? I feel like we're missing it.

Yeah, like language arts, kind of creative writing.

Something, I don't know, like... Creative writing?

What if you do like arts slash humanities? Yeah, arts slash humanities.

What is the job in the humanities? Like teaching? Philosophy. Philosophy. Do you guys have a job in humanities?

Yes, we do. We do a lot. I don't know if we need it.

Maybe we should do humanities. Some sort of like journalism. I think a lot like... At least our school, a lot of kids do hospitality. Yeah. There's a lot of kids that do that. Like the people who do... But it's like vocational secondary.

Like the people who do culinary, the people who do bakers.

Yeah, like technical skills.

We have a good culinary culture. No, bakers is like an A-8 or academy.

Oh, yeah. Okay. All right, we can narrow this out. You said you wanted to help question me?

Yeah.

Okay, but you don't want, okay, but you're like, okay. Okay, so can you make a group chat, me, Denise, Cynthia Chavez, and text what we need to be doing? Okay, good. So we're gonna aim that to be mid to early March, and we'll let you know really like definitely before our next meeting we should have a date set um okay any other this is like we sort of rushed through this but it definitely needs a lot more thought but i think definitely yeah well we have like notes from we had like a zoom meeting this is how the college prep one started and it was a good success so i think we well i think that we shouldn't For each field, we shouldn't reach out to more than two clubs.

Are we going to get the clubs service hours? Are we going to get the clubs service hours for participating? I just think that might be easier south than that. I saw a lot of kids.

just the leaders who are there doing stations. But it would still be like 15-ish kids.

I mean, as long as you want the ones that are leading or the ones that are participating.

At the table, like a cap with how many service hours I mean, I don't need that much. I don't know how long the time period for this event is. Two hours.

I could spare a bet.

Yeah, the same as the college football game.

I could give them, like, $20,000.

Are you serious?

Yeah. Broke down?

Don't they get two hours?

Oh. I don't know, really.

Okay, so we're going to try to get communities for the leaders.

Yeah, because you could do the event and then the actual planning that they took into putting whatever they put together, you've got to compensate that too.

Okay, so it's easier to brainstorm in a smaller group, so we can keep thinking this through. Yeah. Okay, so just, we'll keep brainstorming there and we'll be texting guys our updates in the main year, so please be checking that. Anything else before last item? Okay, we have Frank here and Sheru. Thank you guys for coming. I'm really excited.

I don't really know what this is, but it has a cool name.

I want to hear more about it. So you guys have the floor.

Well, I mean, through the chair, I don't know if Denise had anything in mind since it was, can you put it on the agenda? Any questions for us or just?

Well, I mean, since it's like, I think she should, like, give, like, a brief summary of where one is so we can all, like, everyone can understand it better and, like, we can, like, see what roles we want to take on, like, to help.

Okay. Charlotte El-Safly. Do I have to say that here? Yeah. My name is Shira. And Denise is my intern. So that's how this sort of evolved. So we are super excited because my company is Relief Designs and we did the 90th anniversary event that you guys participated in. It was so meaningful to have you guys have a strong role in that that I'm really hoping that you'll want to be incorporated into this event too. So this event is an event that we hope will be an annual event for Surfside. It's a two-day event, so on Saturday we'll be having a sort of elevated cocktail event. It's a white party. It's the weekend of the snow moon, so like there's a full moon, so that's why we're framing it around that. We're going to have, at the cocktail event, I would love to work with you guys on the programming for that to see if there's a way to include you in that. We will be doing a giveaway again, so that is an option for the table. and we'll be having mermaids and fire dancers and it'll be, it's going to be super fun.

This is on Saturday.

And live music and what?

This is on Saturday or Sunday?

That part is on Saturday. That's the, that's the sort of, it's more, it's geared towards adults obviously because it's a cocktail, but you're all like obviously welcome to come. There will be mock sales, so you can participate. And then on Sunday, it's a sun and sea celebration, so we'll have family-friendly events. Oh, there's gonna be these huge sand sculptures on the beach that we have a professional sand sculptor doing. So on Sunday, the person who led that, or his team, will be doing a workshop on how to sculpt the sand. And he does it sort of in teams. So you're all welcome to participate in that. But it's like a full day of events. We'll have mermaiding classes in the afternoon. So you should sign up and get your little tail. And then we'll have a garden barbecue and some activity stations in the garden, like the green space behind the pool. And in the afternoon, we'll have sunset yoga and a sound bath with the full moon rising. That's the overview.

Is this like a Surfside event?

Yes, this is Surfside. This is like, we're going to get known for this. That's the idea. As long as it's not hard funding.

Sorry? I said as long as it's not hard funding. Yes, no.

So some of the ideas I had were like, During the Sunday event, when we have the barbecue and the activities in the garden, we can set up some space for tables for that. I wanted to do a little eco-friendly treasure hunt for smaller kids. And I thought one idea would be to have you guys be the table where they can come for lunch. I'm not sure how to do prizes yet because I'm kind of anti-plastic and all that. So we'll figure that out. It's in process, although I have some ideas. But you guys could be sort of the people engaging with them on that. And then I don't know what all are your priorities. We talked about maybe some sustainability stuff or something that you wanted to bring into this. Obviously, my company is 100% eco-friendly. We try not to use plastic. We compost everything. The composting team that you guys met before, they did a training. They may do a table during the day on Saturday as well. So I don't know. I'm open to your ideas.

And I think, like, how, because, like, for the 90s universities, you guys remember how we had, like, that table and we were giving out, like, the little wildflower packets? And that table, like, it was, like, oh, like, the youth council table. Like, we could just have something like that. Us giving, like, something that, like, I don't know, like, maybe, like, the giveaway, the presents, whatever you wanted. And then, like, we could make, like. Would this be on Saturday? Both. So Saturday. So we would have, if we were to have a table there, we would have a table both Saturday and Sunday.

Just Sunday. You would have a table for you guys and sort of your, whatever you want to do. You can be in charge of the treasure chest for the hunt. Or whatever you want. We can incorporate some activity if there's something around scholarships. But for Saturday, I don't envision that we're going to be having table vendors and that kind of thing, but you could do the giveaway, which is going to be a really nice Turkish towel with surfside and board, right?

So, yeah. And then maybe also at the table, we could have something promoting the event that Sophia is specifically working on, which is the native planting event. Yeah. Just in general, the garden.

Do we still have seed packets?

I still have them in my house. We can give out the extras at that too. But we could just make it more of a big deal, so more people know about the garden.

Yes.

Along with your...

I love that, yes.

Just to confirm, this is the weekend of February 1st?

Yes, so it's January 31st is the evening part, and February 1st is the all-day thing. Do you want to add anything?

No, just, I mean, you know, we can use any volunteers both days, so, you know, however dedicated, you know, your role might be, if you just want to volunteer, you can just let us know, but I think Saturday, you know, it'd be great if they could help us with the gift item, you know, they can promote some of their upcoming stuff, and they can also maybe just give out information as to what's happening the next day, because I'm sure a lot of people will be like, oh, what's going on the next day, so... We can also inform the public about what to expect for Sunday, but yeah, I think it would be great.

Yes, and I would think that we would welcome help promoting it. Yeah, it's a lot.

I mean, we can also get people outside of the council and try to help volunteer.

We always do for the events anyways. Yeah, we usually do for the big ones. Like the group show? Yeah, right. A good turnout for this one. But it's pretty much the biggest event I think we've ever, in the eight years that I've been here, excluding obviously the Surfside Collapse, you know, anything related to that. This has been the biggest event. I mean, even last year's 90th was big, but it was one day. So this is, you know... this is the board really trying to elevate and kind of attract you know interest from the hotel so that they see what's going on this year and then next year maybe they want to invest they want to be sponsors they want to like have their own sand sculpture so yeah i mean these are a lot of awesome ideas and sure it was really awesome at all things aesthetic and and all the details so yeah we'd love you to be a part of it just add uh some of the background to this as well is

that the Resort Tax Board, they were looking to do a signature event, something really special and more over the top. And after the 90th, they directed Charu to do the event, her company, and her idea for presenting something that would be unique to Surfside.

What you need from us is help publicizing to youth, like maybe on the new Instagram or something like that.

Yeah, definitely promote it on that if it's up and running. I mean, we're going to try to, you know, obviously there's a lot of moving parts and things may shift a little bit leading up to it, but we're going to try to get a little bit of a... ATTENTIVE TIMES ON SOME OF THE SCHEDULING SO THAT WE CAN START TO PROMOTE AND COORDINATE WITH THE STAFF. OF COURSE, I'M GOING TO HAVE, YOU KNOW, MEETINGS WITH RUDY AND HIS TEAM TO ENSURE THAT HIS STAFF KNOWS EXACTLY WHAT'S GOING TO BE GOING ON. AND ALSO TALKING TO OUR TOWN MANAGER ABOUT, YOU KNOW, POTENTIALLY GETTING AN APPROVAL TO CLOSE THE COMMUNITY CENTER FOR TWO DAYS, WHICH IS, YOU KNOW, HAS NOT REALLY BEEN DONE BEFORE. BUT BECAUSE OF THE SCALE, IT MAY NEED TO. Yeah, we'll keep you guys posted, but we have a meeting with the tourist board if we have quorum next Monday, hopefully we do, and we'll have a few updates then.

And then whenever you text me about anything, I can just send updates or reminders in our youth council group chat about events.

Okay.

And do you guys want to let me know, if you have anything specific that you think about, I don't know what the native plant thing is, but it sounds amazing, to promote that, if there's anything I can incorporate anywhere else in the event to help promote you guys, I think... One of the ideas of this, too, is just to really to get for people to feel like this is their event, that this is their thing. So we want, you know, so when they see you there and they want to get to know what's going on, like that's part of it.

Is there any part of the event where there's going to be some sort of like sit-down speaking session?

So we have to work out the program. Maybe. Yeah, we have to work out the program. There's something going to be, there's going to be live music and a DJ, and then the fire dancing.

Probably at some point somewhere, you know, we'll do like a welcome and a thank you. Yes.

I'm sure that, you know, like elected officials will want to make some remarks maybe I would, one idea that we have, but we haven't worked out the details of yet, is we would love to do some sort of community awards as a part of this, and that would definitely, I mean, I don't know, you guys might get honored in that, I don't know, so I can't have you be the speaker for that, if you may have some role in it, but, We'll figure out the program and let you know about that.

And I think we're all happy to volunteer. I really want to go to this. And so basically, we'll volunteer and once you guys settle on more of the details, we'll help spread the word to our friends on the Instagram. And if anyone has any suggestions of what they want to incorporate, like Goaty, like Cynthia, then we'll talk to you.

Okay. Yay. I'm so excited. lack of a better word this event sounds fantabulous also it could be cool to have like because you said like a bunch of like hotels and like stuff are coming so like it would be cool if your dad would want to go too like i don't know oh yeah so yeah i actually talked to your dad this morning yeah and so that might be part of this we're trying to see if we can have like uh

We can have a, we're trying to figure out how we can do like a beach cleanup on Saturday morning as well as a part of this. So sort of.

Oh, I would love that. Yeah.

Yeah.

So I can message them. You got her. You got her.

So I think that you, maybe a new night. And he'll know. Because I did talk to him today. So if it would be like.

You mentioned the treasure hunts, correct? Yes.

Did I mention that, or your dad? No, I'm sorry.

You mentioned something about a treasure hunt for the kids. Would it be possible to incorporate that into the cleanup of any sorts? Or would it be a treasure hunt, like seeking out ? Totally.

I mean, this is just an idea right now. I've looked up some sort of simple things that we can do. Because basically, I want to engage all age groups to have something for younger kids. So I was thinking of it for Sunday, but if we could do something with your dad and like have it, that could be really fun.

Yeah. Because he makes things. Yeah, yeah. We'll cover one of the things with gold. Yeah, yeah. That's good. Yeah.

They make little pieces of art out of it. They want bikes, gift cards. It's definitely a thing.

That sounds amazing. What if the prizes are like actually made out of like reusable like

Her dad makes furniture out of trash. Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Because I've seen they make things out of... Some of the things that I thought about for the treasure box are things that are made out of old flip-flops. They have these super colorful little sculpture things. The keychains. I got these bracelets that you trap an animal with it. And it's eco-friendly. They have sea animals. This is my whale named Bjorn. So I have some things like that, but I don't think I have enough for everybody. But if you guys have ideas for that too, that would be amazing. You want to say anything?

Is this for residents?

It's for, so it's geared towards residents and hotel guests.

Do you have a plan on how you're going to track other RSVPs?

That's the part where we're still working that out. I do think that we'll need, I mean, we're going to have to talk to the town about pre-registering for some of these things. Because the mermaids, they have a limited number of tails. So we'll have to have people in slots for that. So we'll need people to pre-register.

Well, I'm just saying for the entrance to this

I think we'll have to talk to the town manager about that because if there's no part of the community center that is, say, residents only, then maybe you don't need to be checking. I mean, I do envision the beach chair service will still be up and running, but people will maybe not be able to walk through. So they'll maybe still check in with you guys and walk out through the public path. But like I said, we'll definitely in the next, that's why we have to, you know, this was a very fast turnaround for a really big event. um so we're going to lock in a lot of these details in the next like week or so so we definitely want to monitor like how the traffic flow will be and like all the construction we should yeah we should we i'm sure we'll be scheduling yeah more to come for sure yeah next week yeah thank you guys so much for coming and then our next meeting is

There's no new business, right? Our next meeting is February 4th. I don't think I can make it, but you guys, I don't know if anyone can do February 2nd, but it was just a Monday. Yeah, February 2nd.

Through the chair, that would be the resort tax meeting, so it's better if it wasn't negative.

Right, okay. Well, if you can make it, then you can use one of them. Is everyone able to make their report? No? No. Wait, my report's here.

Oh, OK. OK.

I think Sophia will probably make it, too. OK, then, yeah, we'll just keep the report. OK. And I vote favorably upon the motion. Does anyone know about that? Motion to adjourn, anyone?

I second. Who's second? I second.

Thank you.

All those in favor say aye. Aye.