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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes Commission On Children And Youth - 12/17/2007 4 ' `19- COMMISSION ON CHILDREN AND YOUTH ri, REGULAR MEETING ``� Monday, December, 17 2007, 5:30 p.m. r` f "%�r,�L� a Sixth Floor Conference Room, City Hall Ctrl, 1201 Leopard St, Corpus Christi TX pp `s C`PFIC ,') Members of the audience will be provided an opportunity to speak during the me-ifig. A recording s made of the proceedings. You must first identify yourself by name and address. Then 'i: yyp5po' as briefly as possible when addressing the Committee. Presentations will be limited to three minutes. Any person who plans to attend this meeting and may need an accommodation is requested to contact the Parks and Recreation Department at 826-4000 at least 48 hours in advance so that appropriate arrangements can be made. Minutes Call to Order: 5:30pm II. Roll Call of Members III. Adoption of Minutes: Regular Meeting, adopted November 19, 2007 IV. Action on Absent Member(s) of November 19, 2007: Aaron Delagarza (ae), Rita Morales (ae), Dr. Mary Jane Garza (ae), & Caitlin Martin (ae). In addition, Commission action on member(s) absences of October 17, 2007; Vicky Alexander(ae), Brian Silva (ae) and Aaron Delagarza (ae). V. Hear from the Public: no public citizens attended the meeting. VI. Business New Business: 1. Discuss the Children,Youth and Family Platform funding as it pertains to data collection. a. City Leadership expectations of CCY as it pertains to funding for data collection. Sally Gavlik reported to CCY and advised that Parks and Recreation will be initiating the budget process to include the data collection platform. In addition, she emphasized that CCY will be informed on the budget process/status and that Parks and Recreation will look to CCY for suggestions as the budget process comes along. In addition, Parks and Recreation will devise a preliminary budget for the January, 2008 meeting. b. Discuss pertinent budget process as it pertains to platform funding; who will be looking for funding? Sally Gavlik reported to CCY that Parks and Recreation will be initiating the budget process and that the budget process should begin in January/February. Parks and Recreation will be looking for the funding via the "budget process". c. Potential partners of data collection effort Sally Gavlik mentioned that Parks and Recreation will look for"funding partners" throughout the budget process. Parks and Recreation will also look towards CCY for suggestions on potential funding partners. Parks and Recreation will create an initial list of potential "funding" partners and present it at the January, 2008 meeting. 2. Discuss next steps of implementation for Children,Youth and Family Platform Parks and Recreation will create an initial budget and preliminary list of potential funding partners for the"data collection" portion of the Commission on Children and Youth- ' Children, Youth and Family Platform. In addition, Sally Gavlik mentioned that this may be a good time to start"quarterly" updating City Council on platform implementation/ status. Sally Gavlik mentioned that PRAC and some other committees do this on a quarterly basis via presentation or memo. Sally Gavlik mentioned that maybe CCY could present to City Council in March, 2008 to cover the time.of October, 2007- February,2008. SCANNED /I } f 1 4 3. Discuss Education Liaison position CCY members discussed several topics as it pertained to the "Education Liaison" Position. One topic of discussion is the posting title of the job. Some CCY members advised that it was their understanding that it was going to be called "Educational Liaison" and it was posted as "Educational Advisor". Some board members wanted to know why the change. Sally Gavlik and Valerie Villarreal advised that they were not aware that the title had been changed but that they will ask why the title was changed and get the `official"title of the position. Another topic of discussion was why it was posted for a short time period. Sally Gavlik and Valerie Villarreal were unsure of why the job description was posted for a short time but that they would ask the reason for this process. Another topic of discussion was on "Education Liaison" leadership. CCY board members were curious on who the Education Liaison will be reporting to. Sally Gavlik and Valerie Villarreal were unaware of the "leadership" the Education Liaison will be reporting to but that they will try to get some answers. One CCY member was curious if CCY could see the "applicants applications". Sally Gavlik advised that this is probably against policy and that it could not be done. Sally Gavlik advised that she will compose a memo to higher leadership expressing CCY's areas of discussion when it pertains to interviewing the Education Liaison applicants. 4. Vote for CCY Chair and Vice Chair Dr. Garza was nominated and elected Chair by majority vote. Rita Morales and Brian Silva were both interested in being the "Vice Chair"for CCY. Rita Morales was elected Vice Chair by majority CCY vote. VII. Committee/Staff Reports VIII. Superintendent's Report and Commission Concerns IX. Requests for Information, Agenda Items X. Adjournment POSTING NOTICE:This agenda was posted on the City's official bulletin board in the Leopard St.foyer, 1201 Leopard St. at a.m./ p.m. on 2007. Valerie Villarreal, JAC &CYD Superintendent Parks and Recreation Department