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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes Commission On Children And Youth - 08/17/2009 COMMISSION RE REGULAR CHILDREN MEETING AND YOUTH RECEIVED Monday, August 17, 2009, 5:30 p.m. G G 1l G 1st Floor Committee Room FEB 19 2010 City Hall, 1201 Leopard St, Corpus Christi, TX Members of the audience will be provided an opportunity to speak during the meeting. A aQgn*igg UE, proceedings. You must first identify yourself by name and address. Then state your point as briefly as possible when addressing the Committee. Presentations will be limited to three (3)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- Meeting was called to order at 5:32pm II. Roll Call of Members—Eddie called roll—Members present: Dr. Mary Jane Garza,Amanda Stukenburg, Laura Smith, Miles Toren, Guy Nickelson, Fran Wilms, Isaac Valencia, Robert Mirabal, Rosa Gonzales, Debbie Espinoza. Members absent: Rita Morales, Lorenzo Knowles III. Adoption of Minutes: Regular Meeting, July 27, 2009, Miles Toren (ae), Laura Smith (ae), Debbie Espinosa(ae), Lorenzo Knowles resigned. IV. Action on Absent Member(s)—July 17, 2009 meeting V. Public Comment: Please be advised that the Open Meetings Act prohibits the Commission on Children and Youth (CCY) from responding and discussing your comments at length. The law only authorizes them to do the following: 1. make a statement of factual information, 2. recite an existing policy in response to the inquiry, or 3. advise the citizen that this subject will be placed on an agenda at a later date. VI. Presentation: Status of Data Collection Project— Eddie passed out the contract for the Data.Collection Project. The contract was placed in effect on 7/21/09. Currently, Texas A&M is the hiring process to staff the project. The budget is $48,511.00. VII. New Business for Discussion and Possible Action 1. Items needed for Community Connections Event—Dr. Garza provided post cards with information on the Community Connections Event to be mailed out. Dr. Garza is organizing media coverage on channels 10, 6 &3 asked for different people to participate. Eddie will keep a list of RSVP. Refershments: Dr. Garza—staff, breakfast tacos—bean &egg, chorizo&egg Rosa/Debbie—Donuts Eddie—Juice and Ice& Ice chest Guy—paper goods Laura—coffee 2-cans Amanda-cream &sugar Issac—tacos—30 came guisada tacos and box of pigs in a blanket Fran—tacos—potato&egg, bacon &egg Robert—bottled water Also discussed was the Annual fee for the data project. The benefit for agencies is they will have updated data and encourage agencies to provide input to improve the project. It was discussed to have the price the same for all agencies. Dr. Garza suggested to tap into some stimulus money to help with keeping the data project updated which is about$37.000.00 annually. The agenda for the community connections event was discussed. Laura will send Dr. Garza Agenda by email. SCANNED ; • Registration begins at 8:30am and event begins at 9:00am to 12pm. The community connections book was discussed and it was suggested that we produce a smaller book to decrease cost. 2. Oral Presentation of Quarterly Report to City Counsel - last one completed was upto March 09. The presentation is planned to be conducted in late Sep 09. Politicians will also attend the community connections meeting and it as suggested to have them start. Amanda suggested that we thank the city council for reinstating funds to the parks and recreation dept. for youth summer and Art programs. 3. Quarterly Report - it was discussed that we update and email it to members for review and input. 4. Update on Juvenile Assessment Center- Eddie presented the commission with organizational charts and presented that the Day JAC case mangers were split 3 stayed with the JAC and three went to the municipal court. VIII. Identify items to be placed on next agenda-Agenda for community connections event, update cost for data collection project and quarterly report. IX. Adjournment-6:28pm meeting adjourned.