HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes Commission On Children And Youth - 09/21/2009 RECEIVED
COMMISSION ON CHILDREN AND YOUTH
REGULAR MEETING FEB 19 2010
Monday, September 21, 2009, 5:30 p.m.
6th Floor Conference Room CITY SECRETARY'S OFFICE
City Hall, 1201 Leopard St, Corpus Christi, TX
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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.
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Minutes
I. 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, Rita Morales, Robert Mirabal, Rosa Gonzales,
Debbie Espinoza. Members absent: Fran Wilms, Isaac Valencia
III.
IV. Adoption of Minutes: Regular Meeting, August 17, 2009—Minutes approved with correction showing
Rosa and Debbie to bring donuts for Community Connections.
V. Action on Absent Member(s)—August 17, 2009 meeting—Rita Morales (excused) and Lorenzo
Knowles (resigned)
V. Public Comment: No 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—Dr. Rhoades stated that he has hired staff for the
project. He explained that the original YOU data will be used and is being updated and corrected. He explained
that some of the data that was collected in the YOU project needed to be cleaned-up for accuracy. The staff is
busy collecting, correcting and updating information and it is going well. He will have a good presentation ready
in Dec/Jan time frame. Dr. Rhoades informed that they are looking the Community Youth Mapping Shell for this
project and are looking to see if this may be possible. If not, they will design a shell that is similar to Community
Youth Mapping Program. Committee members were satisfied with the progress.
VII. New Business for Discussion and Possible Action
1. Data Elements for Data collection Project—Dr. Rhoades passed out possible data elements for
the Commission to review. The elements were presented and discussed. Commission
requested that all elements presented should be included in the data project. Commission
member inquired if there was information on children living in household with a parent
incarcerated. Dr. Rhoades explained that he has yet to find such information. Dr. Rhoades
explained the Bold Futures project is something we can look at to enhance this project. He
explained that data of Bold Future is similar to Worksource data. Dr. Rhoades explained that
agencies can come-up in different categories. The Commission selected six major categories:
Employment, Education, Health, Recreation, Food and Housing should we use the community
youth mapping format.
2. Update maintenance cost for data collection project—Dr. Rhoades will submit another quote at
a later time depending on how the updates will be executed. The Commission was informed
that Communities in Schools will submit a grant that will help fund this project. We should
know if this grant is awarded in late November. It was decided that a donation of$250.00 per
SCANNED
agency would be required to help maintain this program.
3. Quarterly Report - The commission will review report and was informed that a Quarterly
Report (power point) will be presented to City Council on 9/29/09 at 1:30pm.
4. State Farm Grant - Dr. Garza informed commission about the State Farm Grant. The
Commission approved to pursue this grant as avenue for future funding.
VIII. Identify items to be placed on next agenda: Report on Community Connections, Draft List of
Subscribers,Youth Advisory Council Update, Youth Member for Commission.
IX. Adjournment: Meeting Adjourned 6:37pm