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Youth Commission
Minutes
DATE: Tuesday, January 29, 2013
TIME: 7:00 p.m.
LOCATION: Warner Hutton House
13777 Fruitvale Ave.
Saratoga, CA 95070
Call to Order 7:03
Roll Call: Agrawal, Chang (late 7:05), Chien, Finch, Lee, Khare, R. Pandya (absent),
Smith, Sreedhara (absent), Tang, Vijay.
Report on Posting of the Agenda: Pursuant to Government Code Section 54954.2, this
meeting was properly posted on January 22, 2013.
Accept Agenda Items: No additional items may be added pursuant to Government Code
Section 54954.2.
Oral & Written Communication: Any member of the public may address the
Commission about any matter not on the agenda for this meeting for up three minutes.
Commissioners may not comment on the matter, but may choose to place the topic on a
future agenda.
OLD BUSINESS
I. JW House
a. Review
- cleaned grout around tiles
- next time: make dinner at JW House as group
b. Photo Release Form
- email/scan to Adam
II. Teen Friendly Business Award
1. Update
a. Coffee Grinds – Mercedes, SYC
- will call back, most likely no
b. Prolific Oven – Jane, SYC
- most likely no
c. Starbucks (Argonaut Center) – Shefali, SYC
- no because chain company
d. Peet’s Coffee – Anu, SYC
- no because chain company
e. Rose Donuts – Somya, SYC
- no
f. Round Table – Ruchi, SYC
- no
2. Businesses willing to participate:
a. Saratoga Bagels & La Cueva
- suggestions for deal: two for one burrito/drink, for certain period of time
3. Update with Chamber?
- email Chad to figure out which businesses said yes and their voting results and
then create Facebook Group to poll for favorite teen business
- invite Chamber to our next meeting
- open poll up to all Facebook friends
- post rubric with the poll
- try and have all of the results by the next meeting
- at next meeting: decide which business wins/when to give business the
certificate
III. Saratoga Radio (1610 AM)
a. Reschedule meeting with Manini & Redwood Middle School
- get Redwood involved
o Multimedia teacher will involve extra credit assignment
- 2/6, 4:45 PM meeting – at city hall
IV. WOW – Walk One Week 2013
a. Two schools (contact schools)
1.Argonaut
- follow-up email to find out dates for meeting
2.Saratoga
- call to follow-up, give Ms. Ales a week and then contact Foothill
(Jane)
b. Dates
1.School #1: 3/15 – assembly; 3/18 – WOW; 4/5 – prizes,
2.School#2: 4/5 assembly; 4/8 – WOW; 4/22 – prizes
c. Prizes
1.Suggestions/Donations
- electronic publication subscriptions (Nihar)
- Grand Prize: Ipod Shuffle, Donate $10 per commissioner or might be
able to get it for free (Shefali)
- $2 Baskin Robbin Coupons – runner-up prize
- Yogurtland prize (Shefali)
- front of the line lunch passes
- principal for a day
d. YC individual roles
- come up with when dates get closer
- assistance from Chamber and Library Teen Advisory Board
- extend information to Library Teen Advisory Board for next
meeting – ask for help with stickers
NEW BUSINESS
V. Mark Your Calendar:
a. Mustard Faire – Saturday, March 23
- may be able to volunteer with games, etc.
b. JT Council Meeting – Wednesday, May 1st @ 5:00 p.m.
- will start preparing speeches soon
- focus on what the youth commission wants to do in the future
c. Rotary Art Show – 1st Sunday in May (5/5)
- volunteer
- they give money back to commission – raised lots of money in past
VI. Agenda Items for Next Meeting: February 12, 2013
- meet with Chamber about TFBA
- finalize TFBA
- follow-up on WOW schools
VII. Adjournment 7:48
Certificate of Posting of Agenda:
I, Adam Henig, Recreation Supervisor for the City of Saratoga, declare that the foregoing
agenda for the meeting of the Youth Commission of the City of Saratoga was posted on
January 22, 2013 at the office of the City of Saratoga, 13777 Fruitvale Ave., Saratoga,
CA 95070 and was available for public review at that location. The agenda is also
available on the City’s website at www.saratoga.ca.us.