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Youth Commission
MINUTES
DATE: Tuesday September 13, 2011
TIME: 7:00 p.m.
LOCATION: Warner Hutton House
13777 Fruitvale Avenue
Saratoga, CA 95070
Call to Order 7:12 PM
Roll Call: Chang, Chien, Fariba (late), Finch, Khare, Nookala, R. Pandya, Smit h, Sreedhara,
Tang, Zaidi.
Report on Posting of the Agenda: Pursuant to Government Code Section 54954.2, this
meet ing was properly posted on September 8, 2011.
Accept Agenda Items: No addit ional items may be added pursuant to Government Code Section
54954.2.
Oral & Written Communication: Any member of the public may address the Commissio n
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.
I. New Business
a. EVENTS
i. Commissio n Recognit io n Dinner – Thursday, October 6th @ Saratoga
Springs
1. starts at 6:00 PM but arrive at 5:45 PM
2. RSVP by this week
3. bring guests
4. “hoedown” theme
ii. YAC Social – Friday, October, 14th in Mountain View.
1. Meet at the Warner at 5:30 p.m.
a. Who is attending?6 commissio ners attending
b. Overview of the event: listening to speakers, eating a dinner,
breakout groups, share ideas with other commissions
i. WOW – individual jo bs
1. Argonaut & Saratoga Elementary
a. Argonaut: suburban areas, lots of houses already a lot of
walkers?
b. Saratoga: car accidents, needs most help with traffic
c. meet to email both principals (Kia, Kait lin, Sokena) on Thurs,
9/22 at 4:15
d. once approved, find incent ives and rewards
e. distribute tasks to comissio ners
ii. Teen Friendly Business Award – beyo nd downtown
1. awarded to Bell Tower last year
a. suggest ions: give the award an ident it y, expand past
downtown for other high schools but watch out for
Saratoga addresses, rotating between downtown and
outside o f downtown
2. Businesses: Co ffee Grinds (Jane), Yolatea (Anu), Blue Rock Shoot
(Kait lin), Big Basin Café (Kia), Peet’s Coffee (Vikas), Jake’s Pizza (Vikas), Q
Cup (Mercedes), Coach House? (Sokena), Rojoz (Sarah), Prolific Oven (Kia),
Rose’s Donuts (Sarah), Saratoga Bagels (Somya), Rose Market (Kait lin),
Argonaut Starbucks (Ruchi), Florent ine’s (Sierra), Argonaut Togo’s (Ruchi)
think of other ideas?
a. Adam will send out questions and procedure
b. publicit y: school announcements, newspapers, schoolwide
emails, store bulletin boards
iii. Writ ing & Social Media (Chien & Zaidi)
1. recurring column in Saratoga News
a. assign work to commissio ner each event
2. Facebook page (MIA?)
b. one person who updates events in Saratoga (Jane)
c. invite all friends
iv. Working with other commissions (PRC, SJYC, etc.)
1. SJYC (borders with Saratoga)
a. jo intevent?
b. Adam will talk to advisor to find a meet ing time
2. 41 Developmental Assets (Sarah, Somya, Jane, Anu, Sierra; Mercedes
if so meone is a noshow)
a. two important assets
i. communit y values – youth
ii. young people feeling like they have a role in the
communit y or connect ion to adults
b. how to address the issue of teens having a vo ice
i. middle school assembly and visit classes?
1. ask for ideas, suggest ions
2. how to reach out to the students
3. talk about what we’ve done in the past years
4. create a youth commission email?
5. Adam will talk to Redwood principal
b. OTHER
i. ODFL
1. put out boxes during events
ii. 2012 Youth Polit ical Forum (early Fall ’12)
1. Steve Wozniak (cofounder of Apple)
a. cannot get enough people to attend? not enough time?
b. tabling the event and see how the other events turn out
c. added to the next agenda
iii. Report to Cit y Council (Fariba)
II. Old Business
III. Adjournment 9:15 PM
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Minutes taken by Sarah Tang, Secretary