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Youth Commission
MINUTES
DATE: Tuesday, October 13, 2009
TIME: 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
LOCATION: Warner Hutton House
13777 Fruitvale Avenue
Saratoga, CA 95070
Call to Order 7:05
Roll Call: Baker, Dev (late), Estes (absent), Fariba, Fatemi, Finch, Goel, Kuan, MorganWitts,
Mu, Nookla, Rao, Rees, Sheikh, L. Tang, S. Tang,Tkalcevic, Wilson (absent). (Tang Roll Call)
Report on Posting of the Agenda: Pursuant to Government Code Section 54954.2, this
meet ing was properly posted on October 5, 2009.
Accept Agenda Items: No addit ional items may be added pursuant to Government Code Section
54954.2.
Approval of September 12 th Minutes. Fariba, Tkalcevic
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. Review from Training
i. Policies
• Always a youth commissio ner whether you are in Saratoga or not
• Model cit izens, good attendance, Brown Act
ii. What is the Youth Commission
iii. Officers – 20092010
b. Commissio n Outreach:
i. Meet with other Saratoga Commissio ns and/or other Youth Commissio ns
(Baker)
• Library, Planning, Parks and Rec, Trails
• Los Gatos Youth Commissio n (Kait lin) – policy based, more
trying to solve problems, go to one of their meet ings
c. Website Update (Sheikh, Rees, Tkalcevic)
• Ramiz is working on a new website design
• will figure out how to make it more user friendly
• simple, clean st yle
• something new each day
• pictures of our events
• calendar communit y calendar
• forum allow viewers to post, comment (ex Saratoga History
Museum)
• Facebook –has been updated with concert
d. Committee Updates
i. Committee Expectations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• Ideas, enthusiasm, passion – keep in mind that these ideas are new,
success of them depends upon the effort and enthusiasm we put
into them
ii. Column/Blog Group (Goel, Nookala, Mu, Fatemi, L. Tang, S. Tang,
Estes)
• Going to the Saratoga News is our goal
• Starting wit h a blog to discuss topics, 3 people each month
saratogateen.wordpress.com
• Library, college, downtown, reviews for events, inside look on the
youth commissio n, school, safe driving, sports, TV
• First topic of the month: Downtown
• Discusses issues that affect teens in Saratoga
• Come fro m different schools discuss about your school and how it
relates to Saratoga as a whole
• Journal of life in Saratoga
• Ideas of how to promote the blog: facebook, video, pictures, high
school newspapers, word of mouth, recreation catalog teen page
iii. Endorse Saratoga (Tkalcevic, Dev, Mu, Kuan)
TShirts
• Have created a rough outline o f a Tshirt design
• Tshirts to wear at events
• Tshirts to sell to people, Tshirt contest open to the public
• Bumper st ickers at Planet Juice
• Flyers with the graphic design wit h blog, website, facebook group
• Motto: “We are there for Ya” J
• Submit (designs, graphic art, slogan, ideas) to Natalie within 2
weeks
Communit y Service
• More invo lved with volunteer work picking up food fro m leftover
restaurants and donating it to a soup kitchen, shelter to get our
name out
• No replies fro m Sacred Heart, Our Daily Bread
• Senior center – serve food
• Volunteer events – go as a group and seeing the people
• Adopt a Highway – clean up trash
• Christ mas tree –for kids who don’t get Christ mas gifts in the
library
• Hunger banquet – larger scale event, estimating 4060 kids, have a
speaker and combine with our lecture
iv. Events
1. Filmfest (Sheikh, Baker, Kuan)
• Had one last year – moderate success
• Would like to have a fantastic success this year
• Networking with friends who are interested in film making
2. Concerts (MorganWitts, Sheikh, Rees, Rao, Fatemi, Fariba, Estes,
Wilson)
• Working with Pinup Productions
• Organized one concert so far, looking for local bands
• Beco me more integrated in the concerts
• Try to find a band fro m Saratoga for the December 11
Concert
• Send out a facebook message asking if there are any bands
in Saratoga interested in playing at the next concert
3. Dances (Rees)
• Invisible Children Dance – Elena
4. Lecture Series (Baker)
• Hunger Banquet with a Hunger themed lecture: choose a
date, figure out logist ics (Natalie)
• Congressio nal Representative from our district to speak
v. In the Park (MorganWitts, Fariba)
• invo lve teenagers in our park and how we can get invo lved with
the Parks and Rec Commissio n
• tree plant ing ceremo ny for communit y service on Earth day/Arbor
day?
• Music fest ival?Outdoor film fest?
vi. Downtown (Goel, Finch)
• Get teens to go to downtown, get a liason to the planning
commissio n?
II. Old Business
a. Nothing
III. Calendar
i. North Campus 23 rd at 3:30 p.m. ribbon cutting
ii. Concert –November 20 th
iii. Concert –December 11 th
iv. YAC Attack –March 6, 2010 if you are interested in helping wit h the
planning, there will be a meet ing next Tuesday at 6:00 in Sunnyvale
1. What would you like served for lunch?
2. What type of Lunchtime entertainment would you like to have?
3. What type of Workshops or Roundtables would you like to attend? Any
workshops or roundtables that you think your Committee/Commission could
host?
4. What types of Debate topics would you like to see? Any topic your
Committee/Commission could host?
5. What type of giveaway would you like to receive? (in the past we have given
away TShirts, Carabineers, Lanyards, etc.)
v. Film Fest – April/May?
vi. Rotary Art Show – 1 st Sunday in May
IV. Adjournment 8:47
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Minutes completed by Lauren Tang, Secretary.