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Mayor's Youth Advisory Council- Wednesday December 3�d, 2003
6:00
Attendance: Stacey Clapp, Christy Marroquin, Alicia Yee, Awnalee Morr, Alex Blinov, Marina
• Yemelyanova, Michelle Elizondo, Xanthy Howard, Sibyle Gorla, Catalina Gorla, Sara Gilmore, Scott
_ __ __ __Hutton,_Chris 5earch, Tristan Stufflebeam,Danielle_Taylor, Amanda_McEldowney, Zach_Marmon, __ . __. _
Mollie Baxter, Rand Kline, Megan Wagner, Abbie Brooks
Items of Business
• Mandy DeCastro—Americas Promise
• Adoption of bylaws
• Nashvitle update
• Profiles
• "Pipe dream park" sign-ups
• Service club sign-ups
• Christmas parade reminder
• D&B Fundraiser update and Inform
• Volunteer opportunities
The Council from Nampa joined us for this December 3�d meeting. The Mayor gave
them a brief history of our council and Tom Dale gave thanks for the invitation. We all
introduced ourselves and became somewhat acquainted with one another.
� The Mayor introduced Mandy DeCastro, an America's Promise representative. She
talked quickly about the grant we have received to help with McCall's council. We are
looking for the interaction between the two groups to start off near the beginning of the
year. Mandy also talked of the background information on America's promise. It was
founded in 1997 in Philadelphia and it was intended to make the youth a national
priority.
We moved on to get our bylaws approved. All voting members raised their hands when
asked to approve the new bylaws and all agreed with the answer being yes. The bylaws
were to be signed by the executive committee in order to be completely approved and
finished.
Debbie went on to talk about the trip to Nashville witch starts on Tuesday December
l Oth. They will be taking v�rith them the book of profiles, the bylaws, our new banner
that was posted at the meeting, and pamphlets.
Next the mayor reminded us of "Pipe dream park," 65 acres of ground which will soon
be made into our very own park. Work for the master plans of this park will start in
,January. The mayor wants input from people who skateboard or ride BMX—for the
overall lavout of the park in those areas. Sign-up sheets were passed around if anyone
. was interested. The mayor also informed us that a contest would be conducted to find
an actual name for the park. A sponsored name drawing will take place in local
elementary and middle schools. This will help us to be more involved with the younger
students of our community, A committee is formed to help conduct the naming of the
park. Sara Aleci � �
, a, Zach, Catalina, Syble; Stacey, and Christy were all on the committee.
The committee was formed with a motion by Chris, the second motion came from
• Xanthy.
-- --- ------- Remind�r of th�Christmas parade went out: They were to meet at 0' Conner Field
House at 4:30 pm. The next reminder was for our service project. We will be meeting
December 18th at the City Hall and then we will go to the Caldwell Care Center. We will
be meeting at 6:45 and we will be at the Care Center from 7-9. The following people will
be attending-Amanda, Xanthy, Megan, Alex, Alecia, Marina, Syble, Catalina, Mollie,
Scott, Michele, Stacey, and Christy.
Off the agenda Mandy mentioned that April was national service day. Hopefully we can
brainstorm some ideas and we plan to get involved with that.
The meeting ended with a few questions by Nampa's council members and then of
course pictures for the profiles. The meting was adjourned by Scott and then seconded
by Rand.
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