The Mayor's Youth Council held its final session of the 2025–2026 program on May 6, 2026, with 27 students presenting four group projects to the mayor, city council, and administration. Each group proposed initiatives to enhance the community, followed by questions and supportive feedback from council members. The meeting opened with a motion to approve the agenda, which was seconded and carried without discussion.
It's fantastic. Um but uh the chair will entertain a motion to approve the agenda. So moved. I have a second. Second by Mr. Gray. Uh any discussion, Mr. Creel? No discussion. All right. Anyone else? All in favor? Those opposed. Motion carries. We'll go ahead and open up the agenda. Um my agenda says we we start eating first. Is that where we are, or we're gonna get some opening remarks? Any opening remarks, or we're what do we want to do, Mayor? This is Hart, do you want to give us some uh opening remarks? I could be at the council meeting, but I'm gonna try and just say no. All right. And all I've said is mighty over. I guess we are okay. Well, this is the mayor's youth council. This is the 25 uh 2025, 2026 session of the mayor's youth council. We have 27 students if you remember. So throughout the year, what they did is they learned about city government, they visited various departments, uh learned about history and culture, visited some other places like the museum uh Maritime Seafood Industry Museum, and throughout the sessions, what the kids did is they learned and they came up with some ideas of um projects that maybe the council or the administration might like to implement, or either some ideas that they put together that y'all may like to use, say in the parks, in a rental facility or something like that. So we have four groups. Um again, they worked on all session all the whole program to come up with this group presentation. And what we're gonna do is we're gonna have again four different sessions. We're gonna have one at a time come up. They're all gonna come up and for other students too. Whenever you pick up the microphone, hold the bottom. Don't touch this part so we don't mess it up. So hold the bottom. They're gonna come up here, they're gonna present their project, they're gonna go through the whole presentation, then after the presentation, we'll open it up for questions from the council from the mayor or the CAO. If you have any questions for the students. Okay. All right. All right, let's go ahead and start with group one. Have you all go ahead and come on up? So this one is improving safety and security at public parks. This idea actually came from Bailey Lee. If you want to step forward and tell people why you came up with the idea, and if y'all will kind of come over here so the council can see. Then we're going to I'm starting off whenever you come up, say your name, and then go ahead and start your presentation. We're gonna start it off with Tyler Truth. Hi, my name's Kyla True, and every family deserves a safe place to relax, play, and feel secured. Parks are meant to bring communities together, but safety concerns are changing how people use them. Families are being more conscious, some avoid parks altogether. When a park doesn't feel safe, it starts serving its purpose.