Okay, everyone, we're gonna go ahead and get ready and get started.

Good afternoon, everyone.

Uh welcome to our very first youth leadership advisory council.

So we are um on number item number one, and our first item is called order and roll call.

Member Member Bulware is excused, member McNan McAnilen.

Here member Sai.

Here Member Castro here.

Member Johnson.

Here member Burton.

Here.

Member Nguyen.

Here.

Member Cohen.

Here.

Member Gurney.

Here.

Member Kim.

Here.

Member Hall.

Here.

Member Manalez?

Here.

Member Miserby.

Is excused.

Member King.

Here.

Member Ruiz.

Member Camarillo.

Here.

Member Laster?

Here.

Member McCraney?

Here.

And Member Judy Mitchell.

Here.

Ex-official member.

Thank you.

You have a quorum.

Thanks.

Are we in compliance with our open meeting law?

We are in compliance with open meeting law.

Thank you.

Item number three is public comment.

Comments during this portion of the agenda must be limited to matters on the agenda for action.

If you wish to be heard, come forward and give your name for the record.

The amount of discussion as well as the amount of time any single speaker is allowed may be limited to one minute.

So I will introduce city staff that's in the room since we did roll call or sh.

Dr.

Tammy Malich, who is the director of youth development and social initiatives.

Uh I'm just here to inspire and grow.

That's me, Cory Hall, Member Hall.

And if the members can please state the ward that they are assigned to as well.

Member Lester, Ward Six.

I attend Northeast Korean Technical Academy.

I'm Member McNellan.

I attend Las Vegas Academy of the Arts, and I am the mayor.

The mayor's ward, I don't know.

Yeah.

Um, I'm a member Manolas.

I'm from West, and I'm Ward 4.

I'm Member Gurney.

I'm Ward 2, and I'm homeschooled.

I'm I'm Member Burton.

I'm a part of Ward 1, and I attend homeschool as well.

I'm Member Castro.

I go to Arborview High School and I'm Ward Six.

Hi, Member Sai.

I go to the meadow school and I'm part of the mayor's ward.

I'm Member Eric.

I go to Shadow Ridge High School and I'm part of Ward Six.

I'm Member Cohen.

I go to the Meadow School and I'm Ward 2.

I'm Member Ruiz.

I go to Veterans Tribute High School and I'm Ward 5.

I'm Member Johnson.

I'm part of Ward 1 and I go to Faith Luther in High School.

I'm Member King.

I'm a part of Ward 4, and I go to West Career and Technical Academy.

I'm Member Camarillo.

I go to Northwest Career and Technical Academy and I'm part of Ward 6.

And number one, I go to Clark High School and I'm a member of Ward 2.

I'm Member Gina, and I go to Clark High School, and I'm part of Ward 3.

Thank you very much.

Awesome job.

We are now on item number five, which is a report by Youth Development and Social Initiative Department staff regarding the creation and purpose of the Youth Leadership Advisory Council in Las Vegas Municipal Code 2.70.

Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.

I'm Dr.

Tammy Malich, as mentioned.

I'm the director of youth development and social initiatives, and I get the honor and pleasure of having the staff member that oversees or is the ex-officio for this group.

And this has been a long time coming.

This is something that we have dreamed about and thought about for a long time.

We think it's way more fun and cooler to hang out with young people than it is grown people.

Don't tell the folks at City Hall.

We think it's a great opportunity.

You guys are our future.

We're counting on you guys.

I think Member Hall mentioned that he's here to create change, and we're counting on you guys to do this better than we have done to make some remedies for some of the things that we haven't done as well, or maybe we tried to do well, but we messed up.

And sometimes as adults, we think we're doing the best for kids, and we forget to reach out and say, hey, were we on point here?

Does this make sense?

Does it track with you?

And so this is your opportunity to have your voice.

And so I'm super excited to share with you kind of the how we got to this point and the creation.

Maybe.

Maybe.

Technical difficulties.

One.

Oh, here we go.

So we're going to talk about how this uh came to be an official um superofficial uh meeting and a group of individuals.

So uh we had this idea come forward initially by a council member who's who has termed out with the city, no longer a council member.

Um and so we took it to another a couple of other council members and said, Hey, what do you guys think about this idea of us um establishing a group of young people who will be our youth advisory committee and and can kind of advise us and give us input and guidance on anything that impacts or is related to youth within the city.

And uh at the end of the day, um, three of our councilwomen said we're in.

Um councilwoman Alan Polinski, ward four, councilwoman Bruni from Ward Six, and Councilwoman Diaz from Ward 3 said we really like this idea, we will move this forward.

And so they started the official city process of considering a bill for adoption, which goes through a very lengthy process actually allows for the community to weigh in, allows for our council people to weigh in, um, and then once final becomes a bill.

And so that's kind of what brought us to today.

Um, the city council unanimously no unanimously.

Yes, unanimously approved this ordinance.

Thank you to our city clerk uh for the lifeline.

Unanimously approved this, um, which then added a couple of um chapters into our Las Vegas City Municipal Code, one of which established the youth leadership advisory council.

We referred to it as WILAC for short because uh many of the people on my team work in the education space and we love acronyms, thus WILAC.

Um, and part of that we worked with the city attorney's office and Miss Block Sager Bloom was our um advisor in the city attorney's office to make sure we got this language just right.

Um, and so the idea was that it would consist, or the final is that it will consist only of high school students throughout the city of Las Vegas, and the purpose is to create and foster opportunities for civic engagement and leadership, but more importantly, to engage with our city staff and elected officials from a youth lens or with a youth voice.

Um, also be able to advise and make recommendations to city council about anything related to education, youth development, social programs, and initiatives.

Now, like many of our bodies or commissions or boards, advising our city council doesn't necessarily make it happen, right?

They ultimately have to be the decision makers, um, but they take that into consideration.

And then finally, our members will have the opportunity to prepare a model reserve resolution and consider uh present ideas to our council members to consider for future ordinances.

The idea was that it would initially uh consist of no fewer than nine voting members and no more than 23.

If we are fully appointed council, there will be 23 of you.

Um the members will all be appointed by the mayor and city council, and it will have one non-voting staff member, that is um Miss Sheena Judy Mitchell, and she will be serving in that role.

Um I will also be attending these meetings because my heart is always happier when I can hear the future and connect with our future.

So the mayor nominated has five seats on this council, and she has the ability to nominate up to five members.

Each of our council people can recommend three individuals for this council.

Each person must either be a resident of or attend a school within the city limits.

And the other thing that is key to note here is if you represent a ward, you must live in that ward or attend a school in that ward.

If you are the mayor's designee, you simply have to live in the city or attend a school in the city.

We intentionally wanted to include young people who attend public school, private school, home school, charter school, because we wanted the voice of youth across our community, not just from one segment.

And when we talked about our public schools, we really intentionally were looking for youth from our magnet programs as well as our neighborhood and comprehensive schools.

And then you all have the decision or the ability or authority to also elect other officers that you deem necessary or appropriate.

Officers will serve a length of one year term, and YLAC members will select staggered terms.

So what does that mean?

If you are a junior or a senior, if you are a sorry sorry, if you are a sophomore through a senior, you will serve a two-year term on this committee.

So this being one school year, and then you'll serve another academic year.

If you are in grade 10 or 11, you if you are in grade 10 or 11 and you are still in high school at the completion of your term, you can be reappointed.

If you go on to college throughout the course of your term and you are able to continue to attend, you would be eligible to finish out your two-year term.

If you are a freshman on this committee, your first term will be a four-year term.

The idea behind this was that we wouldn't be replacing the whole committee every two years.

So that's why we proposed a staggered term.

Our intent as we went into this was hoping to find about half of our committee to be ninth grade and the other half to be 10 through 12.

That's not a hard fast rule.

Um that's just kind of one of our goals.

Um group of freshmen go through their four-year term, then everyone will go to a two-year term following that.

The YLAP count YLAC Council will adopt bylaws.

We've started with a draft between my team and the city attorney's office.

You guys ultimately have the final say on that and can make revisions or edits.

You also can set norms or any uh rules that you would like to establish to govern your meetings moving forward.

Um a majority of the appointed members will constitute a forum.

So that's why you guys get that email that says confirm with us that you can attend.

Um, and then during the course of your time on this uh council, you we will meet no less than five times per academic year in person.

You will act in an advisory capacity only, and there's an expectation that the end of the academic year, you will submit an annual report to the city council highlighting your efforts, results, and future plans for the next year.

You cannot have more than two absences unexcused during the school year.

And so if that happens, the WILAC Council has the ability to remove a member, and then we would go back to the mayor or city council and ask them for a new appointee.

Any questions, comments, concerns about that information.

Okay, hearing none.

Thank you.

I will send this out to all of you as well so that you have a copy.

Okay.

Thank you, Dr.

Mallich.

We are now on to item number six.

Item number six is discussion of possible action regarding the creation and adoption of youth leadership advisory council by laws, which will be gone over by Miss Sheena.

Pursuant to Las Vegas Municipal Code 2.70.01 through 2.70.070, the City of Las Vegas Youth Leadership Advisory Council, known as WILAC, is established to strengthen youth engagement and municipal governance and public service.

The council reflects the city's commitment to cultivating informed, responsible and active young citizens who contribute to shaping the policies and initiatives that affect their lives and communities.

Through structured collaboration with city staff and elected officials, YLAC provides a platform for you to develop leadership skills, deep and civic engagement, and serve as an advisory body on issues important to the next generation of Las Vegas.

Within that we have a draft of a set of bylaws, and which I believe you all have a copy of.

So Article 1, name and authority.

The name of this body shall be the Youth Leadership Advisory Council or YLAC.

Established pursuant to the Las Vegas Municipal Code, Chapter 2.70.

Article membership, Section A, in accordance with Chapter 2.70, YLAC shall consist of no fewer than nine voting members and no more than 23 voting members.

Any vacancy must be filled for the remainder of the term.

Section B, members must be high school students, public private charter, or home school, and must be residents of or attend school within the city of Las Vegas.

Section C, YLAC shall also include one non-voting staff member, ex officio designated by the director of youth development and social initiatives or their designee.

In section D, members shall appoint by be appointed by the mayor and city council.

The mayor may appoint up to five persons for appointment.

Each city council member may nominate up to three persons for appointment.

Article Article 4, attendance.

Members are expected to actively participate and attend all scheduled meetings of WILAC.

A member who fails to attend two or more consecutive meetings without good cause may be subject to removal or replacement at the discretion of the mayor and city council.

Attendance shall be recorded in the official meetings of each minute each meeting.

Members who are unable to attend a meeting must notify the chairperson or the designated city liaison in advance to request an excused absence.

Notification should be provided as early as possible, preferably no later than 24 hours prior to the scheduled meeting, unless prevented by an emergency.

Excused absences will be noted in the official record and considered when evaluating member participation.

Article 5, meetings.

Section A, Yelect shall meet no fewer than five times per academic year on the third Tuesday of each month.

We'll skip to section C.

A majority of voting members shall constitute a quorum.

Section D, members shall be conduct conducted in a sorry, meeting shall be conducted in accordance with the Nevada Open Meeting Law and Parliamentary Procedure.

All functions related to YLAC meetings, including including the arrangement of meeting sites, compliance with the open meeting law, publishing of agendas, posting of notices, meeting related mailings, and the keeping and maintaining of meeting minutes and associated records shall be the responsibility of the city clerk's office.

Article 6 officers.

Section A, YLAC shall by majority vote elect from among its voting members a chairperson and vice chairperson at the first board meeting each year.

Section B, officers shall serve one academic term per year, one term per academic year and may be re-elected.

Section C, the chairperson presides over all the meetings.

They set the agendas in consultation with the city liaison and shall perform generally all duties incident to the office and such other duties as may be assigned by the mayor and city council and present WILAC at city functions.

Section D, the vice chairperson assists the chairperson and assumes their duties in their absence.

The remaining members of the council shall fill a vacancy in the office of vice chairperson.

Section E.

In the event the chair or vice chair resigns before the end of their term, the board shall elect a new member to fill the vacancy.

Article 7, advisory role.

The WILAC acts in an advisory capacity only to the city council.

WILLAC shall have no authority to direct city staff, obligate city resources, or establish policy independent of city council approval.

Article 8, reports.

WILLAC shall submit an annual report to the city council detailing its activities and accomplishments, recommendations, and future goals.

Article 9, ex officio liaison, the director of youth development and social initiatives or the director's designee shall serve as ex official to represent the city's interests, provide guidance and support to WILAC, and serve as liaison between WILAC and the City Council.

Section 10, Parliamentary Authority.

The portions of the rules contained in the current edition of Robert's rule of order or a modified parliamentary rules for small boards and committees shall govern the council in all cases to which they are applicable and in which they are not inconsistent with these bylaws and any special rules of order.

WILLAC may adopt.

Article 11 is adoption and amendments.

These bylaws shall be adopted by a majority vote of the entire youth leadership advisory council.

These bylaws may be amended by a majority vote of the entire youth leadership advisory council, subject to review and approval by the city council.

Amendments to the bylaws must be consistent with the Las Vegas chapter, the municipal chapter 2.70 in the city charter.

So vote on it.

Yep.

Okay.

I have a question before we uh put it up for discussion.

I have a question for the city attorney's couple of questions.

Um before they start discussing on Article 3, Section B.

Do we need to add must-be high school students at the time of appointment?

Because I know city council brought that up.

What if they're in the middle of their term and they go to college?

This is Jillian Black Secretary Bloom Deputy City Attorney for the record.

Uh yes, I think that we should add that.

Okay.

And then question two is section B of Article 6 says officers shall serve one academic year term and may be re-elected.

Is a term than the two years.

I believe this is Jillian Block Sager Bloom.

I believe that the idea behind Section B of Article 6 is to have the elected officers like the chairperson, vice chairperson, and any other officers just serve one academic year within the two-year term.

Got it.

And then just a kid, this is not a question for city attorney's office, but something I would propose to the young people, the young adults, to uh consider as they are discussing on the officers section, you're required to um elect a chair and a vice chair.

Um article eight talks about this report, which I went over already, kind of an annual report.

I just throw it out to all of you as you're doing your discussion on this, um, suggesting you may want to consider adding the secretary or or at least be mindful that at the end of this, somebody's gonna have to pull this information together and create this annual report.

So with that, I will turn it over to you all for your discussion.

This is member Cohen for the record.

Um first off, thank you, City staff for helping getting this organized.

Uh, I think this is a great opportunity for us to sort of represent the ideas of youth in our community.

So thank you for helping put this together.

Uh regarding the bylaws, um, I think we're in a good spot with them.

I think all the concerns you brought up are valid.

Um so I think that you know we're in a good spot in terms of actually implementing the bylaws.

So that's my perspective on it.

Um, sorry, council.

I remember when just a couple things.

Um I know we wanted to have a secretary for our council, is that correct?

Right.

So sorry, could we do you think we could maybe define that in Article 6, like just the roles of secretary, perhaps?

And then also given our platform, I feel it would be best if we had maybe just one community outreach, or maybe we can get a little more.

Um depends on what everyone else thinks per academic year, um, to get youth input and just raise awareness of council and what we do.

Uh member Hall.

Uh definitely agree with her over there.

Um, what's your name again?

Count uh sorry, um member Wynn.

Sorry about that.

Definitely agree with Member Gwen.

Um definitely agree with her.

Um I do also believe that we can reach out to community more with the outreach that she also said um and agree with the guy who went before her too.

Member Cohen.

I also agree with member colen.

Uh very relation with that guy, um, member cohen.

Uh applaud you for what you said about the bylaws.

That's very important and very nice.

Thank you, guys.

Member when are you speaking of more community outreach, not necessarily another role for community engagement, correct?

You say just community outreach.

Okay, and you guys can work that through.

Right.

Okay, thank you.

Are there any other questions or comments on the bylaws?

I know that we have a couple of um amendments that will be added.

This is member King.

I just wanted to add as a comment that I agree we should add a secretary to help handle the entire record and keeping track of when we need to finalize everything and make our report.

Yeah.

Um, my name is Member Burton.

I just had a few comments.

I agree with all of our previous members talking about um a secretary.

I do think a secretary would be very beneficial.

Along with that, I would like to propose the idea of maybe a comms director.

Uh, like member when was saying, I think using our platform to connect with youth and other young adults is so important, and I do think a member running all of the social medias and putting together things like that would be very beneficial for us.

I also do have a question on electing chair and vice chair.

Are for that?

Um, it is a majority vote.

Are we going to be introducing ourselves and our our values and whatnot for everyone to know why we would be a good candidate for the chair?

Yes, we'll be doing that agenda item shortly.

Thank you.

Member Mackin Allen for the record.

Um I do have one more like board position to board position suggestion.

Um what if we do a volunteer chair?

Like similar to community outreach, but we um go out and volunteer or like get our name out there and known since this is our kind of inaugural year and trying to get out into the community more.

I also do believe the bylaws, we are in a good spot with that.

Um I do also have a question though.

So it says that like in need of a removal of a member.

Are we like how do I put this?

So in the bylaws, they would there will be like a member put in like the middle of the school year if there is need of a removal.

Is that correct?

Tammy Mollich for the record.

Um, that is this is a fluid committee.

While I ideally we would like all 23 members in place for our first meeting, so we would like that done by August.

Currently, we have three open seats, and so we do we are continuing to seek membership for those three once we bring them on, either all at once or three independently.

We will add them their two-year term to your question, member Mackinellan.

Their two year term will start from that date and go two years forward.

So the bulk of you will be kind of two years or four years starting from the the date you were appointed by the city council, but the balance of the members that come on their two-year uh calendar, if you will, or term will be two years from the date they were appointed.

If a member is removed, moves out of state, resigns their position, then yes, we would fill that seat mid-year if that occurs.

Okay, thank you.

That answers my question.

I was just asking when their appointment would start.

Thank you.

Member Castro, I think it's a very good idea to do um a volunteer opportunity, and then I also like the idea of a communications coordinator because I think it's important for just one person to be focusing on reaching out, you know, social media and all of that that comes with it.

And then I also think having a secretary is a very good idea, just so we have everything for the end of the year.

Uh member when for the record, just oh, I'm sorry.

Was just a general question for staff is WyLAC or for Article 8, it says WyLac is required to do annual reporting.

So does that mean all 23 members will be reporting, or is it just um chair and vice chair?

Sheena Judy Mitchell for the record, it will be you guys collectively as a group and one person would present or the vice chair and chair would present to um our city council.

Are there any other questions as it pertains to the bylaws suggestions?

Um, I'm gonna move that we adopt them with the amendments as uh stated on the record, the uh primary amendment to add the secretary officially in the bylaws and to add the um statement regarding the age or qualifications for entering um being in high school.

Um we will allow you guys to possibly agendize and for a future date the discussion of subcommittees, if you will, within your group when it comes to like a comms director and and those various things with the um not to officially add them into the bylaws per se for those positions and roles.

So um I think we can take a vote can one of you guys make a motion to adopt the bylaws with the changes on the record, member Camarillo.

I make a motion to accept the bylaws with the changes, member when I second the motion, all in favor.

Aye, aye.

Are there any opposed?

Motion passes.

Okay, awesome job.

Awesome job.

Awesome job.

Okay, we are going to now go ahead and move on to our discussion for possible action regarding the election of the chair and vice chair.

So um Miss Sheena has passed out a piece of paper to you.

Two of them, one for chair and one for vice chair.

And so what we're gonna do is we are going to first uh look at doing the chair.

And the uh so first we're gonna get ready to do the chair.

Um, and what we want to do is those who are interested, uh, we'll go ahead and allow you to uh thank you, City Clerk's office just made a uh correction for us.

So you guys are subject to open meeting law, which you're gonna learn more about.

Um you guys cannot vote in secret.

None of this can be done on a single piece of paper that other people can't see.

So instead, we're gonna pivot, right?

You guys are our first group, so I love that you guys are helping us learn this process with you.

Um I would propose this.

If you are interested in serving in the role as chair of this committee, if you will chime in, state your name for the record, express your interest, and tell a couple of short 30 seconds to a minute about why you think you should be considered, then any other individuals, and then once we have all those individuals that have gone on the record saying they're interested, then we'll do a vote.

Sounds good to me.

So what we'll do is go ahead and uh we'll go ahead and start, or you guys can push your button, introduce yourself, and follow Dr.

Malich's instructions.

We'll write down everyone's name that has shown interest, and then we'll come back and do a vote.

So we'll start with the chair if you're interested.

Hi, my name is Member Cohen.

Um pleased to be running to be the chair of the inaugural uh youth leadership advisory council.

So for me, being um able to lead this group of of peers, um, we're being a given the opportunity to make a positive difference in our community, and it's not an opportunity that a lot of other kids get.

We have a unique chance to be able to implement things that we believe are gonna make our community better.

Um, and doing so, we need to make sure that we're doing it in the best way possible to benefit our community.

I think Las Vegas can be a better place uh not only for youth, but because of youth as well.

And I think that's where our role comes in.

So I would be absolutely honored to lead you guys and making that um a future a reality.

Thank you.

Um I would be very grateful for your vote.

Hello, I'm Alea Burton.

I would be honored if you guys would elect me as chair.

Um youth advisory council would be to promote inclusivity, diversity, and mental health matters.

I have previous experience within leadership roles, as in being the president of speech and debate and being vice president of the student council for Spring Valley High School.

I would be honored if you guys would consider me as an option.

I do feel I would do very well leading all of you guys and being a voice for the youth, and it would mean a lot to me.

Thank you.

Um hi everyone, I'm Jolie Wynne, and I'd like to, as you know, I'm running for chair.

Um, I firmly believe that leadership isn't about titles, but rather being able to take action and making a difference.

Um, as a freshman, I started a food distribution program at Clark High School, uh, providing meals to hundreds of students every other week.

Uh since then, I've organized free dental outreaches working with the LVMPD to mentor youth.

Um and I graded, I created a tutoring program for students who needed extra support.

Uh additionally, as vice chair of the Neada Youth Legislature, I've had a little more experience.

I've led discussions, organized meetings, um, and helped present a bill to the state legislature.

So basically just experience that that's experiences that have strengthened my leadership and teamwork skills.

So as chair, I would like to make sure that the youth leadership advisory council isn't just a group that meets once a month, but a team that can actually get things done.

Thank you for your consideration.

Okay, well, we figure out something really quick.

Is there anyone else?

Okay, go ahead.

Member Cash is speaking.

Um, I would love to be the chair because I've had I feel that I love to make a difference in the community.

I love reaching out and helping people.

Ever since I was young, I've housed hosted and held community service projects within the Las Vegas community, with that being a hospice drive for children and even a sock drive for the homeless.

I'm currently the student body vice president at Arborview High School.

So every day I strive to be inclusive, making sure everybody's voices are heard and everybody's opinions are shared.

And I would love to do that on this council on a bigger scale and represent all youth in Las Vegas.

Okay, is there anyone else?

Okay, with that, we'll go ahead and close that portion.

And what question for the city clerk?

Um, can they vote more than they vote for more than one person?

Sure, absolutely.

Okay, and I've taken the names.

If you want me to call them out, sure vote.

Okay.

So Luann, will you kind of explain to them how they're gonna do this?

Absolutely.

So my name is Dr.

Luann Holmes, I'm the city clerk, and I'm gonna be talking to you about the open meeting law.

So we kind of put the cart before the horse on this one.

Um but I want to make sure you really understand your responsibilities too.

There is a difference between the chair and the vice chair and all the other members.

Not in voting, everybody has an equal vote.

But the chair is the one that really controls the meeting.

So the person you choose, you want to make sure they are uh even-tempered and that they can facilitate conversations amongst all types of individuals that want to participate, including the public.

Um, and then as a part of protocol, which we probably should have given you a little short lesson in Robert's rules.

Um, when people address the chair or address the council or address the yeah, council, they address it through the chair, and when you want to speak, you have to be recognized by the chair first.

And that way you're not all fighting for the mics.

The vice chair takes over those responsibilities when the chair is not available, whether that means they need to get up and go to the bathroom or they're not here for a meeting.

So that's the difference.

So, what we're gonna do is I'm going to state a name, and uh our secretary or city clerk uh Brian will ask for a vote, and you'll raise your hand for all those that are voting for that name, and then we will tally up and we'll see if there's one person that has the most votes, they'll get the chair position.

Agreed.

All right.

So the first person I heard, and I'm very sorry, Ethan.

I didn't get your last name.

Cohen.

Colt Colin Cohen.

Conan.

Cohen, C-O-H-E-N.

Oh, Cohen.

Thank you, Ethan.

So the first uh nomination is for Ethan Cohen.

All those in favor of Ethan being the chair, please raise your hand.

Okay, how about we say raise your hand and say aye?

I got two, three, four, four, Brian.

Your next candidate is oh uh Aleya Burton.

All right, so all those in favor of Aleia Burton being your next chair, please raise your hand and say aye.

Three.

So I see three.

Do you see three, Brian?

All righty.

Your next candidate is Julie Wynne.

All those in favor of Julie Wynne uh taking the chair position, please raise your hand and say aye.

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, ten.

All righty.

And the last candidate is Aljandra Castro.

Did I mess that name up?

What is it?

Iana.

Iona, I'm so sorry.

I own the Castro.

All those, I can't read.

Uh Ayana.

All right, Ayana.

I'm sorry, Ayana Castro.

All those in favor of Ayano Castro serving as chair, please raise your hand and say aye.

One, two, three, four.

I see four.

All right.

So, Brian, can you tell us if we have a winner in that race?

Yes, member Nguyen, one with uh 10 votes to be chair.

All right, congratulations.

Okay, we are going to follow the same process.

Um, if Dr.

Luann will help us out for vice chair, and you can run for if you ran for um chair and did not win that position, you can also run for vice chair.

So um we're gonna go through the same process as we did before.

And then um, and then um since you explained what the vice chair role is following the decision on our vice chair and our chair, we're gonna kind of move positions a little bit.

Um and then uh reposition a couple of people based on chair and vice chair, and we'll take a if it's okay with the clerks, we want to take like a two or three minute uh break so that we can get them up to date because after that point um I will be stepping out of this role, and the chair and vice chair will then take over the remainder of the meetings from then forward.

Okay.

So those who want to uh run for vice chair, um, just like before, um it's opened and the floor is open for your name and why you should be vice chair.

Hi, member MacMallen here.

Um I believe I should be vice chair because I have several experiences with the community, such as being the executive director for the Shiro team board, um, a part of the inaugural uh cohort for lead her, the exec uh the executive by the executive chair for volunteens and the lead volunteer for best buddies.

Um I believe I could be a helping hand in the community and um uplift the chair uh member win.

Um I'm more than able to step up when needed, and I believe I could be um of great use to this council.

Thank you.

Member Camarillo.

Uh my name is Chloe Camary.

Uh I'm running for vice chair.

Uh I would love to be your vice chair.

Uh I have had roles in the YNAP board.

Uh I have done about five uh WineApp presentations uh and service projects.

Um I started when I was about seven, and up until the age of 11, I started being or 11 or 12, I started being on the board.

Uh I have had a role of being a uh class representative for my student council in middle school.

Uh I am in the engineering and design program, so I have a lot of quick thinking, uh intuitive thinking.

Um I'm quick with decisions, and I listen to clear directions very easily.

Thank you.

This is member King.

Hi guys, I'm Janaya King, and basically for achievements, accolades.

I am currently serving on the superintendent's board, the advisory council for that.

I work with the Clark County School District Superintendent on educative policies and stuff like the bus tours or things that directly affect all of us here.

I have also taught at my old middle school when it comes to education.

I've donated to teachers.

I've studied Robert's rules of order, and when it comes to advocacy, I am in mock trial.

I represented Nevada for the nationals in mock trial.

We have done that for two years in a row.

And other than all of those accolades, I am an advocate.

Hi, I'm Aleya Burton.

I would like to run as um vice chair.

Um accolades-wise, I'm very familiar with helping out president and chair within my school.

Um I was vice president for mock trial within my school, so I'm very familiar with helping in that area.

I did the exact same for speech and debate and student council.

I'm very empathetic, and I would love to be co-chair if you guys would let me.

Okay, anyone else?

If I don't hear anyone else, I'll go ahead and we have one more.

Okay.

Um hello, this is uh uh member Kim.

Um my name's Gina Kim, and I've actually lived in three different places.

Um I've lived in Las Vegas, Arizona, and Korea, and um I've met multiple different people from different backgrounds, and I've heard all of their stories, and I've realized that some problems are like unseen and unheard, and I want to be the voice that helps to contribute um these problems and spread awareness.

And um for my school, I'm uh um the vice president of Operation Smile at my school.

So I have experience overshadowing the president and I also um I'm also involved in the Southern Nevada Health District Youth Advisory Council, and we help um help uh represent people from under um representative backgrounds and help them get the stuff that they need to be healthy and all.

And I believe that if you b uh vote for me as your vice president, I can be a great help in serving this youth advisory council.

Thank you.

Awesome job.

So I'll go ahead and if uh no one else, I'll go ahead and give it back to Doctor.

All righty.

So it looks like we have, oh, I'm sorry, Dr.

Lewann Holmes for the record.

Looks like we have five candidates.

So we're gonna start off with Kara McIn Allen.

All those in favor of Kara, please raise your hand and say aye.

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.

Brian, ten.

Okay.

Thank you.

Hi, this is member side for the record.

Just a quick question about the number of votes.

Is there a set number of votes we can give for um the vice president chair?

Uh Dr.

Lewann Holmes for the record.

That's a really good question.

You can't raise both hands, so um, you can vote for as many people as you want, but you can only vote once per candidate.

Does that make sense?

Okay.

So your second candidate is Chloe Camarillo.

Camarillo, sorry.

All those in favor of Chloe, please raise your hand and say aye.

One, two, three, four.

Looks like four, Brian.

Okay.

Your third candidate is Janaya King.

Did I get it right?

Yes, Jenai King.

Um, all those in favor of Janaya, please raise your hand and say aye.

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen.

Brian.

Okay, raise your hands one more time.

Raise them high.

One, two, three.

Fourteen.

Fourteen?

Okay.

Excellent.

Your fourth candidate is Aleja Burton.

Did I get it?

Aleah.

Okay, closer than last time.

So all those in favor of Aleyah, please raise your hand and state aye.

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.

One down here.

All right.

And rounding us off for our candidates is Jenna Kim.

All those in favor of Jenna Kim, please raise your hand and say aye.

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.

Eight.

Senior Navy C Clerk Bronca for the record.

Uh, Member King has been elected vice chair.

All right, congratulations.

Okay.

Um, thank you very much.

Um, you guys did an awesome job um selecting your chair and vice chair.

So um I think we'll we'll need to take a short recess.

Um what time is it?

Uh two minute short recess, so we can kind of move people around and have a short uh talk with our chair and our vice chair.

So pick up your nameplate.

And any belonging

You ever know?

So I c I call him Mr.

Clerk.

We're gonna go ahead and move on from recess and move on to agenda number.

Agenda item number eight, report by Dr.

Lewand D.

Holmes, City Clerk, regarding an overview of open meeting law.

Okay, so this is gonna be a test for Jeff.

Sorry, Jeff, because I'm not a good sitter-downer when I present.

So is it okay?

Can everybody hear me if I stand up loud enough?

Excellent.

Without feedback.

So we are gonna talk a little bit about the open meeting law.

Dr.

Tammy told you that you can create your own rules when you uh as you go along that fit your needs, and that's really true.

But this is like the ultimate rule.

You have to follow the Nevada Open Meeting Law.

So I'm gonna cover basically four main areas.

We're gonna talk about what the open meeting law is, we're gonna talk about how does it apply.

We're gonna say what we do from the city's perspective of making it comply, and then we're gonna talk about what you need to do to comply to the open meeting law.

So, this is the open meeting law, and that's the definition that's up in Nevada revised statutes.

It's very wordy and no offense, uh, lawyerees.

Um, you know what I'm saying.

But in simple terms, really, it's conducting business in an open and transparent manner.

Government is for the people by the people, right?

You all heard that in school.

And so when you conduct business, we want to make sure it's transparent to people that are on the board, everybody knows what's going on, it's transparent to the public, it's transparent to city staff to everybody.

Now, when you're looking at the open meeting law, you'll see that statutes say the open meeting law applies to public bodies.

So, what exactly are public bodies?

According to the statutes, it's um all public bodies are um defined by the state of Nevada.

In this case, you are a body that was defined by the city council.

They said we need this youth advisory commission.

We're gonna talk our council, which we're gonna talk a little bit about that.

And so uh you were created, and the open meeting law applies to you, it also applies to a lot of different government bodies, and there are exceptions, and I'm not gonna like really waylay you with them, but believe it or not, you know, sometimes the people that make the rules don't necessarily want to abide by the rules.

The legislature, which is a governing body, doesn't necessarily have to apply by the open meeting law.

Oops, let me go back.

Hmm.

Can you go back?

There we go.

Um, public meetings.

Public meetings.

Um, what a public meeting is is when you have a quorum of your members, and in your case, you right now have 20 members on your board.

You are the largest board that we have here at the city.

When you get the remaining three, you will be far beyond any size board that we have.

And we will also promise that we will accommodate all of you up on the dias.

We're very sorry.

Today we have one of your members who is not less than anybody else, but she has to sit down here because we're a little short on shares.

Um, but uh public meeting is a quorum, and the best way to define uh what the quorum is is you take the number of members, which you have 20, you divide it in half, and then you add one, and that's a quorum.

So in your case, a quorum is 11 members, and that number is really important.

We have to have 11 members here to have a meeting.

If you have nine members here, we can't have a meeting.

If you have 11 members, and we're gonna talk a little bit about it, all gathered in one location, and you start talking about a meeting.

Well, we're gonna tell you what happens then.

But 11 is your quorum, and then what you do is you deliberate and you take action, right?

You talk, you discuss, you decide what direction you're gonna take, you vote, or you may or maybe you don't vote.

But those actions plus the 11 people all together, that's what makes a public meeting.

Um your actions um can be just simple discussions, but then they also can be sort of summarized and justified by a vote.

Now, when does open meeting law apply?

Um, when I said you might have 11 of you together at a football game, let's say things that bring you together don't necessarily constitute a public meeting, right?

But what you need to be careful about is you don't want to talk business about the board when 11 of you are together at a football game, at a party, at the mall, whatever, because that does constitute a quorum.

So you have to be really conscientious of that, right?

You all heard the sailing, we don't talk about fight club when we're in fight club.

Okay, that's kind of like this.

You don't talk about board business unless you're sitting in here in a public meeting.

That's that's really kind of about the transparency, so the public knows what's going on.

There are exceptions to that.

There are attorney client uh privilege.

So if you have to have some sort of conversation with uh your attorney here, um, that is held confidential, and it's not really that we're not really concerned on whether or not this is a quorum.

She may need to, I don't know why, but she may need to brief all of you on something.

That doesn't necessarily have to be done in an open public forum.

Um electronic communication is gonna be probably your biggest Achilles heel because that's how we communicate these days, right?

We email, we Twitter, we tweet, we whatever we do, that's where you need to be really, really careful.

You will get your agendas and all your supporting materials, it'll be sent out and broadcasted to all of you, right?

And I already told you more than 11 is a quorum, but one way communication, like sending information out to you, that's fine.

But if you happen to accidentally hit reply all, and maybe you add on something like, you know, I really don't like agenda item number two, I'm not voting for it.

Oh, okay, now we violate the open meeting law because you created what's called a serial quorum, which means your understanding of how you're gonna vote, like went to all of you, it it could influence all of your votes, right?

So you gotta be really careful with electronic mail and um not necessarily Instagram, um, but any type of electronic communication, you have to be very careful that you don't create a quorum by responding back and forth about things, and then a serial communication, it's also called a walking quorum, and that's exactly what I said.

If let's say there was a group of you and you were all in one location, you were all at a football game, or you were all at the mall, and a few of you got together and you were talking about an item.

You're like, hey, I really like this initiative that vice chair came up with, and I'm pretty sure I'm gonna support it at the next meeting.

And then one of you happens to walk down to the food court, and hey, there's like four more different people from your board over there.

And so you get over there and say, you know, I was just talking to the rest of the group, and we all agree that item two is just you know crazy, and so we're totally supporting that item, and then that per those four, you're starting to create a serial communication.

You see what I'm saying?

It's like playing telephone tag.

So if somebody from that group leaves and go talks to another group and talks about, hey, a lot of people right now are really for item whatever, two or four.

I said, that's where you're creating a serial communication, and that is against the open meaning law.

That is what you can't do.

You already learned too that you can't take a secret vote, right?

We talked about everything has to be open open and transparent.

So even if you have something you need to decide on up here, I'll call in a second, even though you have something to decide on, you have to do it on the mic.

You have to do it where the public can see what you're doing.

You can't take a ballotted vote, you know, you can't be like everybody mark down what you think, and then we'll all pass it in count.

That's not transparent and open.

You go ahead.

Yes, please.

Um, I just had a question.

Is it going against any laws to have like uh a group chat between all of us for like team bonding or planning team exercises or anything to get to know each other more?

No, but I'll tell you that you you're treading on thin water.

So, no, it's not against the law, but you have to be really careful about what you talk about.

It can't be anything having to do with board business.

If you want to talk about what schools you go to, what your interests are, that's great.

But it can't be anything having to do with board business.

And so normally we encourage um boards that ask that very same question.

We say it's better to lean on the side of caution and not do it.

But in your case, I can see that's how your generation communicates.

It's electronic, right?

So just as long as you're aware, you have to be really careful.

Um, you're creating records, which is a whole nother conversation that I'll have our enterprise records officer one day come up and tell you about.

Um, but you have to be really careful in those in those group conversations.

Um I encourage for all of you, I'm just kind of curious.

How many people have actually been on a formal board like this before?

Can you raise your hand?

Oh, not many, not many.

Okay, so maybe at the next meeting, um, I talk a little bit about what Robert's rules are and how they apply, because that's really how you conduct yourself in a meeting.

Um, like we talked about it with the chair and the vice chair, um, but I will tell you this just to kind of start you off.

Whenever you want to speak, you need to get the attention of the chair, and they have to recognize you.

So, how you would do that now is you're just gonna lean forward and kind of do one of these, and she'll see you and her vice chair is helping out, they'll pay attention and they'll say, member so and so.

They won't know your last name right now, I promise you, but they'll learn it.

And once they recognize you, then you can speak on the mic, and that's the way you guys are gonna be able to keep control.

Otherwise, you'll go crazy with trying to figure out whose turns next and and that sort of thing.

But that's part of Robert's rules.

All right, so uh, how do we as a city comply?

Um, you should have all been mailed the agenda, which hopefully you have in front of you.

One of the things that we will promise you from the clerk's office is that for all meetings going forward, at least for the first year, so you can get used to this, we will bring an agenda and make sure that there are plenty of agendas here.

We also have to make them available to the public as well.

So we'll have a stack here.

But you you'll know that on the agenda, it's very regulated on what's on there.

Um, we can't just put anything.

We have to be sure we tell the public when the meeting is, what time is the meeting, where the location is, right?

The location, as you can see, this is a great room.

It's very accessible.

We have to make sure it's accessible to everybody.

And you as a board, that means when we ask for public comment and citizen participation, which you'll see on your agenda, everybody is allowed to also participate in this is local government, right?

And they're allowed to participate.

So you'll see uh the city of Las Vegas is well, we're the largest city actually, uh largest municipality in the state of Nevada, and you'll see you'll get all kinds of people that will actually want to be involved and come to your meetings.

Um, so we have very specific information on our agenda.

Um, we tell people where they can come, there has to be a physical location.

We can't hold an all-virtual meeting because you have to make it fair to the public as well, right?

You all might have easy access to a cell phone, a laptop, a computer, but not necessarily the public.

So one of the choices that the city has consciously made is that we won't necessarily do all of our business electronic because we know there's part of our population that it isn't afforded that.

Um you need to have clear and complete statements on your agendas, which means I should be able to pick up the agenda.

Anybody, anybody should be able to pick up agenda and figure out what you guys are talking about.

So you'll see that um when we write the agenda, it'll be it'll tell you what you're what we're gonna be talking about.

Go ahead.

Uh member Hall, just a quick question.

Well, we were receiving the agendas before the meetings, or like so, like would it be amended a script for us to be able to have to write, or we just come on the board and discuss?

Absolutely.

Um that that's a great question.

So you will be receiving these in email.

And so another part of the open meeting law says that you have to give notice to everybody that you're about to have a board meeting, not just you, but all the people so they can participate.

So the law has a very stringent, and let's see if I actually wrote it in here for three working days.

I might not have.

On the last slide.

Oh, it was on the last one we were on.

Okay, I'm sorry.

Okay, so the law says that we have to post the agenda three full working days before the meeting, and what we make available to you, we have to make available to everybody, and vice versa.

So that means we can't give it to the public and not have already told you, and we can't give it to you and hold it off and not give it to the public.

So our practice has been historically for many years.

I've been here for 17 years, and I know that it started well before I came, that we post our agendas and make it available a good 99% of the time, it's a week before your meeting.

You'll get that information.

So you'll have plenty of time to review it along with the agenda.

If there's any supporting backup, that means papers that need to be handed out, like the bylaws, those will be attached electronically.

And uh we can send out, I think.

Don't we have in some instruction manual we talk about where to get the agendas online?

Is that in our board book?

Okay, so all of you, did you all get a board book?

Uh it's like an onboarding book.

Welcome to being on the board book.

No, oh, I'm so bummed out.

Okay.

Yes.

Thank you.

It was mailed to your house.

Ah, yes, sorry.

Thank you.

Thank you for having it.

So, in there, we talk about how you're gonna get information, like you'll get an email.

Yes, thank you.

That's it.

That's your board book.

And it talks about there's rules in there, talks about um what a quorum is, it talks about our what's on our our agendas, the format it has to follow.

It talks about when we email things out, um, but most importantly, it has a website that I'm sure it's repeated multiple times in there.

Up on our website, when we post the agenda, when we mail it to you and we tell everybody about it, it's on our website, and you can click on it electronically and it'll pull up the agenda and you can print it out.

And we have features in that software where you can actually print out just one item with all of its backup, like let's say the bylaws, maybe the bylaws perhaps they were lengthy there.

27 pages, you'd be able to print out just that agenda item and 27 pages, or you can print out the whole bloody thing if you wanted to and card it in.

Um, so yes, you will have plenty of notice to get the agenda.

We'll make sure it's out there.

Um, and that's part of the open meeting law.

We have a duty to do that.

Um let's see.

So, some additional requirements of the open meeting law.

Um, we already talked about we uh want to be accessible and we accommodate everybody that wants to come in here.

It doesn't matter what we need to do, we have um ADA compliance, we will move chairs around, whatever it takes.

Um, and that includes four board members as well.

Um we there is a the second bullet on there talks about a requirement to consider a person's character.

That won't happen on this board.

That's usually for the big boards like city council or I don't know.

I don't know.

City council, I'll just stick with city council, maybe planning commission, um, but not necessarily for you.

And that's like somebody who's really just lost their mind, and maybe they shouldn't be on the board anymore.

They have to have a public meeting to consider their content.

Remember, we do all business transparently and in the open.

So could it be embarrassing?

Yeah, but but we let everybody know that's how we do business.

Um, meetings are recorded and transcribed.

So you guys had a great idea uh early.

You said we need a secretary of the board.

Anybody want to tell me what that secretary might be doing?

I heard keeping the record, right?

Keeping track of everything you talk about, taking down notes, taking down notes, so you don't have to take down notes because you should come here prepared to interact, just like you said.

I don't expect you to drag in a bunch of papers and take notes.

What else could they do?

Go ahead.

Member Gurney here, um, they could um remind everybody about what the agenda is for so that way it's not up to just one person.

Everybody could know what's going on, so they could help remind people what the agenda is for.

Absolutely.

That's excellent.

That's exactly right.

And they can remind you of what you guys talked about the last meeting or the meeting before the last meeting, or maybe this, the original meeting.

Maybe there was something you talked about, and you thought it's now applicable five meetings down the road, and you can't remember.

So I will tell you every board and commission for the city of Las Vegas, and there are 42 different boards and commissions, um, are supported by the city clerk's office.

And so part of what we do, our job is we have many hats, but one of our hats is being the record keeper of the city, which is what Brian's over here doing.

He's over here.

See the hear that?

He's over here taking minutes for you.

Um, he's taking notes.

Uh, what we take is called summary minutes.

Summary minutes means we're gonna get the general idea of what was said and who said it, and we will tell you exactly how you voted.

If you want the detail though, the other part of the record that we keep is audio.

So, as you can see down here in the little pictures, I try to depict it.

Your marks, your mics are all part of that record.

That's why it's really important that you turn them on and you identify yourself.

Think it this way.

Twenty years down the line, somebody's doing research for a high school paper and they said, What was that YLAC board all about, right?

They have they can't see you.

If you close your eyes, could you hear an audio recording of this meeting and understand what happened?

Yeah, and that's because we make sure before everybody speaks, you identify your name, who you are, right?

That's part of that audio record.

So, according to the open meeting law, the requirement is we have to have both an audio record and a written record.

That's the minutes, and that's what the secretary of the board does.

But if you have other uh responsibilities for a secretary, I say go for it.

I just want you to know though, we will be providing minutes for you.

And they will be up on that same website, and so by the time you get to the next meeting, you'll be approving the minutes of this meeting, but they will be up there for you to refresh and look at and figure out what did we talk about?

What did we agree to?

Um, we already talked about supporting materials.

Let's talk about an emergency meeting.

Um, Dr.

Malic will tell you that uh many city staff think that they have an emergency and that we should cry, uh we should have a meeting, but there truly is a very tight definition of emergency.

And I will tell you we plan really well here at the city, and we will make sure that you never have an emergency when it comes to a meeting.

Um, but emergency meetings are held, they have very different requirements, like maybe we don't post it out to the public seven days ahead.

Um maybe we don't have an agenda, maybe the emergency is um I don't know, a wildfire that's swept through, like that happened in our neighboring states.

And the governing body has to call an emergency meeting to make some tough decisions.

That's when we have emergency meetings, not necessarily because like, oh, you have something really important, you forgot to tell them two months ago when your last meeting was.

Um, I do want to say one more thing about electronic record.

So down there in the bottom, that picture says document management.

So I told you the secretary um of the board is Brian, and we actually have five deputies that work in our office, so you'll get to meet all of them.

Um Gabby was here earlier, she was the one welcoming you guys in.

Um, but a lot of our records, the majority of our records we're trying to push to an electronic environment.

So, do we have paper records that people can come and and and thumb through?

Yes, but we've also done a lot of work, thanks to our enterprise records officer and that division on making sure our records are electronic, so they're easily accessible by everybody, right?

But if somebody didn't have the electronics to do it and they called us up and they said, Hey, I really need to know what happened at that meeting, we could get it to them.

We can get it to them in paper, we can whatever it takes.

Now, what's a public comment?

Um, the Nevada Open Meeting Law says that on your agenda, you have to have two dedicated periods for the public to be able to speak.

And you'll see if you're looking at your agenda, we put the two periods on the agenda.

The first one is called public comment, and there's sort of a criteria around that that period.

Those items really should pertain, those comments should pertain to an item that's on the agenda, it should be specific, right?

But at the end of the agenda, we have citizen participation, and that's just like an open forum.

We welcome anybody to come and talk and say whatever they want.

There uh is no bleep key, so we hope that everybody uses you know good language.

Um, but they're able to come down, they're able to talk on anything.

And if you ever get to come to a council meeting, which I always encourage you guys to come down and see our council meetings, um, we also uh give the authority to the chair who in the meeting in the case of the city council is the mayor to control that.

So there are people that if you gave them, you know, what is it um an inch, they would take a mile, they would stand up there and talk forever.

So we do have you know uh a short time frame.

I don't think you're necessarily gonna have this problem on this board, so you're in pretty good shape.

Um the restrictions, you can put restrictions on public comment and the things that I just told you the first public comment we can say.

You need to be talking about something that's on the agenda.

Um, and that's just so that helps us facilitate the meeting and make sure it continues on at a normal pace.

Um, we can also put a time um uh it can't be people can't just come down and talk anytime they want, and you're all fortunate that you're in high school because I don't think anybody's gonna come hunt you down on your in your school to talk to you about something.

They'll come here to talk to you.

Um, what the open meeting law does not allow it if somebody needs to be removed from a meeting because they have been disruptive, we can do that.

And we do have security in this building.

Um, one of the controls that your secretary can also do is if we had it to alert, if we had it to alert, if we had to alert, they would be able to get um our marshals up here if you had any problem, but we don't really foresee that happening.

So, how do you as a board?

How do you guys comply?

Um, like I said, the public must be able to hear, observe at the same level as the council as the council, and so that means that uh we don't want people talking secretly, we don't want you to turn off your mic and then you know gather in a corner and have a conversation.

It really needs to be very open and transparent.

Um, you have to allow the public to participate on this board, that may be all gravy.

Um, sometimes in city council, there are times where maybe I personally would like this to not allow everybody, but you do that it this is a public uh public board.

Um, all your actions have to occur in a meeting and it has to be accessible to the public.

That's why we didn't do that.

Voting on the paper earlier, no secret voting.

Um, and what we ask is that you show up and participate.

That's really important.

It some of you really hit the nail on the head.

It is a big honor for the council and the mayor to appoint you to this position.

It's an important board, it's the first of its kind for the city of Las Vegas.

And so one of the things that I I thought was really kind of cool about it was when this got approved by the council, that's what the the tagline in the newspaper said.

It said Las Vegas City Council establishes youth leadership advisory council to empower local youth.

And I was super jazzed to hear you guys talked about that.

When you were introducing yourself, there were so many of you that said, I want to make change, I want to empower, I want to advocate.

That's what we're asking you to do.

That's really what your job is.

So, are there any questions for me?

I smooshed a lot of stuff together.

No, I have a question.

Uh, Dr.

Tammy Malich for the record.

Uh Dr.

Holmes, how um, under what conditions is the uh staff member assigned to the group allowed to communicate with them in a group text?

Sure.

So uh Dr.

Luann Holmes for the record.

Uh that's a really good question.

So I told you you'd be receiving information from the city.

Your your staff um ex aficionado, is that what the title is?

Your staff ex official will be sending you information and they can communicate to you.

And what you'll find, you might be uh on an email that it looks like it's just you and him or her.

Is it him?

Is it Harry?

It's her.

It might be just you and her, and you think, oh, she's only talking to me.

No, we we're really careful about not creating that serial communication, right?

So she might blind copy everybody else, or she might put it in a group so that you can't turn around and blind copy, or you can't reply to all.

But you will get a lot of information from it, and that's okay.

That's absolutely okay.

And it's okay for you to communicate back to that person.

What we're asking is that you don't deliberate or talk about like you're deliberating towards an action, a board item amongst 11 of you.

Because remember, that's the quorum for now.

Um after the next election, you're gonna have possibly 23 in the board.

Did I answer your question?

Right, anybody else?

No, I promise you, your next meeting, we will have all the chairs you need up there.

And of course, if you need anything in supporting this meeting, you're also welcome to call the city clerk's office.

We're in those handy dandy books y'all got.

Thank you, Dr.

Leon, for that very informational report.

At this time, we're gonna move on to agenda item number nine, report by Dr.

Tammy Maleach.

For youth development and social initiatives director regarding the National Youth Leadership Council's Youth as Solutions program.

Thank you, Chair.

Dr.

Tammy Malich for the record.

Um, so a couple of our council members and at least one committee member shared an opportunity with me.

And so I wanted to share with all of you.

Um date, little background information.

Two date, um, no, let me go back.

In for the 2024-25 school year, across the area that encompasses Clark County and the Clark County School District.

So that does include Henderson, Mesquite, Moapa Valley, um, not just city of Las Vegas, there were a hundred and twenty youth injuries or fatalities combined for the entire school year around either pedestrian incidents, bicycle or scooter um incidents or driving incidents that involved youth just going to and from school.

That doesn't count weekend or evenings or summer.

So a hundred and twenty.

Think about that for a school year.

Tragic, terrible.

This school year, you guys uh school started for most of you on August 10th, 11th, somewhere around there.

Um, so by October 9th, two months into the school year, exactly, there were a hundred and nine youth serious injuries or fatalities within that same within those same categories pedestrian driving, teen drivers, um, or bicycle, scooter, e-bike, et cetera.

So uh the in the the item that I put on the agenda offers a youth as solutions grant opportunity.

It's very little funding.

Um, it's really more about youth taking a leadership role in their community to go through um kind of a SWOT analysis, so investigating, um, looking to determine if there's a problem, doing some inquiry, looking to do a root cause analysis, and then coming up with a youth action, youth-led um outreach or or final to in an attempt to help change or remedy um many of you, as Dr.

Holmes mentioned, addressed wanting to create change.

So uh I did receive the award.

It is not an adult project, although there has to be an adult advisor.

So I submitted it.

Um, but minimally, in order to participate in this, we would need three additional youth in addition to the one youth member that already re uh submitted before this youth council became uh formal.

Um I would need three additional youth that would commit to being youth leaders and attending um meetings and uh setting goals, and then as many of you that wanted to participate in the actual plan could, but four of you would three of you and one additional would be required to attend these monthly meetings.

Um the goal of this initiative is to raise community awareness about youth and teen safety to include teen driver safety, youth teen pedestrian safety, and bicycle scooter, manual or electric safety.

We've experienced several critical accidents involving youth in our community, resulting in significant injuries and the loss of lives.

We will work with the city of Las Vegas, Department of Public Safety, Local Law Enforcement, the Metropolitan Police Department is on board, and the Department of Public Works and the Clark County School District with the intention of creating PSAs, printed materials, social media, and host community meetings to increase awareness among our youth and community members at large to eliminate risk.

So if any of you are interested in getting involved in this for the youth leadership part of which we would need three, I would need three of you.

Um then more to come about perhaps this um being considered as a subcommittee item, um, if it's something that you guys are interested in addressing as a collective.

Um I know your vice chair um serves on the superintendent's youth um committee.

It is a pressing issue for the Clark County School District right now, but it doesn't just impact the Clark County School District.

It is impacting youth in our committee in our community going to and from school.

Um and it is tragic.

In my former life, I was a middle school principal and then a high school principal, and as a middle school principal, I lost one of my students to an incident where he jumped a wall and ran across the street, was hit by a car.

Um, and so as a mom and grandma as well, it is something that is heartbreaking to me.

So if any of you are interested in exploring this, um please weigh in and let me know, and then we will not have a quorum because I will be reaching out to three of you to talk further about how we might engage in this work, and then if those three are interested, they'll bring it back to your chair or vice chair and get it agendized to look at potentially subcommittees or how more of you might get involved in this.

Thank you.

Thank you, Dr.

Tammy Malich Malech.

Millich.

Okay, Malich, I'm so sorry.

We're gonna move on to agenda item number 10 discussion regarding topics for future agenda items.

Chair, I I think you had a couple of people down there that had some comments.

Oh, I'm so sorry.

I didn't even realize for this window.

Um member Mac and Allen for the record.

I would love to uh serve on that one of my uh dear friends, unfortunately, um had an incident like that um at her high school.

So um I would love to step up and do that.

Thank you for the opportunity that you're giving us.

Thank you.

Uh member Hall.

Uh just a couple questions about the um opportunity that you're bringing out for us.

Um so are we making a solution to it or are we just drawing attention to the problem?

You are ultimately uh Dr.

Tammy Malich for the record.

Um, member Hall, you are ultimately coming up with a solution of which that could be raising awareness, but there could be additional, you guys could come up with it additional ways to um maybe lobby the legislature in a special session to create stricter laws around those that um are involved in in accidents involving youth in school zones, or there could be a variety of ways that um that you might be taking this on, um, those that are involved that are interested.

Thank you.

Um I'll also be wanting to join to be a leader to help that initiative.

Thank you.

Um, um member Burton for record.

I would also like a member um a leadership position for that as well to solve for a resolution.

How would we go about reaching out to achieve that?

So I recorded member hall, member Mackinellen, and member Burk Burton, um, and then member Bulware is the one that actually co-submitted this with me.

So I will reach out to the four of you with additional information, and then um you guys can one or all of you can bring it back to the larger group to see how the larger group could involve, but the meetings online um with the national organization are only open to four members, and then the intent is that the four would bring it back to any larger group to actually then um kind of do the investigation, figure out what are some of the problems and how to solve them, and and then actually set forth the action.

And then the intent is that the four would bring it back to any larger group to actually then kind of do the investigation, figure out what are some of the problems and how to solve them, and then actually set forth the action.

So thank you.

Yeah, Member Cohen for the record.

Dr.

Malich, I just um I came in towards the end, but I pieced together enough to uh gain sort of an interest in what you were talking about.

Um so I'd definitely love to be involved with that as well.

Thank you.

Oh, while we're done there, go ahead.

Member's eye for the record.

Sorry, I didn't realize um there were only four spots, but I would also love to join um member MacNallan and Member Burton in this um committee about uh creating the solution for um this issue that you brought up.

Uh Ms.

Malik.

And um I did hear about this from Ward Two of Breakfast, and I I heard about how um a lot of youth have been involved in these incidents, and I would love to be part of this committee that will make a difference in um solving these issues.

Thank you.

Um, for the record, member Manolo speaking.

I would also like to be a part of this um to be a part of this organization.

Member Wynne for the record, a question for Dr.

Malich.

I see we have a lot of interest for this program.

Um are we going to how are we going to select the nominees for this program?

So thank you for that.

Um, Member Wynne.

Uh, but before I answer your question, the last member that said she wanted to be involved.

I'm sorry, I didn't get your name.

Um, Anara Menola's.

Got it.

Thank you.

Um, so I have to designate four youth members who will attend the online meetings.

Um, but I am able to designate some alternates.

So at this point, I have members Hall, Mackinella and Burton, Bulware, Cohen Sai, and Manela's.

That's seven.

So I don't want to approach a quorum on this, because we just heard that could be very bad, and Dr.

Holmes will not be happy with us.

Um, so I'm gonna close additional interest in the leadership portion of this for now.

I will take all seven of those names and move forward and reach out to those seven individuals, and then again, all of you will have the opportunity to get involved as far as the grassroots and action-oriented um part of this.

And I really think it's a great idea for um for even um your vice chair can then communicate.

Although this is not required of her, it's something that she could then bring back to her superintendent's youth advisory council, and as well, any of you that are on other councils could bring that back to those councils or boards as to kind of what we're we're trying to do and the plan.

Um, and and if I could take the liberty at this point to also mention the chair and vice chair roles, um, very important to leading this board and kind of running the meetings for this board.

But I would also share with those of you very impressed with your self-nominations for chair and vice chair.

All of you did such an outstanding job.

I sit here feeling like the world is gonna be such a better place when you guys are running it.

Um, I am really feeling inspired by all of you.

And so I would just offer to all of you that those of you um who represent the mayor's office as well as all of you that represent a ward.

Um, I will be working with our ward offices to see how we can get the small groups of you engaged back with your ward and or the mayor's office to apprise them, update them.

So there are going to be other opportunities for all of you to take on a kind of a leadership role in this, um, in addition to the roles of chair and vice chair.

So I just want to make sure that you all know there are going to be other opportunities for you to engage with your elected officials so that they know um what great recommendations they made and how phenomenal.

Um, and I would like to point out that Ward 4 actually has a staff member in the house.

Um, Miss Brenda is here representing Ward 4, and so I really appreciate that she was able to join to see um her staff members.

I know Ward One met with his leadership advisory members last week or the week before.

I stopped in to chat with them.

So we will be doing those kinds of activities as well.

So sorry to add that additional information, but I just wanted to give you all accolades and tell you how impressed I already am with you.

It's meeting one.

You guys have set the bar very high for meeting one with an inaugural group.

Thank you, Dr.

Malic, sorry, for giving us um an amazing opportunity.

We're gonna go ahead and move on to agenda item number 10, discussion discussion regarding topics for future agenda items.

Comments made during this portion of the agenda by individual members shall refer solely to proposals for future agenda items, and any discussion shall be limited to whether or not such proposed items are within the purview of the advisory council and and or whether such proposed items shall be placed on a future agenda.

No discussion regarding the substance of any such proposed topics shall occur, and no action shall be taken.

Go ahead.

Thank you.

Oh, member Hall down there.

Member Hall for the record.

Um I feel like that we should discuss um or touch on a little bit is problems in our ward or problems as a whole in our community that we can change.

Um, like Dr.

Dr.

Malutz pointed out, um the problem with basically kids getting transportation from school.

I feel like violence and all the other things, we should be able to tap on a little bit more during our next meeting.

Thank you.

Member Cullen.

Member Cohen for the record.

Uh I think something beneficial for next meeting would be talking about how we can kind of market ourselves and uh Wilak.

I think we have such a, you know, we're here on this platform to share the voices of the youth in our community.

So I think we need to figure out sort of a marketing plan of how we can amplify our voices as well, whether that be through social media or email newsletters or something in that sort, but I think we could definitely um sort of amplify the message that Wildac seeks to bring to the community and use that to make you like an even bigger difference.

Member Cash is speaking.

I also agree with that.

I was wondering if we could like next meeting talk about the social media platforms that we can have and what we want to have as well.

Um, member Burton speaking for the record.

Um, I do have a few comments.

I agree that we definitely should talk about um subpositions and along with that um how we can present ourselves um future speaking, maybe like food drives, um, just things we can do within our community that definitely target youth.

So you know how like every year they do like um like school supplies drives, all of those.

If we can do something for the community, especially youth to get together, I think it would be a good idea for marketing ourselves, and then having other sub people to run it and have leadership positions in that member Sai, I believe you had something to add.

Oh no?

Okay, sorry.

Did anyone else have an you've done it?

For the record, member Manola speaking.

Um, I feel like next meeting we should discuss and finalize positions and then vote on those positions.

Does any other member have anything to add?

No, okay.

Okay, then Madam Chair.

Yes.

Um, Dr.

Malich for the record.

I have a question for the clerk's office.

Um, do they need, can they agenda something as vague as discuss and appoint or elect additional officers as necessary, or would they have to identify those exact positions?

Senior DC Like Brian Cal for the record, it has to be as uh definitely not vague.

You want it to be as clear as possible.

It may make more sense to not necessarily establish the positions but discuss, but instead to discuss which position which positions you want to add potentially to your to your bylaws, and then at a future meeting, actually elect or create those positions and then follow by electing those positions.

So it's as clear as possible what we're doing uh for the public.

Thank you.

So um, Dr.

Malit, for the record.

So as items are added to an agenda, there are some that are discussion, some that are report, and some that are action.

And so you could have a discussion as he mentioned to kind of define or or um detail out what additional positions and then at another future meeting you would have an action item once you made that decision.

So just kind of keeping that in mind as you move forward.

Thank you, Dr.

Malic.

Um I had a question.

So we do want a secretary, right?

So are we do we definitively know if we're going to hold an election for a secretary's next meeting?

If I could be clear for the record, again, uh senior deputy Brian Carroll.

Um, this agenda item is to discuss what should be on the next meeting.

We we can't get have too much back and forth about a particular item because we have not agendized that we're gonna be discussing a secretary for the public.

So now that we're going deeper and deeper into that conversation, um, it wasn't agendized as such, and we really shouldn't in order to stay uh compliant with open meeting law.

Thank you, Mr.

Clerk.

So does anyone else have anything else to add before we move on?

Okay, seeing none, we're gonna go ahead and move on to agenda item number 11, citizens participation.

Public comment during this portion of the agenda must be limited to matters within the jurisdiction of the advisory council.

No subject may be acted upon by the advisory council unless the subject is on the agenda and is scheduled for action.

If you wish to be heard, come forward and give your name for the record.

The amount of discussion on any single subject as well as the amount of time any single speaker is allowed, may be limited.

Oh, do it the back too.

None.

Okay.

Perfect.

Seeing none, I think we can move on to agenda item number 12, adjournment.

Uh facilities are provided throughout City Hall for the convenience of persons with disabilities.

Reasonable efforts will be made.

Oh no, we don't need to say all that.

Okay, perfect.

So we're done.

Thank you guys.