All right, good afternoon, everyone.

I'd like to call this meeting of the Youth Leadership Advisory Council to order at three thirty-two PM.

We'll begin with roll call.

Chair Nguyen.

Here.

Vice Chair King.

Here.

Member Bulware.

Is excused.

Member McNan Mick Analyn.

Here.

Member Sai.

Here.

Member Castro.

Here.

Member Johnson.

Here.

Member Burton.

Is excused.

Member Cohen.

Here.

Member Gurney.

Here.

Member Kim.

Here.

Member Hall.

Is excused.

Member Manales.

Here.

Member Maservy.

Here.

Member Ruiz.

Is excused.

Member Camarillo.

Here.

Member Laster.

Here.

Member McCraney.

Here.

An ex-official member Judy Mitchell.

Here.

Thank you, Chair.

You have a quorum.

Thank you, Clerk.

Moving on to agenda item two.

This is a reminder that today's meeting is being held in compliance with the open meeting law.

With that reminder noted, let's move on to agenda item three, public comment on action items.

Comments during this portion of the agenda must be limited to two matters on the agenda for action if you wish to be heard.

Come forward and give your name to for the record.

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

Is there anyone who wishes to speak?

Okay.

Do I have a motion to approve the minutes?

Chair through you.

This is a CNWC City Clerk Brian Kell for the record.

I like to request an amendment to the minutes for item one to show that members Nguyen and King were seated as chair and vice chair subsequent to item seven.

This is standard language that was missed while processing the minutes.

Noted.

Thank you, clerk.

Do I have a um motion to approve the minutes with the given amendments?

This is member Cohen for the record.

I'll make a motion to approve the amendment.

Um the minutes, excuse me.

Thank you, Member Cohen.

Uh, do I have a second?

Member Camarillo, I second the motion.

Thank you.

All those in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

The motion carries.

With oh, I'm sorry, any opposed.

Okay.

The motion carries.

With that, the minutes from the October 21st, 2025 meeting are approved.

Moving on to agenda item five.

We'll be hearing a report from Dr.

Luann D.

Holmes, City Clerk providing an overview of Robert Roberts rule of order.

Dr.

Holmes, the floor is yours.

And Chair Through you, this is CNRC Clerk Brian Kell for the record again.

Uh Dr.

Lanholm is not able to present on this item today, and we would request this item be held in abeyance to the December 16th, 2025 youth leadership advisory council meeting.

Which would also require a motion.

Do we have a motion to proceed on to the next agenda item?

And for the record again, this would be to a obey this item to the December 16th meeting.

So to move to the next meeting.

Okay.

Do you have a motion to move this agenda item to the next meeting?

Motion.

Member Lasser, for the record, I would like to make a motion to move this item to the next meeting.

Thank you.

Do I have a second?

Member Gurney, I second that.

Thank you.

Uh all those in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

All those in opposition, please.

Aye.

Yeah.

Could you say it yourself for the record, please?

Who said?

Yeah.

For the record, this is Member Gurney.

My microphone wasn't working, so I could not vote in time.

Okay.

I don't know.

Perfect.

Thank you.

All right.

With that, we're gonna move on to agenda item number.

It's number six.

Moving on to agenda item six, we'll discuss possible updates to the youth leadership advisory council bylaws, including establishing subcommittees, leadership positions, and defining the secretary's responsibilities.

I'd like to open the floor for discussion.

Does anyone have a comment to start?

No.

Oh, okay.

Well, to get started, uh, I actually had an idea.

Um, and I'd love to hear what your guys' opinions are on this.

So uh just a couple, sorry, a couple of subcommittees that we could potentially make are events and community um engagement.

So this subcommittee would plan service projects, drives, and community events.

And then another subcommittee could also be outreach and communication, so they would manage social media, flyers, school announcement, marketing.

Does anyone umember McNall for the record?

Sorry, I uh I raised my hand, but you didn't see me.

It's okay.

Um, but I do believe we should have a we should definitely have a community outreach program.

Uh getting teens out there and displaying our names since this is our inaugural year is very important to get more people recruited.

Thank you, Member McNallon.

Um, does anyone else have anything to add?

Member Cohen.

This is Member Cohen for the record.

Uh I just think that the marketing idea, specifically like social media and outreach for uh youth leadership advisory council is gonna be super crucial.

Uh being a little bit more specific, I think we should definitely be targeting you know how we present ourselves, doing a lot of promotion on the important work we do, and I think that'll let us amplify the impact a lot more this year.

Thank you, Member Cohen.

Does anyone else have any comment to add?

No, okay.

Well done.

Seeing no further discussion, we are going to move on to agenda item number seven, the election of a secretary.

We will now hold the election for secretary.

Members who wish to be considered should raise their hands to be recognized.

Uh excuse me, this is Gillian Black Sagerbloom, uh, deputy city attorney.

Um so for item six, that's an action item uh regarding the updates to the bylaws.

So we do need to um have a motion on that.

Oh, got it.

I apologize.

Okay.

All right then.

All those in favor.

Um sorry, would you like to and I'm sorry, just to clarify, I think what we're doing now is possibly approving the bylaws with updates.

So the bylaws were already approved with amendments at the last meeting, but now we're going to add additional updates regarding um establishing subcommittees and um defining the responsibility of secretary.

So I think that would be a motion to approve the bylaws as amended would be um appropriate.

Thank you.

Okay, do we have a motion to approve the bylaws as amended?

Um record manales speaking.

Um I motion the bylaws of electing a secretary.

Thank you.

Do I have a second?

Member McInallan for the record, I second that.

Thank you.

All those in favor um of this amendment, please say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

All those in opposition.

Sorry.

All those in opposition.

Okay.

The motion carries.

And then um just to clarify, are we going to establish the roles of secretary as well right now?

I believe uh this is Jillian Black Sagerbloom, uh, deputy city attorney.

There's a discussion for possible action regarding the election of the secretary um today on item seven for the defining the responsibilities of the secretary.

Um I think we could discuss that as part of agenda item six if you want to, and then we can you know have a motion to reflect that.

Sure.

Does any member have a suggestion on what we could define as a secretary's responsibility?

And if you play for the record, this is uh deputy clerk, senior city clerk brand for the record.

Um, what was attached with the agenda when you um received it when the public received the the the amended bylaws?

There was a blurb in there regarding the secretary as well as regarding the subcommittees.

Um so that's what is already essentially you just approved.

If you're looking for an additional discussion or additional um to be added to the secretary, those responsibilities, then it'd be adding to that.

But you should have seen that um was published to the to the public.

Okay, thank you.

Okay, given that does anyone have a comment to make about um any additions to the responsibilities of the secretary.

Okay.

Seeing no further discussion, we are going to move on to agenda item seven, the election of a secretary.

We will now hold the election for secretary.

Members who wish to be considered should raise their hands to be recognized.

Once recognized, each nominee will have up to 30 seconds to give a brief speech explaining why they would like to serve as secretary.

After all nominees have spoken, we will proceed with your vote.

Let's begin with nominations.

Please raise your hand if you would like to run for secretary.

Okay.

Would anyone else like to run for the position of secretary?

No.

Okay.

So I believe it automatically goes to Madam Chair, Sheena Judy Mitchell for the record.

Um, let me briefly read um the responsibilities for the role of secretary.

The secretary shall be responsible for maintaining accurate and up-to-date electronic records for all YLAC meetings, attendance logs, and official correspondence.

So those are some of the general duties of the secretary that helps nudge anybody's interest.

Thank you.

Thank you, Miss Mitchell.

Um, given that, does would anyone else like to put their um name in the bucket?

No, okay.

So given that, does member okay?

I'm sorry, could you tell me your last name?

Camarillo.

Comre, okay.

Member Camarillo is secretary.

Congratulations.

Apologies.

This is again C Clerk Bryanka for the record.

Because this is item is an action item of session for possible action.

There needs to be a motion to approve the nomination of member Camarillo.

Even though she nominated herself, there's needs to be a motion to approve it.

Even Member Cambo can make the motion, but someone needs to make a motion.

Do I have a motion to approve Member Comarrio as Secretary of the WILAC?

Member Lastner for the record, I motion to approve Member Camero for the Secretary of WyLAC.

Thank you.

Do I have a second?

Member McCrany here.

I second the motion.

Thank you.

The motion carries.

Oh, I'm sorry.

Thank you.

All of those in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Aye.

All those in opposition?

Aye.

Okay.

The motion carries.

We can move on to the next agenda item, Clerk.

With that, Member Camarillo is elected secretary.

Congratulations.

All right, moving on to agenda item eight.

Discussion regarding identifying youth leadership advisory council members for the youth as solutions teen safety work groups.

At our last meeting, we heard a doctor a report from Dr.

Tammy Malik.

Malik.

Malik.

Thank you.

About the National Youth Leadership Council's Youth as Solutions Program.

Today we'll build on that by identifying which council members will be participating in these teen safety work groups.

I know Dr.

Tammy.

Oh.

Hello, ladies and gentlemen.

Dr.

Tammy Malich, the Director of Youth Development and Social Initiatives for the Record.

As mentioned, we discussed at the last meeting the Youth as Solutions grant, and seven individuals raised their hands boldly and offered to take on a leadership role.

I've been working with those young people individually and in small groups to get them all situated and into the youth as solutions system and the um the Google classroom so that they can attend meetings and complete forms, etc.

So at this point, um basically we've identified three work groups.

One is teen youth pedestrian safety.

One is teen youth driving safety, and one is teen youth scooter bicycle electric vehicle safety.

And so the question today is if any of you are interested in one of those three work groups to work with the leaders that are involved in those groups.

Um, I would be interested in hearing so that we can include you in the larger focus.

Again, a reminder this is in response to the horrific number of young people who have been significantly injured or have lost their lives coming to or from school.

This is just inclusive of Monday through Friday before and after school hours, as a result of walking, riding scooters, bicycles, or um electric motorized vehicles or driving.

That doesn't include outside of school hours, and the numbers are already more for the first two and a half months of the school year than they were for the entire school year last year.

And so if any of you are interested in working in a work group under our current leadership over those initiatives, then I would be interested in to recording your name so that we can add you to those work groups.

The three work groups one more time are teen youth pedestrian safety, teen youth driver safety, and teen youth scooter, bicycle, and electric vehicle safety.

And at that this point, I would open it up for any discussion or um looking for anyone who's interested.

Member McCranie here.

I am interested in the um the scooter, bicycle, and electric motor.

Thank you, member McCranie.

Member Maservi speaking, I would be interested in the pedestrian safety.

Thank you, Member Maserve.

Member Lasseter for the record, I'd also be interested in the pedestrian safety group.

Thank you, Member Lasseter.

Member Camero, also pedestrian safety.

Thank you, Member Camarillo.

Member McEnallan for the record.

I'm one of the leaders for the pedestrian safety.

So what we're looking to go towards is finding the root cause.

And me and my other leader, uh we have found that it is mainly phones and children and youth not walking and crosswalks.

And we're trying to figure out how to solve that problem, as well as uh them needing to be more aware when they're crossing, make sure they're looking both ways, etc.

So if you help if you want to join the pedestrian group, uh that would be our research topic.

Member Cohen for the record.

I'm uh one of the I'm the leader for the youth driving safety group.

And I just want to say it's um what we're doing is gonna be something very important to help an issue in our community.

I don't know how many of you guys follow the news, but over the past year especially, there's been such a such a horrible increase in the amount of uh kids who have been involved in these sort of incidents.

So if you guys are gonna get involved, uh just know you're gonna be doing some really important work for the youth of our community.

Thank you, members Mac and Allen and Member Cohen.

Member Wynn for the record, I'd be interested in the pedestrian group.

Thank you.

Thank you, Member Wynne.

Would anyone else be interested in joining one of these groups?

Raise your hand.

Okay.

Thank you.

Okay, so we can move on to the next agenda item.

Okay.

Thank you, Miss Malich, for this report and taking the time to present it.

Um, seeing no further questions, I'm going to move on to agenda item 10.

Nine.

Okay, agenda item nine.

Report by Office of Communication Staff regarding the city's social media policy.

Thank you to our staff for preparing this report and taking the time to present it.

I'll now open the floor for any questions.

I'm sorry.

Thank you to our staff for presenting this report.

You have the floor.

Oh, there we go.

Oh, it's great.

There we are.

Okay.

Hi everyone.

I'm Jennifer Davies.

I'm a strategic communications manager in the Office of Communications for the City of Las Vegas.

Hi everyone.

I'm Nikki Bowers, and I lead our organic content strategy for our social media channels.

And I also am a content creator for the city of Las Vegas.

So we're so excited to join all of you today so we can talk about the city's social media policy.

So we're gonna talk today about what that means for you as quasi city of Las Vegas.

Um affiliated members, sort of like employees, um, kind of the same rules that people like Nikki and I are bound to on our personal social media channels as well.

But it's a great opportunity to talk about how social media can be such a great way to talk to the community about what we're doing, but also can have some challenges as well.

So we want to make sure that you guys are all aware of what that looks like in this job and maybe other jobs that you might have in the future.

So we know that social media is where news breaks, conversation starts, people talk about issues that are important to the community.

You guys have mentioned many of the things that have been in the headlines lately that have gotten the community very passionate about wanting to see change.

And so today isn't necessarily about setting rules for you guys, but just to make you aware of what's in our policy.

We want to make sure that your voices are powerful, respected, and protected.

And it's really about preventing posts that could accidentally get you or the city into a tricky situation.

Um raise your hand if you've ever seen anyone get in trouble for something they posted on social media.

Yeah, I think we all have Nikki and I too.

Um, so we have a social media policy that we'll leave with you guys so you can peruse it.

It is in um a lot of legal language, it's a little hard to understand.

So Nikki and I are gonna break down a few important parts for you.

The most important part of our policy is that you represent you and not the city when you're posting on your personal social media channels.

If you post about your personal life, that's totally fine.

I think this is a good opportunity for all of you to think about what you're comfortable putting out about yourself online.

Some ways that you can approach that are maybe having certain profiles that you're comfortable connecting with um maybe the public or other city leaders on, and maybe some other ones that you use privacy settings to lock down.

Um, for me, myself, I like to use LinkedIn.

I always connect with everybody on LinkedIn, but like my Instagram as an example is more protected and locked down.

I share a lot of photos of my family and my children on there, and so I try to make that a little more locked down in using my privacy settings.

But on whatever channel you want to do content on, it's totally fine for you to post about whatever you want on there related to your personal life or what you're doing in school or what you're doing on this commission.

But if you post about specific city business, city events, city meetings, et cetera, then the rules that we're gonna talk about today may apply to that post because the public sees you as being representatives of the city.

So I think whenever you're posting, you have to stop and ask yourself if someone sees this post, do they think I'm speaking on behalf of the city?

And it can be a great area because with your affiliation with the board and some of the things that you might be advocating for in the community, it can sometimes be hard for us to talk about certain issues without people seeing us as representatives of the city.

So Nikki and I are good examples.

Nikki especially, she's on camera a lot for the city.

So it can be hard sometimes to figure out well, if Nikki says something on her channels, is someone thinking that that's the city saying that, even if it's a Nikki channel, because people are familiar with her in her work with the city.

So sometimes we just have to take a step back before we post.

That's a good rule to have in life in general anyway, and try to really think through if someone else saw this post, who would they think is the originator of the content?

Um, your personal accounts, of course, are yours, um, but post again about city business um can be also considered public record.

So I don't know how much you guys have have dove into that, but in government life, it's we are bound by the Freedom of Information Act.

That means that anything that we do on our city emails and on our city devices can at times be subject to public records requests that the public might have of us, and social media can be included in that, even if it were to be on your personal account if it was about city business or any of your business related to anything that you're doing on this board, if you were texting about that with each other or DMing about that on your social media channels, it could potentially be included in a public record search in the future.

So we just want to remind you that it's very important that you be mindful of what you put in writing.

And this is a good rule for life in general because you never know when later on it could be taken out of context or could be misconstrued by putting things in writing.

So it's just good to be thinking about those things.

So after hearing all of that, you're probably thinking, so what can I do?

What can I do on social media?

Well, there's a lot of things you can do.

One thing I like to try try to always do on social media is keep it positive, right?

Try to go on there, put my best foot forward, give inspirational words and things like that.

But you can also talk about things that's happening around the city, right?

And as far as that, you can talk about events, you can talk about different youth activities that you guys are uh part of, you can share helpful information information.

You could also like use your voice to empower other youth that are like you by doing this.

You can promote something that's happening in school, any community activities that you may be a part of.

Um, you could ask the public, like maybe do kind of like a poll where you're having them comment where you're like, this is going on, what do you think?

But you wanna always make sure that it's safe, and you wanna always make sure, as Jen said, whatever you're doing, you want to make sure that it's in a position of if I post this, are people gonna think it's me or are they gonna think it's the city?

So as far as like trying to keep it positive, trying to encourage people, trying to inspire people, you guys are young, but you are mighty and you have such strong voices and the world is ready to listen.

So using your social media platform to basically also continue to help uplift other people who are like you, other youth that are like you, um, by showing them, hey, just because we're Gen Z or we're Gen Alpha doesn't mean that our voice doesn't matter.

So that's another way in which you can use your social media accounts.

Um, what you don't want to do on your social media accounts, you you want to stay away from political things, you wanna not talk about, especially in this manner, like everyone has people that they like that's a political candidate or in the political atmosphere.

But since you are representing the city, you do want to be careful with that and kind of stay away from that.

You wanna stay away from talking about race, you want to stay away from talking about religions.

These are all things that we call like hot button topics, hot button issues, and just depending on where people stand on certain things, you could like fire people up in a way that's negative or fire them up in a way that's not so negative.

But either way, the safe bet is to just stay away from those topics in general.

You also want to talk about um stay away from talking about things such as like disparaging about disabilities or disparaging about um uh opposite sex or someone who maybe doesn't identify um as a particular whether they're woman or man, they don't identify, they're non-binary.

You just want to be careful with things like that because those are hot button issues, and even though it's a part of our world, it just can get people fired up.

So you just want to be careful with mentioning things like that.

Um, you also too, as much as you may want to quote a rap lyric or you may want to quote one of your favorite pop artist lyrics, if it has a curse word in it, maybe stay away from it, you know.

Um just try to stay away from it in general.

You could also get away around it by like doing asterisks and stuff, but I would say just stay away from it in general.

So you don't want to use profanity, you don't want to um put anything that's explicit sexual content or anything like that.

You want to always lead with your best foot forward, and you want to always represent not just the city um in the best light, but you want to represent yourselves in the best light because this stuff can come back on you.

Like, how many times have you heard of people they put a tweet out years ago, but it came back to haunt them?

Right?

You hear about that often, right?

They posted something or posted a comment, and someone went and found it because there are internet sleuthers out there and they really know how to go and dig, especially if it's someone that they necessarily don't like or they want to take down.

So you just want to be careful with things like that.

You also want to be careful with memes.

How many of us know memes and gifs and like memes and gifs?

Raise your hand.

You like memes, do you guys do memes and gifts?

Yeah.

Okay.

Well, there are so many funny memes out there.

So just be careful before you repost or share a meme or a gif that you understand the clear meaning of what's trying to be conveyed in that meme or gif.

So you want to be careful with those and sharing those.

And you also want to be careful as a representative, not just of the city, but let's say when you go into your professional life as you get older, you want to be careful and not share any personal information or um, I should say not personal information, any information that's private that has to do with whatever company, government entity, school, or whatever you're representing.

So no email screenshots, no text message screenshots, um, anything that was like discussed in a private meeting, you want to be careful not to share that on social media because that can get you in a lot of trouble.

And you just you don't need that.

You got a lot going on, so you don't need to worry about that.

Um, other examples of sharing confidential information is um, like I said, posting a photo of a closed door meeting, um, sharing info about a teen who asked you for help.

Like if someone came to you, one of your peers, and they came to you in confidence to get your advice or to get, you know, ask you some questions.

You don't want to go blab out on social media.

You want to give them the same courtesy that you would want someone to give to you if you're talking to them privately, right?

And then you also um again, I can't stress it more enough.

Don't post any screenshots of anything that's private, even if you think it's something beautiful that you want to share that happened or whatever.

If it was private and it was done in a private situation, don't post it.

Be safe.

And um, oh, this is another one.

So sometimes people will be like, you know, I don't care what I have to do.

If I have to break down the door, I'm gonna get in and get tickets to this concert, right?

You don't want to put something like that, even though we know it's just jest, and you're just being funny and you're you know, just saying that's how much you want these tickets to Taylor Swift or Beyonce or Olivia, whoever it is, whoever you guys like, you know, don't say something like where you're encouraging um violence or you're encouraging things that are illegal.

So you just want to be careful with things like that, too.

Yeah, great points, Nikki.

And the really important thing to remember here is that you not only represent yourselves and the city, but you represent the represent the residents of Las Vegas.

And we would never want our residents to feel like something they saw us post on social media will call into question if we would treat them fairly or consider their thoughts or feelings when we're making decisions on issues.

Um, another big rule is the forever rule, and that means even if you delete it, we know screenshots live forever.

And we have to be very careful that just because we see something and we're like, oh, I shouldn't have posted that, and we delete it, it just doesn't mean that it's always gone.

And so it's really important to use that judgment ahead of time to make sure that you're posting things in good conscience and representing yourself in the best light.

And then, of course, we have to talk about safety and cyber security.

Um it's really important to, of course, be safe online, don't overshare your location.

Be safe about that.

Make sure that you change your passwords and use strong passwords.

I always recommend turning on two-factor authentication for all of your social media channels.

Um, don't share photos with um your city badge would be another really important one.

I don't know if you guys have city badges, but any like protected information that you would have on your badge, make sure to not share that.

Um, any specialty documents that you're given access to as a representative of the board.

Um, any screens in the background if something is happening that isn't for public consumption.

Um, this room is a really good example that anything that you see on these screens or on these screens back here, this is all fine because we're in a public forum.

But if you're behind the meeting space before you come in here, that can be what we would consider more protected information.

So just be mindful of that and make sure that you're not sharing um photos from back there, but also be mindful if you're taking video or anything back there.

Make sure that the people around you know that you're filming so that you represent your colleagues in the best light as well.

And I think uh going along with what Jen said, which were great points, also be careful when it comes to sharing, um, just your own personal stuff, right?

Because I had an incident once and I was already a social media manager, but don't judge me.

But I moved to Nevada and I was so excited to finally be here, and it I moved to Las Vegas, and this was 10 years ago, and I remember I shared uh a photo of my new Las Vegas driver's license.

Now that was 10 years ago, so social media wasn't as crazy 10 years ago as it is now where people were trying to steal your identity and things like that.

But I didn't even think of it.

I was just so excited that I had this new ID and I was like, made it to Las Vegas, and I showed the ID.

And I remember a couple of people DM'd me and was like, you should take your ID down because all your personal information is on there.

And I was just so excited that I didn't even think about it.

Oh my God, everything is on there.

My address is on here, my driver's license number, like all this important stuff that anyone can literally steal from you and take your identity.

So I took it down immediately, but that's just an example of just innocently being happy and excited to share something.

I put it up and that was on there.

So at some point when you guys decide you're gonna go to college, if you decide you're gonna go to college and you get your admission letter or anything like that, and you get excited and you want to share it on social media, just be careful, make sure your name, like the um make sure your address and all that stuff is blacked out if you decide to share it and just be very careful that there's nothing private or important that's on there when sharing it.

Okay, now we're gonna talk about interactive activity.

So we're gonna do a little activity, and it is real or risky, okay?

So you guys are pretty quiet, but I want you to join in on this and have a little fun, okay?

But also really think about it.

So the first question is.

Um, so I'm gonna give, I'm sorry, I'm gonna give you five examples of different types of posts that we you may see on social media, right?

And you tell me whether it's all good or if it's risky, okay?

So the first one is come celebrate with us.

Big youth event next week at City Hall.

Hashtag Vegas Youth.

So how many of you guys think that?

Give me thumbs up if you think it is all good.

All good.

Okay.

How many of you guys think it's risky?

No one.

Oh, you think it's risky?

Timothy.

Why do you think it's risky?

It depends on who you share with the crowd that you, your audience.

So you think it could be maybe some security issues at hand?

Yeah.

Okay, okay.

I can see where you're going with that.

Anyone else?

But everyone else thinks it's all good.

Okay, it is all good.

It's very innocent.

It's just saying, come out, celebrate with us.

What people are gonna do, you can't control that.

I get why Timothy would think that, because what if the wrong person sees that and they decide to come and wreak havoc and cause issues, but you can't control that.

Your post that you put out that says, come celebrate with us, a big youth event next week at City Hall, it's good.

It's just inviting everyone to come and celebrate with you, but you can't control what everyone else did does.

But that was a good thing to point out, Timothy.

Okay, the next one, and instead of thumbs up, can we do a hand raise?

Because I can't see everyone's thumbs, okay?

So the next one is honestly our city doesn't care about youth issues.

We've been in meetings and nothing changes.

What do we think about that?

Is that all good or is that risky?

So everyone who thinks it's all good, raise your hand.

Everyone that thinks it's risky, raise your hand.

Good job.

Good job.

That is definitely risky.

Now, is there anyone who wants to raise their hand and tell me why they think it's risky?

You want to take a stab at it?

Yes.

Go ahead.

Is it what's your name, Lyn?

Grayson.

Go ahead, Grayson.

Member Gurney for the record.

It's risky because it posts political issues that could that's like a soft spot you said for people, especially for younger people.

Um, because it mentions that younger people don't have a voice, and that could harm impact or you know, just it's just a soft spot for a lot of people.

Yeah, yeah.

And it's also that's good, Grayson.

Thank you.

It's also really good.

I mean, it's also risky because not only does it do what some of the things that member Grayson said, but what it also does is it is speaking disparagingly about what you represent, right?

And by you saying that, it also sounds like you are given some insider scoop.

It sounds like it's an insider opinion.

Anyone can take it and run with it, the media can take it and run with it.

It looks like um the person who's saying it is representing the city, and that is how the city feels.

And it also violates the policy about professionalism and accurate info being put out into the public.

And when we talk about the policy, you'll see that once you guys get one of these.

So it violates that.

So that is why that is risky.

Okay, another one.

Um vote yes on question three.

Better schools for all.

What do you guys think about that?

Is that all good?

Is that risky?

Okay, raise your hands if you think it's all good.

Raise your hands if you think it's risky.

Good job.

Good job.

Do you know why it's not good?

I can't see that far.

What's your name?

Member Mac and Alan for the record.

It's not good because it's stating your opinion, and it's very like political because a lot of people won't, some people might not like that.

Some people might not want to vote on that.

So just stating that is like being like, oh, she's for this side, don't listen to her or something like that.

Yes, perfectly said.

It's putting your put your opinion out there, which you're not supposed to do.

You're supposed to be neutral and tell a neutral line.

And then it's also creating advocacy, political advocacy, and you don't want to do that.

You can have these opinions to yourself, but you don't want to put them out there for the public to see.

Oh, yeah.

So a good example of what could be okay to do instead of you know vote yes on question three would be to say, Don't forget today's election day, get out and vote.

That's it.

It's simple, it tells people to go out and exit exercise their citizen, their right as citizens to vote on whatever issues or matters that are important to them, but you're not trying to push them a certain direction.

You're just saying, hey, don't forget it's election day, get out and vote, everyone, and that's it.

So that's like a good example of what you can do.

That's something that's okay.

And then very last one, one more.

Um, this post will say, a little nervous, but excited to speak at City Hall today.

What do we think about that?

Is that all good or is that at risk?

Raise your hands if you think it's all good.

Okay, raise your hands if you think it's at risk.

Okay, good job, guys.

I feel like there was a few unknowns, but that's okay.

It's all good.

And that is just because you're not trying to sway anyone any one way or the other.

It's all good because it doesn't disclose confidential information, it doesn't misrepresent city policy, and it also builds community.

So you're just basically saying, hey, I'm gonna be speaking at City Hall today.

Someone may be like, oh wow, that's so cool.

What are you speaking about?

It just builds community.

And if they decide that they wanted to come down and see you speaking, they could because city council meetings are open to the public.

Yeah, good job, Nikki.

And we also want to point out, too, because of many of the issues that you guys are gonna consider and be involved in, you may be seeing media articles and things like that that you want to see to increase the public's awareness about why things are concerning, um, statistics are trending in a bad direction and things like that.

That's also totally fine to share with a caveat that just be careful in how you approach it to say something maybe like it's really terrible to see another fatality on our roadway.

This is why I was called to serve on a board like this, so that I can help make positive change in our community.

You know, so we wouldn't want to say, oh, this is um blame someone or this is someone's fault, or this is the school's fault.

You just would want to take a positive approach to that to bring awareness to the issue at hand.

And then I also want to point out too, um, in some of the content, you guys may run into other children or maybe other students that you're working with, and we just want to make sure that you with minors, especially, you want to make sure that you get permission, ideally from their parents to use them in any of your photos.

If you don't have someone's permission, make sure you do a back of head photo.

So, like, let's say you guys like go visit a classroom and are like reading to a group of kids for like Nevada Reading Week or something like that, just have someone take a photo of you, but back of heads of the kids.

So that's just erring on the side of caution whenever kids are involved.

Um, and then like I said, too, just making sure that if you're videoing or taking audio of anyone, that you're just like making your colleagues aware and making anyone else aware that you're recording so that no one's caught by surprise.

And then, too, if you guys are ever on any tours and you're filming, maybe in what you might be unsure of is the protected location, you know, like um maybe let's say you're behind the scenes at I don't know, some public building and and you're on a tour, it would be really good form to ask and make sure that you're allowed to capture photo and video while you're on that tour, and that the information that you're getting during that opportunity could be shared with the public.

So it's just always better to err on the side of caution and ask.

Yeah.

So we hope we haven't totally turned you off social media.

It can obviously be a really powerful tool.

And we want to reiterate that if you ever are unsure, ask your advisors, ask them if they think it's a good idea.

They all use social media.

Um, Dr.

Malic is very active on social and she's a good resource as well.

If you guys want to do more trainings in the future to work with our team, please let them know, and we'd be happy to come back and talk about any more specific issues that you have.

But the reality is there can seem like there's a lot of rules, but we also want to protect you when we want to protect the city, and that's why we wanted to come before you today to just talk through some of these issues.

And I would also say trust your gut too when it comes to posting on social media.

If you put something up and you have any moment where you go, should I put this up?

Don't put it up.

That's like your little intuition that's your little inner voice saying, don't do it, right?

So if you at any moment, if you have that, just don't do it.

Or if you have that and you really want to put it, you're like, but this is a really cute TikTok.

I don't think it's bad.

All right, this is a really cool TikTok.

I don't think it's bad.

Trust your advisor, like Jan say.

But your inner, your inner being, your gut is gonna always be quick to be like, uh-uh, don't do it.

So just listen to those alarms.

You it won't lead you wrong.

So thank you for your attention today.

Thank you for being willing to represent citizens of Las Vegas and being an active engaged member in your community.

Does anyone have any questions before us for us before we go?

Yeah, I don't have one question, not one.

No.

Okay.

Well, we're around if you ever have any questions, just make sure you ask.

Yeah, if you can reach out to your advisors and they can get in touch with us.

So thank you so much for your attention today and good luck with everything else.

Good luck.

And we have um social media policies for you.

And a handoff for you too.

We'll leave with you.

And we got some uh some chatkies.

Oh yeah.

Nice little swag bag stuff.

If you want, um, we can just leave it and then you can get whatever back to us.

Does that work?

We don't want to hear it to you.

Thank you both for preparing this very informational report and taking the time to present it.

Um, seeing that no, we have no further questions or comments.

Thank you again to the staff for your presentation.

You will now move on to agenda item 10 discussion regarding the youth leadership advisory council's outreach and marketing strategy.

I'd like to open the floor for ideas and suggestions on how we can effectively reach and engage uh the community.

So does anyone have any suggestions?

Go ahead.

I think it would be crucial if we started some sort of Instagram page or something of that sort, just to display to the community what we are working on and what we've been working on.

Who just uh member Lazar for the record, sorry?

Go ahead.

Member Castro speaking.

I think another really good social media platform we could have is um TikTok.

A lot of teens RH have that in youth in general.

So I feel like it would be pretty interesting to make videos and have people interact with them.

Down there.

Uh also too, I think that we can communicate with a lot of the older generation by being on Facebook and member Camero for the record.

Um just by being on like Facebook and a lot of the older um generational platforms.

Sorry.

Thank you.

Does anyone else have anything um else to add?

Member Mac and Allen for the record.

I think um, I don't know if anyone else has done this before, but for the mayor's word, we haven't.

Partnering up with like our councilwoman or councilman and going out into the public and like trying to get some outreach for that.

That'd be perfect.

Thank you.

And then also just another suggestion to put out there, maybe um all of us as individual individuals would be able to reach out to our respective ward member, kind of get to know them.

Um, let's say make a social media post with them, met with them today, and then do some community outreach with them.

Can I interject?

Um, Madam Chair, Dr.

Tammy Malic, Director of Youth Development and Social Initiatives for the Record.

Um I would discourage you all from reaching out directly to your council offices.

You should work through Miss Sheena or myself, um, and let us connect you guys with the council offices.

We would be happy to do that just because they get so many requests.

Um, and one of our action items on our side is to connect each of you in group small groups with your council people.

Um, but if I could say out loud, when we reach out to you, we're gonna need you guys to be responsive because some of you aren't really super responsive to us when we reach out, myself included when I reach out to you guys.

So we will reach out, we'll give you kind of two little nudges, and then we'll move forward with scheduling those meetings.

We what we don't want to do is schedule a meeting with the three Ward One uh students, um students, and then schedule the meeting with our ward one mayor pro Tem.

And I know his I picked on his because they've already met with him, so they were a safe group.

Um, and then have nobody show up but Miss Sheena and I, and we meet with them on a regular.

So I need you guys to commit to be responsive, and then we will give you notice and we will schedule a time for each group to meet with their elected official, including the mayor's five seats on this uh Y Lac.

Thank you, Dr.

Tammy Malich.

Um, does anyone else have any further comment to add?

Uh member Cohen.

Member Cohen for the record.

I just think for if we're like our social medias, I think we should also do sort of like a targeted specific strategy in terms of what we actually post.

Like, for example, we could have a theme like um bet on youth since Las Vegas is like a gambling city.

I think we can tie that into like connecting with um you know the kids that are our own ages, and also we can tie that into the broader community as a whole.

Because the end goal is to try and amplify our impact.

So I think if we strategically manage how we actually post and what we post, I think we can make a our impact on a larger scale.

Thank you, Member Cohen.

Does anyone else have anything to add?

Okay.

Seeing no further comments, that concludes our discussion on the council's outreach and marketing strategy.

We'll now move on to agenda item 11 where we'll discuss potential community issues that the council can address, such as youth violence, school safety, traffic safety, and academic success.

I'll open the floor for discussion and ideas from council members.

Does anyone have any comment to add?

Dr.

Tammy Malich for the record, I have a question for the group.

Um, back to the social media channels.

Again, we will work with our social media team to set those up and then um share them with all of you.

Um is there any social media outlets that only the aged people use that you guys are not interested in?

I heard TikTok.

You want Instagram?

Yes.

Am I the only one that uses Facebook anymore?

Sheena and I, that's it.

Nobody else.

Okay, okay.

I I respect it.

No Facebook.

How about LinkedIn?

It's more of a professional, but those of you that are getting ready to thinking about college and career fields.

I strongly encourage LinkedIn.

Okay, we love LinkedIn.

That's what I'm hearing.

LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok.

Am I missing anything?

Member McCreeney here.

I think we should also add Snapchat.

Thank you, Member McCraney.

All right.

Sheena and I will work with the social media team to set these up.

We will want um our um adults to be the administrators of the account because you guys will cycle off of this and we won't we we want to be able to add members to it.

Okay.

Thank you.

Thank you, Dr.

Tammy Malch.

Uh, so I guess back to the issues that we could address.

Would anyone like to add or add a comment?

Member McNallan.

Member Macnallan for the record.

Um, I believe human trafficking is a big issue for this city.

Um, the median age in Las Vegas is 13 years old, so that's like right around our demographic.

Um it's a big problem.

I mean, we're trying to get uh I work with the anti-human trafficking charity, I'm the executive director on the side.

But I do believe we're trying to reach out into schools, but it's we need to do more.

So if we have the opportunity to, I say let's jump on that.

Thank you, Member McNallan, for that comment.

Would anyone else like to add an additional comment?

Go ahead.

Member Gurney for the record.

Um so I've heard about a problem with e-bikes um that are that are legally classified as electric motorcycles because of the wattage and stuff.

So I've heard a lot um today I've heard um recommendations about social media.

So I was thinking we um I was thinking we could use um our social media pages once we get those up and running if we get those up and running um to warn against those electric motorcycles because not only are they expensive the but they are also expensive for the fine and other stuff hassles of the parents um if their children get caught with an electric motorcycle without um a driver's license.

So just one thing to help the parents and the kids.

Thank you for that comment.

Would anyone else like to add anything?

Member Sai for the record.

So uh just adding on to Member Gurney's uh comment.

E-bike safety amongst like students is uh one of the main topics that the youth as solutions team group is going to be working on.

So I heard you were interested in that, and we are going to work on that, especially you had brought up how e-bikes are legal legally classified as e-bike mood and motors, and we are trying to prevent um issues and um more fatalities from that.

So I agree.

Thank you for your comment.

Okay, would anyone else like to add an additional comment?

Okay.

Seeing no additional comments.

Oh, sorry, go ahead.

I'm so sorry.

This is member King speaking.

Um I would just add that we should address stuff like education, being in classrooms, people our age that are less likely to participate, participate in things like this, finding ways to make it fun for them to learn and really engage in stuff like this.

Member Maservi speaking, I second that, and I think AI has become a huge thing in our society and it can be used for good, but I think we need to implement some type of rule on that because I feel that it's being overused.

Member Cohen for the record, um, specifically talking about one of the issues I think we should be focusing on.

I know the Youth of Solutions group is specifically targeting um youth driving safety, pedestrian safety, among other things.

But I think if we talk about the general concept of driving and transportation as a whole in the city of Las Vegas, I think that can also be quite valuable.

Um I I think like even since like between the time this meeting started and now there was already another crash that has impacted uh multiple people in the city of Las Vegas.

So uh I I think even if the Youth of Solutions focused uh focus group is specifically targeting youth, I think we should be also focusing on the general concept of transportation because it's a really bad problem here in Las Vegas.

Thank you, Member Cohen.

Does anyone else want to add something?

No, okay.

Seeing no additional comments, we will conclude discussion on community issues and move on to agenda item twelve, discussing leadership opportunities and community engagement events.

For agenda item 12, we'll explore sorry.

Oh, yeah, okay.

For agenda item 12 works, we'll explore potential leadership and community of engagement events like food drives, school supply drives, and tutoring programs.

Let's hear your ideas.

Um, Member Gurney for the record.

Um, so seeing um agenda item 12, I think it would be a good idea if we could partner with the scouts because they already do a lot of stuff like that.

So not only would it get us outreached over there, but the scouts also need community service hours to rank up in their advancement.

So it's kind of like a win-win if we also partner with them.

Plus, scouts are kind scouts um are also a bit influential, I believe.

I'm not sure, but thank you, Member Gur.

Oh, go ahead.

Um, member Manales for the record.

Another idea for an event is making a food drive.

Um, this is kind of like late to do a Thanksgiving one, but also doing a Christmas one as um many members of the community cannot have enough food or resources to um eat on these big events.

Thank you for the comment.

Does anyone else have it?

Okay, go ahead.

Member Cohen for the record.

I think I don't think it really matters what we do in terms of what we decide to do, but I think no matter what we do, we should end up working with the school district in some sort some capacity.

Essentially, because they're sort of the main body when it comes to youth in Clark County, and they have that huge outreach and they already have the resources at their disposal.

And I think we have a lot of important topics to choose from.

But I think whichever one we pick, we need to be working with the right community partners to maximize our impact.

Thank you, Member Cohen.

Just another suggestion, maybe working or collaborating with schools, partnering with them.

Maybe working with specific clubs, perhaps.

And not only does that give us a little more exposure, but also get some community outreach done for any volunteering events.

Thank you.

Does anyone else have?

Go ahead.

Hi, Member McNallen for the record.

I believe that also certain schools have a lot of sports.

Some notable ones.

I can think of Bishop Gorman, Palo, Meadows, etc.

Um, I do believe that other schools, some don't have that many sports, or at least the kids don't have access to have proper training for those sports.

So I believe like a sports equipment drive or something like that partnering with the district would be beneficial for us.

Thank you, Member McNallan.

Does anyone else have something to add?

Member King speaking.

This um I think at any event we do, it should be important to have a even a booth where it's a know your resources and making sure that we have a database of resources for youth in the community to know where to go if they need other things that aren't just at an event.

Thank you, Member King.

Okay, does anyone have?

Okay.

Those are some really great suggestions, guys.

Um we're going to conclude this item and move on to agenda item 13 on topics for future meetings.

Does anyone have any suggestions for um any topics for our future meetings?

Oh, go ahead.

Sorry.

Member McInall for the record.

I uh maybe for a next meeting, we could discuss uh the different committees and try to vote on them.

And uh yeah, probably just that.

Like the chairs or not the chairs, but like the leaders for those committees and updates on that.

Um, member Manolas for the record.

Um, also um, like finalizing events and stuff for to post on social media.

Suggestions.

Oh, go ahead.

Sorry, Member McNalen again.

Um I also believe that we should get an update on the youth of solutions.

Uh the people participating, uh Dr.

Malich has noted them.

Um, but I believe I believe we should there should be another meeting before the next uh time we meet as a group, right?

So we'll uh brief that meeting here.

Member Gurney for the record, I would like to um I would personally like um to try to narrow down what we're gonna do for service projects and kind of figure out how we're going to do them.

Does anyone else have anything to add?

All right.

So seeing that there are no further suggestions, um seeing that there are no future further suggestions.

We're going to move on to agenda item 14, citizens' participation on the agenda.

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

Is there anyone who wishes to speak?

Good afternoon, Sheena Judy Mitchell for the record, Youth Development Social Initiatives, ex officio for the Youth Leadership and Advisory Council.

I want to take this time to um acknowledge each and every one of you, but also to uh give a gentle reminder that this is a leadership council.

So the expectation is that we do things that leaders do, i.e.

we have to have a uh quorum each and every meeting.

So I asked for a deadline for RSVPs so that we can do seating charts, make sure that we have everybody's name tags and all the things that we need so that you guys are setting the best um so that you're you have the tools you need to be successful.

So just a reminder to keep that at the forefront.

I know things come up.

Um, but um everybody should have gone over their bylaws.

The meeting is on the same Tuesday every month, third Tuesday, look at the calendar, count one, two, three.

Um, if you have jobs, I understand that we all want to get our coins.

But if you can ask your employer, hey, the third Thursday, uh Tuesday of each month, if you don't mind, can I have that off because this is the capacity that I'm serving in and I have made a commitment to do so.

You guys did that when you took that oath.

If you would like a letter from the city, we can draft one of those for you as well to provide to your employer so that they know why you're missing Tuesday, or you can um think like a leader and maybe switch that day out for another day.

Um so if anybody has any questions, feel free to ask.

But you will continuously get those um those um reminders to let me know that you are going to attend if you need to be late, um more than 10 or 15 minutes, because we start at 3:30.

Please let me know well in advance.

If you can't get here till about four o'clock, maybe we'll just keep you out as absence so that it's not as disruptive to a meeting that's already 30 minutes underway.

Thank you.

Thank you, Ms.

Mitchell.

Is there anyone else who wishes to speak?

Okay.

Seeing none, we will move on to agenda item 15 adjournment.

That wraps up today's session.

Thank you all so much for your participation today.

This meeting of the Youth Leadership Advisory Council is now adjourned.

Thank you.

Youth leaders, if you will exit and come down here, I have the policy from social.