Okay.

At three thirty-four, the youth leadership advisory council is ready to begin.

Uh first order is going to be called to order and roll call.

Chair Nguyen is excused.

Vice Chair King.

Here.

Secretary Camarillo is excused.

Member Bulware.

Is excused.

Member McInallan.

Present.

Member Sai.

Is excused Member Castro.

Is excused Member Johnson?

Is excused Member Bennett?

Here.

Member Burton.

Here.

Member Cohen.

Present.

Member Gurney.

Here.

Member Kim.

Here.

Member Hall.

Is excused.

Member Manales.

Here.

Member Masservi.

Here.

Member Ruiz.

Here.

Member Laster.

Is excused.

Member McCrany?

Here.

Member Delgado.

Here.

And Member Judy Mitchell.

Here.

Thank you, Vice Chair.

You have a quorum.

Just read off the agenda.

We'll go from there.

Okay.

Agenda item two compliance with open meeting law.

Moving on to agenda.

And just heads up.

I share we are in compliance with that open meeting law.

Moving on to agenda item number three.

Public comment.

Comment 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 speakers will have may be limited.

Seeing none, moving on to agenda item number four for possible action to approve the final minutes by reference of the regular meeting of February 17th, 2026.

Aye.

Any opposed the motion carries.

The motion carries.

Sorry, woman.

All right.

Now moving on to agenda item number five, discussion for possible action to select a youth leadership advisory council social media lead.

If anybody wanted to start the discussion.

Do we have to state why we would be a good fit for the leader for the social media team, or is it just whoever wants it?

Shana Judy Mitch Mitchell for the record.

Similar to that, it would there would need to be a vote for that lead.

But I would like to make the suggestion that it um is more of an officer role within the council.

So instead of just like social media lead, maybe it's the historian, and then we can talk about some structuring later on down the road as far as the subcommittees that we um that we have voted on having so far.

So that would be my suggestion if um Madam Co-Chair and the rest of the board approves or council approves.

Sorry about that, everyone.

Okay.

Let's move on to our next agenda item discussion for possible action to select a YLAC council social media lead.

So during our last meeting, we officially created the social media subcommittee, which is really exciting for our outreach.

Uh but before we move into picking anyone, I just want to check check in with everyone.

Do you guys still feel like we need a social media lead right now?

Or are we okay with keeping things collaborative within the subcommittee?

Member Nallen?

Member Mackinal for the record.

I'm perfectly fine with just doing a subcommittee.

I feel like having a lead is a bit extreme, especially since there was so much interest shown at last meeting.

I feel like a committee would just suffice.

Okay.

Does anyone else have any other anything?

No?

Okay.

I think we'll proceed with just continuing with uh thinking keeping things collaborative within the subcommittee.

Okay, we'll move on to agenda item six.

At our last meeting, we spent a lot of time discussing and setting up our subcommittees.

We also started assigning members and talking about what each group would focus on moving forward.

So for this item, we'll be going over the scope of the subcommittees and figure out figuring out meeting schedules and the next steps so we can start working more effectively.

So I think for thisem.

So staff, do you still have the records from the last meeting when we had all the members from the subcommittee?

Oh, go ahead.

Member Burton speaking.

I was absent from the last meeting.

Is there a process on joining the subcommittees?

Because I would be interested.

Yeah, the staff can go ahead and can um add you to that list.

Which subcommittees were you interested in joining?

There's the subcommittee of community engagement.

Community engagement and social media.

Apologies.

Um I would be interested in both if possible, but more specifically the community engagement.

And then staff, did we have space in both subcommittees?

Because I remember last time there was a lot of interest for the community engagement.

Chair three, this is uh Clerk Brian Kale for the record.

The community games subcommittee is essentially maxed out, and an additional member would have would uh make a quorum of the body, but the social media subcommittee does have um room uh for that, though it would likely require an agenda item to add them to the subcommittee for possible action.

Okay, and then do we need an official uh motion for that to add member Burton to the social media Again through you, Chair?

This is the C Clerk Brank for the record.

Um, since the the subcommittee were created through motion, including adding members to them, it would make sense for it to be an agenda item for possible action to add any interested members to one of the subcommittees.

All right, and it's okay if we add that agenda item right now.

Sorry.

Again through you, uh negative.

Uh, we would have to tell the public that we are going to be adding members to our subcommittees, and that was not on the agenda.

This is a scope and meeting schedule for subcommittees.

Anything for possible action requires advanced notice, so it could be added to the May subcommittee meeting.

Got it.

Perfect.

Thank you so much.

So, Member Burton, we will be adding you to the social media subcommittee at the next meeting.

All right.

So for those in the social media subcommittee, do you have any opinions you want to voice on when the subcommittee should meet?

No.

Okay.

Well, just wanted to throw something out there.

I know that a couple other subcommittees have met before the main meetings before, like 30 minutes.

Um, I'm not exactly I don't exactly remember who was interested in the social media subcommittee.

But if you guys are okay with that, please let me know.

Raise your hands.

Um go ahead.

Member Hall for the record, um, is there any way we can track the people who were in the subcommittees?

Any way we can see the people, the names so they would know, or if they forgot that they even signed up for it.

Sure.

Uh through chair, senior city clerk, Brian Kale for the record.

Um, at the February 17th meeting, the community sub engagement subcommittee was established, and members Laster, Sai, Nguyen, King, Gurney, Manales, Ruiz, McCraney, and Cohen were appointed.

As for the social media subcommittee appointed at the same meeting, um, members Castro, Laster, Nguyen, Johnson, Gurney, and Cohen were appointed to the subcommittee.

Okay.

So given that, does anyone have any comments they want to add on when they think these subcommittees should member Cohen?

Um well, I was thinking maybe if we were going to be discussing like social media strategies a little more this meeting, maybe that could inform the um how regularly that we meet as a subcommittee.

Um but maybe I think that it depends on how how effective and how we how like what the scope of the social media strategy should be, how many posts do we want per week, what type of posts?

Uh is it simple infographics or is it more in-person videos, things like that?

So I think depending on what we actually decide to film, we'll determine how often the subcommittee should meet.

Thank you, Member Cohen.

Now, this agenda item is about discussing the scope.

So if we do want to throw a couple other couple ideas out there of what the social media subcommittee wants to focus on.

So I think what are some ideas that you wanted to throw out there?

Sort of going off of a little bit of what uh I was mentioning in a couple of the last meetings.

I think it would be good to have like a betting on you theme um going on, just um embodying the identity of Las Vegas and I guess just the casino or um the hospitality industry, and I think that we can intersect that really well with what we do here as a council.

I think bringing that theme um and you know, similar color schemes, diff um you know, different uh promotional um things that we can incorporate with that as well.

That was one of my ideas for um one of the uh techniques that we could use, and I also think that we can do things um like we discussed with the last meeting, capitalizing on current trends, uh so keeping up to date on what is most popular on different social media platforms and then uh making content to um reflect that so that we can maximize our impact.

That sounds great, thank you.

And I think just to add on to that, I think I briefly mentioned this last meeting too.

If you guys would be okay with filming like short videos of introductions for every single one of us to let the public know, like who we are, what we're interested in, you know, stuff like that.

Okay.

And just a question for staff.

If we aren't able to come up with a specific time at this very moment of when each subcommittee should meet, um, like when when is that going to Dr.

Tammy Malich, Director of Youth Development and Social Initiatives for the record?

Um, so the uh a point I would like to make relevant to your question is because these meetings must be publicly noticed, you guys are going to have to follow all of the public meeting rules regarding these subcommittee meetings, just like you do for this meeting.

And so it's got to be noticed in time, the agenda has to be posted, the minutes we're going to have to what we're gonna need from you is possible dates from the lead for each of these uh subcommittees, because we're gonna have to verify that we have room in chambers and staff to uh to facilitate those meetings as well.

And then my final point related to that that I was gonna make um at the end of the meeting, but now seems a good time.

For those of you signing up for these subcommittees, I would just point out to you that once it becomes a public meeting, your attendance is also public, and this committee um already is public, and my council people have asked for us to provide them with an attendance log thus far.

You guys are in a two-year term right now.

You are almost through one year of your two-year term.

So at the end of the year, we'll be reaching out to the seniors to ask if you want to continue and you're able, you're allowed to under the bylaws.

But our council people are asking us now for attendance um to look and see which students are act actively participating in this.

So now as you're signing up for subcommittees, I would just remind you to be mindful that the expectation is that you're able to attend those meetings if they meet monthly or quarterly or however how long how often they meet, that's up to you guys.

But there's an expectation that you would be able to attend.

And I know you guys are busy with school and sports and life and jobs and all the clubs and activities, so just be mindful of that when you set your schedule.

So I'm gonna need a summary or a couple of possible dates, a standing, um, the first Monday of every month, every other month, every third month, that kind of a thing, and then the time slots, and then I'll have to verify with city staff and city attorney's office that we have staff to cover it under because that would be required under open meeting law.

Thank you, Dollar Matt Dr.

Malich.

Okay, well, with that being said, just picking backing off of um attendance for those members who are in these subcommittees, I'd like to hear a little bit from you guys just so I can see obviously uh what time works best for everyone.

Again, a subcommittee can't be a committee without everyone.

So if I could get a little more um insight.

Member Cohen.

I was just thinking of the best way to make this as easy as possible for everyone.

So I was thinking maybe it might make a lot of sense that uh I think that we meet as a council already pretty regularly.

Um so it's not like we're waiting like several months in between every meeting.

Um so I think maybe if we do all of the social media work at the conclusion of every single meeting, like the subcommittee stays out after, and then that's when they would film videos or discuss like infographics or you know, different graphic design things that they want to post on Instagram and other platforms.

I think that would be a good way because everyone is already here and it's all ever you know centralized and it's something that we're all already used to.

So it would be um able to accomplish the goal of um achieving the social media objectives, but at the same time it wouldn't be adding onto anyone's schedule um since we already come here anyway.

Member Hall.

Uh member Hall for the record, um a hundred percent uh agree, but uh also want to add that how much do we want to post, because if we want to post regularly, um the the amount of time that we will have here would not allow us to, especially if we are meeting every other month or every month or so, our posts will not be consistent enough for us to get enough outreach to other people for them to see our initiative.

of um achieving the social media objectives but at the same time it wouldn't be adding onto anyone's schedule um since we already come here anyway member hall uh member hall for the record um a hundred percent uh agree but i also want to add that how much do we want to post because if we want to post regularly um the the amount of time that we will have here would not allow us to especially if we're meeting every other month or every month or so our posts will not be consistent enough for us to get enough outreach to other people for them to see our initiative but that was a great idea I'm just like and I'm just piggybacking on what she's saying like we need people to talk and about what they the times they'll our best because nobody else is talking we can we shouldn't even have the committee if nobody's putting foot forward to want to do anything for it thank you member hull member burton I do just want to piggyback our member we're in speaking I just want to piggyback off of what everyone's saying I do think it's a very good idea to be meeting after these meetings for the social media team and with the with the thought of posting consistently if we do have someone that is pretty skilled at like Canva or graphic design for the days we don't have videos we can also be posting on Instagram etc um like graphic designs essentially saying everything the videos would or we can be filming B role and someone can voice over those those also could be a good idea as well just so we cut our time efficiently I really like those ideas go ahead member Macdonald for the record um I know this isn't a City Las Vegas subcommittee but um us as youth of solutions we meet every single week for about we meet once a week every Wednesday for about 15 to 20 minutes just to recap just to get get ideas like uh basically just a touch base so I feel like if you guys are meeting like once a month like in person even a zoom meeting you guys can hop on a zoom meeting for 30 minutes after school if I feel like that's very plausible member Manala speaking uh I have a question to like piggyback back off of that for these subcommittees do they have to be in public or can they be virtual like can we have a virtual meeting uh through you chair um Dr.

Tammy Malich uh director of white s I for the record um for the city attorney's office and the clerk's offices if this were a work group or let me ask it this way are there conditions by which the youth could work on social media but be able to work in small groups with the city staff myself or ex officio Mitchell to do um the social media because the agreement with our comms team is that one of us would be on this account anyways um and agreeing with member hall that to do this monthly to add another meeting every week or every month is gonna be a lot but to get the message out and get followers you're gonna have to do this in real time more constantly so what are the conditions under which they could do that and not violate open meeting law deputy city attorney Tamar Canela for the record um for open meeting law if there is a quorum and deliberation then it needs to be public um for these subcommittees um they're like five members or so I'm assuming if you since that's like a small number of members if they all meet and they have a quorum um that would need to be public so I don't I can um follow up on this I I would need to ask but just off the top of my head if they have a quorum and they're deliberating it needs to be public um so potentially you could you know have not a quorum but I'm so clear clarification a quorum of the small group a quorum of the total group a quorum of the smaller group I believe yes so if there were nine members then four of them could meet without violating open meeting law yes member Burton member Burton speaking just an idea perhaps if it cannot be a quorum of the small committee maybe do we want to do like team rotations and like oh on Monday this person, this person and this person can get together and post and then it can just rotate perhaps to film yeah that'd be a great idea okay so um through you chair uh Dr.

Malich again so the way we do our briefing schedule which may work uh based on what member Burton just uh suggested if you guys had a larger overall group and then you were broken down in small groups that's how we do our briefing so each of our brief briefings is broken down to three elected officials no more than three in any briefing and we do those every week and so in one briefing it would only be these three members in the next briefing it would be three different members in the final briefing it would be two because we have uh seven member um elected board so similar if you guys had nine you could have three groups three rotations a Monday Wednesday Friday group or an every Monday group however you guys wanted to arrange it and then you wouldn't have to publicly post have council chambers available um but I just want to alert you you would still need to work through Miss Sheena or myself because we will need to be on that account as well since it's reflected

In the final briefing, it would be two because we have uh seven member um elected board.

So similar if you guys had nine, you could have three groups, three rotations, a Monday, Wednesday, Friday group, or an every Monday group, however, you guys wanted to arrange it, and then you wouldn't have to publicly post, have council chambers available.

Um, but I just want to alert you, you would still need to work through Miss Sheena or myself, because we will need to be on that account as well, since it's reflective of the city.

Thank you, Dr.

Malich.

So I think in that case, are we uh members of the subcommittee for social media?

Are we okay with meeting 30 minutes after the um after the council meets?

Would that be ideal?

If um if space permits okay.

Um I guess we're gonna move on to the subcommittee of community engagement.

Do any members have any proposals for when we want to meet?

Maybe 30 minutes before rather than after.

Um, sorry, member Manala speaking.

Um I feel like with community engagement, uh, we don't have to meet in person as much as we're not like we I don't think that we really had to like physically do anything that we could do probably a lot online, and that could also just be easier for everybody so they could like I don't know, just work more with each other.

Okay, and then would you rather do that the same day of today's meeting or you know, schedule that later on?

Uh member and all of speaking.

Um basically I feel like we should just like make if we can make a group chat, just like discuss times that we that were all available like throughout the week.

Sheena Judy Mitchell for the record.

Again, remember you cannot have a quorum.

If there's a quorum, you will have to meet publicly.

You are subject to open meeting law.

So either way, if there's five of you, even on group chat, even on Zoom, you can't you can't do it.

It has to be made public.

So that's why the suggestion, which was a good one, was made to maybe split these subcommittees in my head.

I would say maybe even thinking of how we can restructure that whole thing, because I don't know that any of us really thought um that it would be this intensive and meeting before we're already having a hard enough time starting at 3 30.

So that also wouldn't probably be the best idea either.

Thank you, Alex.

Um to that same end, if you think about your community engagement work group or um subcommittee similar to your social media.

If you have, I think a group of nine signed up for that one if memory served or nine was on this one and six on okay.

So if you have a a group of six, let's say maybe you break down in twos and divide the working kind of two will do community outreach, two will um suggest events or activities you want to be involved in, and two will work on how do you get um uh the the message out working with the social media team about what's going on.

However, whatever you know topics you think are necessary, you parse those out, break your group up into smaller subgroups, and then use this meeting, have a standing agenda item for this meeting so that you have somebody from the group that reports out to the full group, so there's no um thought that you guys are trying to do this work um kind of out of in the shadows or out of the public eye, so the report out then could be at this big at this broader regularly scheduled Y Lac.

Just a suggestion.

I think that's a really great suggestion.

We might have to stick with the similar, very similar formats for both of these subcommittees.

So then in that case, would we be able to say that we're officially moving on from the item or still need to work on this?

Sheena Judy Mitchell for the record.

I would say that we could possibly move on for this and maybe even agendize it further.

I'm not sure as to what that looks like.

Maybe you myself and the co-chair can have a discussion.

Um, and this may need to come back before the board for further thought, because it might be a little more confusing than I think people are realizing.

So let's maybe when it gets to those upcoming discussion items for the next agenda, we still agendize this, maybe for a possible action or something like that.

Okay, that sounds great.

I think we'll we're gonna proceed with that then.

All right, so we'll now move on to agenda item seven.

Agenda item seven is a report by youth as solutions participants to share the report on their current work.

Would any Emmer McNallan?

Emma McNallen for the record.

Um, Youth of Solutions has been working really hard.

We're getting to the end of our deadline.

We're all very happy with the work we've been putting in.

Um right now we're working on pledge cards, getting them out and getting them signed.

Uh pledges basically to keep ourselves safe from bicycle accidents, pedestrian accidents, etc.

Um, we were also looking to do participate at a basic high school uh safety event that is this Saturday, I think.

Yes, this Saturday, from nine to three.

I reached out to CCSD police and uh tried to get a table for us.

Unfortunately, the cards didn't lay out for us, right?

So we didn't get a table or a panel, but we still want people to go and we still want people to represent the uh youth leadership advisory council as well as youth the solutions.

Thank you, Member McNallan.

Any other uh member Manola speaking?

Yeah, to add on to that uh to make our pledge cut card signed.

We decided to do a pledge card contest.

So we're hosting it at middle schools and high schools, and so basically whoever has like the most pledge guards signed gets like a donut or pizza party.

So just to really like engage with like our community to really help them understand like what we're doing.

You guys are doing awesome work.

Any other members of the youth solutions group?

Do you guys want to add anything?

Member Maservy speaking for the record.

Um, I talked to my mom because she was an assistant principal Arbor.

Oh, she still is, and um, she asked around, and I think she said we could try to get an assembly in for their back to school, so like next year.

So I'll make sure that you guys know that because I probably won't be here next year.

But she will still work there.

Thank you.

Dr.

Malich.

Thank you, uh, Madam Chair.

Uh an update that um to um to the previous comments that were already made.

Um, the pledge cards um for the initial grant were for pedestrian bicycle and scooter safety.

Uh, youth as solutions reached out and offered us a second grant for driver safety.

We submitted a second project plan and budget, updated the pledge cards to include driver safety and got a second one thousand dollar grant.

Um, and then with that, with the pledge contest yesterday, lead middle school did it school-wide during their advisory period.

Every student signed the pledge card.

Um, Channel 5 came out and filmed.

They interviewed councilwoman Bruni, a couple of youth, uh, the principal.

It was on the news last night, um, both news uh sessions, and then it was also in CCSD's newsletter today with the highlights from the film.

And uh we had two more schools reach out since then wanting more cards.

Uh, we delivered those.

And um member um Sai uh won the op-ed contest for the whole nation.

Um, her op-ed on this project was selected, so we got another $500 grant as a result of that.

And then um finally a smaller subset of the small subset is working on creating a documentary, and that documentary um will include they got interviews from a trauma surgeon at UMC, from school district police, um, from the principal, a parent, a student, um, and then members of the group were finalizing that, and we'll submit that.

And then um as a result of their monthly meetings with the youth as solutions team.

Um, they have been requested to do a virtual national presentation on how youth can make an impact in local government, how they can get involved, take action, and then really talk about their youth as solutions grant and how they've gone about making change and doing the things.

Um, and I just want to say um very proud and honored to work alongside these youth because as doors have been closed, like no, you can't come do an assembly right now, maybe in the fall.

Um, those kinds of things they've pivoted and figured out other ways, like this pledge card thing was not part of the original plan.

It was a solution to a doors being closed.

Um, member McCraney said, Hey, we're doing my my mom already does these events at elementary schools all summer.

There are nine, so they were doing those and handing out pledge cards.

So they've come up with solutions to solve for the problem.

And so um I really have um it has really been an honor to work alongside these youth.

They're doing amazing, and they have been recognized by the youth, the youth as solutions team that does this for a regular job all the time.

They've been so impressed with our city of Las Vegas youth that are working on this project.

So thank you.

Thank you, Dr.

Mallage.

Well, it seems like you guys are getting a lot done.

It's very admirable.

Thank you so much for your service.

Okay, so we are concluding with the agenda item seven.

We're gonna move on to agenda item eight.

After a lot of discussion around community engagement and outreach, we're now going to start putting together a list of community partners that we'd like to potentially partner with and work with in the future.

Um, I recall in one of the past meetings, it might have been member Gurney, he suggested working with the Boy Scouts as a possible partner, I believe.

So if anyone else has any additional ideas for community partners that we could cover collaborate with uh for future community engagement outreaches, now would be the time to share so we can add them to the list.

So I'm gonna open the floor to any members who want to throw any suggestions out there.

Member McMallon.

For the record, this is just like a random thought, but what if we did something like with community centers or boys and girls club?

Member Nallis.

Uh member and all speaking.

Also to add on to that, we could work with like different like specific organizations like Fours Square or Catholic Charities.

Okay.

Uh member Hall for the record.

Um, we can also work uh within the own uh our own organization with City of Las Vegas that uh provide with youth.

Uh as in I was in this um organization called Batteries Included, um, where like as many other schools that come together to um solve problems just like this um as a together as different schools, so I believe that's a be a good option for us too.

Awesome, thank you.

And then remember that this list is always open, so we can continuously add to the list.

Is that correct?

Sheena Judy Mitchell for the record, yes, that's correct.

I would also um urge you guys to consider even adding um some of your own internal programs that are at your schools, like those youth councils there, some of the government classes, so that can um be a funnel into maybe participation in these meetings so that we can start getting your peers here to voice some of their concerns, and you guys can truly have some interaction and other um focused areas um maybe specific to your ward, and also maybe even working with your ward on some of the partnerships that they already have.

I know a couple of wards have had cleanups, so we're gonna try to make sure that you guys are synchronous to them so that you can start participating in those things too as we talk about community engagement.

Thank you.

And getting the contacts and phone numbers to these organizations that you're just that you're listing.

I think somebody needs to be responsible for that, probably the secretary, she's absent today.

But maybe just start um coordinating the contacts and the information so that it's a meaningful list and not just a list.

Yes, uh Harry Williams for the record.

Um, and there's also a lot of schools that have civic engagement type days.

Um I know in the council office we would actually have civic engagement days and invite Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, um, leadership programs to actually come to um City Hall, go through different departments, come to your meeting, and actually see what you guys are actually doing.

So there's a lot of other opportunities to engage those leadership organizations at your school and within your wards.

Thank you, Mr.

Williams.

Um, member Hall.

Uh member Hall for the record, just to add on what he from what he said.

Um, we are all high school students, and while might seem a little bit corny or whatever, but uh bring your kid to work day is coming up and also like people's parents, they might have outreaches and other things that they do in the within their job that can also help us with outreach opportunities.

So if you guys do see people, parents on Thursday, um y'all are all at school, y'all should talk to them and ask them if they have any opportunity or anything for us for us to um proceed on to help us.

Thank you, Member Hall.

And then question for staff.

Um kind of relating both social media and community engagement.

Would be would members be able to work with their ward members who appointed them at some point for some some kind of outreach, maybe even public social media videos.

Yeah, Sheena Judy Mitchell for the record.

Yeah, you should be because you guys were appointed um and selected by those offices, so like connecting with them.

I know it probably hasn't been done as much, but first year, but we're gonna definitely work on um making sure that you guys are connecting with them.

We probably should be meeting with them on some type of schedule.

So we'll we'll work on that on our end, but absolutely thank you so much with Michelle.

Harry Williams for the record.

And you guys will also be um if you have time to continue to look on the actual city of Las Vegas agendas, um, because there might be items that affect youth.

Um just as this board has a weekly or your um monthly agenda.

Look at the city council agenda.

Um, they have a lot of things that go on on the city of council agenda that you guys may want to have a voice at those actual um first and third Wednesday meetings.

Um, and you can come and speak during public comment.

You can find out what those issues are because there are a lot of times where they are making policies and um things that you guys may want to have some input in.

So um those come out a week before each city council meeting.

So just take a glance at them because there are a lot of things that may affect you, whether it be curfew items, whether it be you know uh 18-year-old nightclubs that want to open.

There's a lot of things that happen on our city council that you guys may just want to continue to have somebody at least uh look at that city council agenda uh every week.

Thank you, Mr.

Williams.

And piggybacking off of that, there's always the you can always testify at the Nevada legislature or even more local CCSD, make um changes more locally.

So does anyone have any other comments to add for this specific agenda item?

No, no more suggestions.

Okay, we're gonna move on to agenda item nine.

This is a discussion on event coordination for upcoming outreach opportunities.

Since we're still building on out building on our outreach plan, this is our chance for members to share any events, ideas, or opportunities they're aware of that we could pen potentially participate in on or support.

If there are any upcoming community events, school-based activities, or even ideas for events we want to start planning ourselves.

Feel free to bring those up.

I'll open the floor to anyone if they have uh member cohen.

So I know that we spoke a little bit about um some of these concrete ideas a few meetings ago, uh closer to the to New Year's, but now that we're actually becoming a little more solidified in our plans, I think that we can revisit some of what we talked about.

I remember we talked about things like back to school drives, so donating school supplies, backpacks, uh maybe uh things for teachers, classroom materials, just to get um people in need ready for the school year and set them off with success.

Uh, we can also plan for things um like Thanksgiving, Christmas breaks as well to make sure people who might not necessarily have the resources or food to celebrate the holidays are able to get that as well.

Um, and we can also translate that to even more youth-centric, I guess, events or occasions like Halloween, for example, maybe a costume drive for kids in the community who who can't afford to get costumes for Halloween or maybe donate candy to them, stuff like that.

So I think just finding ways to get out um seasonally and and timely as well is a great way for us to make an impact on the lives of a lot of people.

Thank you, Member County.

I just want uh Member Burton speaking.

I just want to add that I do think it is a very good idea to be doing drives and whatnot seasonally, just because it will get our name a little bit uh more known to the public, especially if we're consistently doing something, especially like on a seasonal base.

Uh people will start getting used to our name being attached to these drives.

Thank you, Member Burton.

Member Lasser speaking.

Um, I also think if we all went and volunteered as groups for like different fundraisers and things, like even like outside of like drives, and even like maybe part partnered with different um like uh charities and things like that.

I think that would also be a good way to even get back to the community and make a name for ourselves.

That's a great idea.

Thank you.

And then sorry, another question to staff.

Do we as a um do we do we have like a specific amount of funds dedicated toward the specific program?

Or is it just more like we're partnering with communities and kind of piggybacking off them?

So um this council came about by way of a city ordinance.

So an ordinance was passed creating this this youth council.

It was not a funded council.

Most of our councils aren't funded though.

They don't come with any economic benefit to the members, nor a pot of money to do things.

Donations for of articles, clothing, food, et cetera, tend to be fine, but you can't do fundraising like sell things for money or accept donations.

We do, because it is my department that oversees this group.

We have uh budgeted dollars for our departments.

So if there was a fiscal need of this group, then certainly that could be submitted to me or Sheena via request, and we can definitely look at that, and and there are things we would be able to support out of our out of our general budget.

Thank you, Dr.

Malich.

Oh, there's uh CSN Tobacco Free event, I think next week.

And the Southern Nevada Health District is hosting it and partnering with CSN.

So I feel like uh events like that we could partner with them and uh like spread our message.

Thank you.

Um, okay, go ahead.

Member Hall for the record.

Um, another thing to add on to what uh the one of said um uh the Just One project is always looking for volunteers.

Um, and they are um organization that gives out hygiene products, clothes, and food for for the needy.

And it's just uh option out to give out for people who want to volunteer.

They're always looking for volunteers, not at a certain time, but always.

Thank you, member Hall.

And then Mr.

Williams.

Yes, uh Harry Williams for the record.

Also, um connecting it once again.

We mentioned it already, but once again, connect with each one of your council office.

They all have newsletters and they all have flyers and events and different things that they put on, whether it be back to school fairs, whether it be food drives, whether it be um events for Christmas um that was mentioned, Thanksgiving, all of your council offices um does some type of event, whether it be monthly, some of them do stuff weekly, um, really get in touch with their those newsletters in the council office that you guys represent, and then that's uh another awesome way to find uh events, and then most of those offices come with some type of funding to do those eBIPs.

So you guys would just be tagging on and helping out.

Thank you, Mr.

Williams.

Does anyone want to add any other ideas?

Just want to throw anything out there.

Dr.

Malich?

I also um as a department director require everyone on my team to volunteer 10 hours um uh of volunteerism in addition to whatever the city requires.

So um I send them opportunities throughout the year, like here's another opportunity to volunteer, um Metro's doing this activity, just one project is due, you know.

So as those opportunities come, I send them out to my team.

So I'm happy to include um the members of the community engagement subcommittee if you guys are interested in um those opportunities to volunteer.

And not just for this committee, I think it's great for this committee, but I think it's great for you as individuals as well, even if the committee didn't want to do it.

Those of you getting ready to do college applications and scholarship applications, um, colleges are looking for well-rounded young people, not just smart young people.

A lot of smart young people go to college, right?

So you need things that set you apart, and I think youth that are engaged in their community and doing volunteerism is highly favored.

So I would strongly encourage you to do those kinds of activities.

Thank you, Dr.

Malic.

Okay.

I believe we are going to, yeah, we're gonna finish, wrap this portion up.

We have a it seems like we have a pretty solid list, so we'll work on connecting and contacting um with those opportunities and outreaches.

We'll move on to agenda item 10.

It's a discussion regarding topics for future agenda items.

Comments at this time should be limited to proposing future agenda items only.

We will not discuss the substance of those topics and no action will be taken today.

Are there any items members would like to propose for consideration on a future agenda?

No, okay.

Seeing none, the there are no proposed items at this time.

This concludes agenda item 11.

We will now move on to agenda.

Oh, I'm sorry, agenda item 10.

We will now move on to agenda item 11, citizens' participation.

Public comment during this portion is limited to matters within the jurisdiction of the advisory council.

No action may be taken on items that are not on the agenda.

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

Is there anyone who would like to provide public comment at this time?

Okay.

I'll um make a quick comment.

Sheena Judy Mitchell for the record.

I want to send a huge congratulations to member Aaliyah Burton, who just graduated from high school at the tender age of 16 years old.

So congratulate your member.

She's looking at colleges, and then also say congratulations to all of you seniors who will be leaving for college in the next few months too.

So I'm super proud of you guys and appreciate your service to this youth leadership council.

And your shirts and backpacks for the council have been ordered, so you'll have them next meeting.

Thank you so much.

That's really exciting.

Okay, does any other member?

I'm sorry, was there anyone else who would like to provide public comment at this time?

Okay.

Um member Cohen.

Just wondering, are we gonna have a May meeting with uh finals and everything?

Is it gonna I'm just wondering if it's gonna be at the same week.

Um I was just wondering.

Thanks for that.

Yeah, we may need to cancel that meeting.

Okay.

Or we schedule it.

Um we'll we'll talk about it uh further.

Yeah, we'll work with the clerk's office and the um chair on that to see what that looks like.

So I know once you guys get out of school, it's gonna be hard to catch up with you because Easter break showed me that.

So we'll uh we'll we'll get it figured out.

Okay, thank you.

Does anyone else want to add anything?

Public comment?

Okay.

Seeing none, we will close citizens' participation and move on to the next agenda item, agrement.

Thank you all for your participation and thoughtful contributions today.

Seeing that we have no further business before the council, we will officially adjourn this meeting.

The time is 424.

Thank you.