YOUTH COUNCIL

200 E. Wells Street City of Milwaukee Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202 Meeting Minutes YOUTH COUNCIL Wednesday, March 25, 2015 4:30 PM Council Chambers, 3rd Floor City Hall 1. Call to order 4:49 P.M. 2. Roll call Present 9 - May, Yang, Gonzalez, Estremera-Maldonado, Tietyn-Mlengana, Haywood II, Wade, Jaeckels and Parker Excused 5 - Richmond, Ellzey, Barrett, Hines and Ali 3. Appearance by Milwaukee Public Schools Superintendent, Dr. Driver Conversation with Dr. Driver and the Milwaukee Youth Council members. Dr. Driver presented members with the current strategic planning that MPS is undergoing: 1. Academic achievmemt: -- Closing the Gap -- Educating the Whole child -- Rethinking High School -- Redefining the MPS experience 2. Student, Family and Community engagement: -- Community outreach and Communication -- Re-envisioning partnerships 3. Effective and Efficient operations: -- Organizational Process -- Workforce Development Q&A Session Youth Council members offered suggestions to Dr. Driver regarding how to help those peers that are not showing a great level of success. 4. Congressional conference recap City of Milwaukee Page 1 YOUTH COUNCIL Meeting Minutes March 25, 2015 Members give their feedback on the Congressional conference in Washington D.C. Mr. Owczarski thanked Ms. Williams and Ms. McHenry for being volunteers as chaperone of the Milwaukee Youth members to this expereince. 5. Announcements 6. Adjournment This meeting will be webcast live at www.milwaukee.gov/channel25. Members of the Common Council and its standing committees who are not members of this committee may attend this meeting to participate or to gather information. Notice is given that this meeting may constitute a meeting of the Common Council or any of its standing committees, although they will not take any formal action at this meeting. Upon reasonable notice, efforts will be made to accommodate the needs of persons with disabilities through sign language interpreters or auxiliary aids. For additional information or to request this service, contact the City Clerk's Office ADA Coordinator at 286-2998, (FAX)286-3456, (TDD)286-2025 or by writing to the Coordinator at Room 205, City Hall, 200 E. Wells Street, Milwaukee, WI 53202. Limited parking for persons attending meetings in City Hall is available at reduced rates (5 hour limit) at the Milwaukee Center on the southwest corner of East Kilbourn and North Water Street. Parking tickets must be validated in the first floor Information Booth in City Hall. Persons engaged in lobbying as defined in s. 305-43-4 of the Milwaukee Code of Ordinances are required to register with the City Clerk's Office License Division. Registered lobbyists appearing before a Common Council committee are required to identify themselves as such. More information is available at http://city.milwaukee.gov/Lobbying. City of Milwaukee Page 2