Youth Commission

1 MINUTES OF A MEETING OF A REGULARLY SCHEDULED 2 YOUTH COMMISSION MEETING 3 VILLAGE OF NORTHBROOK 4 COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS 5 January 22, 2014 6 “Lead, Serve, Shine” 7 8 Adult Commissioners Present (5) 9 Carla Slawson-Martens, Chairperson 10 Gary Moriello 11 David Whitlock 12 Kelli Christenson 13 Michael Shore 14 15 Student Commissioners Present (5) 16 Andy Han 17 Lucia Bosacoma 18 Ethan Kirshenbaum 19 Grace Elisco 20 Adam Wagner 21 22 Adult/Student Commissioners Absent (10) 23 Allison Kaplan 24 Kay Ellen Stein 25 Ethan Matlin 26 Danny Martens 27 Maddie Serota 28 Kent Steinberg 29 Zainab Ahmed 30 Emily Schwandner 31 Ross Steinberg 32 Lauren Schifferdecker 33 34 Village Staff Present 35 Jason Batalden, Youth Commission Staff Liaison 36 37 1. Call to Order 38 Chairperson Slawson-Martens enlisted a Chairperson from student commissioners. Commissioner 39 Kirshenbaum volunteered and called the meeting to order in the Terrace Room of Village Hall, 1225 40 Cedar Lane, at 7:06 p.m. A quorum was present. 41 42 2. Approval of Meeting Minutes 43 Commissioner Moriello moved, seconded by Commissioner Whitlock, to approve minutes of the 44 November 20, 2013, Youth Commission meeting without corrections. On a voice vote, the motion 45 unanimously carried. 46 47 48  Page 2 Minutes of the January 22, 2014 Youth Commission Meeting 1 3. Hear from the Audience 2 Robert Lozaro requested assistance from the commission in hosting a Prom Fashion Show to raise funds 3 for NCDAA. Last year, GBN students, with help from the YMCA, hosted the event. This year, there are 4 currently no volunteers run the show. 5 6 Given that the Fashion Show is traditionally held before the high school prom season, Commissioner 7 Moriello expressed concern that the timetable was too short. Chair Slawson-Marten reiterated that the 8 Youth Commission is also current in a busy season with the Quiz Bowl and Film Fest events. 9 10 Commissioner Whitlock stated that if a student commission was willing to take on the task, the 11 commission would be there to support the endeavor. 12 13 Mr. Lozaro stated that there are resources in place to get started and that he would be involved in the 14 planning. He already has ideas for locations. However, the majority of the vision for the event would 15 come from the group or individual that decided to take on the project. 16 17 Setting a date is the first step in the process. April 5th or 6th are some preliminary possibilities. 18 19 If anyone is interested, Liaison Batalden can put them in contact with Mr. Lozaro through e-mail. 20 21 4. Event Debrief 22 Lake Cook Terrace Holiday Event 23 Need to have more student participation. Pehaps, a different date would serve better. 24 25 Need to coordinate activities with the Lake Cook Terrace staff. This year’s event immediately followed a 26 music and food celebration which lessened interest in our gathering. 27 28 Overall, the event was a success, despite low turnout from both the commission and the guests. 29 30 5. 2013/14 Upcoming Calendar of Events 31 A. Quiz Bowl 32 Commissioner Slawson-Martens & Liaison Batalden advised this event is slated for February 33 27th. Rehearsal will take place at the regular meeting of February 19th. Five schools will 34 participate. Medals and t-shirts will be ordered shortly. Assignments were handed out, a few 35 are left to be determined on the day of rehearsal. 36 37 Liaison Batalden will contact Cheryl Fayne-Depersio to inquire about live-streaming the 38 event. Otherwise, a recording will be produced as usual. 39 40 The possibility of purchasing an additional scoreboard was discussed. An additional 41 scoreboard would aid the competing teams. Currently, the scoreboard cannot be seen by 42 both the audience and the competitors. A decision was was not made. 43 44 A discussion concerning the process of choosing which school receives the first-round bye. 45 Traditionally, last year’s champion received that advantage. This year, a toss-up round will 46 decide who gets to automatically advance past the first round. 47  Page 3 Minutes of the January 22, 2014 Youth Commission Meeting 1 B. Film Fest 2 A location is still necessary. Will use the Village Hall Board Room as a backup. 3 4 Commission Whitlock stated that a name for the event still needs to be created. A new name 5 would hopefully attract new submissions. He hopes to expand the event to surrounding 6 communities. Also, he would like to consider having two categories of submissions based on 7 the student’s age – college-age and up and high-school age and younger. He is still recruiting 8 member to the sub-committee. Tasks will be assigned, as the sub-committee is formed. As far 9 as publicity, Commissioner Whitlock would like to advertise the event on the Village website 10 and perhaps the Village Facebook page. Also, a PSA could be produced for the Village cable 11 channel and GBN’s TV station. Perhaps, a marketing class at GBN could help with the publicity 12 drive. Commissioner Whitlock will send an e-mail to the commission requesting members for 13 the sub-committee. 14 15 5. New Business 16 N/A 17 18 6. Old Business 19 Commissioner Moriello reiterated that Operation Santa Claus was a success and that more participants 20 than necessary volunteered. Thank you notes will be delivered to those who donated. Commissioner 21 Whitlock suggested that a student commissioner may want to be involved in next year’s, as a way of 22 learning how to run such a program. Commissioner Wagner stated that the Key Club at GBN had 23 intended to participate, but they were involved in another holiday gift drive. 24 25 Congratulations were offered to Commissioner Han, as he earned the Cook County Youth Sheriff’s 26 Award for his service to the community. Andy attended a ceremony at the UIC forum to accept the 27 award from Cook County Sheriff Thomas Dart. 28 29 7. Student Hot Topics 30 N/A 31 32 8. Adjournment 33 Chair Slawson-Martens called for a motion to adjourn. Commissioner Wagner moved, seconded by 34 Commissioner Whitlock, to adjourn the meeting at 8:44 p.m. On a voice vote, the motion unanimously 35 carried. 36 37 Respectfully submitted, 38 Jason Batalden 39 Liaison