Parks and Recreation Youth Advisory Board

Youth Center, Conference Room

Agenda — 15 items

1. 1 CALL TO ORDER
2. 2 ROLL CALL
3. 2 Began at 6:02 pm
4. 3 a. Roll Call and Excusal of Absences Present: 5 - Board member Nicole Schneider, Board member Angelica Santeliz, Board member Lucas Martinez-Miro, Board member Isabella Gonzalez, Board member Gabriella R. Chong and Board member Alexa Tapanes and Nicole Hoover
5. 4 APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES
6. 5 SUPERVISOR'S REPORT
7. 6 a. General Updates Assistant Supervisor Yanessa Rodriguez began her report by discussing the current summer camp hiring process and volunteer opportunities. She went on to inform the board members about a new high school tutoring program they are developing. b. Special Events Assistant Supervisor Yanessa Rodriguez announced forthcoming activities for the upcoming months, including the Coral Gables Family Literacy Festival - Saturday, May 18 at 11a.m. c. Administrative Updates Administrative Assistant Susan quickly went over some of our upcoming events, which include the City of Coral Gables Memorial Day Remembrance Ceremony – Monday, May 27 at 9a.m. For more details, please see our playgables.com website.
8. 7 NEW BUSINESS
9. 8 OLD BUSINESS
10. 9 DISCUSSION ITEMS
11. 10 ITEMS FROM THE SECRETARY
12. 10 a. Do we have a budget? Assistant Supervisor Yanessa Rodriguez mentioned that there is no specific budget allotted for Advisory Boards from the Community Recreation budget. Any requests for budget would have to go through the finance process and have a justification as a new needs expense. b. Florida League of cities Youth Conference Aug 15-17. Assistant Supervisor Yanessa Rodriguez shared that we would need more information on this. Items to discuss would be the cost and where to find funds, which board members would attend, what the board members would want to benefit from attending. c. Council Shirts/Uniform Assistant Supervisor Yanessa Rodriguez continued to mention that our Advisory Boards do not have shirts. If there is a specific use for shirts, then we can look at them. However, we don't purchase shirts for members to attend advisory board meetings only. If the Board wants to start a volunteer or participation schedule where they will be active in events and other opportunities, we can look at purchasing shirts. d. FLC Youth Council Legislative days Assistant Supervisor Yanessa Rodriguez mentioned that we would need to look at this in a similar way to the youth conference: cost and funding, who attends, what is the benefit achieved to bring back to the city clerk’s office.
13. 11 Date of the next meeting: Wednesday, June 5, 2024 at 6 p.m.
14. 12 ADJOURNMENT A MOTION TO ADJOURN THE MEETING AT 6:07 P.M. WAS MADE BY ISABELLA GONZALEZ AND WAS SECONDED BY NICOLE HOOVER. ALL IN FAVOR; PASSED UNANIMOUSLY.
15. 13 NOTE