City Council Study Session Agenda and Packet 2011 04 12

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PAGE TWO SUBJECT: UPDATE DISCUSSION- YOUTH ADVISORY BOARD DATE: APRIL 12, 2011 DECEMBER: December 2, 2010- The YAB meeting was visited by Gavin McMillan from the Louisville Planning Department who discussed a proposed future plan to change downtown hang outs and make them more inviting. Also discussed at this meeting was a plan to create a volunteer handbook for youth seeking volunteer opportunities in the community. rd Members decided to march in the Louisville Parade of Lights on December 3 to advertise the YAB and be seen by a wide variety of people. December 9, 2010- YAB members helped with the Louisville Recreation Center’s Dessert and Story with Santa event at the Rec. Center. JANUARY: January 6, 2011- Lynn Wooten, American Cancer Society, attended the YAB meeting and asked for help selling flowers for Daffodil Days, a fund raiser for the American Cancer Society. We were also visited by Jeff Miller from the Leading Now Project, who was there to observe. He is starting a project to look at youth participation in the decision making process in communities. January 17, 2011- YAB members met at the Recreation & Senior Center to take orders for the American Cancer Society’s fundraiser “Daffodil Days.” They also decorated bags for the Meals on Wheels program and sold home-baked goods. FEBRUARY: February 4, 2011- After discovering the Boulder County Volunteer Connection organization and their website (http://www.volunteerconnection.net/) the group decided that what we were looking to create (a volunteer handbook) already exists. They would like to add it as a link on the YAB website. February 10, 2011- Sold daffodil orders and baked goods at Medtronics in Louisville. February 12, 2011- YAB members assisted with the Louisville Recreation Center’s Royal Ball, an event held at the Louisville Center for the Arts. February 17, 2011- YAB Members helped with the Annual Heat Relief Dinner at the Recreation Center. MARCH: March 3, 2011- Kellie Gorman from the Keep It Clean partnership visited our meeting and spoke about her group’s efforts to educate about water quality, storm drainage, non-point-source pollution- all different kinds of pollution that can’t be pinpointed to a specific source but effects. Keep It Clean gets a very important message into the world, the importance of pollution and how dangerous it is. She proposed a spring clean project where the YAB would work alongside a Girl Scout Troop (or two) to clean up along a local creek. March 17, 2011- Members volunteered at the St. Patrick’s Day dinner for seniors at the Recreation & Senior Center