Madison County Youth Board Meeting

Thursday, December 3, 2015

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PRESENT:

Secretary: Jessi Krebs

Parliamentarian: Anna Conner

ABSENT:

President: Claire Ames

Vice President: Gabe Jarman

Historian: Mona Zubi

Meeting Called to Order at 6:40 p.m.

Topic / Discussion / Action
Welcome/Introductions / Everyone introduced themselves / 6:41
Reading of Minutes / Read November minutes / 6:43
Assign Committees / Committee assignments are passed out and we discuss possibilities of changing. We discuss marketing for the club. Break into small groups to discuss fields. Only 11 members and two officers were currently here, so the committees were small and a tad difficult. The hotline group is meeting with the sheriff. The videos committee came up with the access element to highlight. The news column committee brought up issues such as no newspaper to develop this “Ask Alice”, but they may promote the creation with one. Need to make group over county wide rules, a survey was suggested for administrators. Gabe could take a survey to the superintendent’s meeting. / Start- 6:43
End-7:30
Discuss Volunteer
Opportunities / Nursing homes, YMCA events, Habitat for Humanity, ASAP Coalition “Last Night” at New Year’s Eve, / Start-7:30
End-7:34
Improving Attendance / Please talk to representatives who are not here. Get them reengaged in committees. / Start-7:35
End-7:37
Tobacco Videos / Release them in January and present a timeframe to release between mid January in between March. Each school can do what time works for them / Start- 7:38
End-7:41
What’s going on in
Your neck of the woods? / Bethalto had a drug bust with cocaine, meth, heroin, etc. People come in drunk. Assess all schools and recommend for all schools to drop out of school suspension. Look at OSS and ISS rates in comparisons of drug related incidents. / Start- 7:42
End-7:55
Closing of meeting / End-7:58
NEXT MEETING / Thursday, January 7, 2015
6:00 p.m. Executive Committee
6:30 p.m. Youth Board Meeting
Edwardsville Police Department
Edwardsville, Illinois

Minutes submitted by Jessi Krebs, Madison County Youth Board Secretary

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