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Youth Commission Meeting Minutes, 3/10/2021
Commission Members Present:
Chair Owen Lee
Treasurer Sydney Pearson
Secretary Brook Roberts
Grace Kamila
Co -Chair Jacob Sawyer
Finn Paynich
Brooke Rinehimer
Audrey Lim
Aaron Nateephaisan
Commission Members Absent:
Hunter DeLeon
Zane Marulitua
Staff Present:
Casey Colley
Councilmembers Present:
Laura Johnson
I. CALL TO ORDER
Chair Owen Lee called the meeting to order at 6:04 pm over Zoom.
Brooke read the land acknowledgment statement.
II. APPROVAL OF THE CONSENT AGENDA
Chair Owen Lee moved to approve the minutes of the December 16th, 2020 Youth Commission
meeting.
Secretary Brook Roberts seconded the motion.
Motion carried unanimously.
Chair Owen Lee moved to approve the minutes of the January 6th, 2021 Youth Commission
meeting with two revisions.
Secretary Brook Roberts seconded the motion.
Motion carried unanimously.
Chair Owen Lee moved to approve the minutes of the January 20th, 2021 Youth Commission
meeting with one revision.
Co -Chair Jacob Sawyer seconded the motion.
Motion carried unanimously.
Chair Owen Lee moved to approve the minutes of the February 3rd, 2021 Youth Commission
meeting with one revision.
Co -Chair Jacob Sawyer seconded the motion.
Motion carried unanimously.
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Chair Owen Lee moved to approve the minutes of the February 17th, 2021 Youth Commission
meeting with three revisions
Co -Chair Jacob Sawyer seconded the motion.
Motion carried unanimously.
III. DEBRIEFING PRONOUNS PRESENTATION TO COUNCIL
On the evening of March 9th, members from the Diversity Committee of the Youth Commission
presented the Youth Commission's pronouns request to Council. Below are thoughts from the
Commissioners of that presentation. The request wasn't officially approved by the Council yet,
although it will be on the next council meeting's consent agenda.
➢ Councilmember Johnson: very informative, cemented things she already knew. Noticed
pronoun additions to zoom titles before YC started to present.
Nobody appeared to be opposed to it, reception was universally positive.
Important to clarify who answers questions when a committee is presenting to Council.
It should have been Diversity Committee members answering questions.
➢ The Diversity Committee has also put a list of additional resources that could potentially
go onto the LinkTree link.
Teresa Wippel from MyEdmondsNews has offered us an opportunity to write a column as a
follow up to the pronouns presentation. Would be a project for the Diversity Committee to take
on, using the existing presentation and documents that we've created relating to the request.
Not all comments will be positive or supportive; don't be surprised.
If people ask about the significance and why this even matters, we should make it clear
that we are representing our constituents and this is something that they would approve
of.
Responding to comments: depends on the comment itself (whether it's a question or
critique). Our judgement can be based on the existing Instagram code of conduct. Need
to clarify the importance of including pronouns, as well.
IV. DETAILS OF INSTAGRAM TAKEOVERS
Our social media plan included Youth Commissioners taking over the Instagram account to show
what they do on a daily basis and to make themselves known. Included in the takeover is the
Commissioner's name, grade, pronoun, and some fun questions to answer. A question brought
up in a previous meeting was "what is something you do for your mental health?" to highlight
self -care activities.
We could also answer "why did you join the Commission?" in addition to the fun
question. The two questions that each person answers could be "why did you join the
Youth Commission?" and "what is something you do for your mental health?"
Each video should be more than a minute long, and the background should be an empty
wall (uniform).
Each member will be highlighted in the opposite order of their position on the
Commission. Position 11 will be highlighted first, and position 1 will be last.
Deadline would be a week from the meeting, which is March 17th.
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➢ Still need waivers from Brooke, Zane, and Jacob, to do the Instagram posts. Casey will
email them to city accounts.
Will be done every two days, spaced out over about a month.
V. WASHINGTON KIDS IN TRANSITION STATEMENT
It turns out that nothing was done with the WAKIT statement of support that Brooke drafted.
Chair Owen Lee moved to publish the Washington Kids in Transition statement as a press release.
Secretary Brook Roberts seconded the motion.
Motion passed unanimously.
VI. DETERMINING PSRC PRESENTATION DATE
The Puget Sound Regional Council is an urban planning group and is hoping to meet with us to
discuss transportation within Puget Sound. In our previous meetings, it was not determined if having
them present would be a good use of our time, so it is on the agenda.
Jacob supports us meeting with them because it is important to discuss transportation
resources and deficiencies in our transportation statement, as youth who work, go to
school, and use public transportation for all of those purposes.
PSRC will be utilizing interactive mapping activities to research how we travel within the
Puget Sound.
Chair Owen Lee moved to invite the PSRC to attend our next meeting on March 24th to present.
Brooke Rinehimer seconded the motion.
Motion passed unanimously.
Our April 14th date will be the alternate date offered if they are unable to make it to the March
24th meeting.
VII. UPDATES FROM COMMITTEES/COMMITTEE WORK TIME
➢ Youth & Government Committee: haven't met since before the last meeting, but the
primary project is still the Intro to Municipal Government project.
Environmental Committee: still planning on collaborating with beach clean up groups.
Mental Health Committee: nothing in the works quite yet, although projects are still
being planned.
The Youth Commission committees met via text for 15 minutes.
VIII. FINAL COMMENTS
➢ Casey: excited to see support from Council and is stoked for future projects.
IX. BREAKOUT ROOMS
Youth Commissioners met in breakout rooms and answered questions about what they've done
in the outdoors with the new warm weather.
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X. ADJOURNMENT
Chair Owen Lee adjourned the meeting at 7:31 pm.