2022-04-13 Youth Commission MinutesYouth Commission Meeting Minutes 4/13/2022
Commission Members Present: Commission Members Absent:
Julie Andres Chelsea Beck
Chair Owen Lee Aaron Nateephaisan
Audrey Lim Publicity Officer Brooke Rinehimer
Finn Paynich Co -Chair Brook Roberts
Secretary Sydney Pearson
Mariana Yenter
Secretary Samuel Yi
Staff Present:
Casey Collley
I. ROLE CALL & ABSENCES
Councilmembers Present:
Diane Buckshnis
Chair Owen Lee moved to call the meeting to order at 6:03 PM over Zoom.
Sam read the land acknowledgement statement.
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Owen moved to move the agenda item of Green Edmonds Campaign & Earth Day Activities
from the 9th item to the 5th item; Julie Andres seconded the motion. The motion passed
unanimously.
Owen moved to move the agenda item of Youth & Government Committee SeattleU State Youth
Court Conference Update to item 10; Sam Yi seconded the motion. The motion passed
unanimously.
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➢ Commission Meeting Minutes of March 23, 2022
Owen made a motion to approve the minutes of the March 23, 2022 meeting; Sam seconded
the motion. The motion passed unanimously.
IV. PUBLIC COMMENT VIA ZOOM
➢ No public comments
V. GREEN EDMONDS CAMPAIGN & EARTH DAY ACTIVITIES
➢ We discussed a plans and details for the Earth Day volunteering beach cleanup:
o The public has to register for it
o We want outreach materials about the Youth Commission at the volunteer
booths
o Mara will be a lead to help coordinate supplies
■ She will pick up vests and the individually wrapped snacks
o We need to decide what snacks we want
o Potential promotional things for the Youth Commission to do at this event:
■ Post pictures on our Instagram
■ Possibly hand out info pamphlets about the Youth Commission saying
that we are recruiting
o Bring name tags for volunteers
➢ Green Edmonds campaign
o We should try to find the chalkboards around Edmonds (at the Frances Anderson
center, at restaurants), write our personal environmental pledges on them, then
post pictures to our Instagram
VI. SAM YI WASHINGTON OFFICE OF EQUITY QUARTER MEETING UPDATE
➢ Sam went to the Office of Equity quarter meeting and talked about his experience:
o At the conference, they talked about whenever we have the opportunity to
influence power, we as the youth need to take it
o Don't let people tell you you're too young to speak up
o Digital literacy is one of the priorities of the Office of Equity
o They talked a lot about how to take voices of oppressed and uplift them
■ People with privilege should use it to uplift marginalized voices
o Talked about how to address implicit bias:
■ Become aware of your own implicit bias
■ Know that the impact of bias is the same whether its explicit or implicit
o Addressed intersectionality
o Talked about how it is often expected for youth to succeed with limited equity
knowledge we have
o Talked about how the language used in a lot of legislation is very exclusionary;
and can be a roadblock for youth (and is sometimes engineered for that reason)
o Addressed the tokenization of students in diversity projects
o Address how leaders of student groups often white and wealthy and don't
represent majority of students; this is an issue that needs to be fixed
VII. SIGNUPGENIUS COMMITTEE MEETINGS CHECK -IN
➢ Sign up for a committee meeting to attend through the SignUp Genius
VIII. YOUTH & GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE SEATTLEU STATE YOUTH COURT CONFERENCE
UPDATE
➢ Audrey reported on the SeattleU State Youth Court Conference:
o What is a youth court?
■ It is a community based intervention and prevention program
■ A court for traffic offenders age 18 and under that determines the
appropriate sanction for peers and hold them accountable
■ Punishments are personalized to each individual who goes through the
youth court
■ There are youth courts for traffic, civil infractions, and school rule
violations
o Some of the benefits of youth courts are:
■ It is rewarding to see peers grow from this experience
■ It is a positive experience for offenders
o In order to start one, you need to recruit enough members to run it and it needs
to meet once a month
o If we want to set up a youth court, we need to consider if we need a budget and
what we would do with it
o We could partner with our sister youth court in Shoreline or the community
court on 99
IX. NAMI PRESENTATIONS DISCUSSION
➢ Diane will reach out for clarification about this presentation; is the Youth Commission
putting it on? do we want NAMI to come to one of our meetings?
X. FINAL PRESENTATION TO EDMONDS CITY COUNCIL INTRODUCTION
➢ We looked at our previous presentations to council and brainstormed what we should
include in our new one (what we've been doing this year, goals)
➢ Audrey, Julie, and Sam will be creating the slides and have a draft by our next meeting
➢ We should all come to the presentation, even if we aren't presenting
➢ Future goals that we want to mention in the presentation:
o Creating a youth court
o Mental health committee ideas about adding more resources to the website
o Better engagement/participation in meetings
o Get a table at the Saturday market?
o See ourselves out in community more
o Increase our social media
➢ Accomplishments that we want to mention in the presentation:
o Our streeteries statement
o How we established our initial social media presence
o The successes of committees
XI. FINAL COMMENTS
➢ Our Earth Day events should be fun!
➢ We could consider mental health and overdose prevention education work for the
Mental Health Committee and put resources about drugs on the website
XII. ADJOURNMENT
Chair Owen Lee adjourned the meeting at 7:27 PM.