2026-09-16 - Youth Commission

00:06.63] All right, today is September the 16th, and it is now 4.15 p.m. [00:11.81] Do I have a motion to begin this meeting? [00:15.77] I motion. [00:17.63] Do I have a second? [00:21.47] I second

that. [00:24.38] All in favor say aye. [00:29.72] Aye. [00:30.27] Aye. [00:31.29] Any opposed? [00:32.99] All right, great. [00:35.28] So this is the last formal Youth Commission meeting of the year

that will necessarily occur, [00:44.10] and we will begin by just reviewing the agenda, which is comprised of approving last meeting's [00:53.39] minutes, the chair report, the staff liaison and

council liaison reports, and voting and [00:59.97] reviewing and voting the annual report. [01:03.75] Ultimately, we'll review this term and discuss anything, any last matters, and after that,

01:09.94] we'll adjourn. [01:10.65] All right, so I have a motion to approve last meeting's minutes. [01:16.73] I motion that. [01:21.50] Any seconds? [01:25.12] Second. [01:27.58] All in favor say

aye. [01:31.69] Aye. [01:33.70] Aye. [01:34.59] Any opposed? [01:35.68] All right, great. [01:38.08] So now I will present my report. [01:41.88] [member] and I worked on the report, the annual report

in the presentation this summer, [01:47.94] and we're very glad that now we get a chance to vote on it. [01:51.70] But other than that, I don't believe there is anything else I have to report.

01:57.34] All right. [02:03.03] [staff], [staff], do you have something to add? [02:07.30] Yeah, I can add something. [02:09.30] Summer camp season has concluded right before school season was

supposed to start. [02:16.08] We had a great summer. [02:18.36] Kids had a lot of fun. [02:20.58] We are now in our fall season, so we have a lot of fall classes, sports leagues, [02:25.70] fall

programming, and some fall events that we have coming up. [02:30.80] We also have a middle school's fall festival scheduled for-- give me one second. [02:39.47] Sorry, I don't have that on me-- on

October 1st at that school. [02:45.73] So if you guys would like to attend that with us, it's highly encouraged because it's a way [02:51.54] for you guys to network with the kids in middle school

from the city of Rockville. [02:57.25] I will also be sharing with you guys some events that [02:59.89] [school], [school], [school], and [school] may have, [03:04.96] along with [school]. [03:07.75]

So keep looking out for that once we get invited from the schools when attending. [03:12.79] That's it for me. [03:13.95] [staff], do you have anything? [03:16.75] I was just going to say, if anybody

needs SSL hours at the Nature Center, [03:20.83] we could use volunteers for our Halloween event, which is on October 17th. [03:26.95] So reach out to me if you are looking for some SSL hours that we

have with you. [03:32.29] Hey, and I don't believe that our council liaison is here, so we'll table that. [03:44.29] But now, was everybody able to view and read the animal report? [03:52.70] Does

anybody have any suggestions or edits they would like to make? [04:00.77] All right. [04:08.62] If nobody has any ideas or edits they'd like to make, we can now vote on it. [04:15.38] Do I have a

motion to approve the report from 2025 to 2026? [04:22.50] Motion. [04:23.23] Do I have a second? [04:30.72] All in favor, say aye. [04:37.09] Aye. [04:37.85] Aye. [04:39.11] Any opposed? [04:40.00]

All right. [04:45.05] So with that, the 2025 to 2026 report for the Youth Commission is now approved and will [04:51.94] be sent on to the Mayor and Council. [04:55.84] With regard to reviewing this

year's term, correct me if I mistake any of this, [05:05.97] but this is the last formal meeting. [05:09.15] But if you all are willing to stay on until the next term members are fully confirmed,

05:16.73] then we can have another meeting in October. [05:20.16] But as of now, we don't have anything for that yet. [05:25.55] And the Mayor and Council are still working. [05:28.50] Sorry?

05:29.21] Go for it, yeah. [05:30.17] The Mayor and Council are still working on approving and reviewing the applications [05:35.07] and scheduling interviews for the next term members. [05:38.57] So

please stay tuned for that. [05:40.86] Do we know approximately by when we'll hear back? [05:44.56] Unfortunately, we do not. [05:46.08] We are working closely with the City Clerk's office to speed

that process along. [05:51.36] Once we have more information from them or when that process will be started/completed, [05:58.08] we will let you guys know and just to add, in terms of the extension

of your current terms, [06:04.04] [staff] will be sending you guys, if you guys are all willing to continue to serve, [06:08.92] she'll be sending out some information, [06:11.72] basically letting

you know that your term has been extended. [06:15.23] It will provide an expiration date. [06:19.17] So that would be forthcoming soon. [06:21.81] Not sure when, but it'll be definitely before your

term expires. [06:27.43] Most of you expire on October 1st. [06:29.59] I believe two of you expire November 1st. [06:33.01] So she may send it to those that expire on October 1st before those that

expire on November 1st. [06:40.79] But that is TBD and I'll keep you guys posted via email on that process. [06:48.13] All right. [06:49.87] I believe that's all for pre-doing next year's term.

06:52.91] Is there anything else I should add? [06:54.17] Oh, we did a good job. [06:57.00] All right. [06:58.06] Does anybody have any old or new business they would like to discuss? [07:08.47] Any

school updates? [07:12.60] Actually, I actually want to bring up the town halls because I know we did the twin brick, [07:22.75] but I'm not sure if you have to wait for the new council to be a youth

commission to be admitted [07:30.61] and start talking about that topic. [07:33.47] But how would we go forward with planning those two other town halls that we still have? [07:41.28] Great question.

07:42.20] I believe that is something that will be only seen covered by the second term. [07:48.64] It's the new Boeing term. [07:51.27] But as of now, we don't currently have any plans for ideas and

how we'll be pursuing them. [08:04.42] Just to add to that. [08:05.30] So since you guys, since your terms will be extended, [08:08.79] you guys will be basically reappointed to continue serving up

until a certain point. [08:14.45] So even though you may only have six individuals that are currently on the commission, [08:17.57] you guys can still continue to do your business as long as you have

all six of you attend [08:23.84] every public meeting. [08:26.59] So you can still continue to plan those events. [08:31.09] And then whenever we finalize the appointments for the positions that we

have vacant, [08:37.17] they'll have to jump right in and start where we left off. [08:43.45] Thank you. [08:45.49] So we'll talk more about that if we have another meeting prior to the beginning of

the next term. [08:51.10] Yep. So I think right now, our next meeting is scheduled for October 14th. [08:58.05] So we have meetings every second Wednesday of the month. [09:03.72] So we'll communicate

with you guys to make sure that you're all able to attend. [09:07.32] But if one individual is not able to attend, then we'll need to cancel or reschedule. [09:12.07] If my understanding is correct,

that next meeting is going to be with the new commission members. [09:18.44] That is the goal. [09:19.24] It can't promise anything. [09:20.44] So it may just be us. [09:26.56] Is there anything else

somebody would like to discuss? [09:29.28] Anything that's going on at school that you would like to share with those commission members [09:36.25] with the public? [09:42.24] All right. [09:43.33]

With that, then we can adjourn this meeting. [09:46.74] Do I have a motion to adjourn? [09:49.05] Motion. [09:52.25] Do I hear a second? [09:56.19] Second. [09:56.98] All right. [09:59.00] All in

favor? [10:00.03] Aye. [10:02.84] Aye. [10:03.29] Aye. [10:04.25] Any opposed? [10:05.92] All right. [10:08.35] With that, then the meeting is adjourned. [10:10.83] Thank you all, everybody.

10:12.03] Thank you for a great term. [10:14.80] We got so much accomplished. [10:16.32] And I'm really excited to see where we all go with this next year. [10:20.41] Great.