2026-11-05 - Lakewood's Promise Advisory Board

[Pre-meeting conversation with students omitted.]

>> Actually I think this is the best um

hearing ever. So, good morning,

everybody.

>> Good morning. And then, we have a new

camera in here, too. So, smile.

>> fancy.

>> That's right.

>> Hi. Hi.

>> Uh, the bar underneath.

>> Good morning.

>> [laughter]

>> Welcome. Hi.

>> Hi.

[Introductions omitted: members, staff and youth council liaisons introduced themselves by role.]

All right. So, we have

we have the

introduction, calling the order, we have

that. Um the next thing that we have are

our meeting minute approval.

Did everybody get a chance to read our

meeting minutes?

>> I move to approve the minutes as

presented.

>> Thank you. Is there a second?

>> I'll second.

>> Thank you. Oh, we both have the scratchy

voice.

>> [laughter]

>> Um all right, it's been moved and

seconded. Um

all those

um

uh for for the uh meeting minutes. Um

and then is there any discussion?

No?

All right. All those in favor of

adopting the meeting minutes, say I.

>> I.

>> I.

>> Um, any opposed?

Abstain?

>> I'll abstain.

>> [laughter]

>> Thanks. Um

Uh, all right. Um, so we have that.

Uh, and so thank you for that. I'm going

to go ahead and get back to my agenda.

Um, do do do. We have some old business

um, listed, which is a review list of

the youth youth resources.

Um, there's a couple links that were on

our um

uh, meeting minutes. Uh, I'm not meeting

minutes, but our agenda. Um, the Parks director or

the facilitator, are you sharing a little bit

more about this?

>> Definitely. Just a update. So, for folks

who weren't in the room before, um, if

you have a chance, look at those two

resource sites. So, one of the things

discussed by the group is just getting

back visibility of Lakewood's Promise

and um, ways to utilize it for that

connectivity that we want to cross the

community so that folks know what the

five promises are. So, it's in the

packet as well and um, we're able to

collaborate better on it. So,

last time we shared these two websites

as kind of

uh, models. I wouldn't even say maybe

not necessarily models, but examples

that Pierce County even has right here

in our community.

Um, my report out because we had talked

about forming a subcommittee or how we

even want to move forward with this. So,

we haven't formed an external

subcommittee yet, but was able over the

last month to pull in internal city

partners and found that human services

has had a request on the table for more

interactive website, which would help

families find the healthy start

resources. We have our, you know, youth

matrix, which is a PDF document, and

here we're asking how to make Lakewood's

Promise more interactive and accessible,

and we found that our military, our

South Sound military and community

partnership liaison has the same

requests and need for military families

cuz they want access to this

information. So, we were able to get

together,

and this is a draft document, but I'm

happy to forward and will include in

the

minutes kind of out to the group. It's

just an initial charter that identifies

the internal partners, but through our

conversation, we realized a couple

things. Uh one is that we could probably

do some more immediate things to take

our PDF lists and make them um more

interactive tiles and searchable on our

current website in the near term.

So, what you'll see in there, that's

kind of the proposed phase one is kind

of let the city get things a little bit

um stood up and interactive within the

limits of our current website, both on

the human service side and our youth

resource list.

The within the budget that's going

forward to council,

there is a proposal to modernize and

update our website to a new framework,

which would actually allow us to do a

lot more functionality.

So, uh it's good for us to build it in

our current one and then include the

migration

of it and work with the new website

providers on how to migrate it um

successfully and add the functionality

that we want. So, we feel like those are

kind of two first steps of getting just

what we have over the next year, and as

we do this website update project into

something more interactive, and then

would love to kind of at that time

convene

you all in a larger group to say now

that it's up there and we're seeing what

the functionality is with the city's

current site is this sufficient? Can we

add things into the city site or do we

believe the city site's just not going

to

be a searchable like the active youth

coalition one that's in there and that

would be look at something that becomes

more of a third-party hosting and

collaborative

build out project which of course would

then take time and resources to do. But

that was the kind of report back is let

us we can and we feel like internally

the city can take the first steps

using our current website getting some

of these and I call them tiles and if

you haven't looked at the youth to

thrive that's what my

tile reference is they just have

different providers that then you can

learn a little bit about and click on

and go to that provider's site.

So we want to build that into the 2027

work plan get this stood up over the

year and migrated to a new site and then

have something that's interactive for

everyone to talk about in terms of where

we can get should go next.

So

that's my report out any questions on

that so there was something there.

>> I thanks for taking it to the city and

having those conversations and it sounds

like there's

a good structured way to move forward

with the support of the city and I like

that yeah.

>> Absolutely and I know part of it was

like well even deciding what we want

having everyone have the same reference

point and then being able to figure out

what that'll cost in terms of time and

resources

hopefully these incremental steps help

with that.

All right that's

oh I think you're mute.

>> Any other comments

or additions to what the Parks director has shared?

And I see the folks are coming in and

we'll do an introduction um

Anything anything? you're muted.

>> I'm sorry, I'm just looking at the

website for the first time. It It's so

good. I didn't know that I've never been

on it before. Um so I'm Who put this

together? I'm curious.

>> Which one are you looking at?

>> I'm looking at the Lakewood Promise

website. Oh, all of the resource guides

and everything else like that.

>> Yes.

Yeah. So, our communications staff did

and then have worked with the facilitator on the

update to make sure the Promise

information is accurate. And then

um

as we get into the next items, we'll be

building that out, but it's really the

list of resources that we're talking

about improving and making more

interactive and it'll are kind of the

first stop. It'll look a little bit more

like that supporting youth to thrive

Pierce County site.

But as it's up, we'd love to take the

feedback. Again, if it's our on our

current site and as we improve it,

that's something that communications is

already, you know, staffed to maintain

with input from this group.

It's just if we have to change the

structure or we want to give

um other organizations, you know, access

in the back room and or to collect data

through that, um we would need a

different host and a third-party site

that we all share. So,

>> And to clarify, the Supporting Youth to

Thrive is a Pierce County website, not a

Lakewood Promise website. That's an

example of what we're hoping for.

>> That's just a yeah, an example of how a

more a site that went to encompass more

community resources

um was pulled together. So,

helps us vision a little.

>> [clears throat]

>> Thanks.

>> Ugh.

All right, cool.

Um so with that, thank you so much for

putting um that time uh into

organizing it and um talking to the

other folks to see the uh to put

together, you know, a potential team of

uh people that we can engage with.

Um

I know that we have a few folks that

walked in be uh after we made our

introductions. Would you be willing to

share your name and an introduction? And

welcome.

[Three student guests introduced themselves; names and schools omitted.]

>> Mhm, wonderful. Thank you.

Yay, welcome, welcome.

A and

uh [Name confirmation omitted.]

>> And probably I can I can just one more

thing, one of the things because with is

that why we wanted a larger interactive

website, we realized it mixes a lot of

services.

So we see it maybe breaking into one

that's more K8

after school social emotional

development activities

and focusing a separate one for the high

school and beyond that has much more of

the marketable skills and meaningful

service. So that kind of building those

out and then it becomes something maybe

teens are able to

self uh utilize the resource that is

geared towards 16 and older

um where the other ones will be a little

bit more family focused resources in the

K through 8 safe places after school in

the community. So, are using the

promises as some of those parameters and

then the healthy start has all the the

basic needs and birth to five kind of

elements. So,

five promises but three kind of

categories and working on the build out

of each of those with what we currently

have in terms of uh reference and

materials.

>> All right. Cool. And then I realized

that we have new new folks in the room

and we didn't preface this a little bit

from our conversation that we had um

last month. So, sorry about that. Um

but uh so, thank you for adding that

little bit of context um the Parks director.

With that, um any

I know that we have the next bullet is

Lakewood's Promise interactive website

and then a subcommittee.

Um so, maybe we move into that and um if

there's a

uh interest in adding or um diving in a

little deeper with this body of work

that's moving forward.

>> Well, I'll say um sorry, I kind of

rolled them all together as part of it.

We did talk about forming a subcommittee

but before

populating this group, wanted the city

to get some of our things in order with

it. So, we'll circle back as we get our

internal site set up with what we can

do, then we'll look to the subcommittee

who can help us evaluate

how um our site looks as it migrates

into the next website.

So, it's kind of timing for that.

>> Okay. Okay.

Made bad. All right, I'll put a note on

that. Thank you.

And then young people, this is for you.

What do you feel so far of the progress?

Is there anything that you

want to add,

have this have the staff consider, have

us consider?

Would it be helpful to pop the screen

Are you sharing the screen, the facilitator, so

that folks can see it if they haven't

seen the web web page yet?

>> I don't know. Hold on. Um

Let me

work on pulling that up and then I can

share the screen.

>> Okay.

Um while we have that, I don't know how

long it might take. Um

Are you almost there? I don't see

anything.

>> Um [snorts] sorry, my apologies. I don't

have the website

pulled up right off.

>> [Brief personal remark omitted.]

>> Okay.

This is a first, though. Hopefully

>> Well, yeah, next I can

>> And the Chair, I might suggest so

because part that was uh

old business and I know there's a pretty

lengthy opportunity for engagement

around the expo moving forward, so

>> Well, that's what I was trying to ask is

how Okay, there she goes.

I just want to at least let the young

people see, you know, what we're talking

about Um and then they can explore it in

the

in the email.

I don't know if everybody on the that's

here have received the email with this

with the links too.

>> And it's the supporting Youth to Thrive

versus the events. Yeah, okay. I know

you're

I know you're trying to get the full

screen.

>> And even though this is again just what

the county was able to put together and

share, I would invite if you as

proves, right? As you're looking at

different websites, this even though

this is a local one we've looked at, if

you see a good youth resource that

provides internships and work

opportunities and service opportunities

that

you were like, it would be really cool

if we had this in Lakewood, send those

because like that's what we're going to

be looking at is what other examples are

out there that might be of interest.

>> So I will just I'll click on the Active

Youth Coalition cuz this is one of the

references that we we discussed earlier

as the example so you can get a better

idea.

And you can search for different

programs. This is more focused towards

activities,

but it can be

it

can it can be upgraded.

Thank you for watching.

>> So is this already categorized by age or

is that something you need to go over?

>> It is.

>> That county one is. Yeah.

So what we do, we can model after some

of these in

the tiles themselves give a little bit

more of a description and that's there's

a difference between the two sites and

tiles is kind of a description and you

got to do a little bit more

you can put keywords in, but the Active

Youth Coalition one

you can search by age and location of

where it's held and that kind of stuff.

So, again, I think we're going to end up

kind of more on the tile one to start,

but then we can evaluate

what type of searching back end. And

that takes how you how the website is

structured and what it allows is a

different tool. It's kind of a different

operating system.

>> I can follow up after and make sure that

the links are sent out so you can

revisit the websites.

>> I just really like it. And I like how

you do have that like um

age and like aspect to it cuz I know

there's a lot of times where you know,

when I was younger like I would see an

opportunity and be like, "Oh my gosh,

this is amazing." And then I would do

more digging on my own and then I was

like, "Oh, you have to be X amount of

age." Or you oh, I'm I'm too old for

this program.

>> Yeah.

>> I think now the only thing to consider

is like actually getting youth to like

be aware of it once it's up. Just cuz I

feel like that's always the big like

disconnect. Cuz I feel like there's so

many wonderful opportunities out there

on like other pages that are like that

that none of us have like ever heard

about or seen and that we wish we did.

So, now it's really like what's kind of

just that marketing aspect once that's

up and out there.

>> Yeah.

Yeah. And so, we build I think so make

it so people know. And I think that's

why one of we did want probably have two

separate databases from the younger ages

and and high school and beyond so that

you're searching things that are

relevant to those age groups.

I saw someone saying something.

>> Yeah, so I'm just wondering the youth in

the room, have you guys looked at this

website?

>> Uh before you

>> Oh, so I think you guys should look at

it and give us your feedback on what

makes it more interesting for you guys.

Cuz like it says youth program matrix. I

don't know if those words necessarily

resonate with you guys. Like as a youth,

I just want to see what's fun to do in

Lakewood. You know, the skateboard park

should be on. Things like that. Um to me

it looks like the the website is

awesome. And it just seems like it

should be more youth more youth oriented

for things that you guys might want to

see on there.

The Pierce County I was just looking at

the Pierce County site. That looks like

it might be a little more youth

oriented. But to me this looks more

adult oriented. Is that what we're going

for? Are we going for a website that

looks like something that you guys might

want to look at?

Like agenda and minutes, I don't I'm

sure we have to have that on there, but

I doubt that the youth of Lakewood want

to look at that.

They want to look at what's there for

me. What's fun for me to do in Lakewood?

What resources are there that I can

utilize?

So I think if you guys look at the

website, I'd love to hear what you guys

have to say about it. And it's an

awesome start. I Like I said, I didn't

know it existed, but it looks great.

>> You got it.

So definitely with our current website

and the other two will be sent out. Like

say in the first you'll see our current

website change and things that we can

change within its structure. We

definitely are looking at because your

point most of the youth activities are

embedded kind of further down that you

didn't know was there.

Um

in terms of how how it searches and all

that kind of stuff that would be a

future iteration of the website. Yeah.

But content should should matter. Yeah.

>> And then there's the only thing

Look at the way they can send it out.

They like is machine talking about all

the things putting in.

>> Third spaces on there because that's

what it sounded like if she was talking

about this eight park on the master

plan. So it would also be the third

spaces on it.

As well.

>> Well, so this is exactly the sub

committee in the future work once we get

our site elevated to that point and then

that becomes a question of what all can

we show on that, you know, because if

people want mapping and different

things, that requires

a whole different

set of

resources in terms of the infrastructure

of the website and how that information

gets on there. [clears throat]

So, and this is This is not being solved

today. This is like the start of a

project and we're going to follow it all

the way through to the iterations of

completion. Yeah.

>> Yeah, and I think that from the

conversation a student had about

their project is that um

uh the internships and vol- you know,

vol- and shadowing job shadowing

opportunities, things like that uh would

be really advantageous for young people

to connect with. So, I'm just sharing

I'm sorry. I'm just sharing

that um because that also requires a lot

of thinking about how, you know, how to

get that set up on the back end for a

website to be able to search um and and

be useful

um for for um the end users, which are,

you know, the students and then also

businesses might want to see how they

can put their internships or volunteer

opportunities or things like that um for

it. Um

So, yeah.

>> Thank you.

>> Good. Thank you. Um so, um so, yeah.

I I don't know. I think that's

planting the seed for you, the Parks director.

Anything else? I think this needs to

have an agenda space for next month. Uh

I don't know if people are able to come

next month, but if people are able to

come next month, then that gives

everybody some time to look through and

think about as a processor. I I would

need that and the facilitator, um you can make

sure that you have everybody's email so

that um you can email all of that out to

folks, too.

>> Absolutely.

>> Does that sound like a good plan? Will

we see you in December?

>> Yes. Yes.

>> It's really the third, yeah.

>> Yay! I love it. Love it. Love it.

All right. So, um

uh this section, are we good on with um

comments and then we can move on to new

business?

Okay. All right. So, new business is our

Expo.

Safe Spaces to continue our conversation

with

Safe Spaces.

Um I'll go ahead and let

um the staff kind of do a overview to

make sure we're all on the same page of

what we've discussed and then we can um

add more time to discuss

other ideas and of course your um your

date that you have.

Take it away.

>> Yep.

Um so, we um are planning to move

forward with

Lakewood's Promise. Um

um

possibility. Sorry, can you

>> Wait, the possibilities.

>> And it will be March 13th

at the McGavick Conference Center.

Um and we are in the initial phases of

the planning process and so

there you know, we will be determining

more, but that is where we have landed.

Um

the goal is to invite Lakewood

providers.

Um this is a an event for

the the community of Lakewood for youth

in Lakewood. Um

and we we would like um

help reaching it

uh

identifying which providers we would

like to invite um to get this moving

forward.

>> Is that kind of going back to what

a student has said, visibility, right?

Has been

an issue and while the advisory board

has been meeting, most of the community

had lost sight of the wagon and lost

sight and even though we have this

provider list, if you ask any of the

providers, they wouldn't even

necessarily know that they're on the

Lakewood Promise site.

And so, between the website and hosting

an expo,

which you know, part of the date is

dictated by McGavick Center availability

to us. But to have it the expo,

inviting all the service providers that

are on the list and engaging them and as

part of the invite, letting them know

that it's part of Lakewood's Promise and

we want this them to be an active part

of Lakewood's Promise and

cross-promoting. So, this is something

where a list that it's on a website that

most people don't know about, right?

We're like, we need to make it

interactive online, but we also have to

have an annual opportunities for

families to come. And this spring

opportunity is one where it's leading up

summer as well. So, even though it's

year-round possibilities,

being able to see what's coming up for

the center the summer, know what's in

the community year-round, and again see

it as both of those two age

representation beyond summer activities

and activities after school for K

through 8. There's also the young adults

who are looking for employment and

looking at having employers there,

having the chamber there, having

internship possibilities. So, it'll be

very introductory kind of in terms of

the model and opportunity for folks

being invited this first year in 2027,

but we as that grows, people are having

more opportunities prepared to share at

that expo and kind of a one-stop

opportunity to connect and meet with

people and learn about their internships

and apply, right? Because often those

applications are all done in April, May

or so that you're ready to start in

June, July, August. So,

that's the goal. And there's a lot of

great I mean, I think the technical

colleges have done some expos before.

And I know we've heard from a lot of

youth they get forwarded things, but

they're in Tacoma and different

locations.

Um I think Clover Park just had one, but

this one really is going to be geared

about helping to plan for the summer and

next fall what those next opportunities

are. And just uh again, these are two

platforms now to deliver the promise and

bring providers into deliver the promise

cuz ultimately they're the ones who are,

right? As we said this board we're about

advertising it, promoting it,

coordinating, but most of the services

are delivered through higher education

and nonprofits and the sport

associations,

but it's how do you find them, right?

And how do you find them when you need

to find them for making those decisions?

>> Mhm.

You know, we had done some talking about

engaging our community and engaging our

community differently around safe

spaces, which has been is

looks like it's the focus of this one.

Um and so it could be opportunity for us

to really

takes

give some thought about what, you know,

is there a program or structure or you

We talked about even signs in the

windows, you know, and and what it takes

to be a safe space and to acknowledge

that. Uh and

um so I think

because this is in March, we should not

waste the opportunity to really plan out

what we would

some visioning of what

of

uh

what being a safe space looks like and

what we're asking businesses to be and

or to declare or to

uh

signal, you know, or whatever it needs

to be. So I think at this point uh

there would just need to be some plan

good planning around that, I think, uh

as a group. Yeah.

>> Mhm.

>> Yeah.

So uh anybody in that one kind of is

ready, I'd say, for a subcommittee in

terms of there's folks who want to work

along side of the facilitator. Like we can get

the invitations out, but part of this,

when we say it is more

not just you want to be part of an expo,

right?

>> Right.

>> Do you want to

We want to educate you on Lakewood's

promise, and you know, are we giving

decals at that point? Are we talking

about what the what's, you know, sharing

these promises with them and how they

are being an active part of it.

>> Yeah.

>> It'll make a big It'll make a big

difference in

Maybe cuz she's next to me, can you read

what it says for promise two and safe

places?

>> Um

it says, Lakewood is committed to

providing safe, structured, and

supportive environments where young

people can learn, explore, and build

healthy relationships.

Safe places include homes, schools,

local parks, recreation facilities,

after-school programs, libraries, and

summer sites. Community partners such as

the Boys and Girls Club, YMCA programs,

and neighborhood-based youth activities

also play an important role in ensuring

youth have places where they are

welcome, supervised, and encouraged to

grow.

>> Thank you.

>> Thanks.

>> So, I mean, a lot of it is the

structured and organized activities

that'll be shared at the expo. And then

the

youth council project, right, are those

additional third spaces that are more

informal, but are the businesses and the

places to drop it. So,

>> Right.

>> going into this, you know, coming in the

school year and out of the advance, it's

now we have this third spaces project,

which will be great to integrate as once

they finish it, a website, and an expo

as a way to engage people, and really

kind of validate our service list,

right? If we've got them on the website,

we also want to make sure that they're

there to meet and introduce their

services to people directly in the

community at the expo.

>> So, I'm curious how this overlaps with

with um I know the youth have done a

summit in the spring, as well. And I

think that's a place where youth um are

already gathered, and we're trying to

push young people to attend that. So,

I'm wondering, is this This is a

separate event, it sounds like, that's

kind of just

um bringing young people of all ages, so

not just middle and high school

students, but youth of all ages and

their families together to learn about

opportunities. Um is Is a youth summit

on the schedule for this spring as well,

or is that still to be determined?

>> Yes, it is. Um and it's the third Yeah.

>> Okay. That's right. Thank you. Yeah.

>> Yeah. Cuz I was just looking up like,

when did we host the youth summit? It

was in April.

>> Yeah, the third Saturday in April is the

youth summit. Um and these guys can

speak to it and you want me to as well.

But so true, right? This is an addition,

and the expo is much broader and kind of

anchored by the Lakewood's promise to

have the K through 8 as well as the high

school opportunities in setting things

up for the summer. Now, the summit, uh

the summit coordinator's very excited, who's the

coordinator, because she's like, well,

having

youth council members be able to attend

and go to the expo,

um she sees that then the next step

being able to advertise the summit at

the expo, and then the summit continue

to be very hands-on and oriented towards

some of the life skills and other

opportunities. So, there Some of those

activities might um offer a double

opportunity, but there's some very

distinctive things between the two

events. Well, the summit is really

exclusively, right, older

um and driven by your own agenda, but

you might meet people and learn things

at the expo that you're like, we want

them at the summit, or can you bring

um a more hands-on activity related to

succeeding in your program at the

summit, or those type of things.

>> Well, I

Yeah, and I I really love this because I

really believe that

events, very intentionally planned

events can help bring our community

together.

And I think having, you know, the safe

space and some themes of letting the

vendors and the

the attendees and even the even our

community, our neighbors to really

realize what this is envisioning so that

we can have a, you know, a thriving, you

know, Lakewood that has all of the We

don't need to have our family

our folks move and go to DuPont or

Tacoma for their activities. We can

build them right here and and connect.

And so I'm I always love

love events and see that this that these

can be signature events that Lakewood,

you know, additional signature events

that Lakewood provides that leads into

all of the other things and then really

gets our whole community connected

and

and and get to know each other. So I I

am all for

things like this and then the

intentionality of building it and I'm

with um um

a member and we talked about it last month

is to kind of have um some to really

work intentionally and this is like a

subcommittee and probably need to ask

more people for feedback and also the

young people is when we talk about

having the decals

there's a vetting process and of course

that adds more risk, but then it's also

important because we want to make sure

that people are committed to you know,

these promises

and be be those safe places and caring

adults. Um and so I think that whether

or not in in March we would be ready to

roll that out,

but I definitely think that that is

something to be working on to see if not

we roll it out in March or or we roll it

out at Summer Fest

because we want to be intentional about

what that could look like.

So, yeah.

So, those are just some some thoughts of

of what we can do to

to really get this red wagon out there.

Make sure the city has a big red wagon.

>> [laughter]

>> So, I guess

Further conversation is helping me

understand it a little bit better. So,

this is a youth-focused thing cuz at

first I would which is great.

I'm wondering if Saturday's the best

time to do it since we're going to have

another Saturday later or would an

afternoon like a

be better as students get out of school

and that's peace. You know, I don't I

just don't know within it, but I had

been thinking my first understanding of

it was, you know, we had had

we had brought together service

providers in the past to talk about how

we

improve our abilities, you know, and to

be

I guess to serve young people and be

part of

of

Lakewood supporting the what the youth

need and want. And that's not this,

right? So, this is going to be focused

already with the providers coming in and

young people coming

to participate in that. And I just want

to make sure that there is energy and

that there's, you know,

youth-oriented speaker at one end of the

room or there's music, there's, you

know, whatever needs to be to be a good

scenario there. And

this Saturday seemed like the best time.

And have you guys been involved in

planning this so far? Good. All right.

Good.

Okay.

Excellent. Okay. Very good.

Yeah. All right.

So, you're you're planning both this and

the

spring conference too in April or or the

spring thing?

>> I don't I think

>> They're planning the summit.

>> Summit.

>> In April.

>> Okay. So, they're they

um

are

We're just starting the expo piece. So,

how active they're going to be involved

in the expo piece which I know. So, now

you got to separate the two.

Um

To your question, was one of the things

that we were considering is like is a 4

to 7 on a Friday and make it more of a

fairish, you know, type of thing or even

during the week. That was not available.

So, there's a little bit where

um I guess I guess I said the 13th kind

of dictated the the day

>> Right.

>> Um

that was available at McGavick. And so

>> And I will add I did a little research

because the goal is to to invite

providers in Lakewood that are offering

services such as camps or sports

programs or just resources.

Um and the earlier that we can do that

in the year, it's it it's very common in

February and March early March to have

these types of events

to give that information ahead of time

to the families if they do want to have

time to register. And so that and and as

you we approach summer,

if there are any older students looking

for opportunities, this is a great time

to start getting those, you know,

enhancing resumes,

getting tips on how to interview, lining

up internships, apprenticeships, you

know, all of these things. It's a good

time.

Um Saturdays was sort of the overall

um

when talking with the summit coordinator,

a good time she she recommended that as

well would be best.

>> Okay.

>> All right. Thank you.

>> So,

>> to the point it's like newly presented

to us today.

>> Mhm. Mhm.

>> Yeah.

So now

>> of the logistics of

can we do it, how would we do it, and

can we get the space before then

bringing it. And I think

in December then in terms of the

invitation and vendor packet type stuff

we can as part of old business now

you're going to see these three

projects, the website, the third space,

and the expo being something like

progressively where we at with that and

have definitely input points on

who we're inviting and what what the

packet or kind of the introduction to

Lakewood Promise is

>> Okay.

>> for it.

Um

Yeah.

So there's a lot of intentions of the

group like even marketing and rolling

out different pieces and it takes time

to do each of these things and we'll

keep rolling them forward and and

learn and assess as the first ones, you

know, comes out in the first expo and

then see with an early start and now

people I think I find that people some

people work well conceptually, right? On

the ideas and then others it's like, oh,

that was good, but we should do this

next year or we need that or that. And

then, you know, usually the floodgates

open and that's great cuz then everybody

wants to

help put it on and really craft it. But

I think your point of that really is

about

matchmaking a little bit, right?

Bringing the providers and all the

opportunities on Lakewood before the

families.

Um so that they know what's available

and know what the deadlines are and can

get connected, but through that process

we're going to be forming more

relationships with people who

are providing those services. Some of

them are getting city funding to do

those services, you know, some of them

are using our spaces to do those

services, so Yeah.

>> It's an interesting intersection too

because in that March timeline you might

thinking both about like we're offering

this camp or whatever, But we're also

hiring people,

staff.

So you've got you've got one booth but

two different like functions about it as

well.

>> It truly is a community event that

benefits all sites.

That is the goal.

>> So I do think in the title

instead of LPAB Expo, you know, that we

have something that

identifies it is

what it is. Like whether it's Youth and

Family Resource Expo or if it is

connecting you know. So because a lot of

expos are

come find a job or you know, what is it?

So I think some clarity in the title and

then descriptive things will help.

>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

>> Which you'll definitely see. So um you

know, there there were more little focus

groups with youth and other groups cuz

even when we said summer, they're like,

well then we think it's only summer. So

kind of the Lakewoods Promise Pathways

to Possibilities

>> Okay.

>> is what the um

another advise the park board and youth

council who viewed this concept before

coming here

>> Okay. Okay.

>> recommended.

>> Okay.

>> But refinement, you can talk about names

all day, right?

>> [laughter]

>> Yeah.

>> And and [clears throat] I

I think that one thing that this can

um really stand out as a signature event

is the intentionality to strengthen our

community.

Um make it healthier, safe, caring. I

think that those themes are important

because or else it's going to be another

one of those expos where it's

transactional.

And um I would love to see it as

as themed with with some verbage um so

that people know that the intentionality

is really for us to connect with each

other, connect with services, connect

with relationships, connect with jobs,

whatever the thing is, but it's really

about connection. I think that's that's

what the Lakewood's promise in the past

has been. Uh someone said something.

Um

and maybe put in put youth in the

>> title.

>> Okay.

>> No, I didn't mean to interrupt. Just

maybe we put youth in the title,

Lakewood's promise to youth. Cuz people

I mean it's the point is getting people

to know Lakewood's promise. They have to

dig deep into the text if they don't

already know.

>> Yeah, yeah.

>> As we move forward, [clears throat]

um we'll have the subcommittees and I

know I think these are all great input

and I'm actually very excited to hear um

all these suggestions and I was hoping

that this is where we would head um and

then we can come together and really um

as a subcommittee focus on how we want

this to move forward.

>> Mhm.

Yeah.

Love it. So, are you asking for

volunteers to be on the subcommittee?

>> Um yes, I would like to move forward

with

>> Yay! Well, I love events. So, I was

sitting here this morning going, "Oh,

you know, what are we going to do? We

need to do, you know, something." So,

I'm excited that um

that we have an event and we just have

to try it. You just have to build it and

fine-tune it and then um and then the

magic happen. Um and so, yeah.

I'd love to be part of supporting this

process.

>> I will follow after um this meeting

today. I'll follow up and um um send out

more information and and then anyone

that is wanting to join, we can can

focus that after this meeting.

>> I mean it's just to clarify cuz the

touch points, the report outs will still

happen at this monthly meeting, but

obviously things have to go very fast

between now and March. So, you know what

being on the subcommittee means is uh

you know, drafts and communications in

between the meeting that you'll be part

of that and then everyone will be

briefed on where it is at the monthly

meeting and then some of those

activities in between. So, it's probably

a couple of emails that are potentially

a another

quick Zoom to go over different

materials and confirm what's going out.

And I would just add as part of that

then those who aren't on the

subcommittee where can support and

encourage but you know, we can't

necessarily

undo or take the group back from

decisions that got made there in terms

of getting this accomplished.

But can definitely all be part of the

debrief and um how to keep improving it

to advance Liquid's promise to you.

>> Mhm. So, probably week week to two weeks

um cadence.

>> [clears throat]

>> You know, we just finished a conference

and we met in a two-week cadence and

that helped make decisions and then we

were able to you know, move things

forward.

>> Anybody else?

>> Be happy to be on part of the planning,

too.

>> Yeah. Thank you.

>> Okay. Well, you can let the facilitator know if

you'd like to be involved.

Um

and so anything else about the

conference before we move on to the next

um piece?

>> Nope.

>> Okay. Looks like the next bullet is um

membership and recruitment and then

officer nominations.

Um we have that. Do we vote the not the

um the officers at this meeting or the

December meeting? We don't remember the

bylaws.

>> Uh the December meeting has the election

scheduled but um nominations so that

>> Mhm.

>> Um a slate is known.

>> Okay. Cool. Cool.

Um so, I'm going to I kind of added the

membership recruitment um to the agenda

because I think we it would be cool to

um

to think about uh

expanding our membership because it

actually is supposed to have more than

what we have currently. Um, and so I I

brought that up and because my my other

hat is about um

uh

intentionality of volunteers and skills

and passion and all of that um even

thinking about what it means because a

lot of these boards and commissions it

just says, here's a board and

commission, this is what we do, but

we're not really intentionally asking

for, you know, um

uh what what does that entail, you know,

except for the monthly meeting or

something like that that's for. Um, and

so my thought is to also have a

conversation of what kind of people we

would want to um

engage with to recruit for so that we

have kind of a profile um and be more

intentional to say, hey, you know, we're

missing this voice from our board um

uh you know, and then find them and then

bring them on

um to this advisory board. Uh so that

that was just um some thoughts of

conversation

um

uh that that we could potentially do so

we can fill our our um board

uh with a few more people.

And that actually is like a

brainstorming session in itself. Um, and

so that could be something that we can

work on or if people are passionate or

if I feel like I have more energy just kind

of reach out to a couple of you and and

have some conversations um and and kind

of present something, you know, um next

month. Um,

and so that those are just some some

thoughts on that.

Any any

any thoughts?

No? Okay. Well,

I will be I'll be messaging you. Okay,

a member?

>> Guys, I was just going to say I think we

should talk about recruitment. I mean,

we have some perpetual board members or

advisory committee members

um

and filling community spots um with

community members I think would be good.

>> Yeah.

>> So, we don't have time to talk about it

today or come up with the next

action item, but we should definitely do

that and I think we've

we haven't done that intentionally in

the past at least in the time that I've

been here. Um so, I think it'd be good

to start.

>> I'll be meeting with you first.

>> [laughter]

>> All right.

>> Perfect.

>> We have had uh more intentionality about

other

uh perpetual spots on here, too, like um

Boys & Girls Club had been represented

in the past, the library had been

represented in the past and

um you know, so identifying those will

be an important piece to

and then broader community as well.

>> And I think they've they've been

represented on this board, but as

community members. So, like my role on

this board is as a community member, not

a I mean, it's

in my capacity I joined, but um I'm not

a perpetual member. I'm I'm just on a

three-year term or two three-year terms.

>> Yeah.

>> Okay.

>> Mhm.

>> Just to add a couple things to that, so

one, the applications are out.

So, know that while this is you know, we

think it's good to have the conversation

um

and feel as board members you can if you

think somebody would be a good fit,

share that information and let them

know.

Um and then it'll stay out, you know,

for a while.

If there is a thought, which always goes

back and I think it's good annually to

look at the I call it the bylaws, but in

the code

um to the Chair's point, other than defining

a few perpetual seats, there's not a lot

of It's not a big promotional

recruitment packet like you might find

for, you know, a position where you're

trying to bring somebody to your

community. It just Those are the

governing kind of rules.

>> Yeah.

>> If the group felt like there should be

other perpetual seats, then that would

be a recommendation to change code that

needs to kind of come forward through

that official package. Other than that,

as this is going, if you really if we

think, "Gee, I wish so so and so was at

the table to help with this expo or

whatever it might be." And I think as we

invite people to the expo, there's the

other opportunity to say, you know, as

they get curious and want to come and

sit in on meetings or help join, that

might attract them to understand and

know how they can contribute to the

group as well.

Um

the one thing is that the is and I

shared with the Chair as a lot of it is

going to be sharing the message and

recruitment. And if we are looking for

specific folks, we can share that with

the mayor, but also part of it's going

to be the word of mouth that comes

through here. And I say that because we

don't review as a group or even the

staff the applications.

The mayor appoints to them and meets

with them. So, if there's a message

about you know, if we had 20 applicants

and he needed to select between the 20

for four seats, we can share messages

about what is of interest. But a lot of

times in the application, people will

say, "I you know, I was approached by

somebody or I learned this and I cuz it

says, 'Why are you applying and how do

you think you can benefit?'"

>> I will clarify also, I did send a few

community providers

the application and encouraged them to

spread the word, such as the YMCA, the

Boys and Girls Club, um, and a few other

groups. So.

>> Very good.

>> And I also I love yes, and I totally as

I said in the email that I know that

this is advisory and we're just

providing advice.

But then I also know that we've been on

this board for a couple of us have been

on this board for a while and so we

would be able to,

um, I like to make decisions with

strategy and intentionality and so

that's why this you know, how some more

conversation in this as as to hey

everybody come on to this, you know,

kind of thing. Um, and so there's there

was that was why that. Okay, so we have

1 minute. Officer nominations.

[Discussion of officer nominations omitted; names of nominees removed.]

>> All right, so okay, we were over time.

Um so, think about it. Tell the other

let the other folks know. Um thank you

all for your time and I look forward to

December. Should we bring like little

treats for December? Can we Can we do

that in um meet in person for

>> [laughter]

>> Yeah, we can make sure there's some

Yeah, I'm personally here.

>> Absolutely. And I just want to clarify

the nominations resulted in um a single

slate of the current chair and vice chair.

And no other alternatives were put on

the table at this point. Is that

correct?

>> I thought one of the youth council

members was interested.

>> Well, I think it would be the only one

who could serve as an officer and he's

pondering it. Can tell he's uh

>> Yeah.

>> Hey, I'm fun to work with.

>> [laughter]

>> Yeah, that's right.

>> Yeah. Okay, sorry, back to you, chair.

>> Okay, all right then, with that um thank

you so much. Sorry I wasn't able to make

it there.

um and uh and then we'll see you all in

December and then we'll be in touch um

with with any other comments and so

forth. So, thank you everybody for

serving and being um there at 7:30 in

the a.m.

>> Thank you.

>> Thank you all. Thank you.

>> Enjoy your uh rest of the month.

>> Yeah.

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