09-08-2026 Youth Commission Meeting - Sep 08, 2026

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What is the agenda and who are the leaders for the Youth Commission meeting?

Rich Kazem 0:03

Youth Commission meeting September 8th, 2026. Alright, call to order on September 8th, 2026 at 6pm. Youth Commission. Roll call. Say your

Unknown 0:51

name.

Drew 0:54

Thank

Rich Kazem 1:21

you. I got an action to excuse commissioners who are absent on September 8th, 2026. Adichie Popla. And Hannah Mercado. Shrika. Shrika Gossetti.

Neha 1:47

Rich Kazem 1:48

Neha

Neha 1:49

makes

Gail Ichio 2:05

the

Neha 2:11

motion

Gail Ichio 2:11

and Anisha seconds

Neha 2:12

it.

Rich Kazem 2:18

Everyone say aye.

2:20

Aye.

Rich Kazem 2:21

Nays? Motion passes. Motion passes. Welcome to the meeting by today. My name is Rich Kazem. To my right, your left, is Gail Ichio. I'll be leading this year's 2026. 27 staff liaison. Over to my far right is also Derek Oba. He'll be overseeing this as well, but I will be your liaison for the year. All right. As I sent an earlier email, a consent of calendar. A consent in calendar, so if you want to take a look at your meeting agenda.

Rich Kazem 3:14

It is the action on the Youth Commission minutes of May 12th, 2026 meeting.

Gail Ichio 3:25

Does everyone have a copy of that?

Rich Kazem 3:27

Does everyone have a copy or pulled it up? It was one of the seven emails I sent you.

Karen 3:42

Do you

Rich Kazem 3:43

have extra copies? We do have an extra copy.

Gail Ichio 4:50

So typically when we oversee or when we're reviewing the minutes in the past month, we just kind of look for like mistakes or misspelling of your names or anything like that or any misreporting that we've captured from the last meeting. So those are the kind of things that you're looking to as you're reviewing the past minutes. As we go along the term, then you guys will be more familiar of like what is on the minutes because you will attend the meeting. So that's what you're looking for when we're reviewing the minutes. Okay? So we'll give you guys like a couple more minutes to review that then we'll ask for

Rich Kazem 5:34

an action to approve minutes.

Rich Kazem 6:23

Actions to approve minutes.

Rich Kazem 6:33

Second.

Rich Kazem 6:41

Everyone who approves the minutes, say aye. Aye. Nay. Motion passes.

Rich Kazem 7:00

We have now time for public presentation.

Rich Kazem 7:13

Public presentations? Okay, no public presentations, so we'll move forward to general business.

Rich Kazem 7:32

Okay, for general business, it's the work plan for term 2026-2027. Now,

Rafael Mandelman 7:39

you

Rich Kazem 7:48

guys have all, this is what essentially kind of shapes what our youth commission does for the community. Our commitment to the youth commission starts in September and ends in May. Now, being a part of this, this is where you guys, big or small, come up with ideas, topics that work for the residents of Santa Clara. Big or small. All right. And everything in between. Now, once again, if we put these work plans into action, we're going to have to categorize it. And make sure that you're very passionate about what you're going to work on. Because the number one thing to get something done right, you have to commit to it.

How are the previous meeting minutes reviewed and approved?

Rich Kazem 8:37

Okay. I'm going to kind of, can I call

Neha 8:43

on the

Rich Kazem 8:49

secretary again?

8:49

Okay.

Rich Kazem 8:49

I can scribe for this meeting. Sure. Thank you, ma'am. So take a deep breath, everybody, and get ready to write down ideas that you guys had that would help our Santa Clara residents. I know there's a lot of great ideas. Some people experienced things this summer. You know, maybe you were talking to some friends. Maybe you went to an event that you really could see the Youth Commission coming out and impacting that. We'd love to hear about it.

Gail Ichio 9:16

So this is a time for brainstorming, right? And then once we do all the brainstorming, we kind of get themes of what we want to do for the year. Then that's how we form committees. So there will be three different themes that you guys want to accomplish this term. And then the committees will be formed. Then you will have a choice to be part of that committee to do some of the action items that you guys have brainstormed. Does that make sense? So, throw out any idea, you know, any idea is a good idea, there's no bad

Unknown 10:06

ideas, so go. I know last year we were talking about some sort of healthy relationship workshops, and just teaching teens how to navigate their lives and protect themselves.

10:09

Yes, ma'am? Um, studies hold for students through testing time, so if you have one of those,

Karen 10:16

Um,

Drew 10:37

I think it would be nice if we could sort of continue, like, doing the collaboration with G-Corner regarding the drug prevention this year, and the crowd.