Clerk, do we have quorum? >> No. Ask her to do the roll call and then she'll tell you if you have quum. >> Oh, okay. Can you please do roll call, madam clerk? Youth mayor Kotier, >> present. >> Youth Vice Mayor St. Lair, >> present. >> Youth Councilwoman Jess, >> present. >> Youth Councilwoman
Spence >> here. >> Youth Councilwoman Liberte >> present. >> Um, youth manager Caesar, >> just the council. >> Okay. Okay. Mayor, we have quorum. >> Thank you. May we all please rise for the pledge of allegiance. All right. And then we always face the
flag. >> And then somebody start it off. >> I pledge allegiance >> to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice
for all. All right, continue the meeting. >> Um, >> madam cler the first item. >> Um, I would now like to move on to the agenda for today. Um, madame clerk.
Okay. Tab a discussion of youth council joint event with myar youth council. >> Open it to the public. >> Open to public. >> All right. Good evening. uh youth council. It's great to see you guys here today. Uh my name is Paul Brazil and I
am the youth council leazison. Um the reason I'm here before you tonight, uh as you can see on your discussion item, uh we have a tentative proposal to uh partner with the Myar Youth Council. Uh this vision was uh is a vision of our
youth coun our council woman Mary S. May Irvin uh she would really like for us to partner with another municipality youth council to bring a uh program to fruition. Um the reason I selected Myar is because we've had a past conversation with the city of Myar Youth Council. Uh
they've assisted me uh in getting a lot of the ideas that we've done here in North Miami and of course they are on board. Um the proposal is basically to do a joint program to benefit both youth councils. Uh right now at the moment um
they agreed that they would do a a joint program here in the city. Um and I'm still pinging to see if they would also like to do uh either the same program or a different program in their municipality. Uh so this item before you is for you to have discussions to see uh
which event you think would be beneficial uh for both youth councils to see uh what you can uh come up with tonight. Uh I encourage you to uh explore all options that you think would be beneficial for both youth council. Uh
essentially it's a event that we would host uh the city would host it. We would advertise it as the myar youth council in coll in collaboration with the north youth council. Um I know that majority of you guys will be uh exiting the youth
council in May. So time is in the essence. We're in mid-March. So, this is essentially something we would like to do uh as early as April, which is next month. Uh to buy time, I suggest we do it maybe uh the last week of April or
the first week of May. Um and if you have any questions, I'll be here to answer, but uh I empower you to come up with a great idea. Thank you. >> Thank you. Um I don't know if any of my colleagues have any ideas of the
programs we can implement for this year with the um Mara Youth Council. All right. Um for me, I know um two years ago when I joined the youth council, we did a we did an event called
the youth summit and basically we had speakers come in and talk about leadership. Um it was basically youths in North Miami. I would really like to have that event again because um I
thought it was pretty fruitful. we had um a lot of people come in and we also kind of like um promoted the youth council during that event as well. So, and I think this is a good time for us to start talking about promoting the youth council since a lot of us are
leaving this year and we do want this thing to still this program to still um be a thing and we don't want it to close after we leave. So, I think I would I think that's a good idea to implement for with the Miramar Youth Council. And
I don't know if anyone else has any ideas. Stacy can't be the only one with ideas. Either give her feedback or some type of ideas. It doesn't have to be the youth summit. Maybe you have something else. But our mayor can't be the only one
that's privilege to speak. Yes. What onto it? Why can't we make it like a potluck style? I mean, I think it it What do you mean potluck style?
like food in terms of food like have food there. I mean we're having an event and people are going to be there so of course refreshments will be provided but I'm not too sure what you mean by potluck style privilege to speak. Yes. Um I like the idea of the leadership
like what about we make it like a career base because we know that some of us from the youth council are going to college. So since we know that we are part of the youth council with Myamar and North Miami, we should make it also a career base like we bring people from different career path.
That's a good idea. Yeah, that's we can definitely um do that as well. Does anyone else have any comment or any program that they or any event that they think would be good to have
with the Miramar Youth Council? privilege to speak. Yes. >> If we were to do this, >> oh, if we were to do this, how like when can we do it? I think Paul gave us a
time frame. I believe he said late April to early May. So, that would be around the time we would be having it. >> This is the time you could also submit as the council. >> Yeah. I don't know if you guys would like to maybe pick another time, but we are working with limited time
considering the fact that it's the end of March. So, I think that's a good time to have it because if I mean it depends on the event too, but if we were to have the summit itself, it would need planning and of course we need we will need to pro promote it as well to make
sure that we have people showing up. So, I think that would take time. For that reason, I think late April to early May is the best time to have this event. >> Privileged to speak. >> Yes. >> Can we have the event like on a Friday
cuz we know that people would like to come on a Friday instead of the weekday. >> Yeah, of course. I mean, I think once we um figure out everything, we can definitely pick a date, but and also a date that works with the Myiar Youth Council as well. So, I'm not too sure if we'll be able to pick a date, vote on a
date for this meeting or will we need input from um the Myimar Youth Council to speak? >> Um so, to answer your question um the date, we'll we'll work with the Myar Youth Council to select a date, but
prior to the date when we because of lack of time when we meet with Myar Youth Council, we need to have at least an idea of what we need to do, right? So we reached out to them with the proposal. We need to come to the table and say, "Hey, we're reaching out to you guys. This is the type of event that our
youth council would like to do." And then the day can come after the day is matter of availability between both councils. Uh but for right now, I think the the importance is uh selecting the theme of the event. So that way either Mayor Mar will agree or they'll add
their own twist to it. the two youth councils can uh have maybe one more meeting after tonight, but we need to have a base to see, okay, this is the type of event. So, I think you guys had some great suggestions so far. Um, once we present it to the the Mayar Youth Council right now, they're at National
League of Cities. So, when they return, I can present the idea. When I present the idea, then we'll select the date that works between the two. Um, I do recommend that we do have another meeting virtually with them to see uh we can put our brainstorm, but at least we need to start the conversation today.
That's the best way I can answer that. >> Sounds good. Thank you. Does anyone have any other comments or anything you want to add to my idea or if you have your an idea of your own? Um, I mean something we we can also try to do something for May um during May, the month of May
since May is Caribbean History Month. I think I believe >> I have a I have a proposal for May already. We can do two events in May if you'd like. Uh it's up to the council, but I do I have that on the agenda? >> No. >> Okay. But I have a proposal for May. >> Okay. Do you mind sharing it with us?
>> Um so, as a matter of fact, I'm glad you brought that up, youth mayor. Uh what I would recommend uh to two birds and one stone. Uh as you remember last year we did the mental health awareness um the mental health awareness talk uh where the youth council led the the
discussion on mental health awareness in the month of Haitian heritage month. So if you'd like I would recommend maybe the youth council can discuss having that same event in partnership with myar youth council. Uh the reason I recommend that is because um from a brief
knowledge I know that the two municipalities have a very uh distinct Caribbean uh demographic. I know that um you know both being the two Caribbean uh demographic even though it's Haitian heritage month a lot of the topics would
align with each other between the both uh youth councils that you guys can discuss. Um, so is that something possibly we can look into maybe having that event but this time partnering with the Myimar Youth Council so they can join in on the conversation as well. That way you don't have to create an event from scratch and that gives you
more time to plan and advertise as well. That's my recommendation, but of course it's up to the youth council. >> I think that's a great idea. I don't know if any of my colleagues want to put their input. And for those of you who are new to the youth council, just to give you a brief background, last year
we did a mental health awareness month uh conversation, uh it was a panel, we had a panel with our youth council members. We had a mental health uh expert um from a different uh era, I would say. So the panel discussion was
discussing certain questions that were asked um from different timelines, right? So certain questions that were being presented, our youth council asks uh answered the question in their era and their view and we had someone from a different era answered their qu the
question in their era and why they feel um certain things happen in within the household or the mental health um um aspect. So um I think adding the Myimar Youth Council, you don't have to create something from scratch. I'm sure Myar will probably be excited to join in on
that. And again, it gives you more time to plan ahead. >> I mean, does anyone else want to add anything? >> Okay. Um, my question to the youth council, does uh besides late May, because I know that's your graduation
season. Um, does anybody have any restrictions or majority of you have restrictions so that way when I present to the Myimmar Youth Council, we can be aligned on the dates? I know the last two weeks are no good. Um, are we are we
open to the first two weeks of May? >> Um, for me, I don't think I'm opened for the first two weeks of May because I do have AP testing. >> So, that's not going to work for me. I'm actually I'm looking at my schedule
right now, my um calendar. >> Yeah, the first two weeks of May are packed for me. >> Okay. >> And I think I'm free like maybe what week of May is that? The fourth week of May.
>> Okay. So, we'll be here all night trying to figure out everyone's schedule, especially because we don't know schedule. They may have events already planned. So when I follow up with just to make sure in conclusion uh just to make sure I understand uh it is my
belief that the youth council is leading towards the same event we did last year with the mental health awareness in partnership with the youth mayor youth council u with the date pending right based on their availability I'll try to come up with a common ground date that works for both youth councils is that
the direction I'm understanding >> um yeah I I think that's the direction. But also I I would really also like to have the youth summit as well if that's possible. Okay. >> Because I think we do need to start talking about promoting the youth council for next year. >> Okay.
>> And I think now is the time to start doing that. >> It's it's up to you guys. You guys you can continue the conversation on the youth summit. Um >> do they need to vote on the mental health? It's a discussion item. They don't need to >> they don't need to make a motion.
the joint event. >> It's a discussion item. Yeah. >> Um for the youth summit. Yes. You have the floor mayor. It's your meeting. So you can continue that conversation or uh since we're on a discussion item on this discussion, you have the you also have
the opportunity to bring it up uh to add it as a discussion item later on in the agenda as well. >> That's correct. >> Yes. >> Correct. So you could give me directive of what you want to do for the youth summit. So, I would recommend now that you're done with tab A, move on with the
agenda and then add that agenda item at the end um as an add-on item during the agenda. >> So, I your mic is not on. >> Would I table the tab A? >> No, you don't need to table that. We've already discussed tab A. We can move on
to tab B. But what I'm saying is that the youth summit is separate. So, you can add that as an additional um item. We can add that as tab uh D. and we can or you could just it's a discussion item really so you can just bring it up and then you can have
continuing conversation. >> Sounds good. Madame may privilege to speak. Yes. For the for tab D. I was also thinking since we're trying to like pull more youth to join the youth council, we should do like a rec a recognition to high school students.
>> What do you mean by recognition? Like we award them for you know for their outstanding behavior or leadership skills in their schools. So just to just to interject, remember during the meeting you you you want to stay on topic. Not that you cannot bring
up new items. >> That was >> but anything new outside the agenda, I recommend that you bring it up at the end. Especially there's a part if you look at it, you'll see something that says youth council reports. That's a perfect time to bring up new business or anything that you're
proposing. >> Am I correct? But you want to stay on the agenda item because what will happen is then you'll discuss all types of different ideas which are great but you you discuss your agenda first. You go through your agenda and then when it goes to new items
that's when you can bring up uh the youth council report that's when you can bring up new items things that uh you would like to report to the rest of the youth council. That's my recommendation. So now that you're done with tab A, I would recommend it's your meeting mayor, but I recommend that you move on to tab B. >> Okay.
Um, thank you, Councilwoman um, Liberty, but we'll we'll leave your idea until for reports. Um, I think instead of having both events, both the youth summit and the
Haitian Heritage Month um, panel. Um, if anything, maybe we can try to invite youths um to the panel and that way we're all we're exposing like we're having the panel and we're also promoting the youth council at the same
time. So, I don't know if anyone has have any comments. All right, I um I like to move on to Tabby now, please. Tab B discussion of professional development trip to New York. New York.
>> Yes. >> All right. Once again, Paul Brazil, youth council leazison. Um so this item you have here before you um as you know last year to uh basically wrap up the youth council year we took a professional development
trip to New York uh where we met with different uh elected officials um in both uh the city of New York and also um we went over to uh the neighboring state New Jersey and we met with different
municipalities in New Jersey as So, uh, the reason I wanted the youth council to start this discussion now is because last year we kind of planned a little late. Um, so I'm trying to get enough time this time around. I know that you
guys uh all grad not all but majority of the council graduates in May. So I am not sure if the plans on taking summer courses, how soon uh you guys will be departing Miami. So I wanted to start that conver conversation now. So both
myself uh Betty and the council woman, we can start planning a date for the New York trip. Uh last year we went in July, but that doesn't mean that this year that will work. Um preferably I would like to try to go as early as the first week of June. Uh the reason being is
because when we went last year in July, uh we missed out on a lot of uh meetings with the elected officials because they were already on recess. So, I know majority of you graduate May 27th through the 29th. In a perfect world, I
would like to for us to go May 30th if possible. Um, of course, this is pending counciloman schedule cuz counciloman will be there as well. This is pending my schedule, but I wanted a discussion amongst yourself to start maybe picking a preliminary date. Um, just to give you
more background on the dates. It's usually five days, I believe. Um, five days. So, I would like for you guys to start having a discussion to set a date. Once you guys have a date set, I will confirm with councilwoman's office to see if that date works for her and then
I will move on with um starting to schedule the meetings with the elected officials in the tri-state area. Uh so, that's the reason I have this item on your agenda for tonight. And if you have questions, I'll be here.
>> Um I really enjoyed our trip last year to New York. However, this year we missed out on going to the National League of Cities, which is in which took place in Washington DC. So, if anything, I would
really like to, if that's possible, I would like to change if my colleagues are okay with it as well. I would like to change our um trip location from New York to Washington if anyone's open to it because if we do want to learn about
government, I think Washington is the perfect place to do so. And considering the fact that we didn't have a Washington trip this year, I think it's a good opportunity and I don't know if anyone's opposed to it. I don't if anyone wants to comment. Yes, Paul.
>> Yes. I'd like to interject again. Um, so unfortunately we did miss out on National League of Cities this year. Um, I I'll take full accountability. I'll take responsibility. Uh, the reason we missed out on National League of Cities this year is because um, I was not aware but
they opened registration in November. Um, with the conference being this week, um, I thought I had plenty of time come January to sign us up. Uh, when January came around, unfortunately it was, uh, registration was full. uh placed us on
the waiting list. I begged and I begged. I have email receipts to show you guys how much I begged and unfortunately we couldn't make it this year. Um while I do agree with you about uh DC, uh the reason it'll be difficult is because uh with the DC trip, we had National League
of Cities, so we had an actual conference for the youth council to attend. Um, if we go to DC outside of a conference, it's a little bit more difficult simply because and and I may be wrong. I have to confirm with the council simply
because it's not the same network of people that she has uh with her elected officials in New York than DC. What I mean by that, right now, if we set a New York date, I have a whole list of elected officials that she has already provided me and probably even more that
we can set meetings with for you guys to understand. um civic government on a in a bigger state in a bigger area. So if we do DC because there's no conference unless she does have a network and I'm and I'm incorrect, we would then need to find
those local elected officials to meet with um in order to make it a p purposeful trip. Um again, I'm not saying it's impossible. Uh I can definitely look into it. I can maybe reach out to our local, not our local, but our uh state senators, maybe uh
explore the option, but it will be more difficult if I'm being transparent with you. Uh I'm not shutting the idea down, but I'm letting you know now. Uh for now, if if if you can set a date, what I can put on the record tonight is that I
would explore with the councilwoman uh the idea of uh switching the locations. um if that will if that is the the will of the council uh switching locations. But if in if in the case it's not possible, I just I do want to make that
clear tonight. That would be one of the reasons. But for now, I think the most important is setting a date, especially with you guys graduating and moving on. Um that's all that >> sounds good. Before we do choose a date, I just want to make sure that my
colleagues are okay with the idea of switching um the location of our end of year trip. >> Um >> yes, >> privilege to speak. >> Yes. Um, I don't know about the switching,
but I do recall that when we didn't make it to DC, we were promised we was promised a trip sooner, but that's not guaranteed, of course. But maybe if we planned a trip instead of switching it like maybe in April is
because April is more like a month seniors kind of have freedom. not technically freedom, but kind of freedom because, you know, grabb and stuff. When it comes to May, that's extra busy. >> And then like for New York, we're planning to go maybe early June. >> So maybe if we could plan a trip in
April, like Paul said, it's not impossible, but if it's possible to plan a trip for DC in April. Um, so unfortunately, we just can't plan a trip. We need a reason behind why we're going to these different cities and
states. Um my colleague um youth vice mayor um St. Lair and I were talking about um ideas for the rest of the year and we were actually looking into um events that we can possibly
attend and that's what we've been researching. It's very hard. We have very limited time so not a lot of events are happening right now. So if you do want to have one in April I would say that's kind of hard. We can't just have a trip for no reason. we need a reasoning behind the trips. Um, but if
you do want to attend an event like a government a youth government in government event, we can definitely look into that. I'm not sure if there are any that are opened or taking place around this time, but if there are um I don't know if Paul, you can take over.
>> Thank you. Thank you for giving me the floor again. Yes. So to echo what the youth vice mayor mentioned, every trip needs to have a um a purpose attached to it, right? So just like our mayor council when they travel in city business, they usually go for a conference, they're representing the
city at a summit, etc., etc. So as much as I would love to travel with you guys all over the world, there needs to be a reasoning why we're going. Just like for example, Tallahassee, when we went to Tallahassee, that was the Florida League of Cities. in the Florida League of Cities, they hosted a youth council uh
uh section of their big conference, the National League of Cities, which we were supposed to be in DC right now as we speak. They have a youth council summit, right? The New York trip, we would schedule meetings with the local elected officials so you guys can understand um
government from a different level. Um, I can also promise you that I've looked into different conferences and different uh areas to see if there was one more trip we can uh replace the DC cuz I felt bad and unfortunately there were uh no
other um conferences. Uh I'm I'm really I wish I had better news for you, but I did look into it. Um timing is a factor as well. Um, I'm glad that you and Vice Mayor have been looking uh at conferences elsewhere or maybe a one-day
workshop. Please, if you do find something, please send it my way. Uh, time is the essence. So, if you find something that benefit, send it to me. And of course, I would need it to get approved by the council woman. Uh, not just the counciloman, but my uh my dire supervisor, my the assistant city
manager. Um, and then we can lay that on the table. But for now, unfortunately, uh New York is the the proposed trip. I also want you guys to think about uh funding, too. But we should be okay
since we didn't go to DC. We should be okay. Uh but to answer your question, Councilwoman, uh that's that's the reason. >> Thank you. Um, going back to what you said about funding, um, although we're okay since we didn't go to DC, I think we should still talk about funding
considering the fact that we do want the youth council to still be a program that is active next year. And I I don't think we should leave the um the next group with a low budget. >> Gotcha. Uh, we the good the if if you'd
like, you can talk about it today. Um, just be mindful you don't want to keep extending the agenda. Uh, remember we do still have a April council meeting and a May council meeting as well. Um, so if you like to add that as another item,
it's up to you, mayor. You're running the meeting, but I just want you to be mindful we still do have two more meetings to discuss um other items. um especially towards the May, April and May, you'll have more of an idea how much money you have left. So, it's
probably best to have that conversation later on because by then we'll have uh we'll have a more accurate balance of the account uh because by then hopefully we'll have a estimated budget for uh the event with the Myimar Youth
Council, estimated budget for the professional trip in New York and anything else that happens in between. So I think if you discuss the budget now it's probably be redundant because later on it won't be the same numbers. Um and then also by May you'll see okay for
this year this is how much we spent. So what are we going to do to advocate to make sure that this is what is budgeted in the youth council moving forward because I do want to remind the youth council we did get a one-time donation this year uh from a um a private donor
15,000. So after we see the numbers, you'll know exactly how much on average um you'll need moving forward for the youth council that you can advocate to the mayor council. >> While I would like to wait until May to start talking about budgeting, I do want
to consider what my colleague um councilwoman just said earlier about the month of May. That is the mo month that we are the busiest. So, I'm not too sure what we'll do in in terms of like cuz my idea for fundraising was having an
event, maybe a car wash or something of that sort. And we'll definitely need our members to attend. And considering the fact that May is our busiest month, I don't think that that's the best idea in my opinion. >> Okay. >> But I'm opening it up to my colleagues
if they do want to comment or if they have >> Are you >> anything they want to add? Are you are you commenting on fundraising or >> No, >> we're still on tab B. >> Okay, >> got it. Madame Mayor, privilege to speak. >> Yes. >> For tab B, I wanted to discuss the date.
I think the second week of June will be best for B. Got it. Um, does I don't know if anyone wants to check their calendar and make sure that works for them as well. >> Second week of June is good. Um, can I have the floor again, Mayor?
>> Um, you said second week of June, which is June 8th through the 13th. >> Yes. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> Um, can I make a proposal? Um, can we do
um is the first week a little difficult for the council? The first week of June >> is June 1st to the 6th. >> Yes. When is the last day of school? >> I believe I still have that I still have school during that time. I think the last day of school is the 4th if is it
not? >> Okay. >> June 3rd, actually. Sorry. >> Okay. >> It's around the that time frame. the my concern with the June 8th week. Um, as you know, we have our regularly scheduled council meeting. >> Oh.
>> Um, so councilwoman uh she has to be in attendance. Um, I can potentially have the discussion to see if she is willing to miss the first two days of the trip. Uh, which I doubt.
Um uh so my proposal I was going to ask the youth council are you guys open to the following week which is the week of the 15th or the 14th through the 20th. Uh by then I think you guys will be out
of school. Um but again it has to work with you guys. I think uh >> privilege to speak. Yes. If we're gonna do the third week, we can start it on the 16th instead of the 14th
because I'm >> Mayor >> privilege to speak or why >> um why Councilwoman Liberty due to personal reasons. >> Okay.
>> Okay. Um Councilman St. L >> the home of the home of June I won't be available. All right. >> Will you be available the first week? No. >> No, ma'am. >> Privileged to speak.
>> Yes. So, can we just do the moment everybody graduates the 30th of May? Unfortunately, I still have school after I graduate. So, I cannot I will not be able to attend if you guys since um Councilman St.
Larry won't be here the whole month of June and I don't want him to miss this event since it's his last year. We can look at the month of July, but take into consideration that Paul did say that a lot of the elected officials will be on vacation during that time. So
>> perfect to speak. >> Yes, I do start school in the summer. So I won't be here after the 20th. So anytime before the 20th, which is June, I'll be able to go. >> Look at me. Y'all pick
>> y'all to speak. So New York trip cancelled. >> Wait, hold on. >> Who is he? >> Privilege to speak. Yes. So can we not just do May? Like I'm sorry. Can we not just do May? May 31st. May 30 I graduate
May 29th and I still have to attend school afterwards. So May 20 May 31st is a Sunday. >> Yes, but we're going for 5 days. >> Yeah, 5 days we come back. >> Jeffree is not available the whole you know this is your meeting. >> Privilege to speak. >> Yes.
>> So what is wrong with the second week of June? >> Unfortunately the whole um Councilman St. L will be out the whole month of June. Privilege to speak. >> Yes. >> So one more thing. You don't have to say privilege to speak. You can say mayor. >> Mayor.
>> Yes. >> We can't just do a Zoom call for him. >> I'm sorry. >> We can't do a Zoom call for what? For Jeffrey. >> Yeah. Un >> Unfortunately,
Councilman St. Ner, >> I leave June 5th, Orlando, and then I go to Haiti. >> When do you come back from Orlando, sir? >> Oh, >> June 8th. when I go to Haiti uh June 12th >> 8 9 10 11 12 >> that's 4 days
>> sorry sir but that's not the whole week that's not the whole month >> we can go between the 8th and the 12th >> you tell me >> when do you I mean I think this will have >> when is you can you put it on the record
when you're traveling again >> put it on the mic remember you guys are talking to each other during the Uh, from June 5th to the 7th, I'll be in Orlando. And then from June 12th to June 29th, I'll be in Haiti.
>> By the 11th, will you be back in Miami by the 7th? I'm so sorry. >> At night. >> At night. Yes. >> And when do you leave for your trip to Haiti? >> The 12th. >> What time? 5 a.m.
>> Okay. I mean, wow. >> Ask them if the Orlando trip is mandatory. >> Is the Orlando trip Oh, >> it's a graduation trip for my friend. >> Oh, that's that's um that's not mandatory. So, it looks like we're >> Vice Mayor, Vice Mayor, may I speak?
>> Yes. >> Oh, >> mayor. >> Sorry. Madame Mayor, may I speak? >> Yes. >> Um Jeffrey, do you mind coming? Youth, vice mayor. >> Youth, vice mayor, do you mind coming back on the sixth instead of the 7th?
>> No. I mean, yes, I do mind. Sorry, >> guys. You don't. >> That's great. >> You're going to be all night. You don't have to have Jeffrey there. >> Privileged speak of mayor. >> Yes. >> The first week might not work out for me either.
>> Yes. Because think about it. If I'm graduating May 29th, the first week is the open window to return my cap and gown and I have family over and we might do a trip. It's it's not guaranteed of
the trip, but it's might. >> So, it looks like um the first week of June is out of discussion. Um >> I have the floor again, Mayor. So based on um
based on everybody availability, it doesn't seem that there's a a court for everybody to be available. Um we we can we can also cancel the trip as well >> or only the members available can attend
>> April. >> It's it's only two options. >> I'm sorry. What about April? >> No, we're working very limited. I don't think >> no New York in April. >> I'm sorry. >> There's New York in April. >> Yeah, we can't have a trip to New York in April. That's like we're working with
limited time. When would we have time to plan? And if um >> if we do the second month of June, I'll be available. >> The second week. >> Second week. Yes. >> Does that does that work for you? Councilwoman Liberty,
>> may you please repeat again? >> Yes, we're discussing having the trip on the second week of June. >> I I'm sorry, mayor. I thought the proposal from councilman was April. >> When I said April, I meant like end of month April, but since April is too
close, second week of June, >> would that work for everybody? How does the last week of April sound? >> Um, >> it's my birthday. >> Happy birthday. >> No, my birthday is the last week of April. So, >> Oh, >> Jeffrey birthday was >> privilege to speak. >> Yes.
>> So, what is wrong with the second week of June again? >> I unfortunately >> um Vice Mayor St. Lair won't be able to attend. >> That's unfortunate. However, we can still >> go through with the >> Yeah, I do believe due to um vice
mayor's um schedule, we would have to exclude him from this conversation and >> privilege to speak. >> Yes, >> we don't have to exclude him. We can always zoom call him >> cuz he's live. >> All right. Um so, does the second week
of June work for everyone? Does it work for you? >> Can you guys give me definite dates, please? Like it's uh I believe last year we were for four days or was it for five? >> I think we were from was it the 25th to 28th? >> I'm looking into it right now. 26 27.
>> So vice mayor will be leaving June 5th, right? And June 1st doesn't work for you, mayor. >> Um, unfortunately, I still have school and I have to attend because I don't think we get our certificate unless we attend school after graduation. So,
>> okay. So, if you guys give me the definite dates, I'll start uh first I'll ask councilwoman if it aligns with her schedule. But um I'm so sorry to cut you off, but I can check with my school and see if it's possible that I can attend
the trip on the first week of June and I can get back to you as soon as tomorrow. >> All right, let's let's do this. Let me get uh let me Can we have a tentative date of possibly May 31st through the 4th pending
mayor's scheduled school? Does that work for everybody? >> Yeah. >> Tentatively. >> Yes. >> To speak. >> Yes. >> I'm available those days. I leave on the 5th so I'll be able to make the trip. >> Yes. That's why I said that. May 31st to the 4th
as tentative dates pending mayor schedule. And then if that doesn't work, our alternative will be June 7th through the 11th.
Does that work? >> That works for me. >> If not June 7th through the 11th, I'm going to give you write this down as well. Right. This third option down pending um councilwoman schedule because of council meeting. The third option would be June 10th through the 14th or
the 15th I should say. June June 10th through the four the 15th. >> So you guys have all three dates? >> Yes. >> Preferably >> because you guys would like vice mayor to attend. We're going to try pending the mayor's schedule May 31st through
the 4th. If not, we're looking at the 7th through the 11th pending councilwoman's availability because of council meeting on the 9th. And the last but not least, uh what was the third date that I mentioned? >> June 10th. >> The 10th through the 14th because of
council meeting. Okay. So right now it sounds that uh based on all the conversations um mayor do you have an idea when you would know um uh about the school is there any way we can assist uh is there any way the
councilman can write a letter to those the teachers or professors? >> Um >> I'm not too sure. I think my school has a policy that like you have to attend school after you graduate but I'm not too sure. I can definitely double check with them.
>> Your graduation is on the 27th. >> 29th. >> 29th. So, um, you traveling on the 31st. You think you're still having an issue? >> Oh, because it's after graduation. Okay, I understand. >> All right. Well, would you be able to
know tomorrow? Do you have school tomorrow? >> I do have school tomorrow. >> Okay. >> I can ask tomorrow. >> Please, please let us know uh so we can plan accordingly. >> Okay. >> All right. Thank you. I have an idea. of tab B. >> Thank you. Are there any more comments
on tab B before we move on to tab C. All right, I'd like to move on to tab C. Tab C, discussion of youth council event for mental health awareness month. >> I think Paul covered that earlier and we're planning on having this event with
the Myar Youth Council. So, um I don't I don't know if there's any comments that you guys want to add, but I do believe that we've settled. We don't have a date yet, but we all agree that this would be this is a viable event. >> Correct. I have direction from the youth
council to move on with my Marcy what we should do. >> Sounds good. We can definitely talk more about the youth summit now since we have already discussed tab. Um, I can elaborate more on what I
experienced during the youth summit. Um, when I attended the youth summit and we haven't had this event in a while. Basically, we have speakers come over. I believe one of our speakers was Jefferson Noel and he's a professor and
he's also an author. So, he got to speak about his books and also his um journey as a professor. Now, we also had multiple other um speakers as well. Um I do agree with Councilwoman Liberty's
idea on bringing people from different career careers and having them as the panel. Um we also we kind of I I don't think we had enough youths that year. So, I
definitely want to promote it more this year if we were to have the youth summit and try to see if we can get more young younger people involved and have them attend. I don't know if you guys have any
comments. Comments. No comments. Is this an idea that you guys would like to or an event that you guys would like to have for this year? Because if we were to have this event, it would have to be late April for sure.
And we would have to start planning now because we need a um we need a venue and we also need um we need a catering spot because we do provide um refreshments for the attendees.
Um, and we we need to start letting our speakers know and start um thinking of possible people we can bring to the panel. If you guys do want to split that up amongst us and we all can um
um do a part maybe one of us can start reaching out to the panels. Um we can start looking for catering spots and also a venue. I think we'll definitely have to talk to Paul about venues because I do believe the venue would have to be within the city of North
Miami. Um, so like the Jollison Center and also um we can also do it I think there's like a spot not too far from here like outside. >> Um, does anyone have any comments?
>> Is this an idea that you >> Yes. Okay. All right. Um, do I just keep going? We can talk about fundraising. >> All right. Since I'll definitely look more into it and I'll reach out to you
guys and to Paul as well. Um, and now we can definitely talk about fundraising. I know Paul's um mentioned earlier that it's best first to talk about fundraising and our budget in May, but
then again, May is according to Councilwoman just the our busiest month. So, I don't want us to wait until May to start talking about um our budget and our the fundraising. Um,
so I I don't know if you guys have any ideas that we can possibly do to fundra. Um, I know in the beginning of the year I did mention some ideas that I had such as car washes and also selling the world's best chocolate, but there there
are definitely other ideas that we can do if you guys if you guys um have any. Anyone? >> Probably sweet. >> Yes. >> I recommend like a bake cell or something. >> A bake cell.
>> Mhm. >> So, who would be doing the baking? Would it be us? >> That's a good question. Unfortunately, I think I don't I I don't think we should do a big sale because we would be making it I assume that we
would be making it by ourselves and that's a lot. Yes. >> Can we not partner with the event committee? That's with the youth, not with the youth council, but with the North Miami Council. >> The event committee? >> Yeah, I think I think they have one
>> to do what? We cannot partner with the actual council people. We can, but it depends on what you want to count you want to partner with them for. >> Whatever ideas they have, we can be a part of. >> Yeah, I think we we do that now. I think
I last year we went to there was an Easter event. >> Not necessarily as us giving back like people we're people donating to us. You know what I'm talking about? >> People donating to us. >> Okay. I'm talking about how they be having fundraising events. If we can just partner up with them while they're
doing the fundraising event, we're doing the fundraising event, too. I mean, Paul, is that possible? >> Can you repeat the question, please? >> Um, basically, Councilwoman Liberty was asking if we can partner up with the
actual council during their fundraising events. So, as they are fundraising, we are fundraising as well. >> Uh, no. Unfortunately, the answer is no. Uh, as a municipal governing body, um, our assistant city attorney can answer
this question better. I I don't believe they have they're not allowed to fund raise, quote unquote, right? Our mayor and council, not the youth, >> the mayor council. >> Yes. The mayor council board, they there's no fundraising. There's the
budget that's set in place. Um and then they direct the city manager to find the funds such that if they have such project but as a municipal governing body they don't fund raise. Um
>> right the board itself you guys are a board can fund raise but our mayor council would not be able to fund raise. they maybe not maybe they will be able to provide support whether it's uh providing certain resources like certain
facilities or help you guys uh be guided through the process of what they recommend but they themselves as the elected body do not do fundraising. >> Thank you. Does that answer your question?
>> Yes. So since he said we cannot do that with the the mayor and vice mayor, we can we can try to partner up with the commission for women. Are they allowed to we can partner up them or no? >> Yes, they're a board and they they uh
they can fund raise as well. Um please note they're also looking to fund raise their own dollars as well. So I just want to put that on the record. >> Not to be a negative Nancy, but just for transparency. Honestly, I think when it comes to fundraising for or youth council board, I don't think we should
partner up with any organizations. I think it's best if we do it ourselves. Um, that's just my personal opinion, but I don't know. Does anyone have any ideas for fundraising?
Yes. >> Preface to speak? >> Yes. >> Um, what exactly are you fundraising for? Um, we're fundraising for our end of year trip, which is might possibly be in New York or or Washington DC. Um, as
of now, we don't know what the budget will look like by the end of May, which is when we're supposed to have our trip. Additionally, I don't want to leave the budget at like low for the next group that is and for our um members that will
be on the board again next year. Um, so I think we should definitely leave a good guess. Paul, what's up? >> So I I I do want to put on the record, uh, while I I praise your efforts for the fundraising, uh, I do want to put two things on the record. Um, I am
confident to say the budget for the New York trip is in there. >> Um, the reason I'm confident is because I mean I manage the budget. That's why. Uh, that's one. And number two, uh especially because we didn't go to National League of Cities, um our budget is pretty much
open. Um because we already had a budget set forth by the mayor and council and the city administration in addition to the donor that we had. Um I think it's also important to understand the the budget process. Um as as I don't know if
you recall, may Mary or Mary explained it the last time you guys did a presentation. The budget is set by the mayor and council. So although the fundraising is nice, um what's the best way I can put it? Uh the the budget is still going to be set by the mayor council. Everything
that we collect as a city, um majority of the things that we collect as a city, especially the uh the youth council board, goes into the general fund, which is the big pot. Correct. Um so I I do commend you for looking into ways to uh increase the budget. Uh but I think uh
the policy makers which are the mayor and council, they're the ones who said it. Um I think that you can do more advocacy before your term is over to the mayor council. As the mayor mentioned, Mayor Des mentioned last year when you did the presentation, you're open to attend the budget town hall meetings, uh
the budget uh workshops, and then of course the budget hearings. That's where your voice is heard with the mayor and the the elected body on why the youth council should be um funded at such levels. This is the impact. Again, I'm
not trying to discourage you from the fundraising, but I just want you to understand the entire budget process um and how it works to set the budget. And of course, I just wanted to put on the record that I am confident that we will have um the budget to to fund the New
York trip, especially if we have some members that are not able to attend. Thank you. >> Got it. Taking that. Yes. >> I just wanted to add like what if about like what about a bingo night maybe or something like that? >> A what? like a bingo night or like a trivia night type of thing where people
come in and do >> Can I Can I second that or add on to it? >> Yeah, sure. >> Yeah, I was thinking about a game night with other youth in the city. We could maybe expand it to my Oh, that's that's a great idea. Um that's I don't think
that's I don't think we should be talking about fundraising again considering what Paul just told us. >> Yeah, >> it's not that I don't want you to talk about fundraising. I think that my suggestion, it's you meeting mayor again. Once again, my suggestion is that
if you guys uh have these ideas, uh it's best to do your homework to see what is possible. Uh because if that's the case, we'll be here all night throwing ideas out. So if any one of you have ideas, I empower you to come up with the idea, see the re the the effort I'll need the
resources, please feel free to reach out to me and then at a future council meeting, you can say um you know, I did my research, this is my proposal. I don't know if anybody else has a proposal, but right now I think you guys will just be throwing things in the air um without having a lot of information
in front of you um and that would make it a lengthy meeting. Got it. So, I encourage um both madame clerk and councilman just to look into this idea and definitely get back to us at our next council meeting um if you do
have more info on um the idea that you would like to have with the Miramar Youth Council. Um, yes. >> This is like also related to that because you were saying you want to like put more initiative into getting more
members for like next year. >> What if we like make pamphlets about the youth council and like I don't know if we're allowed to put them in schools, but I think putting them in schools like in my school's office, we put them in like the main office and students can like see all the pamphlets and see what
they're interested in. >> I think that's a great idea. Um, however, I don't think m that many students read pamphlets that are in the office anymore. What I did last year to promote the youth council was that I
reached out to schools like the counselors, the CAPA advisors um, and some some principles as well from different schools in North Miami. And I kind of told them about the youth council. I didn't I barely got any responses. So, I did recommend to the
last year's board that we go to like the schools in person and actually promote the youth council, but that was also that didn't work out because most of these schools do end at 2:20 and that is the time when we're going to school. So,
it's kind of hard to guess Paul. Mhm. >> Um the with the school system, I've I've considered that as well, but just be mindful uh with the district policies. Um they don't usually allow outside entities to leave um flyers and
information. Um but the mayor had a great idea reaching out to the school counselors and and um different contacts. Um but I just wanted to put that on the record. I also want to um put on the record there's a meeting coming up here as well. So, >> yes. >> Um, let me just add on to that. I think
Paul last year mentioned something about going to churches and going to I know a lot of churches have children ministries. So, we can definitely go in there and advocate the youth council as well since most of us are off during the weekends
and it doesn't um conflict with our school schedule. So, um, going back to what Paul was saying about the time, um, I would now like to move on to youth council reports. I know, um, Councilwoman Liberty was saying something about recognizing students earlier. I don't
know if she was to, um, develop the idea. Recognizing students. All right. So I Okay, there are no reports for today's meeting. I would now like to move on to agreement.
>> Oh, okay. Okay. Okay. >> Okay. C. >> Okay. Councilman Spence, do you have a report for this meeting? >> No report. >> Vice Mayor St. Mayor? >> No. Um, councilwoman just
>> No. >> Madame clerk. >> No reports. >> Madame manager, >> um, I did want to mention something. Um, are we able to do like a community service project where we go out into the
community and help maybe the homeless or, you know, I'm sorry, people out in the community. just give them like encouraging letter or maybe food, but then we got to talk about budget. >> Um, that's a great idea. I think you can
definitely look more into it and present it at our next um council meeting, but that is a an idea that we can have. Um, um, I think I want to talk about our last trip to Tallahassee. I don't think
we spoke about that. So, um, that was we went to Tallahassee, I believe, in January, January 26th to the 28th. And there we got to attend the Florida League of Cities. And, um, we had to pitch an idea. Basically, we had to
pitch an idea that we would like to implement into our city. And our idea was basically city bikes, which we spoke about before in one of our previous meetings in implementing city bikes in the city of North Miami. considering the fact that public transportation is not
the best in the city of North Miami. Um but in terms of like connection to other like cities like for example in downtown Miami um in downtown Miami you can take a city bike and come all the way up here to North Miami but in North Miami your
options are very limited. It's either the metro bus or other buses and um sometimes they do take long to arrive. So that was our um topic the topic that we discussed at the Florida League of Cities. Additionally, we also got to
network with a lot of other um youth councils from different um cities in the state of Florida. So I thought that was very I thought it was a very great opportunity. That's my report for today's meeting.
>> Um adjournment. >> I motion to adjurnn this meeting. Second >> the time. >> What do you mean? >> Okay. There was a motion to adjurnn the meeting by youth councilwoman Liberty
and it was seconded by youth mayor Kotier. >> Favor say I. >> All in favor? >> I >> I. >> All oppose. >> Motion passes 5-0. The meeting is now adjourned at 6:39
p.m. >> Thank you. >> Thank you.