Good evening. Today is Tuesday, April 21st, and it is 5:49 p.m. Um Paul, can you please do roll call? >> Yes. Uh >> good evening. Um Youth Mayor Cotier,
>> present. Youth Councilman Spence, >> present. >> Youth Councilwoman, >> present. >> Mayor, you have a quorum. >> Thank you. May we all please rise for the pledge of allegiance. >> To the flag.
Thank you. >> You have a question. >> Would you want to add something? >> No, you forgot to add, >> right? Yeah, if you want to add something like >> All right. >> Okay. Tab a discussion of youth council
joint event with Mayor Mar youth council. Um I believe on April 1st I had a meeting with the um Myar Youth Council discussing um we discussed the youth council joint event that we're supposed
to have in May. I think at first what we planned on having was a Caribbean mental health awareness panel where um the youth would serve as the panel um would be on a panel and they would be answering questions about you know
Caribbean struggles and um mental health in the Caribbean household. Um, I know Paul had a meeting with them, so I don't know if Paul has any updates. >> Yes. So, um, thank you, youth mayor, for
meeting with them. Um, so the update that I have is we we finally settled on a date that works, uh, for both municipalities, youth council. Um, so, uh, please note that we settled on May 30th
at 11:00 a.m. Uh, May 30th at 11:00 a.m. for the meeting. Um, this was the best day that I worked for both the city of North Miami and Miramar. So, it'll be May 30th at 11:00 a.m. Um, and if you'd
like for me to elaborate the whole purpose of the meeting, uh, the event, I should say, and what the the goal is, uh, I'll be glad to. Does anyone need um a description of what the event will be about or the goal of the event? >> No, I want to say it anyway.
>> Oh, okay. Yes. Bless Paul, please. >> Okay. So, just so you guys um understand, uh the whole purpose of the event is uh it's a collaborative um joint event between the two youth councils. Um as you guys are aware, May
is mental health awareness month. So um between the Myar Youth Council and the North Miami Youth Youth Council, it'll be a panel discussion. Uh uh I'll select a panel. Uh the panel discussion will be
ask questions from a moderator and obviously the um the audience and who attends the event. Uh so the whole purpose is for um the community both communities to understand what mental health awareness means to the youth um
in today's day and age. Um our goal is that we hope to have an audience from different eras and different generations to understand the struggles uh the nuances and just the overall um mental
health awareness discussion. Uh so just to give you a brief idea for example our youth mayor may be the moderator for example and then our youth city manager may be on the panel and then their youth uh councilman or council woman I'm not sure of the titles will be on the panel
as well. So both groups will share the discussions um and there'll be a set of questions obviously um and that's the whole goal. The whole goal is for the community to understand what the youth um both in North Miami and Miramar
uh you know face and the the issues and challenges they feel face with um you know mental health awareness um in the community. >> Thank you Paul. That's a great idea. I just have a few follow-up questions. Um have you ever have you already selected
who you want on the panel? >> No, I haven't selected that. I think um you guys should select that amongst yourself. Um so I'm actually really glad that you uh bring that up. So you being um the actual youth council, I think it's
best to have a discussion amongst yourselves. Um I think this is actually a good time to do it to select who's going to be on the panel. One thing I do want to mention, everyone will be involved. So even if someone's not on the panel um you may be doing the
introduction to the event um you may be having to you know in do uh different components right so I do want every one of you guys to be involved um if you are on the panel it's important that you understand the responsibility um you
will be asked questions to share and uh express yourself on what mental health is to you the different questions set in case. So, it's not, you know, it's not something you should not um take serious or undertake, but I think
this is a good time to uh perhaps even vote on who should be on the panel, who should be a moderator and have that discussion um tonight. >> Thank you. Um so, if last year we did have this the same event, but we only
had it with the North Miami Youth Council. And if I'm understanding clearly, we're having it as a joint event with the Myiramar Youth Council this year. So my question is, how many people will you have on the panel so that we have a clear understanding of
who how many people we should choose? >> Well, I'm not a panel expert. Um but from experience when I do attend events with panels I do notice that you typically don't have um the range is typically between three to five
individuals um because you want to give the opportunities for all questions to be answered. So, my recommendation because we're doing a joint event with another group, I would suggest to you, youth mayor, that you do a perhaps a panel of four, uh, two from each, um,
entity. Um, if you do five, you can do five as well. Um, but it'll be on even on one side if it's up to the the will of you. You are the board. But I would recommend four to five members. Um and
yeah, four to five members on the panel. I'm not sure if you had another part of the question. >> No, that that was the whole question. I do think um four panel members or is better just because we would have an equal amount of representatives from
both groups. So, I don't know if that's okay with everyone. Does the day um May 30th at 11:00 a.m. work for everyone? Because I don't think it works for me. So, I don't think I'll be able to make it.
>> Councilman Spence, does it work for you? >> Yes, it works for me. >> I would not be able to make it. >> Yeah. City Manager Caesar, can you make it? I think I'll be able to make it.
>> I will. City attorney. I'll be able to make it. Uh, mayor at 559, uh, youth councilwoman Liberte is present. >> Um, can I >> Okay. Welcome in, Councilwoman Liberty. We're just discussing um the Marramar
joint EVTH and we're um talking about whether or not the date worked for us. Um the date would be May 30th at 11:00 a.m. That's a Saturday. We're hoping to have um uh two panels, two panelists and um a
total of four. Two from the North Miami Youth Council and another two from the Miramar Youth Council. Does that date work for you? >> Yes. >> Um privilege to speak, youth, mayor.
>> Yes. Um, I do know that this is uh this collaborative effort is very dear to our counciloman Mary Sme Irvin. Um, I do know she would also prefer that we have more members that day. Um, so if if if I
ask myar if I go back and askar about the previous week, May 23rd, um, just to have two options on the table, will May 23rd work for the group? Um, does anybody have any issues with May 23rd? Same time.
>> I'm free May 23rd. So, May 23rd does work for me at the same time. >> Um, city attorney. >> Yes, I'll be able to make it. >> City manager. Yes.
Councilwoman Just >> Yeah, I will be able. Councilman Spence, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Liberty, >> yes. >> Okay. So, I will circle back with Myramar um and confirm that the 23rd
still works with them. Um if it doesn't, we'll communicate uh via the group chat and um hopefully that still works with them and we'll continue from there. Sounds good. Thank you. >> I think we can now move on to tab I'm
sorry >> before you move on. I'm not I haven't got received clear direction on who's going to be on the panel. >> Correct. >> Um can I make a recommendation? >> Yes, of course. >> I'd like to make a recommendation that we have our utility manager on the
panel. >> I agree. And then um I think as the youth mayor you can select the other person. Thank you. Um, I think Councilwoman Liberty would be a great choice.
>> Me, too. >> No. >> Can I? Of course. Honestly, um Paul gets to pick one person and the other is up to me and the rest of the group. >> Do you guys Madame May privilege to speak? >> Yes. >> Do you guys agree with this?
>> Absolutely. I agree. All right. So, yes. Preface to speak. Yes. City manager. Um, I am forever grateful for this opportunity. However, I don't think I am
the best candidate to speak. >> I think uh, youth mayor, I think right now there's a unfortunate situation where people are being timid. I just want to remind everyone for the panel discussion itself, we're not looking for
expertise in the field. Um I think our youth mayor can elaborate on this from last year's event. It's a moderated discussions. There's preset questions and you're answering questions based on your personal experience. Personal experience such as um
what was it like for you growing up in such household? And was mental health talked about? Did you guys discuss therapy? When did you learn about therapy? Um we're not expecting you to give the crowd advice on what they should do. So, with that being said, I I
it's your board, youth mayor, but I strongly recommend we move forward with youth city manager and the youth council woman. Thank you. >> I agree. Are you willing to reconsider your um choice, city manager? Sounds good. I
would now like to move on to Tabby. >> Okay, Tabby. The discussion of professional development trip to New York. New York. >> New York. Um, I know last meeting we're still debating what times work for work best for the whole group because we were
having conflicting schedules. So, um, I'm I don't know if Paul has any updates on this. >> Yes, thank you. Um, so my latest update is I tried my best to accommodate everyone's schedule. Um but
unfortunately because of so many members having different schedules, my schedule, myself and the counciloman schedule, um we finally came up with a preliminary date that would work for us. Uh I apologize if you can't make it, but
that's what is on the line. And right now we're looking at July 13th through the 18th. Okay, July 13th through the 18th. If there's any uh conflicts, youth mayor, I would like for the board to please
discuss that now so when I make travel arrangements, I can not email the individuals who are not able to attend. Thank you. >> Does the date the dates work for everyone?
>> It go ahead. >> No, go ahead. it works. Um, unfortunately, I'm not quite sure if that date worked because I do start college in the summer, but I can request
the day off or the week off. So, we can see how that works. When do I need to give you an update? >> As soon as possible. Um, honestly, we we're still finalizing um the details for the Arizona trip. Um,
so preferably if you can at least let me know by the second week of May, um, that would be great. It works for me. Yes. Works for me. Councilman Spence. >> Yes.
>> Perfect. >> I think we can move on to tab C. >> Tab C. Discussion of propo of proposing a legislative item for the North Miami Youth Council meeting on May 26, 2026. Um, youth mayor board. Just to give you
guys clarification, um, Councilwoman Mary estimate Irvin uh would like the youth council to come up with a item to propose to the mayor and council. U, what that mean is that what that means is that she would like for
you guys to come up with um a resolution or would that be ordinance or a proposal um that on something that you guys feel affect the youth in North Miami. Um from there the mayor council would discuss and decide how to move forward in order
to create the resolution. Um so some of the things that are already in place that you may want to discuss um to avoid you know to to save time. The city already has a a summer internship. They already have a paid internship. Um, they
already have a few youth related programs, but there may be things that you guys are aware of or things that affect you directly as a youth or something you believe that would benefit or um, you know, grow the city that you would like to propose to the mayor
council's office. Uh essentially you would come in on the 26th at the regular council meeting and you guys will do a presentation on your proposed item, why you believe it benefits you, um and different things in that nature. So um
the 26 is not far away. It's about three more council meetings away. Um so I would really propose that you guys discuss this tonight. Come up with an idea tonight. Then from there you guys need to work collaboratively together to create the presentation and I would need
to see the presentation at least by midmay give a final approval and then the the mayor and council would hear you at the May 26th meeting. Also at the May 26th meeting u you have an opportunity to do a brief presentation as well on
what you guys have accomplished this year um for the youth council. Okay. Okay. So, I'd like for you guys to discuss uh different legislative items that you would like the city to propose moving forward. Thank you. >> Sounds great. I just have one question
because if I'm remembering correctly, when we did the presentation to the board last year, um we weren't able to work on the presentation because there was like a format that was required by the city and only you had access to it. So, I'm wondering if that's going to be a problem this year since we're working
on it. >> Are you referring to the PowerPoint? >> Yes. No. Um, I can share the PowerPoint with you guys. Um, usually with with city presentations, if you, you know, if you pay attention to just how the city operates, the city has a certain
branding, I would call it, right? So, um, to avoid having so many different type of powerpoints, the city has already like basically a template that would you would use so it fits into that branding. Obviously in your case as the youth council board we would insert the youth
council logo on there. Uh but to to to stay within that branding I would provide you the template to use and then you can add slides you can add images or different text box as as you need to do the presentation. Um I do want to
mention the presentation should be brief and to the point. You don't want to do a 25 page a 25 slide uh PowerPoint. And again, the main purpose is something that you would like to see change. Um, it may affect you directly or indirectly
or even the next generation to come um for the youth in North Miami. >> Thank you. Um, I don't know if anyone has an idea of what they would like to propose to the North Miami Council.
We can definitely go down to some some of the items that we've proposed. um this past year and we can select from those if you guys I don't know if you guys have one that I'm sorry.
Um I think some of the items I just have to pull them up. Um I know one that was a favorite amongst my colleagues was the city bikes um item. I don't know if you guys would like to propose that one.
Um, regarding the youth, we can definitely like try to implement um a ceremony where recognize youth who's who have done um who have accomplished outstanding achievements in North Miami schools.
>> Privileged to speak. >> Yes. >> I think Derry do that. >> They do. >> Yeah. Every time I look at their Instagram page, it's always a new student they always recognize. >> Okay. >> But I'm not sure. Paul.
>> Uh Paul Marie, you still there? >> Oh, Paul Marie. >> Yes, I'm still there. >> I'm still here. >> Just a quick question so we can guide them in the right way. I know Councilwoman wants them to come up with a um legislative item.
I just don't want to steal them the wrong way. I know one of the things they talked about was like an event that um recognized the students in North Miami, but I feel that is not the dream council is going for it. That's more like an
event proposal. Can you guide them so they can understand um what an item is, what a resolution is? Um because I think it's a little difficult for them to first they need to understand what a resolution is >> and some something they can maybe think
of um because I'm having a hard time trying to break it down to them. >> Okay. So I if I understand correctly, what what you guys are looking to do is to kind of put in place a law, a law
that would the that the city or city hall, city administration would abide by, not the whole city of North Miami, but the the um the municipality. Uh what you guys can put in place are things that would outlive your your your terms.
So you would guys would be turned out there would be a new uh youth mayor and city council but whatever resolution that you guys would have put in place will outlive you guys and continue to and carry on into the next generation of uh youth councils. So think about it in
terms of a legacy. What would you guys want to leave that would benefit not only the youth the the the young people of North Miami City but also future board members that are going to sit on this board?
Do you guys understand? >> Yeah. Palm Marie, would you mind giving them um I know we there's a million resolutions. Would you mind giving them a resolution? One resolution I'm thinking of um I mean almost all resolutions uh surpasses our current
members, but I'm trying to give them an example that would be the easiest in layman terms to them. Um, it's one I'm trying to think of course. Uh, okay. So, one of the examples I could give you on top of my head, I
don't know if this is a good example. Um, I know a few years ago they re they proposed or I should say revised the resolution where >> before the vice mayor used to ro they used to rotate the vice mayor position
every six months but instead of uh doing every six months they changed the resolution to um just selecting the vice mayor on a at will basis on a vote where they would just make a proposal they make a motion to pick the new vice mayor
instead of doing it every six months. So that's like a new law that they change. Was that a good example? >> That is a good example. And and think about it this way. A resolution, it's pretty much kind of like you guys expressing your opinions on a set policy
or directing city administration to do something and you're formalizing it in the term in the form of a resolution and you're formalizing it in writing letting them know this is how or what we would want. So the the rotation of vice mayor is perfect because it was set in a
certain way and through that resolution they're able to know this is how we wanted to to move forward and it would outlive whoever is vice mayor now whoever is the vice mayor next whoever is going to be vice mayor 10 years from now unless they again change that resolution.
Um, that was very helpful. Um, I think I'm definitely going to need a minute to think about this, to think about a possible idea. I don't know if any of you guys already have an idea in mind that you want to pitch. >> Privileged to speak. >> Yes. >> So, I know Paul mentioned that they do
internships, >> right? But instead of internships, like I think I mentioned this like way back in other meetings where we have like job fairs like local businesses come, you know, to hire the youth. No, I don't know.
>> Is that it? >> So again, it's a that's a great idea, but that's you remember with what our assistant city manager, a city attorney mentioned, Paul Marie, it has to be it's like a bill. It's a law that you're passing. There's no law there, right? I'll give you an example. Maybe you can
propose that effective next year, the youth, this is just an example, the youth city mayor must be a student from North Miami Senior High with a 4.2 unweighted GPA and they must be the youth mayor
minimum. They must have they must have 100 minimum hours. Those are that's a law passed, right? where the resolution would be clear and state the criteria on what the youth mayor can be. Does that make sense?
>> And the city this the um the charter which is a form the charter is a form of laws as well. Right Paul Marie >> in a sense would you call the charter a set of laws? >> The charter is the charter is law. Ordinances are law. resolutions are more
so kind of like opinions that apply just to the city and not the city like the the the municipality but just to the m the city administration and the and the people who work in deal with city the municipality.
>> So they would be proposing a ordinance not a resolution then or either one. >> Are they proposing an ordinance or a resolution? What was the direction of the council in it? >> The direction was legislative item. So, I should have been more clear and asked her if she wanted an ordinance or
resolution. >> But that's correct, right? That's correct. A legislative item can be a resolution or an ordinance. >> Okay. >> A perfect example would be um and this is just an example. I'm not saying you guys have to go with this, but it could be um we're proposing a resolution that
the members of the may of the mayor of the youth mayor and city council get a scholarship for college once they're graduating of x amount of dollars. >> You get my example? So, it's not an event that would happen, but it's something that you're putting in place
that would benefit the youth of North Miami. >> And it would be >> and specifically those who sit on the board, >> right? And then even then to to break it down though, there would be criteras in order to get it right. Right. >> You'll be on the youth council, but it's
not just by being on the youth council. You've attended every meeting. You've did 200 hours of community service hours. You did this. That's what the law would be put in place. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Right. >> Makes sense. >> Makes sense. >> That would be an ordinance or resolution
cuz I always get confused myself. >> I would do it as a resolution. That would be a resolution. >> You can ask you can ask uh the council woman if she wants it if she wants them to work on ordinance or a resolution. >> Okay. I mean, that was a perfect example pie mentioned. I'll break it down
another way that you'll see it. So, the resolution would say a resolution of the mayor and council. um revising or u I'll just add adding incentives for youth council members. That's just a couple words. And then
when you read the resolution, the resolution would say um effective blah blah blah blah blah. The North Miami Youth Council members shall receive a scholarship of minimum of $2,000 for serving as a youth council board. um to
qualify for the $2,000, each board member must do this, do that, do that, do that. And it's my fault I should have brought a a sample resolution so or sent it to you guys. But that's what, you know, she's looking for. Um she's
also looking, you know, when you bring up the resolution, why why is it important, right? uh keep piggy backing off uh Palm Marie's um proposal um example, you can say, you know, this is
incentive to uh to gather more youth engagement within the city of North Miami. Uh you can say that over the years has been kind of a struggle to recruit, but this is something else to add to it. this is something um to uh boost the the the youth and the um civic
engagement um things like that. This is where you come in to propose these ideas. >> Thank you. Um, just from the explanation that I got, I I have some ideas of um things that I
could propose, but I'm not too sure if they do fall under the criteria of a legislative item. So, I think I'm just going to pitch them right now to you, Paul, and you can let me know if whether or not they do um
fall under an ordinance. Um, so for one, this would mainly a >> right could it be like a law for the North Miami Youth Council like for example position terms or like
>> Yes, that can be that can be um done. So you can I I give you you g you gave a good a good example of position term. can say we would like um effective next year um the resolution the current resolution in place is revised. Well, actually I just thought about no council
would like new a new resolution. >> A new resolution? >> Yeah, she would like new resolutions. >> Okay. >> I I mean I can have a conversation with her to see if she's okay with revising, but she really was adamant on something
new. >> Okay. Right. So again, one of the new resolutions could be um but then again if we I let you have the discussion. How about this? You guys have a discussion. Maybe you guys can come up with something tonight. Um preferably I would
really want you to come up something with something tonight so you can do the research, do the PowerPoint. Um cuz by the next meeting, you won't have much time to to prepare. So, I would really like for you guys to have um have the
discussion. I'm going to step off. Um >> um just one more question before I >> ask the questions from there because the youth city clerk is here. >> Welcome, Madame Clerk. It's great to have you today. Um just to give you a brief summary of
what we've discussed so far. We spoke about the um joint event with the with the Myiramar Youth Council and we did agree on well we have two pending dates right now. We have May 23rd at 11:00 a.m. and also May 30th at 11:00 a.m. So
if any of those dates don't work for you, please let Paul know. Additionally, we did agree that the dates July 13th through the 18th worked best for us for um the trip to New York. And now we're speaking, we're um talking
about a legislative item that we plan on proposing to the North Miami Council on May 26. Um, yes, Paul. I wanted to ask a question about um because I remember in the beginning of our term you mentioned
something about like having emails for the youth council like everyone having an email like a North Miami email. Would that be would that fall under a legislative item or is that like no?
I maybe I guess the way you word it would be one. Um I'm not sure. >> Okay. >> Keep going down the list. >> Okay. Um well that's all I really have. I just have position terms, but you said
that's more of like revising and you think the um council woman would want something more new. um in the emails also and then yeah know I don't know if any of my colleagues have
an idea of what we could propose >> perfect. >> Yes. Um I do like the idea of the scholarship um starting next year. Unfortunately it will have to be the year I'm graduating but okay. Um, I do
like I do like the idea starting the scholarship next year just to get people involved. Well, like the youth involved and also it'll be great for funding for college. Um, I'm trying to gear away from
anything that involves funding just because I'm not really sure if it's going to be us funding for that scholarship or if it's going to be another if it's going to be a problem for the actual council board to fund that scholarship.
>> Well, if if you were if that was to be your proposal, you remember anything you propose doesn't mean it's going to be set in stone, right? So, you propose an idea and then our mayor and council would deliberate just like you guys are deliberating now on if it's something
possible. Um, they may want to amend it. They may want to add something. Um, so anything that you propose, they would deliberate on their own to see if this is something that they would like to adopt.
Does that make sense? So, let's say you this is what you propose. They would look into the board, deliberate, see um instruct our city attorney's office along with the administration to come up with a resolution
um that effective next year um each youth mayor, for example, I'm just going to say the youth mayor shall receive $1,000 scholarship if these criterias are met and these um criterias are set
forth every year. Does that make sense? This is items being proposed that they need to still deliberate on. >> Got it. >> Um and they may amend it, they may deny it, they may add to it. Um and then that's when the resolution is put in
place. Okay. I think right now what for the interest of time, what I'm going to propose, if it's okay with you, I'm going to have a conversation with um the council woman. I'm going to ask her if she's okay with Are you Are you guys
still in town? June 9th. Oh, we're not even in town. We'll be in New York. >> Yes, we need to >> We'll be in Arizona. >> Yeah. I was going to propose that we move uh the presentation to the June 9th
meeting, but we all will be together out of town. Um yeah. Yeah. >> Um today is the 21st. You have about a month. >> I think May >> another proposal another proposal
if if it's the 26. Your next your next regular council meeting is on the the 19th. I I think that's too soon. I don't want you guys to scramble. Um, if it's okay with you, pending the calendar
availability, um, I would like to rem I would like to propose you guys have a special youth council meeting rather than your scheduled May 19th meeting. Perhaps you you hold a
special youth council meeting pending calendar availability. Uh, let's say May 13th, for example. Okay. So, between now and May 13th, you guys will do your individual homework and see what do you think you can come
back to the drawing board. Come back on the 13th, discuss as a group and that will give you approximately really like a week to create a PowerPoint presentation and
then you would present on the 26th. What does the board think about that? cuz right now it seems that you guys are drawing blanks. So, I'm going to empower you to start looking up what resolutions are different uh maybe you can see another youth council somewhere else
what they've proposed before to assist you guys to see what makes sense for your community. Um, so my proposal is that you hold a special youth council meeting perhaps on the 13th. Um, perhaps on the 13th um, away from your
regular scheduled meeting on the 19th discuss as a group and then you have about the 13th to the 21st to create a PowerPoint. Is that too soon? I think we should have more time to create the PowerPoint
rather than more time to actual actually come up with the idea. >> Well, the issue is the May 26 would be the last possible council meeting, >> right? No, that um >> that works. May 26 is fine. I just think
maybe we should start like brainstorming ideas. Um maybe we should have the meeting the special meeting May 6 or May 7th earlier then I think it's best if we have more time to work on the presentation.
>> Okay. So how pending the the chambers uh the the chambers calendar availability um we should schedule it for May 6. uh May 6, you guys will reconvene as a group and from there on when you guys
just come up with something, you create the PowerPoint. Let me also reiterate, um you guys, this is a collaborative thing. You guys are all part of the youth council. I would like for you guys to work together. I would uh I don't I don't want it as a youth council leon,
this is the youth council leazison speaking now. Um, I don't want this to be just a youth mayor doing all the work thing. Okay, you guys are a board together. You guys should plan to meet virtually to discuss different ideas. Primary, they can meet together, right?
They're not voting. Is that a sunshine violation? Just thought about that. Since they're not elected, is that >> a sunshine violation? Any meetings? Any meeting they would have to have would be >> Okay, never mind. Don't meet together. Um, I just thought about that. Maybe we
can meet maybe through Google Meets and record it. >> No, the thing is anytime you meet together, you have to do a public notice. Well, Pom Marie, if we if we meet on the 6th and 7th, we can do a virtual meeting. >> Special meeting. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. Special virtual meeting.
>> Special virtual meeting. We invite the community. >> That just means that they're open to the community, I mean to the meeting um to attend, but it needs to be open to the public. Does that make sense? >> Make sense. >> Okay. So, just reiterating May 6 pending availability. Well, it's
virtual, which is better. May 6, you guys between now and May 5th or May 6 at 12:00, you guys will all do collaborative homework to see what works best uh as far as a proposal. On the 6,
you come up with a proposal. Hopefully that day, everybody can agree and vote on it. And then on the 26, you guys will present at the North M the North Miami regular uh mayor council meeting. Does that make sense?
Again, I really empower you guys to go home and look up resolution. Um look up other cities. Um you know, other cities have youth councils as well. U do your research to see if they've come up with something. Um, and
then that's that's about it. Any questions other than that? >> Um, I don't mean to contradict myself. I know I proposed May 6, but I just looked at my calendar and it's in the middle of AP exams. So, I don't think May 6 is going to work for me. Does it have to be
a week day or can it be >> So, the May the May 26 is set because >> No, the May 6, the special youth council meeting, >> the virtual meeting. Repeat that. Does it have to be that day? >> It have to be a week day. Can it be a weekend?
>> Um, I would prefer it to be a week day. I haven't seen a special meeting on a weekend here at the city of Mar. I've been here 16 years, but I've seen a lot of things done here. Um, if it's virtual, I don't see a reason
it's not possible. Um, the May 6 was, you know, your idea. So, what about May 7th? >> Um, the thing is I have an AP exam on May 6th and I have another one on May 8th. So, I think I might take the 7th to
study. >> Hey, um, the only thing I can say as your youth council leazison, this is one of those things we mentioned in the beginning. It's, uh, it's a commitment that you have to do. I can't tell you what to do, youth mayor, but I would recommend that if you could
set a time maybe 30 minutes to hour as is being the youth mayor of the great city North Miami. >> Okay. >> So, I think it's May 6. Is that >> we'll have a um special youth council meeting on the 6?
>> Yeah. >> Um yes, that's a Wednesday. Should we pick a time? >> Yes, please pick a time. So we can have public notice out >> the school day >> and we will do virtual. >> Um I would recommend uh 6:00 p.m. since
you guys are in school. >> Does 6 p.m. work for everyone? >> I would prefer >> Thank you. I will work on the public notice and the agenda. >> I would prefer if we have it earlier, maybe at 4. I know everyone's already out of school at 4. Does that work for you, Paul? Because I
know you'll have to be in attendance. Okay. >> No. >> Perfect. So, May 6 at 4, we'll have the special youth council meeting to discuss um the May 26 um meeting with the North Miami Council.
>> I would uh I think I would recommend voting on that item. >> Okay. Um, I would now like to make the motion to vote on tab C make having um a
special youth council meeting on May 6. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I >> the madam clerk should ask favor. She would >> All in favor? No.
>> Oh, okay. I just I have a motion. >> Okay. I have a motion by youth mayor Kotier to vote on the date for the special meeting for the legislative item proposal. Do I have a second?
>> Yes. >> All in favor? >> I >> I >> I >> I The motion passes. >> Thank you, Madam Clerk. Um, I would now like to move on to youth council reports.
Any reports? I have a report. >> Yes, madam clerk. >> Um, give me one second. Um, I got a message, an email from the youth clerk to be recognized for National Volunteer Week for the city of
North Miami. >> Congratulations, M Clerk. >> Privileged to speak. >> Yes. I also got recognized by the youth clerk for volunteer week. Congratulations. >> Thank you.
Um, I don't know if I can bring this up in youth council reports, but I think it's a good time for us to start talking about promoting the youth council considering the fact that majority of us are seniors and are leaving next year. So, I think we should start considering ways that we can possibly promote
whether that is through schools. I know Paul brought up like going to churches last year and promoting them in North Miami churches. So, that's also an option. Um I don't know if you guys have any other ideas because um promoting the youth council have been a struggle in
past years and we definitely wanted to still want this program to still keep going. >> Privilege to speak >> um we leave. Yes. >> So I already been um putting out the youth council with my school more so of
like sophomores and juniors so they can have a little feeling. They're also watching it on live right now. >> So, yeah. >> Okay, that's great. I really appreciate it. Does is anyone else Does anyone have ideas or
>> privilege to speak? >> Yes. Um, what if we have a banner as like it's like an advertisement in a banner and like schools can hang it up little posters like in in the beginning of the
year to get kids to know that this and this and that about youth council. That's a really great idea. It's just I'm just kind of concerned about how effective it would be because um even while I'm walking in school and I see banners, I don't really take the time to
like stop and look at them. So, I think when we're looking for ways to promote the youth council, we're also considering effectiveness and um but that is a good idea though. Yes. >> Privileged to speak. Yes. Um, I'm not
sure if we brought this up, but are we able to go into the community and the schools and promote oursel physically, like actually walk into the building and tell them what it's about and how it can affect them. >> We are able to as long as we reach out
to um the schools in advance and let them know that we're coming. I did try to do that last year and it was pretty unsuccessful, but I didn't try to walk in. what I did was that I sent emails, but I didn't really um receive a response from any of the schools. So,
yeah, I don't know if that's something that I would like to do this year. >> Privilege to speak. While while we're on the topic, I do want to mention this year, um the counciloman and I, we had a conversation. We are uh recruit our recruiting efforts are
starting early this year. So, uh, May 1st, okay, uh, is when we're going to, uh, we're going to put out the application out. Usually, we put out the application in August. So, we're have we're hoping to put it out in May and
anticipating that we would get uh some of the students before they're out of school. So, we're going to share it with the schools. Um, you know, like you mentioned, youth mayor, it it's so much out of our control how if they share it, if they decide to distribute it, but we do plan on starting earlier this year than normal
instead of waiting August, September. My vision um as the liaison is to put it out May 1st through at least June 1st. um review some of the applications uh you know interview scope the applications out and I'm hoping by mid
June or early July we would have our new set of youth council members um that way instead of the historically the past two years as a lesson on we've done the swearing in ceremony in November I would hope to do it in August or at least
September um that way it's effective I think uh because it's mainly seniors and you some juniors. There's more time being on the youth council. There's more things that can be done. Um but that is the goal though. The goal is to have it out by May 1st, start weeding through
the applications and selecting a full youth council board um by June or July. That way we can start rolling in um even in August if I if we have a full board at the back to school events, we can start promoting
ourselves. This is what we do as a youth council. Um, so that is the plan. This year we've had a uh uh conversations on how we can improve the recruiting efforts. >> Got it. >> Privileged to speak. >> Yes.
>> I have a question. So you you you see how Paul mentioned how he wants to start the recruiting May 1st. Wouldn't that be like a legislative item? No. >> No. >> To implement it every time someone comes in or whatever. No. A recruitment thing.
I don't think that's a legislation. >> Oh, okay. Thank you. >> Any comments? You have anything to add? >> Privileged to speak. >> Yes. Can I make a motion to adjurnn the meeting? Second. A motion was made to adjurnn the
meeting. Do we have a second? >> Okay. Okay. So, meeting ajourned. Meeting adjourned.