Youth Advisory Commission

>> Welcome, everyone to the Pittsburgh youth commission meeting the meeting is called to order at 5:11 PM. We get Commissioner to lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance. >> I pledge allegiance to the flag to the United States of America. To the republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you. Can you please take rollcall? >> [ Roll call being taken. ] >> Nonvoting members Pittsburgh unified school District number one community advisory committee liaison is absent and excused a large committee member Commissioner number two is absent or excused. Activities league and at-large community member Sony Shepherd. Thank you. We will be tabling the meeting minutes from our previous meet until the next meeting. Are there any correspondence from any members? >> No correspondence at this time. >> Any audience remarks? >> I'm sorry my apologies reports? The reports for staff or commissioners? >> I'm going to turn it over for any presentations. >> There are no audience remarks at this time. Our first presentation comes from councilmember killings in the audience. If you would like to adjust the Council we would like to give you a welcome. >> That evening. It is a pleasure to be here with you all. One of the city Council members here it is definitely an honor to be here. It is a reverse role. All of you came before us was we interviewed you to be on the commission. Now I stand before you in this position. It is a joy to serve here in Pittsburgh. I hope you are enjoying the opportunity as well. It is great work that we do here. Today I share about how I got involved in my story going appearing Pittsburgh. I definitely want it to be open. If there are any questions you have about the work you do and how we can support you this is what it is all about. You probably heard the term team Pittsburgh. We are on 18. Whether it is city Council members, staff, all of the boards and commissions youth advisory being a part of that and all of the committee members we represent and students at our schools. We all work together to make the city the best it can be an make sure we are improving the quality of life for everyone here that calls this place home or does business here in the city of Pittsburgh. With that I will share little bit about myself in terms of how I came to get to this position. Like all of you I grew up in the city. I would to school here private school and elementary at the Christian Center school then went to junior high and graduated from Pittsburg high school in 2004. When you say it out loud it starts to seem like it was a long time ago. Almost 20 years time goes by fast but nevertheless Pittsburgh pride is in my heart. Growing up in the city I have gone to a lot of the stores and communities and events that you see have been traditions here for years. We are trying to carry on a make sure we all have that pride in our community. I also served as a youth advisory Commissioner. When I was going appearing the city. Eighth-grade year going to ninth grade and possibly 10. I served on the youth commission. We had a lot of exciting times. I really want to share with you all that the opportunity you have to not only be the voice of the youth but to create an environment that you can be proud of here in the city. Things you hear your peers talking about at school or in the community. We wish we had this or do more of this and bringing it to the table to see how we can get it done. Give us the funding to get things done's we want to make sure we are providing those opportunities. With that some big parties that we had we will do the annual youth Summit supported by our supervisor federal government at the time and it was something every year we were proud of as far as being used throughout the city to meet at Pittsburg high school for a day of activities, workshops, and to have fun. Music coffee, and one thing we prided ourselves on is [ Indiscernible ] we not always get along but what can we do to help ease the tension we need to junior high schools and how can we get along and bring people together for more time to interact with each other? We started going to school dances and we thought it was something fun to do to bring to Central junior high. We also learned how to DJ at the time. We were able to DJ student at these events. I'm only bringing it up kiss is his creative ideas and things that maybe need to be addressed in schools and communities and say can we bring people together and address this issue. Did I now I was going to be a city councilmember one day no, I was just going through school. Had an awesome friend that his mother was the coordinator and there was a lot that happened there I went to directly by college and university that brought a lot of cultural experience in going down south. Here in California we are blessed to be a melting pot where we have different types of ethnicities and cultures right here in our community. I thank it makes us unique as a city. Having the opportunity to go down south and learn about the history of the South and the struggle that African-Americans here in the nation had in the leaders that emerge out the civil rights movement error. Then we get to the place we are today with the opportunities that we have. At the same time it also gave me an idea in terms of entrepreneurship and wanting to do things in terms of his notice. I got my degree in business and marketing. While I was in school I first had the opportunity to vote. Turning 18 and graduating high school I did not vote until I was 20 when I first voted they did not give us Ms. information about how wide to vote or who to vote for I'm from California so I don't know anything about California. Georgia. I was just maybe picking Amy that maybe stands out. From there it sparked an interest. The election was in 2008 and we know that was the year that President Barack Obama was like that. There was a lot of excitement on a historically black college university campus for the first back president. We know what happened but in that time we created a student movement called to the complaint about the different policies and would actually means. How do you know about certain things in terms of laws and legislation and how they impact us. If you were to ask me at that moment member I would say no just going with the flow. Things that are relevant to us and things that matter to us. From there I graduated from college and at that time I told you wanted to do music. My dream if you're in the South two hours I can go to Alabama, South Carolina, North Carolina, Miami and all these different places with all these different experiences. That is what I love the most about my experience at the University. And then with the music we went to a lot of different HBCUs. We had a movement called schoolhouse hustlers. Don't be full by the hustlers but the reality was we would promote education and entrepreneurship when you go to school are go to college that the college is a multimillion dollar business resource. Resources available to student that people outside of the network do not have an opportunity to establish or tap into. We are about letting students know while you're here make the most of your college opportunity. You want to start a business look at the network you have to start a business. If you have an idea get your advisors to sign off on and go for it. That was the aspect we wanted to push. From then I graduated and I wanted to stay in Atlanta but it was not a place for someone who grew up in California. The humidity was a little too much. I was used to the water, beaches and beautiful scenery here in California so I came back home and got involved with local afterschool programs in teaching a college career readiness program through our partner working here. Working through that I got engaged with the youth again. High school students come into school students preparing for college and hearing the needs just being involved in the community, trying to work trying to make money and get back to the community. There is when opportunity came in a board member resigned and moved to Southern California and there was an opening so I was 25 or 26 years old. I got a lot of ideas for all of you and what we should be doing for students. I work with them every day and fill their energy. They said you had a lot of great things to say a lot of great ideas don't stop going for it. I want to be involved in public service and I want to engage in policy get back to my community. One thing I will encourage is if things do not work out the way you want it you may not make the team get appointed to the school at that point but there is always learning lessons and experiences we go through. And I found out is that I have a lot of passion. I found out I did not necessarily have the understanding or experience there is a lot that goes into government systems and policies. I do not have an understanding of how to work the systems or policies. From there I decided to go back to school. I went back and got my Masters degree in public policy and management. From there I got the full understanding about public organizations and how they work. How'd different economies work between image ministration and policymaking. While in school people asked if I was going to run for the school board and I said no. I am investing in myself and there is something I need to get. Going through the Masters program is when it dawned on me that I'm not an educational curriculum background English major history or someone with being involved in education curriculum. I had more focus on economic development, community building, and that is what shifted me from school board because I thought it was something I needed to do to I really want to be at city Council dealing with the community in a larger context in the planning and future development of the city. With all of that I finally got to 2016 where I ran for city Council. I was successfully elected in 2016 and reelect in 2020. I have been on the Council now for about six years. There has been a lot of learning in that time and get accomplishments. Hopefully you can see them in the community. Things they are changing for the better. We try to bring back a lot of the opportunities. Something you all in part of in crafting that was something we grew up having an it was something that was hard to see that a lot of youth were getting the opportunity and having the facilities here now. We did a lot of work around youth and young adults. Another passion was economic development. There are jobs for community members able to work in the city of Pittsburgh. Whether it is commercial or the right stores for retail or why do we have to drive over the hill to go to certain stores or go out to Oakland San Francisco to have a nice nighttime amenity if we wanted to do something with the family? That is really the high priority for myself and my colleague on the city Council. We want to make it a place where everyone loves to not only live at work and enjoy recreational commercial opportunities. We are looking forward to working with y'all to make pick Pittsburgh that place we all love. With that I can dive into the work we do as a Council if you have questions about it we would love to talk with you but when you ask why city Council? >> I shared a little bit why did it in terms of economic development. We can make change in our community and a lot of different ways. We have folks right now serving on the board of commissions. We have members the community meeting means by providing services in meeting other needs in our community. Have nonprofits with champion causes. With her they are involved with at risk youth score people fighting against cancer, all types of things where people can make change and impact in the community. Why city government? Every entity has a specific role. The school district has a role with educating students. The county has its role with health services and county hospitals. What is the role the city of Pittsburgh house? We wanted the community to be safe. We wanted people to be inferior in crime and that was a big element for me. Making sure that as I raise my family as I grew up. I now have two children I'm raising I want them to be safe. I want them to have opportunities for jobs and things of that nature. And lastly, what impact does every day? When you come out of your home you have to drive on our roads and who maintains those? The city of Pittsburgh. We want to make sure the roads are smooth and infrastructure is right. And you go home and turn on your water you hope it's clean in if you want to take a shower you know the city is responsible for clean reliable water. All of these things led to the reason why wanted to be involved in city Council because the big thing for me is you want to thank long-term. I'm on the Council. I was able to serve three years. I was blessed for another term for another four years but that time will be over soon. It is about legacy and inking long-term. If I only take about right now and the current term that I'm not truly serving the community that elected me. It is about setting it up long-term. One of the things we are going through now is the general plan. It lays out all the policies for the next 20 years. Where homes going to be built where our recreational facilities going to be built? How many people do you thank are added to the city every year? How many people do you thank are added every >> 50 to 100,000. >> we have about 75,000 people in the city of Pittsburgh. We are about roughly 1000 people every year. So in the next 20 years 20,000 more people added to the city. How do you plan for that? How many more schools are we going to need? How many more houses are we going to need? Traffic is already almost a nightmare. How are 20,000 more people on the roads going to work? Are they going to be driving cars? Are we going to have a ferryboat for people to go to work? All of these different things and it is a lot to thank about will they be proud growing up in our city? Days ago. Do you say that proud or? You're from Pittsburgh? What. Everyone wants to be from Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh will always if he the place to have the most diversity. Pittsburgh is the place that feels like community that has the rich culture that has the diversity and has always been on strength. The more we build on the strength and provide more opportunities the rest of the county or state will be able to see that. That is ultimately our mission not only as a Council as a community. We want to be cheerleaders for our city. We want everyone to know this is the best city for the state of California and how to improve that continuing to improve services and continuing to do things in the best interests and quality of life for everyone that caused this place home. I have a lot more I can share one thing I do want to say is thank you. The time and the commitment you are giving to do this is recognized. We appreciate it. When we established the youth advisory commission we have a passion for youth services and youth development. This is an experience truly helping you all. Thinking about what you ultimately want to do in your career and life and the impact you want to make on the community. We hope this adds a lens helpful to you and how you can make change in advocate and use your voice. Also to learn how government works. I was sharing with Colette the other day we were having a conversation that these provide opportunities for all of us. There is a lot of heartache on how slow things moving government. Snap your fingers and make it happen. If we could we would love to. I thank the experience that you get being here is you will see how government process works. How do you put forward a policy? If I wanted something that will impact people's lives or do something about the number of alcohol and drug stores within our community, how do we have that conversation about the impact it has on youth? How do we have the conversation about how to limit tobacco in our community or limit access to drugs? How do we have these conversations? We hope as you have the dialogue on the commission that these conversations will start to come up. It is about responding to the needs of the community and we really hope it provides an opportunity for you all. I have bored you enough with all of my talking but if you have questions I would be happy to answer any that you may have. This is a team effort. Anything I can do to support you I'm here to do it. >> I do have a couple questions. The first is a statement. My mom also grew up in Pittsburgh. We lived down the street from the house she grew up at were my grandparents lived. We definitely have that Pittsburgh pride. I was a part from the moment I was born. Then I was going to ask back to the population of Pittsburgh, why do we want more people in Pittsburgh what we send them to Brentwood or somewhere? The more people we add the more houses we need and that may obstruct the quality of life for the people already here. So, why would more if we just interior the quality of Pittsburgh? >> That is a great question I will hit on it from two places. What you start off with is we have families that have been here for generations. My parents grew. I grew. My great grandparents grew appear. We also have a population of folks that are new. Some call them transplants or whatever. There are different terms. People who just moved. It was more affordable to be able to raise their families. Both of the perspectives are in my community. The thing about public policy is you have to come to a place of not only listening to all the perspectives, I do not want to call a compromise and people would say compromise it is a place where you have to hear all the voices and come to the best decision for the most people. You will never make a decision that everyone will be excited about. Unless we are talking about youth and recreation. For the most part when we talk about public policy or the term politics, I don't mean to be a teacher but you are talking about interests. Public interest. People have different interest. You like one thing this person like something else. >> In public policy you are trying to take all of these interest and find a common ground. Where is the common ground with the person that just moved here a year ago versus someone who has been here 40+ years. The other aspect is we do not work in a silo. If he could just be we are Pittsburgh and we are sheltered off from the rest of the word world and what happens in Pittsburgh happens in Pittsburgh. The world does not work like that so we are in the bay area. It is a hotspot. Everyone wants to not only be in California that we have people walking through feet of snow going to 0 degree weather. California is an ideal place that people want to live. On top of that we're in the Bay Area Silicon Valley with all the great amenities. So naturally people want to be here. From that we are is suburb from the community. So, as the Bay Area grows we will naturally grow as. The general plan we talked about is an opportunity to say how do we want to grow? We know that more people are going to come. What does that look like? For the most part we have been a city in the suburbs. You have a house, backyard, space and that is what people want. They move from the condensed urban setting from everyone being cramped to space. I want my kids to write their bike down the street or play outside. That is historically how we have been. Here in Pittsburgh we are a general law city. I know I am in teaching mode but we are general law city that means there are certain rules to follow under the state of California's Constitution. You have your local level, city, school district, and I will go into the regional level your county and Bart the regional agency that goes across different jurisdictions and cities. You have entities in your state legislator. There are laws at the state level the impact how we can operate here in the city of its bird. Here in Pittsburgh we are going to the general plan. This is why we have to go to 20,000. In the general plan we have a housing element. >> The housing element is determined by an organization of an association of Bay Area government. There are a number of agencies in the bay area and there is not the regional housing Pittsburgh we do not have to decide how many houses need to be this is saying the regional bodies must determine every eight years how many houses are needed to keep up with not only demand in terms of the housing needs of the state of California and from there they give us the number and wave the wand and say we want to build this amount of houses. It has to cover these four ranges from very low low income to moderate to above moderate. Everything on that sliding scale based on income levels in the area. There has definitely been a feeling. I have had that feeling. Can we just stop tilting. The reality is we cannot just stop. There are ways we can set up policies where where should the housing be built? If we're having too much traffic in this area one of the biggest products that we had on our list >> For the commission this is excellent information because in March the planning department will resent to you the housing element which is what the councilmember is talking about so you have a better understanding when they present to you about the housing element to get your input and feedback. That time is a good way to bring as many people as you can. We are building out your city of Pittsburgh. We were younger we were on the flipside to say we want to train a train to go to the city and Wi-Fi. We see all of these things happening now because someone listen to us. That is exactly what he is talking about. It doesn't take away from how we do it. >> That is a critical piece of what we call local control. That is a big site to say state of California we have ambitious goals but maybe some of your goals do not fit with the community. We need to have local control to urban sprawl's you have all this land but instead of convincing how you're building the housing you're spreading it out and people have large backyards and all the space. What I'm pushing for in this is known they want to CS with 456 story or higher buildings. Hundreds of people living in a building you have to build this type of housing and allow this type of density. Public policy, people way over here and people will be here. How can we find a common ground to say what works best for our community? There is a law in that. I could talk all day about policy. These are conversations I wish we would have more of because that is my perspective as a councilmember. We have to be better as a Council. How do I have these conversations more in the community? You come to Council meeting and see me voting on something you said that was boring or they didn't talk much but because you guys are aware of the Brown act you can only talk about what is on the agenda and specifically that. Definitely as a councilmember I want to make sure I do that you see me overflowing because I love the opportunity to talk large pitcher about what is happening in the city. As we talked about transportation one big we try to address you guys know the Sam Marcus area was set up town? If you drive all the way down Cleveland Road and go back it is a newer community. 20 years ago you witnessing what you see now. It's almost like a new Pittsburgh. >> There is a lot of connectivity we are trying to bring to the Sam Marcos and communities to the rest. One of the big things we're trying to do is connect Sam Marcus Boulevard to Billings Road and all over the hill to connect to Willow pass. To be able to relieve traffic congestion. This is all long-term planning in the city. I will not for you with more of those things. If you have questions about housing I would love to answer those questions. >> I have a comment about everything you said. I feel like it is enlightening when you mentioned the housing situation and how it causes ripple effects and affects traffic. Like my fingers in school when it comes to anything like voting or has to do with the public we never get to understand why certain things are the way they are. We just complain traffic is bad now having to understand that even though you guys are on the city Council you have the state to answer to. That is a bigger piece that I would've not connected. There are certain standards to answer to. >> There is a lot that goes into policymaking. Definitely any time if there is an interest in terms of specific policies I'm sure you got a lot of questions. It would be eye-opening to see that as well. I would love to come back and interact with y'all or anything we can do to work on policy together. I'm here for. >> I also want to thank you because this is cool. I like the stuff. I have noticed that that they are ill ding roads to connect it I know nothing about street name so do not judge me. Yes they wanted to be a big city but also, what about the people who there are a good amount you can see it, who do want houses with backyards and open space. >> I love the questions. You will see in the housing element and this is where go to long-term planning. A big part of city getting government is zoning. We decide where certain things can be built. This is the area where houses can be built and commercial areas. Even when talking about residential uses there are different makes this. When we talk about acres. How many dwelling units per acre. When you see 1233 to 5 you are talking about traditionally suburban homes. They want to see the dwellings per acre go up which is the higher density. When you say where can they go how can they do about that becomes a balancing act. When you look at our city in the way it is tilt out we have been going and stretching out into the hills and as far east and west as we can. But, there is only so much land available to build on. Leave and what you are sharing now is for the project portion and the hill area. I bring this up as it is to the point of sharing of continuing to build in the hills. Once again from a public policy perspective you have people that do not want to see any damage done to natural habitat and things like that. Then there is a need that is. How to protect the habitat and other areas and it comes back to the heart of public policy. >> Can I jump in? Affordability, you all have to thank about one thing when you graduate from high school and college and you come back you will not necessarily be able to afford to live in a house but there has to be a place for you as well. That is where you have to build up so you have affordable housing. Affordable housing doesn't always mean the lowest but we have to create an environment to have housing that everyone can afford. >> I don't know if you recognize on Railroad Avenue the apartments told by Walgreens. That has the concept. To be built for young professionals. To try to lure young professionals into the area and they would be able to have something in their price range. Coming right out of college or young you do not have the money to IA home. Everyone does not have the money to buy a $600,000 home. Homes and some Marcos are going to $1 million plus. So everybody cannot afford that so how do you create other opportunities? That is where you start to reduce the dwelling unit and build up. Once again finding the right mix is always the challenge. A lot more to come with housing. I hope you bring up all these questions when we dive into the housing element because they are good and it makes us thank. When you ask questions it brings another community perspective that staff can take and we as councilmembers can take when it comes to trying to build a community everyone can be proud of and everyone can be excited about. >> I don't know if I'm allowed to share ideas but I know downtown Pittsburgh my friends I call it ghetto Pittsburgh but some of the things down there they built houses are started to build houses and apartments then left them and did not finish them or sell them. So now it's all abandoned and trashy. >> Willow pass? >> Down close to the water. >> There are definitely things that are sometimes out of our control. As a city we do permitting. If we say the apartments are not in compliance with city codes address it or does not get done. To your point no one wants to see blight. We do not want to see abandoned buildings change trashed property in we have mechanisms to address that. We still need those private property owners to be compliant and work with us to make sure we're keeping it all clean. >> >> I just wanted to say there are a couple of roads that definitely need help. I don't know how that is going. >> You can imagine to maintain city streets and roads cost a lot of money. A lot of money. In that you have to prioritize. You have so many square miles of road in our community. I will try to do this quickly. We prioritize roads you look at the condition of the roads. Some words are in better condition than others. Then you also look in terms of the type of treatment to sustain that road. With all the different factors we try to prioritize the roads all throughout the city and making sure we get our pavement condition index which is basically a way to save the how are the city's words? Good condition is a 70 or higher. We are Commissioner right now. A goal of mine is to get us to the good condition so we can be proud. No one likes to drive over potholes or swerve because that does damage to our vehicles and adds to the blight and we want our community to be clean and nice including our roads. >> Any more questions? >> [ Indiscernible -low volume ] I moved here 28 years ago. One of the reasons I moved here was to look for affordable say found the housing. The area I lived in was not safe and after a drive-by shooting I decided it was time to move. I like the small and as of the community. I understand what the commissioner was saying we are growing so quickly I enjoy leaving here so hopefully we can I thank everyone here has a sense of Pittsburgh pride. This is my town and there is in the people here to I do not want to deny the others opportunity but at some point we will run out of land. Thank you for the presentation it was very enlightening thank you. >> >> I have a question. For people who are the older members of the community that want to get involved in politics and things like that I have friends who are also majoring in political science and I was wondering what the next step would be from the use of either advisory committee? What would kids around my age due to be a part of this? There is a gap between you cannot in turn because you're not a four-year and not young enough to be part of the committee. >> There should be opportunities definitely. If you have internships in the city. We do have internship opportunities with the city. Going back to where I shared earlier, what impact do you want to make in the community? There are a number of vehicles to make an impact. If it truly is around public policy or you see what you're doing now is big. Bring forth the policies around planning. You will be able to interact with city councilmembers to department heads and city manager. It is all at your fingertips now. Goes back to what I said about colleges. While you're there make the most of it. As you are in the seat as a commissioner make the most of it. Everything you want to explore from policy budgeting, community impact, put on the table and see where it lands. See where you get directed to I was maybe 2425 when I first went for the school board. Now there is a window of young folks saying why wait I'm running for office now. You only have to be 18. I'm 18 I can run for office. With that comes don't let experience discourage you in that regard [ Silence ] but you do want to have understanding if you're asking for committee members to vote for you it's like a palling for a job when you can share that and people can see your heart people are inclined to get behind you but in terms of the route, they can look different for a lot of people. For me I do not hold a city commission position before being elected to the Council. Yes a certain youth commission 20 years ago those before thinking about city Council. You can get involved in the planning commission or if you like what is going on in terms of zoning and planning you can apply to be on the planning commission. You can enter with the county supervisor and so many levels of government. You can enter at the capital at Fellowship programs if you want to have got policy you only have to be 18 to run so you can run from city Council to school board or state office if you wanted to. If you wanted to be a legislator. >> once again, you want to be able to get not only experience but continue to learn along the way is what I would encourage you to do. Be eager to learn and stay engaged in the community. Have an ear to listen and bring your perspect event voice to the conversation. >> [ Indiscernible -low volume ] any more questions? >> Earlier you said something about sharing ideas and our vision. I don't know when that happens so is it okay if I say three things I want in Pittsburgh? >> Sure. >> more trails and parks. For example Brentwood if you have ever seen parts of recreation we thank of that as [ Laughter ] so they have nice trails and huge bike lanes. So you will not get hit if you write in the bike lane my family personally likes going on trails and being in nature. If we had trails that we would be going through hills and that would be cool. >> Thank you for the and thank you for sharing. I was sure that we have the Pittsburgh moves act transportation plan. It is a big policy document but if you're interested it may be something you want to review as a commissioner. We want wider like lanes or green striped on somewhere they located? Our plan lays that out. If you have the opportunity to look at the active transportation plan we would love to hear your feedback. >> where can I access it? >> It is on our website we can send you the link as well or email it to you. We did a survey of committee members a little over a year ago and one of the things they want to see more of his passive recreation. That is exactly what that is in terms of there are some potential opportunities we had with a potential golf course I cannot share all the details but we definitely want to bring more trails online. >> Thank you for your presentation. I let a lot more than I do in school usually. It was nice to learn your perspective from a person who has been working with the city Council and doing stuff for their community. I can say that I have not been --I am not a social person. This is the first time I have ever been on the city Council. I am not from Pittsburgh but it is nice to see it was really nice to see that you are in with the community. You always want to see get better. You have always been super inspired to do everything for your people. It is inspiring coming from someone new to all of this I'm just a commissioner doing this for the first time. It is truly inspiring to see you talk and I hope we get to see more of you in the near future. >> It is really humbled by you sharing that. Please know that your all leaders. Stepping forward in this position is not easy. Having to talk about these issues or ask questions about different things you may not fully understand this is the place to do it. This is where it will be sharpened. I can imagine what you guys are going to do in the future. If you have more questions feel free to send me an email. Share your ideas or even talk to other youth if you feel it would be helpful. I appreciate your time. >> Thank you councilmember. We appreciate you coming to speak tonight. [ Applause ] >> Our second presentation will be pushed to our next meeting in March. That will bring us to old business. >> For old business we had an invitation back in February or in inquiry England invitation from the Oakley youth Council. They wanted to do a joint meeting with you folks to discuss mental health resources and resource day. We found a day that works. They would like for us to attend their second meeting in March on March 15. It is at 7 PM held in Oakley at the recreation center. We can provide transportation bear but we would ask if you can all get transportation back or maybe we can chart to provide transportation both ways. We will see how many needed. That will be March 15 7 PM at the recreation center in Oakley. That is to discuss mental health and figuring out ways and trainings to brainstorm and become mental health advocates and resources for peers. >> Do you know if it will be held online? The video after? Would be put online? >> They meet in person they do not do zoom. Was this meeting recorded? >> All of our youth Council meetings are recorded. >> They are on the? >> Off the subject. For the March 15 they meet in person and do not record their meetings. Any questions on old business item number one? [ Silence ] old business number two who us event. We will produce them in Spanish on a 4 x 6 card or flyer you can distribute at the school campuses and in the community. The event is March 18 10 AM to 4 PM at the Marina Center. That will include skills cudgels, games, prizes food in a DJ. We have been reaching out to some of the local youth organizations. So far those that have confirmed our mega football, PDS baseball league, SCS Academy and they will all be assisting setting up's to give out information or to work with Carnival. We have confirmed TJ spend that. I'm assuming you know who that is. I was told you would know because I have no idea. So far for vendors we have two vendors lined up. We are still confirming a third. We have confirmed to smash burger and a loop you have vendor. We have reserved at the end favorable basketball games three of them. That is where the youth commission will come in and man that. Along with getting pricing on a rock wall. Invitations have gone out on social media. This event is the soft opening for the Marina community Center. A lot of things will be done but a lot of things won't. We have a beautiful gymnasium floor but do not have testable hoops or everything that goes with it because of slot supply and demand chain. >> We would do another soon as we have it all in. Those that want to volunteer for the event we ask that you arrive at 8 AM March 18. The other thing that Mr. Jerry was asking was doing a meeting for anyone who wants to come out and help. We would like for all of you to be there next Wednesday, March 1 at 3 PM. 340 Marina Boulevard. Anyone in your groups that look for community service hours or organizations that want to participate we will meet their to walk you through how the event will be set up. So we know where people are working. Any questions on hoop bus? >> Will we as a committee have our own table? >> I thank that would be very good to do. March 1 3 PM. >> Will this information be on the city Marquis? >> It has been on there for a week and a half. >> [ Laughter ] I need to look. >> what was March 1? >> March 1 were asking to meet down at the event site at the Marina Center to walk to the venting get an idea check to see if we can get people to sign up and more ideas. It is a community event for all ages but we wanted as many people as possible to come out. >> Even though it was a free event would using an event attract people? >> The only thing with event bright is it advertises all over. This is a Pittsburgh event. It is truly for our residents and community to celebrate our community center. We are going to send out the flyers. Through peach Star and social media. It will be on the website and we hope he are hoping it will organically continue to go out to other organizations. >> To circle back, every youth advisory commission meeting is recorded. It is always available online on our website at Pittsburgh CA.GOP agenda life minutes. From there you go down to the bottom and click on youth commission and scroll back and see our very first meeting. Even on soon. Mdm. chair? >> I believe that is all for old business. Do we do a motion? >> Since we are finished with the old business we will move on to new business. Is there any new business? >> I have none. Do you have anything you want to discuss? >> No. Do we have any commissioner comments or staff comments? [ Silence ] >> Can I get more clarification on how to find the videos? >> Would you like me to show you? >> Yes. >> Thank you. >> [ Indiscernible -low volume ] >> When you go to the city website it will look exactly the same on your phone but bigger. [ Indiscernible - low volume ] you click on 2022 and scroll down now I can ship my mom. >> [ Indiscernible -low volume ] >> [ Indiscernible - low volume ] [ Indiscernible - multiple speakers ] >> Thank you. >> [ Indiscernible -low volume ] >> Any other questions? >> The me show you where [ Indiscernible -low volume ] we talk about connectivity over by the Park station. That is a document that will show you what the long-term plans are [ Indiscernible - low volume ] [ Indiscernible -multiple speakers ] >> This plan specifically is a link the plan and talks about how the area is supposed to be developed. Here's where you have some of the multilevel [ Indiscernible - low volume ] >> Are there any more comments? We will adjourn this meeting at 6:20 5 PM.