Parks Recreation and Cultural Resources Department
Teen Advisory Committee
MEETING MINUTES

March 18, 2008 @ 5:30 p.m.
Cary Senior Center
120 Maury O’Dell Pl. - Cary, NC 27513

 

 

Leslie Ann Willis called the meeting to order at 5:32 p.m.

 

Members Present:  Leslie Ann Willis, Tom Hemrick, Ian Lee, Jessie Duan, Wesley Lo, Taler Echols, Madhu Vulimiri, Tiffany Tutwiler, Sid Vadakkeveedu, Carlotta Dixon

 

Members Absent: Ben Mohar, Ryan McCann, Alyssa Egel

 

Staff Present:  Cindi King

 

Adoption of the Agenda

Wesley Lo made a motion to adopt the March agenda, Tiffany Tutwiler seconded. The motion carried by a unanimous vote.

 

Adoption of Minutes

Jessie Duan made a motion to adopt the February minutes, Wesley Lo seconded. The motion carried by a unanimous vote.

 

Public Speaks Out
None

 

Teen Forum Feedback and Evaluation

Cindi reported that the event had approximately 103 participants pre-registered and there were 10 walk in registrations the day of the event.  Approximately 93 participants attended the event. Cindi distributed a compilation of the event evaluations which the committee reviewed.

 

Participation: The participant age range was fairly evenly distributed and there were participants from approximately 15 different schools in the area.  The survey showed that we are on target with the scheduling of the event.

Information Booths: The participants liked the information booths that were set up at lunch and the committee felt that this should be continued if it is relevant to the topic. 

Lunch: It was also suggested that for lunch there should be another option in the event a participant cannot eat the main choice.  Include that lunch is provided in the event description.

Sessions: Overall they went well.  The participants enjoyed the sessions with more interactive, hands on activity. The committee felt that the length of the sessions should stay about the same. It was suggested that there should be more that 4 sessions to choose from however that has posed logistical problems when it was tried before.  Some suggestions to facilitate doing more sessions included having a limited number of spaces available in each session and either 1) Allow the first 20 participants at the session to attend, if participants don’t get into that session they would have to choose another and try again later to get in, participants would have a card stamped once they had attended a session to prevent repeats or 2) Sign up for the sessions when they first arrive at the event to encourage people to get there early. 
Speaker: The committee agreed that not having a speaker worked out well.

Survey: Tom suggested asking on the survey if participants were first timers to the event or repeat participants.

Prizes for next year: Carlotta suggested checking into tickets for the NCAA first round basketball games at the RBC Center.

 

Meeting was adjourned at 6:25 p.m.