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REQUEST FOR COUNCIL ACTION Date:August 22, 2022 Item No.: 7.c Department Approval City Manager Approval Item Description: Consider amending Chapter 201 of the City Code relating to Youth Commissioners and declare vacancies for youth commissioners on various city commissions. 1 B ACKGROUND 2 City code allows the City Council to appoint up to two additional residents of the city who are 3 the age of 18 or under and enrolled in high school to serve one-year terms on a commission as 4 ex-officio youth commissioners. 5 6 Currently the city has 2 youth commissioners. One serves on the Human Rights, Inclusion 7 and Engagement Commission and the other serves on the Parks and Recreation 8 Commission. Both youth members are not eligible for an additional term as they will have rd 9 completed their 3 term at the end of August, 2022. Staff is requesting that the City 10 Council authorize the vacancies and approve the following timeline for the appointment of 11 various youth commissioners. 12 August 22 Declare Vacancies August 23 –September 30 Staff advertises and accepts applications. October 10 Council appoints Youth Commissioners to a term ending August 31, 2023. 13 14 In addition, staff is proposing to update the current city code language as it pertains to 15 youth commissioners. As staff has tried to recruit youth to serve on city commissions, some 16 of the main avenues to make connections tends to be through the various Roseville area 17 schools. In several cases, students who have shown interest in serving actually live outside 18 the Roseville city limits and are therefore not eligible, yet they attend school in Roseville. 19 20 Given that schools are a very large part of a young person’s “community”, and are also part 21 of the Roseville community, staff is seeking to change the requirement that youth 22 commissioners be residents of Roseville, and instead require that the youth applicant be thth 23 enrolled in 9– 12 grade in a Roseville-area school or homeschool program. The other 24 change related to this section of the city code (201.03) is the removal of the term “ex- 25 officio” to reflect the option that Council approved to allow youth commissioners to vote 26 with parental consent. 27 28 Lastly, the other change relates to the term expiration date. Staff is seeking to update the 29 term expiration to reflect the current process of appointing youth to terms that expire 30 August 31. Staff has posted the draft ordinance amendments pursuant to the 10-day rule. Page 1 of 2