HomeMy WebLinkAboutYC Minutes 06/01/2011MAYOR
Irvana K. Wilks
TRUSTEES
Paul Wm, Hoefert
Arlene A. Juracek
A. John Korn ZY
John Matuszak
Steven S. Polit
Michael A. Zadel
Village of Mount Prospect
50 South Emerson Street, Mount Prospect, Illinois 60056
MOUNT PROSPECT YOUTH COMMISSION
MINUTES
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 01, 2011
7:00 P.M.
MOUNT PROSPECT POLICE AND FIRE HEADQUARTERS
112 EAST NORTHWEST HIGHWAY
PRESENT ADAM KIEL — CHAIRMAN
NORA GAWLIK
RABIA MEMON
ALEX OPLAWSKI
RACHEL OTTE
JACLYN STASSEN
DELANIE STEINWEG
SERGEANT ANTHONY ADDANTE, ADULT ADVISOR
GEORGE CLOWES, ADULT ADVISOR
STEVEN POLIT, ADULT ADVISOR
CINDY RUMORE, SECRETARY
VILLAGE MANAGER
Michael E. Janonis
VILLAGE CLERK
M. Lisa Angell
Phone: 847/392 -6000
Fax: 847/392 -6022
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ABSENT LINDSAY BOIVIN, MICHAEL BOIVIN, KEVIN DRUFFEL, OLIVER KHAIRALLAH
DAVID SCHEIN, ADULT ADVISOR
GUESTS OFFICER SCOTT FILIPEK, Prospect High School SRO Officer
REBECCA HABEL — 9` Grade student from Prospect High School
JOSH LOEMS — Boy Scouts of America #270
JOHN LOEUNG — Boy Scouts of America #270
JEFF LOEUNG — Boy Scouts of America #270
CALL TO ORDER
Chairman Adam Kiel called the June 01, 2011 Youth Cc,mmission meeting to order at 7:05 p.m. in the first floor
training room of the Police and Fire Headquarters, Mount Prospect, Illinois.
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MOUNT PROSPECT YOUTH COMMISSION MINUTES
ROLL CALL
Secretary Cindy Rumore called the roll.
APPROVAL OF MINUTES
Nora Gawlik, seconded by Rachel Otte, moved to approve the Minutes of the May 04, 2011 Youth Commission
meeting. Motion carried by unanimous approval.
VISITORS TO BE HEARD
Rebecca Habel, 9 grade student from Prospect High School introduced herself to the Youth Commission.
Josh Loems, John Loeung and Jeff Loeung from Boy Scout #270 attended the Youth Commission meeting as
part of a badge requirement.
TREASURER'S REPORT
Treasurer Jaclyn Stassen advised the current Youth Commission balance is S 1,333.46.
ADMINISTRATION COMMITTEE
Chairman -Alex Oplawski
Oliver Khairallah, Rachel Otte
Cindy Rumore, Secretary
Chairman Alex Oplawski advised committee members are preparing report of Youth Commission goals and
achievements for the Village Board presentation in June.
ISSUES COMMITTEE
Chairman- Lindsay Boivin
Michael Boivin, Kevin Druffel
Sergeant Anthony Addante, Adult Advisor, George Clowes, Adult Advisor
Adult Advisor George Clowes presented 2010 survey results to members for their review (reference
attachments). Chairman Adam Kiel suggested presenting the survey results at a Village Board meeting.
PUBLIC RELATIONS COMMITTEE
Chairman - Rabia Memon
Jaclyn Stassen, Delanie Steinweg
David Schein, Adult Advisor
Chairman Rabia Memon to contact Lilia at the train station to inquire about displaying the Youth Commission
display board inside the train station.
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MOUNT PROSPECT YOUTH COMMISSION MINUTES
YOUTH RESOURCE CATALOG COMMITTEE
Chairman-Nora Gawlik
Rachel Otte, Merrily Ruetsche
Steven Polit, Adult Advisor
Chairman Nora Gawlik advised Spanish version is in first draft.
OLD BUSINESS
LIONS CLUB 4TH OF JULY
Discussion continued of the Youth Commission participating in the Lion's Club 4' of July activities on Friday,
Saturday, Sunday, and the parade on Monday. Chairman Adam Kiel to email sign -up sheet to all members with
times available for the various July 4 events.
NEW BUSINESS
OFFICER ELECTIONS
Youth Commission elections to be held at an upcoming meeting.
MOTION TO ADJOURN
Alex Oplawski, seconded by Nora Gawlik, moved to adjourn the June 01, 2011 meeting.
Motion carried by unanimous approval.
MEETING ADJOURNED
Chairman Adam Kiel adjourned the meeting at 8:02 p.m.
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Mount Prospect Youth Commission 2010 Survey Page 1
The aim of the Issues Committee is to identify youth issues in Mount Prospect. This is one of the duties
of the Youth Commission, according to Chapter 5.14058 of the Village Code:
"Identify youth issues in the community by holding public meetings, studying youth services in the
Village and in other communities, and receiving communications from schools, community groups, and
Village residents; where possible, develop solutions to these problems and, if appropriate, present
recommendations to the President and Board of Trustees of the Village;"
1. Survey Instrument
The 2010 Survey conducted by the Mount Prospect Youth Commission was first discussed in late 2009
by the Commissions Issues Committee, which consisted of Youth Commission members Eric Logisz,
Dan Milewski, Danish Husain, Dan Kovach, Christian Lopez, and Nandini Roy, with Adult Advisors
Anthony Addante and George Clowes. Committee members decided that conducting a survey and
getting input at public meetings were the best means to find out more about the issues that were the
top concerns of Village youth.
The committee started with a Youth Commission questionnaire used in 2008 and modified it by adding
new questions, improving the wording on some existing questions, and providing a return address so
that respondents could mail the survey back. It was also suggested that if specific items should emerge
as hot button issues on returned questionnaires, the survey instrument could be modified to
incorporate questions on these items. Since this would be an ongoing process, it was recommended
that a Committee member be put in charge of coming up with recommendations for such changes.
Two versions of the questionnaire were developed: a fu page version with six questions, and a half -
page version with four questions (see Appendix 1). The questions posed were as follows:
• 1. What problems do you feel young people struggle with most?
• 2. What do you think are the most common misconceptions about today's youth?
• 3. Do ou have any specific concerns about youth regarding curfews, driving, vandalism, or
drugs .
• 4. What could be done to help solve some of the problems local teens are facing?
• 5. If you could change one thing for teens, what would it be?
• 6. Are there any rules or laws concerning youth that you disagree with? Which ones? Why?
2. Proposed Distribution
The Issues Committee recommended that the survey should be distributed as follows:
• At meetings attended by Youth Commission members, such as Coffee with Council (with the
approval of the meeting chairman);
• By getting a booth or table at Village events;
• By setting up a table at the Community Connections Center;
• By setting up a table at Park District and Library facilities;
• By making them available at restaurants and facilities frequented by youth, with a box to collect
the completed surveys;
• By mailing the survey to churches and schools;
• By putting the survey online on the Village web site.
3. Actual Distribution and Collection
The 2010 Youth Commission Survey was distributed using the following means:
Collection Boxes: Committee members placed questionnaires and collection boxes at several
locations in the Village during the spring of 2010 but the effort ultimately netted no completed surveys;
this was due in large part to a lack of follow -up.
Online Survey: The full -page survey was made available online on the Village web site in March 2010,
thanks to Public Information Officer Maura El Metennani, and over the next two months this yielded a
total of 11 completed questionnaires.
Booth at Village Events: Several members promoted the half -page survey at the Lions July 4th
Carnival at Melas Park, offering a wrist bracelet in return for filling out the questionnaire; a total of 89
completed surveys were collected.
Mount Prospect Youth Commission 2010 Survey
Page 2
4. Analysis
A number of factors caused a considerable delay in processing the completed surveys and they were
not entered into the Survey Monkey system until April of 2011. To simplify the analysis of the surveys,
the responses to questions 5 and 6 on the full -page were incorporated, as appropriate for each
respondent, into the responses for questions 1 through 4.
The responses broke down as follows:
Online: 11 respondents — 4 Youth, 7 Adult
Carnival: 89 respondents -- 62 Youth, 27 Adult
Total: 100 respondents -- 66 Youth, 34 Adult
The responses were downloaded from Survey Monkey, loaded into Excel, and analyzed to determine
the most frequent responses to the four questions posed in the survey. The results of this analysis are
detailed below and in the summary table in Appendix 2.
Question 1. What problems do you feel young people struggle with most?
"Peer pressure" was cited most frequently in response to this question (30% overall, 29 of youth,
32% of adults), followed by "Drugs" (21% overall, 18% of youth, 21% of adults) and
"School /homework/tests" (15% overall, 20% of youth, 6% of adults). Not surprisingly, the
"School /homework/tests" issue was seen as much more of a problem by youth than by adults. The
opposite split was seen on the next two items, "Being accepted /identity issues" (14% overall, 11% of
youth, 21% of adults).and "Drinking" (7% overall, 6% of youth, 9% of adults), where adults were more
concerned about these issues than were youth. The biggest split was seen on the next item,
"Divorce /family problems" (6% overall, 9% of youth, 0% of adults), where affected youth clearly saw a
problem but adults did not.
Question 2. What do you think are the most common misconceptions about today's youth?
Responses conveying the idea that "They're up to no good, doing drugs and drinking" were the most
frequently cited as misconceptions about today's youth (20% overall, 23% of youth, 15% of adults).
The next two most frequently cited misconceptions were almost exclusively voiced by adult
respondents, not youth: "They're lazy and /or stupid" (13% overall, 5% of youth, 29% of adults) and
"They lack motivation" (9% overall, 0% of youth, 26% of adults).
Question 3. Do you have any specific concerns about youth regarding curfews, driving,
vandalism, or drugs?
"Drugs" was cited most frequently in response to this question (16% overall, 11 % of youth, 26% of
adults), followed by "Teens should obey the rules, such as observing curfews" (12 %Q overall, 9% of
youth, 18% of adults) and "Driving concerns, e.g., texting" (10% overall, 8 % of youth, 15% of adults). In
all of these first three items, adults were twice as likely as youth to voice concerns, whereas the fourth
item was almost exclusively a youth concern: "Curfews should be relaxed" (8% overall, 11 %.of youth,
3% of adults),
Question 4. What could be done to help solve some of the problems local teens are facing?
Responses conveying the idea that "More talking (and listening) needed between teens, parents and
mentors" were the most frequently cited about possible solutions to the problems facing local teens
(17% overall, 20% of youth, 12% of adults), with youth voicing the idea much more than adults. Other
ideas that were cited, in descending order, were "More classes /instructions about rules for teens" (12%
overall, 14% of youth, 9% of adults), "More activities for teens" (10% overall, 3% of youth, 24% of
adults , "More role models, mentors, and parental involvement" (9% overall, 2% of youth, 24% of
adults3, and "A youth center" (5% overall, 3% of youth, 9% of adults). Note that in the last three items,
it is mainly adults that are voicing support for the solutions in question, not youth.
G. Clowes
Mount Prospect Youth Commission Adult Advisor
June 1, 2011
APPENDIX 1
2010 YOUTH SURVEY
The Mount Prospect Youth Commission is required to identify youth
issues in the community and develop possible solutions. To do that, we
need to know what you think! We want to hear from teens and adults.
Return survey to: MPYC, 50 S. Emerson St., Mount Prospect, IL 60056
1. What problems do you feel young people struggle with most?
2. What do you think are the most common misconceptions about today's youth?
3. Do you have any specific concerns about youth regarding curfews, driving, vandalism, or drugs?
4. What could be done to help solve some of the problems local teens are facing?
5. If you could change one thing for teens, what would it be?
b. Are there any rules or laws concerning youth that you disagree with? Which ones? Why?
Additional Comments (use other side if necessary):
Thank you for your participation! Youth F7 Adult =
If you want to know more about the Mount Prospect Youth Commission:
• Check out our web site at www.mountprospect.org, under "Boards and Commissions;"
• Or come to our monthly meeting at 7 PM on the first Wednesday of each month at the Police and Fire
Building on Northwest Highway;
• Write your name and email address or phone number below, and we'll send you more information.
2010C1
PRO 2010 YOUTH SURVEY
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Return survey to: MPYC, 50 S. Emerson St., Mount Prospect, IL 60056
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