i'm lucy feinberg and i retired a year ago as director of parents and children together on maui i am a certified substance abuse counselor partially retired  morning and that is part of the services that we provide to my county videotaping various boards and commissions so thank you so i would like to ask if were were closing public testimony with none and none of them next on our agenda were going to approve the minutes from our last meeting which was the meeting of june twenty ninth it was also our first  speak up just a little bit that might help so right now we are approving the minutes from our last meeting and this anybody want a minute to go over there if not and can hear a motion little over the existing regime in mission statements and it went on to talk about whether or not we wanted to change it in any way or what we wanted to do with it so i would like to open up that talks for discussion because anybody have any thoughts  we just hope this happens that we could have a little more purpose to india ok very good lucy and c r did you guys have a chance to look over this what are your feelings on  might think that it's i think that it's fairly clear and i think that it would be helpful to maybe jump on that and i think one thing that you could say is that we could maybe add some ferment to make it sound like we are actively working towards that versus like we're hoping for this to happen right lucy well i have a vision statement i think is written the way a lot of vision statements are so i don't really have anything to say about that but that's what at this point because not sure how much time later we want to review it again you know but i agree with nancy two teams that it's a very i think where it's good is that in the mission statement it does talk about being proactive about trying but being a vision statement i would i would be wary to put too much into it but maybe we could tweak a word or two like i'm rather than every memory county child should reach adulthood having experienced a safe healthy and nurturing childhood which prepares him or her to become a responsible and contributing member of the community maybe if we could do something as simple as helping in  me leaving good every mile we county child should reach adulthood and having experienced a safe healthy and nurturing childhood we will try to help prepare them for  response to become more responsible for something like up but once again a lot of the same shit kind of out of our hands to do but said so i think being a vision we i mean this is like shooting for the stars right we want to yes so i mean i think it's fine the way it is some things might be not said right that we're going to try and provide opportunities yet that i don't know i don't know that i need to be explicit b reach adulthood having experienced a safe healthy and marriage or in childhood which prepares the youth rather than him or her to become a responsible and contributing member of the community or our the children and you will reach adulthood having experienced a safe healthy and nurturing childhood which prepares them to become responsible contributing members of the community good group thank you very much and the mission statement well we pretty much agreed the mission statement from works the way it stands it's more they go on and what they have in here is the commission and dances mission by and they have four different things which are really in my mind some of what this mission does a company but it's also a different way to look at it yet and highlights it and the four things they have this can be especially because the first meeting the border already got some of these of these same thoughts identifying the  and the community at large which is what our kind of responsibilities and obligations are really is recommending policies programs funding and that is native priorities again that refers to what we and i mean as you said it at any point we can refer back to you know whatever we are doing and refer to whether or not we're in accordance with those those syrian track yeah i do like th children and youth and makes recommendations to protect straight their families their children and you can achieve their full potential as citizens of the community now because we're going to have that commission advances mission by right can actually shocked in this these something promote the well being of children and youth something something and then our children achieve their full potential as citizens of our community is is kind of what we're trying to get because these other things are ways that we are going to finding and legislative priorities objectives so like under housing in human concerns some of that they have the grants management which does guides to the so would we be directly a approving and disapproving of grants or approval  additional input or information so it's an awareness of what's going on with the youth and that is if it drags on in the past has been a real reality in this in this community where this does anyone know if this group well served not that that means we can't do it in the future but i'm just looking i do i know that some boards and commissions have requested and also have been policy that's very usually i don't know if these kind of groups set policy or not to recommend i'm talking about recommending the same but if if that's really what this group is going to be able to it is up to us to decide i believe how deeply we want to look into this for example we sent out a letter and we got back to a number on a printed out  spread sheet of just some of the grants happen to the grants have been approved and or are working and we can go over these any one of these we could ask to look into or all of them if time policies and programs and legislative priorities and then not even talk about funds because it kind of implies that obviously we're going to need money for these things but we're not actually recommending like how much money or how any problems and not until self check right but then again here on you know you if we choose to go down i mean for example the cost of government commission they choose what they want to look at at the beginning of each year every tricycle here and settle on a couple of different items or or areas of investigation and in this s matter if we wanted to to review certain programs and then pick a few programs just to find out about them and the deeper we look into them the more recommendations we can make or say this program seems to be a very highly functioning successful or i have some suggestions so i think that to open those doors to me to allow us to do that or to state that we have that capability kind of clears the way bullet points in that i feel like they're talking about how we're achieving our advocacy  can you say that when we get so the commission so far starting from our mission statement the commission on youth in children advocates for programs and policies that promote the well being of children in youth by so we would get rid of we would move that promotes the well being of my county's children you and family and then i was going to look up at my vision vision is to become responsible in contributing members of the community for full potential as contributing citizens of our c even even the original one took out the families because it's a strength of family so that our children and yours yeah  montgomery county what state supply and supporting families as it says in earth strengthen families so that our children you're going to achieve their full potential and i really think we need to change that then if we're going to do that we can still say it promotes the well being of  about making recommendations to protect and strengthen down the east and does that have a fit in these two bullets or not was a push to have a four year old kindergarten to help pay for that we would be stuff that's happening at stake now i mean you know we may not be able to you know we can jump on board being more defined so so it we're supposed to help them accomplish the company's goals and objectives then being the co call it i don't know for her meaning because quite similar to advocate and if we change advocating the needs aspirations and achievements of children need to be similar to affirming these things thing is that there are legislative things that are on the programs that are proposed for adoption by the county council so at that point we wouldn't necessarily be kidding recommended for all things would be we could contribute to it however we need some help in identifying what those are because in the daily functioning of our lives we made a mess that was true really a mistake you are changing the ordinance i am childcare happening on requests to matters on children and you up for adoption by the county coun i'm not necessarily advocating for a program like a service we could be but we are recommending on the concept of what is good for families recommending so recommending an recommending policies programs and legislative priorities on matters of children and youth up for adoption by the north county coun recommending i can go either way i mean yeah because it's funny because it can go either way or i would end if we feel strongly enough about that particular issue then we can advocate for all we want to do we have  it really i do agree with that it spells out and it does let us off the hook if something slides by that we don't catch that's the way i would recommend our you know i know that this seems like a lot of minutiae over justice but i really agree that our vision and mission statements are really important and they will you know they'll proceed us needless to say and i appreciate group that we have here is it's really a very cool mix of all kinds of programs and ages and experience and understanding but i i think this is a commission that can greatest thing i've done since raising sons i mean it's is it really i really agree i think it's a very cool family unit to to look at around or or family units when you look around at all the different villages that are going on up there you know the agenda for ratification next time that we sent out but before we get to that we had discussed the lani sent out some requests to see about meetings in our meeting schedule  conversation that you know we can do because some of our area plans are these are outdated and are dated ten years ago and it's time for a new one you know so to have a conversation about inactivity the commission on children then you can be in with a renewed office we were resolved to establish a commission that has purpose and usefulness to the county of maui and to our community to accomplish this the commission would like to first identify existing services and programs that benefit our children and youth in order to created inventory we kindly request any information on current services and or programs that you of enclosed is a form which outlines the information we are requesting or if your department has the requested information in a different form it's in a spreadsheet or a report we will gladly accept those as well please submit any information to the commission to know loni and then you know that's where you know lonnie put made this form i had jumped the guy it was right after don's letter department of transportation's and so i thought somehow that he had sent that back but prior to taking the time to actually read it it's pretty clear so that is what what has been done so far and and yet believe we may not be there yet so you just say everybody give us information as will recall the reason we sent that out last time i was just to gather information so is the actual goals and objectives of the county of the office of the premier transportation parks and recreation i think this is again  a different approach to or a different type of x we saw one week well in order to get the goals and objectives we can print that are from i like we should be able to access homework and stuff and i'd like to contribute as well and we know what we can yes do next to help this commission so it would be good now that we have a draft of our mission statement alone with that called statement is just to see our again we need to contribute to this because it's actually funded it's good for us for the charity our our advocacy is to get our group here on board to get and keep it updated and then we are referred to information but i think they ask is that of the rest the commission is key where do you guys go to get the information not necessarily and then is that information up to date or not you know and if you had that you knew it might existed so i'm going to pull it up and and i would say any other resource our place to start with this is that the nonprofit directors group i'm going to hear what they have or if they have things there that they're aware of they contribute to the resources you see this is the jumping off point you know and you know that the push may be different maybe it is to request that a representative from hard to read and foremost about what programs they have to offer and then we come up with our  if there's something specific that we think that they have that they haven't provided we can find another way to ask them for it in the meanwhile i tend to like the idea of working you do if you need to share with the group and provide it to me yes i can distribute as needed if you wanted to create working groups then you would have to identify what their jobs  kind of even starting with our own local government who we are here to recommend then serve things for about we can you know point out the strengths and take this is an area that you know we think needs to be i like the idea of trying to trying to get our own individual takes on on borders there and also just trying to write down some suggestions and some thought there's also  an area of of approach that we can go on to from what we know individually are there any groups that come to mind that we would like to look into to see if they need help you know or any of them for example or homeless children or or transgender or whatever it is that individually that comes to mind that that that we might be able to to shed some light on that one person take the lead on who's out here well i think if we all gather this information and try to come up with some different individual ideas and then discuss it at the next meeting we can decide whether we want to form to get in there and do some some investigation and do different different groups or different areas items to work on getting information on our website and updating the county website so that our community can start going back to it with a lot more if their specific groups or areas for things to focus on get feedback on the website and specifically the resource list or what area it goal on outward still be there to try to compile the biggest that we talked about in our first meeting but recognizing that we don't want to reinvent the wheel so we're just trying to kind of gather interest it may be that again that either don't have the information or we don't have you know we don't have enough to go on to make that decision as being a topic of a priority in our blackberry you know keeping the top priorities or top tier years that i'm concerned with to the table and so that the rest of the commissioners know hey this is what you know what she's really looking at this is where her resources are probably going to be  and then you know as a group i think you venture elite right now where information collecting and then again you know finally in promoting our values you know inquiry may be in line some of them may be in the field and we have to say that but i think it's appointed to keep that in mind for everybody so that it doesn't get lost in the shuffle the well being that or shall i just forward it to melanie to foreground so if we can do that if we can do that that would be good it's just it's just to me would be interesting if members are you know part of this and they should choose to attend to