Why does the Youth Commission have meetings and what are they about?
The Youth Commission is responsible, under SEC 4.124 of the City Charter, for advising the Board of Supervisors and the Mayor on "the effects of legislative policies, needs, assessments, priorities, programs, and budgets concerning the children and youth of San Francisco."
The Youth Commission also has the ability to provide the Board and the Mayor "comment and recommendation" on all proposed laws "that primarily affect the children and youth" of San Francisco.
Following the Charter, then, Youth Commissioners usually do three kinds of things at their meetings:
(1) consider proposed laws from the Board of Supervisors and the Mayor, and make comments and recommendations;
(2) listen to presentations by community members and City officials about existing government programs that serve youth and pressing community issues; and
(3) debate and adopt resolutions that formally express the Youth Commission's positions on various issues affecting young people in San Francisco.
Check out the Agendas & Minutes page to see the official record of what the Youth Commission has done.
When are the meetings and can I come talk about something?
The Youth Commission meets on the 1st and 3rd Mondays of each month at 5:15pm in City Hall, Room 416. Want to come? Feel free to take a look at our meeting schedule, click here for Word and click here for PDF. Do you have an issue you think the Youth Commission should hear about? Fill out an agenda item request form (PDF) to get on the Youth Commission agenda. You can click here to download the form .
The Youth Commission's four-person Executive Committee decides what appears on the the meeting agendas. The Executive Committee meets at 5:30pm in room 345 of City Hall on the Wednesday before a every Youth Commission meeting.
2012-2013 Youth Commission Committees
Are you 12-23 years old? A San Francisco resident? Passionate about your community, public policy and local government?
If you answered yes to the questions above, please come to a Youth Commission committee meeting! Take a look at our 2012-2013 Youth Commission all committee meeting calendar available in (Word) and (PDF).
As per the 2012-2013 Youth Commission Bylaws (Word) (PDF), the Youth Commission shall have 5 standing, issue-based committees. Each committee meets, at minimum, once a month. Committee meetings are in the Youth Commission office (City hall, room 345):
The Youth Commission also has a five-member Executive Committee--meets 2nd and 4th Tuesday of each month, Youth Commission office--that, as per the Commission bylaws, is critical to the functioning of the entire Commission; most importantly, perhaps the Executive Committee creates full Youth Commission meeting agendas.
