Minutes

In attendance: Representative Kathy Ryg

Chief Ray Rose

Judy Fried

Roycealee Wood

Debra Trude-Suter

Alex Marx

JoAnn Carpenter

Michelle Michaels

Laurel Dahl

Discussion:

First Event– A stakeholders breakfast for 150 – 200 individuals

Goals for breakfast – Who we are?

Why are we doing this?

What are the outcomes?

What can we do?

Suggestions:

· Keep the breakfast to a couple of hours.

· Have a keynote speaker to bring everyone together on the importance of after-school programs. Several names were suggested; (Senator Richard Durbin, Jesse White, State School Superintendent, Jerry Stermer from Voices, a representative from the After School Initiative, Tommy Thompson, Mark Kirk, Bob Love, Curtis Gentry).

· Have a panel to include Chief Ray Rose, State’s Attorney Mike Waller, Regional School Superintendent Roycealee Wood. The purpose of the panel would be to bring the group more local (Lake County) data. A school teacher would then discuss the successes of a local program.

· Our speakers need to emphasize the importance of why we need to do this.

· The emphasis needs to include “Quality of Life” issues, not only crime information but family issues, academic issues as well as the impact of other risky behaviors.

· Breakfast event – Possible date - February 27^th.

Action Items:

· Kathy will call Tim Carpenter from After School Initiative about calling Jesse White.

· Royce will call State Superintendent of Schools

· JoAnn will make contact with Jesse White

· Debra and Alex will also make calls regarding potential keynote speakers

· Laurel will talk to Deb Navarro, from Jefferson to see about speaking. She will discuss the possibility of having a student and/or parent add their thoughts.

Second Event - Daylong event for impactors for 200 – 300

· Utilize the Open Space Technology method.

· We would have the breakout session information available for each participant to take with them at the end of the day.

· Day long event – Possible dates - March 16^th or 17^th.

Budget

There was discussion as to need for funding for these events.

Action Items:

· Judy will talk to Samsha about their helping. Nicasa can also assist.

· Royce indicated that her office can help with speakers as long as school personnel are involved.

· Debra will talk to Jim Sipes about his role with the business community and the possibility of serving on steering committee.

· Kathy will contact Learning Initiative (NCREL) as well as the Lake County Community Foundation to see what funding opportunities are available.

· Alex is willing to assist in securing funding.

Hot Topics

Ideas that were shared as far as topics for the breakout sessions included Public Policy and Youth. We need to have youth involved in the events.

Action Items:

· Debra, JoAnn and Michelle will develop some ideas for break out session topics.

Open Space Technology

Judy and Laurel will be attending a conference using the Open Space Technology. They will bring back suggestions for utilizing the format into the After School Summit.

Location

Action Items:

· Debra will be contacting Bruce to get an update on possible locations.

Invitations

Michelle is willing to coordinate the invitation list and help with sending them out.

Action Items:

· A “Save the Date” letter will go out from Representative Ryg and Chief Rose encouraging participation to go out around January 5^th.

· Invitations will go out around January 25^th.

Next meeting: December 15^th, 9:00 a.m.

Royce’s office