HomeMy WebLinkAbout2016-09-01 TEEN COURT ADVISORY BOARD MINUTES
MEETING OF SEPTEMBER 1, 2016
STATE OF TEXAS §
COUNTY OF TARRANT §
CITY OF BEDFORD §
The Teen Court Advisory Board of the cities of Hurst, Euless and Bedford, Texas met at 6:00
p.m. at Bedford City Hall on the 1st day of September 2016, with the following members present:
HURST: Lorrie Dickerson, Destiny Froust, Aaron Switzer, Jen Tucker
EULESS: Aaron Lindeman, Ken Carroll
BEDFORD: Kathleen Toms, Janet Key, Jung Kim
TEEN REPRESENTATIVES:
Hurst Council Liaison — Trasa Cobern
Bedford Council Liaison —
Euless Council Liaison —
HEB Teen Court Coordinator— Mindy Eichorst
HEB Teen Court Assistant Coordinator—
Also present:
Hurst City Secretary — Rita Frick
Euless Staff Liaison — Teresa Alexander
Bedford Court Manager—
Hurst Court Manager —
HEB Teen Court Teen Liaison-
Bedford Administrative Services Director-
CALL TO ORDER
Advisory Board Vice Chairperson Janet Key called the meeting to order at 6:06 p.m. with a quorum of
nine Board Members present. Chairperson Kathleen Toms did show up a few minutes after the
meeting was called to order.
APPROVAL OF MINUTES
1. Consider approval of the following Teen Court Advisory Board minutes:
a) June 2, 2016 Regular Meeting
b) August 3, 2016 Sponsorship/Fundraising Committee Meeting
Lorrie Dickerson made a motion to approve the June 2, 2016 and the August 3, 2016 minutes
and Aaron Lindeman seconded the motion and all were in favor.
INTRODUCTIONS
The City of Hurst City Council had appointed two new alternate Advisory Board Members,
Destiny Froust and Aaron Switzer, and they were present at this meeting. The new City of
Hurst City Council Liaison, Councilmember Trasa Cobern, was also present at this meeting.
OLD BUSINESS
2. Discuss ideas for fundraisers.
Advisory Board Member Lorrie Dickerson is a member of the Sponsorship/Fundraising
Committee and talked about what was discussed at the Committee meeting held on August 3,
2016. She explained that she was going to keep a spreadsheet of the all of the businesses that
were contacted. It will include contact information, if the business had an interest or not and
wanted to sponsor the Teen Court Program. Once a Board Member makes contact with a
business owner, the information will be given to Board Member Dickerson. A sponsorship
packet was designed by Board Member Jen Tucker and handed out to show a baseline of
different sponsorship levels and incentives for the interested businesses. One of the incentives
for the business owners would be to have a sponsorship certificate that they can display within
their business. Chairperson Kathleen Toms, who also was at the Committee meeting,
mentioned the membership would go on a calendar year. She also mentioned there was a
discussion of t-shirts and a $25 monthly drawing for the business owners but that will not be at
this time.
3. Discuss and possibly take action on items as they relate to the 2017 annual Teen
Court Gala.
Chairperson Kathleen Toms talked about different locations to have the Teen Court Scholarship
Gala in 2017. The suggestions were for Hurst Conference Center in Hurst and the Texas Star
Conference Centre in Euless. The Board had asked if Coordinator Mindy Eichorst could check
for any availability of dates on a Thursday evening in the month of April 2017.
NEW BUSINESS
4. Set the date for the next Teen Court Advisory Meeting.
Lorrie Dickerson made a motion to have the next meeting will on Thursday, October 6, 2016 at 6:00
p.m. at Bedford City Hall, and Aaron Lindeman seconded the motion. The motion passed unanimously.
REPORTS
Teen Court Coordinator Mindy Eichorst went over the Coordinator's Report and Finance Report for the
months of June, July, and August 2016.
ADJOURNMENT
Ken Carroll entered a motion for the meeting to be adjourned. Aaron Lindeman seconded the motion
and all voted in favor. The meeting was adjourned at 7:07 p.m.
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Kathleen Toms, Chairperson