Foster City Youth Advisory Committee
2023 Year-End Report
Goal: To continue to be leaders for the teens in the community.
Accomplishments:
•Attended a teambuilding event to build team comradery, learn effective ways to work as a team, and how to set an example for other teens in the community
•Established subcommittees in which each member had the opportunity to play a leadership role.
Goal: To enhance individual member’s personal skills in leadership and in service.
Accomplishments:
•Members practiced parliamentary procedure to conduct meetings in a fair and organized manner.
•Required each member to serve on the established sub-committees and gave each the opportunity to be the Chair Person for at least one event/activity.
Goal: To continue to serve charitable or community organizations.
Accomplishments:
•Made monetary contributions via the Halloween Festival, and the Spaghetti Feed Fundraiser to the Foster City Youth and Teen Foundation.
The members of the Youth Advisory Committee volunteered their time at these events as well as volunteered at Foster City Elementary School’s Falcon Fest.
Goal: To encourage members of our community to be waste conscious by organizing a program and event.
Accomplishments:
•Organized a challenge, with different ways of being waste conscious at home. Hosted an event at the Foster City Library, where members volunteered on a Saturdays and read books about the environment and lead activities that would teach kids about the environment and how to be more waste conscious.
Goal: To address food insecurity within our community.
Accomplishments:
•Attended Second Harvest food distribution in Foster City. Members volunteered and assisted with packaging food, loading groceries into vehicles, and
Approved by the Foster City Youth Advisory Committee at its special meeting of January 10, 2024.