Lakeville's Youth Advisory Commission - June 2023

Get a behind the scenes look at the youth in our community that have volunteered to be on the City Council's Youth Advisory Commission and what their goals are as part of this unique group.

Based on the context provided for Lakeville, Minnesota, and the content of the transcript (which appears to be a promotional or informational video about the Youth Advisory Commission), here is the formatted transcript. The primary official speaker is most likely **City Clerk Ann Orlofsky**, who typically oversees city boards and commissions, or **Assistant City Administrator Allyn Kuennen**. Given the administrative oversight of commissions, Ann Orlofsky is the most probable match from your list. The other speakers are students (Youth Commissioners) whose names were not provided in your list. [0:00] **Ann Orlofsky (City Clerk):** [Music] the youth advisory commission is the newest Advisory Board to the city council the purpose of it is to give advice or recommendations to the city council from the youth perspective and also to help youth in the community gain some leadership skills [0:17] **Youth Commissioner:** what exactly would we be doing and they were like well it's kind of up to you and I was like that's kind of scary but cool so I think part of the reason why I joined too is that especially as a student I don't get very many opportunities to pick what I learn about and what I talk about and I don't really have the opportunity to be like very Forefront and independent in my community in the way that it's run I never knew any I've never even been in [0:45] **Youth Commissioner:** this building before I was interviewed for here so it was just a really cool opportunity it's been really great you come like once a month you engage you make plans and like you feel like you're actually doing something part of the city so we bring like more Health more mental health issues across the schools more engaging stuff we split into do groups and then we were like doing the posters and other group was like going to subcommittees at other places I'm hoping it makes like an impact and like they spread it across and like you actually see the impact from like the youth [1:07] **Youth Commissioner:** I plan to come back again and do more changes as well [1:19] **Youth Commissioner:** one of the main things that I really love is this small town feel of Lakeville even though it's the fastest growing city in Minnesota so I really something that I'm passionate about is keeping that small town feel and really having everybody feel welcome within the city [1:35] **Youth Commissioner:** this past year has gone by so fast we all work really well as a team we all listen to each other and feedback is great and nobody's rude about anything so very Minnesota nice [1:49] **Ann Orlofsky (City Clerk):** The Commissioners really represent their student body well they come from a variety of backgrounds they participate in a variety of school activities from Sports to Arts you name it I do feel like they really represent their the school body very well [Music]