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ORDER-2020-1 : Acceptance of 2 Youth Action Team Mini-grants
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ORDER-2020-1 Grant Acceptance of 2 Youth Action Team Mini-grants Recommend Passage Board of Aldermen City of Melrose Page 1 Updated 7/23/2019 1:42 PM
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▶ 4:53 Monica C. Medeiros: mentioned that there is no match no matching no all in favor aye opposed this order will be recommended of acceptance of the grant to our full board meeting at our next meeting in August the next order before us is order 2020-1 the first order of the fiscal year acceptance of two youth action team
▶ 5:15 Speaker 2: mini grants okay so I was hoping that one of our youth was going to be able to
▶ 5:18 Michael P. Zwirko: attend but do you want to take a quick look behind you to see if I did okay
▶ 5:24 Speaker 2: she's not here so so as you are aware because we've talked about this in the past part of what we do with our substance abuse prevention grant is we have a youth action team at the high school and actually also at the middle school there's a statewide organization called the 84 which does a lot of advocacy and training of youth about nicotine and they have what they call mini grants they're $500 mini grants that the students can apply for and they complete a project and as long as they complete the project they're given the five hundred dollars and last fiscal year the youth did two different projects one was a survey at the high school about their use of flavored products not besides menthol mint and wintergreen but other flavored products and they did administer the survey and then the second project was doing social media things about vaping which we've talked about as being a big issue so they have received the two $500 checks we're asking for acceptance to receive the fire to use the $500 checks the youth are allowed to decide what they want to spend the money on and they have decided they'd like to have both of the checks used towards the new service dog at the high school that's great
▶ 7:02 Monica C. Medeiros: motion recommend second Alderman Forbes moves to recommend seconded by Alderman Zwirko any further discussion and again I'll just point out these are also
▶ 7:13 Monica C. Medeiros: non-matching grant on matching all in favor aye opposed this order will to be recommended to our next full board meeting with the recommendation for
▶ 7:20 Speaker 3: passage thank you thank you motion to adjourn madam chair Alderman Forbes
▶ 7:21 Monica C. Medeiros: moves to adjourn second seconded by alderman's work oh all in favor all right
▶ 7:27 Speaker 4: we are adjourned thank you