Senate Bill sb2482

    Florida Senate - 2002        (NP)                      SR 2482

    By Senator Sebesta





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  1                    Senate Resolution No. ____

  2         A resolution encouraging county governments to

  3         adopt youth advisory committees modeled after

  4         the Youth Advisory Committee of Pinellas

  5         County.

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  7         WHEREAS, the Pinellas County Youth Advisory Committee,

  8  having been founded by board resolution in February 2001,

  9  successfully serves as an advisory board to the Pinellas

10  County Board of County Commissioners, and

11         WHEREAS, the group is composed of 35 students from high

12  schools throughout the Pinellas County area, appointed by the

13  Board of County Commissioners and various other youth-related

14  agencies, who represent teens throughout the county and serve

15  as an example for the entire State of Florida, and

16         WHEREAS, the group has brought before the county

17  commission ideas concerning recreation opportunities for

18  youth, a teen crisis hotline, voting education for high-school

19  students, and other issues pertinent with their peers within

20  Pinellas County and the youth of Florida, and

21         WHEREAS, the Pinellas County Board of County

22  Commissioners has come to rely on the group for their

23  observations and recommendations concerning matters affecting

24  teens throughout the county, and

25         WHEREAS, a member of the Youth Advisory Committee has

26  been appointed by the Pinellas County Commission to serve as a

27  voting member of the county's park board, and

28         WHEREAS, working with Florida Senator Jim Sebesta, the

29  group has successfully introduced legislation in the Florida

30  Senate calling for specific teen-voter-education parameters to

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    Florida Senate - 2002        (NP)                      SR 2482
    20-1982A-02




  1  be included in the public school system's academic curricula,

  2  NOW, THEREFORE,

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  4  Be It Resolved by the Senate of the State of Florida:

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  6         That the Florida Senate encourages all county

  7  governments within the State of Florida to adopt a youth

  8  advisory committee to provide input to their elected

  9  officials, using the Youth Advisory Committee of Pinellas

10  County as the model to follow.

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