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Rock County supervisors recommend making youth-in-governance pilot a permanent program
Summary
An ad hoc committee recommended continuing a one-year youth governance pilot as a permanent April-to-April program with a mentor component, limited cohort size and a modest $5,000 budget request included in the county administrator's recommended budget.
An ad hoc committee of the Rock County Board of Supervisors recommended on Oct. 10 that the county turn a one-year youth-in-governance pilot into a permanent program that runs April to April and enrolls six to 10 participants each year.
The committee, which ran the 2024 pilot, urged the board to formalize an oversight ad hoc youth and governance committee and to expand recruitment beginning in November to reach public, private, parochial and homeschooled students. The report says the program pairs each participant with an adult mentor and includes orientation and an educational field trip to the state capitol. The…
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