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Youth Empowering Services seeks city support for creative-arts workforce programs; manager offers introductions to funders

3137213 · April 21, 2025
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Summary

Youth Empowering Services presented a funding and partnership request to the council for youth fashion, branding and summer workforce programming and asked the city to consider support; City Manager said staff can assist with introductions to potential funders and ARPA-funded host partners.

Denzel Small, director of Youth Empowering Services (YES), used the public-comment portion of the meeting to present a proposal asking the council to support new programs that train youth in creative industries and entrepreneurship.

Small described program elements including a youth fashion showcase and training in videography, photography,…

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