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Commission shifts youth engagement to broader community engagement, seeks to centralize scout and volunteer project list
Summary
Members proposed expanding the youth engagement work group into a community engagement group to include businesses and community partners; commissioners also asked staff to build a central list of volunteer-friendly projects (scout/Eagle/Girl Scout) and to promote the city’s volunteer portal as a matching resource.
Commissioners voted informally to broaden the youth engagement work group into a community engagement work group to include business outreach, public awareness, and youth programming. The change aims to expand engagement beyond school-aged participants to local businesses and civic groups.
Members discussed creating a central list of scout and volunteer projects across city departments (for example, boardwalk repairs, bat-house construction, trail maintenance). The intent is to make a searchable set of achievable projects that youth groups and community volunteers could choose from, and to tie that resource to the newly launched city volunteer portal.
The commission also described a new Wisconsin Youth Engagement Coalition — a seed collaboration among Conservation Corps, YouthBuild, and Operation Fresh Start — meeting monthly and working toward a statewide capacity-building hub. Commissioners expressed interest in connecting local youth-advisory and volunteer opportunities to that coalition.
Work groups were asked to help establish and promote the volunteer/project list and to coordinate with staff to populate it and keep it updated.
