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Council creates Emerging Youth Achievement Advisory Council; president and multiple community leaders appointed
Summary
The committee confirmed Mayor and president appointments to the Emerging Youth Achievement Advisory Council, outlining the council’s inclusive, data‑driven mandate to improve outcomes for underrepresented youth up to age 24.
The Development Committee advanced a slate of appointments to the newly reimagined Emerging Youth Achievement Advisory Council, a body intended to replace and broaden the scope of the former Black Male Achievement Advisory Council.
President of the Common Council Jose Perez, whom the committee appointed to the council, described the council’s purpose as making recommendations to the common council on policies affecting “underrepresented youth, including but not limited to matters related to My Brother’s Keeper initiatives, Cities United, the National League of Cities, and the Divided Community Project.” Perez said the council “will use a data‑driven approach and lived experience of our youth in Milwaukee to make policy recommendations” and that it will focus on youth defined by the community block grant definition of up to 24 years of age.
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