A proclamation recognizing Colorado Young Leaders as a champion of youth voice and April 20 - 22, 2018 as Global Youth Service Day.
Mr. President. How about communications? None. Mr. President. We do have three proclamations and I'm going to have cultural black. Please read Proclamation 415. Thank you, Mr. President. Recognizing Colorado youth leaders as a champion of youth voice and April 20th through 22nd 2018 is a Global Youth Service Day. Whereas Colorado Young Leaders Si y el is a nonprofit organization dedicated to equipping high school students with essential leadership skills and opening the doors to meaningful service opportunities within their community. And. Whereas, Colorado Youth Leaders was founded in 2013 and is growing into its fifth year of service to youth in the Denver metro area and Colorado Springs. And. WHEREAS, now, in its 30th year, Global Youth Service Day is the largest and longest running youth service event in the world, and the only event dedicated to celebrating the contributions that young people make to their communities year round. And. Whereas, Youth Service America designated Colorado Young Leaders as a 2018 Global Youth Service Day lead agency to mobilize Denver area youth youth to lead volunteer service projects that help meet community needs. Serving as a key leader of Global Youth Service Day, an international event that celebrates the power of young people. And. Whereas, on Global Youth Service Day 2018, in partnership with ten other community based organizations and schools, Colorado young leaders engaged approximately 500 volunteers in high impact, high visibility student led service activities and celebration events addressing community needs , including those in the area of teen mental health, hunger and homelessness, environmental stewardship and animal welfare. Now, therefore, be it proclaimed by the City Council of the City and County of Denver, Section one with the Denver City Council proclaims Colorado leaders I'm sorry, Colorado young leaders as a champion of youth voice and April 20th to 22nd 2018 Global Youth Service Day. Excellent. Your motion to adopt. Thank you, Mr. President. I move that proclamation. Number 18, dash 0415 be adopted. It has been moved and seconded comments by members of Council Council in Black. Well, my comments were on my computer. That won't start, so I'm going to wing it. But this is the 30th anniversary of an event that started in 1988 and. It is not a coincidence that it is the same. Weekend is Earth Day because it's all about sustainability. It's also part of the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals, and it was the largest service event in the world this last weekend. Colorado youth leaders is a partner in it. It's a great organization that is engaging kids in the metro area and in Colorado Springs, and they're doing really great work and creating future leaders among our high school students in Denver. So I was just really pleased to sponsor this. Excellent. Thank you for sponsoring it. Councilman Black. Seeing no other comments by members of Council. Madam Secretary. Raquel Black. Clark. Espinosa. Flynn. Gilmore Cashman. I can each new Ortega assessment. Mr. President. I please Kosovo announce the results. So you were missing one. Espinosa. Okay, we. Oh, that's your job. Sorry. 11. 11. Nice proclamation for 15 has been adopted. Congratulations. Kelso Black, is there anybody you want to bring up? Yes. Jennifer Landers, who's the executive director of Colorado Young Leaders. Thank you, counselor, for having me and for Councilwoman Black for sponsoring this proclamation. As a resident of Southeast Denver, I appreciate all you do for our community and to make our community more vibrant. Colorado Young Leaders is dedicated to engaging youth in volunteerism and empowering them with leadership skills so they become the next generation of heart led leaders. Now, we had a few hiccups with the weather this weekend. We had a couple of projects canceled and a few rescheduled. But we're still really happy that we had over 200 community members, most of them youth, volunteering across the metro area this weekend. We had projects where we packaged care packages for animals in rescue centers. We cleaned community gardens, we fed community members, we cleaned up open spaces. And we had several projects dedicated to teen mental health, which is something that our students felt they were really passionate about. So we're happy to be able to make this impact on the community and appreciate that you have shared this this proclamation and invited us to speak. Thank you. Thank you. And thank you for your work with our young people and tell them that they are always welcome here. If it weren't for that. Yeah. Anytime. Anytime. Just thank you so much. All right. That takes care of proclamation 415. I will read Proclamation 416. Something I'm super excited about thanking MSU Denver Student Volunteers for their service, and I believe they're in the house tonight.