►
Description
No description was provided for this meeting.
If this is YOUR meeting, an easy way to fix this is to add a description to your video, wherever mtngs.io found it (probably YouTube).
A
C
Hi
good
afternoon,
thank
you
for
the
opportunity
to
speak
with
you
today.
I'm
liz
christensen,
executive,
director
of
the
boys
and
girls
club.
The
mission
of
the
boys
and
girls
club
is
to
provide
a
world-class
experience
to
our
community
youth,
ensuring
that
success
is
within
reach
in
in
within
reach
of
every
young
person
who
walks
through
our
doors.
C
C
The
club
is
affordable
to
all,
and
that's
really
a
key
point
in
what
our
organization
does
is
to
provide
community
services
that
everyone
you
know
can
obtain.
So
our
membership
is
twenty
five
dollars
a
year,
that's
annually,
and
that
includes
all
of
our
services.
You
know,
after
school
programming
and
all
day
in
the
summer,
including
all
of
our
activities,
our
mentorships
and
the
food
that
we
supply
to
the
youth.
C
We
serve
youth
starting
at
age,
three,
going
away
all
the
way
up
to
18
years
of
age
as
they
graduate
through
high
school,
and
I'd
really
like
to
thank
the
city
of
watertown
for
their
ongoing
partnership.
They've
been
a
key.
You
know
sponsor
in
the
boys
and
girls
club.
You
know
within
our
47-year
history
and
that
long-standing
financial
support
that
we
identified
back
in
the
80s
when
we
identified
that
lease
has
really
helped
us
be
successful
and
serve
over
400
youth
per
day.
B
Yes,
so
we
plan
purposeful
and
planned
activities
for
our
kids
after
school.
We
work
in
kind
of
three
focus
areas,
academic,
success,
character,
leadership
and
healthy
lifestyles,
and
you
know
we
ensure
that
kids
have
a
positive,
safe
environment
that
they're
having
fun
that
they're
being
recognized
they're.
B
And
so
the
the
other
great
kind
of
component
of
our
organization
is
that
we
serve
over
300
employers
in
our
community,
and
so
we
provide
great
cost
savings
to
employers
and
employees
who
they
know
that
they're
they're
individuals
who
work
for
them
are
able
to
come
to
work
because
they
they
don't
have
that
extra
worry
of
child
care
costs.
Or
you
know
where,
where
my
kids
are
going
after
school.
They
know
that
we're
a
constant
in
the
community.
C
We
do
a
lot
of
tracking
and
attendance
and
data
and
the
youth
that
we
serve,
and
so
I'm
just
going
to
share
kind
of
some
highlights
of
this.
Last
year
in
2019
we
had
a
total
of
1775
registered
youth
members
across
our
main
club
site,
so
that
is
kids
that
are
registering
for
that
25
annual
fee
and
are
participating
in
numerous
different
services
that
we
provide.
C
We
also
count
those
our
professional
staff
members
who
serve
as
mentors
provided
2
700
different
activities
last
year,
ranging
from
you
know,
doing
a
basketball
program
in
the
gym
to
you
know
a
stem
experiment
and
education
center
or
learning
about
dinosaurs.
You
know
in
reading
a
book,
so
there's
just
lots
of
variety
of
activities
that
we
provide.
C
Academic
success
is
probably
our
primary
focus.
You
know
we
want
kids
to
be
retaining
what
they
learn
in
school,
be
independent
thinkers,
and
we
know
that
parents
are
very
stressed
right
now
and
if
we
can
help
with
that
homework
assistance
and
that
academic
assistance,
it's
it's
a
big.
I
guess
platform
of
what
we
do.
We
call
that
power
hour,
that
is
a
tutoring
service
and
academic
assistance
that
we
provide
to
ages
6
through
18..
Usually
that's
every
day
after
school
at
one
of
our
eight
locations.
C
Really
a
highlight
for
us
is
to
say
that
we
served
1200
youth
in
the
power
hour
program
last
year.
Character
and
leadership
is
our
second
platform.
This
is
the
area
that
empowers
youth
to
support
their
club
and
their
community.
We
want
to
teach
kids
to
give
back
through
community
service
and
be
productive
citizens
and
really
just
teaching
them
to
become
leaders
back.
C
You
know
if
it's
within
their
career
or
as
a
family,
member
and
and
one
platform
kind
of
within
this
area
is
our
prevention
programs,
and
I
just
want
to
state
that
you
know
the
boys
and
girls
club
is
doing
a
lot.
You
know,
besides
just
kids,
coming
to
play
some
basketball
and
have
a
snack
and
and
when
I
mention
prevention
that
could
include
tobacco
and
opioid
education,
we
run
a
youth
diversion
program
that
includes
a
teen
court
program.
C
C
Those
all
add
up
to
a
healthy
lifestyle
in
this
area
is
a
huge
part
of
what
we
do
is
our
food
and
nutrition
program
and
we're
very
proud
to
say.
Last
year
we
served
88
132,
healthy
meals
and
snacks
to
youth
organization,
wide,
providing
them
with
well-balanced
options,
looking
at
meal
planning,
introducing
fruits
and
vegetables
to
them,
and
even
encouraging
them
to
learn
how
to
cook
in
our
youth
kitchen,
it's
kind
of
a
fun
program.
C
So
again,
food
is
a
really
consistent
thing
that
we're
able
to
offer
when
kids
come
to
the
club,
they
know
that
they
have
a
snack
after
school
and
a
hot
meal
before
they
go
home
in
the
summer
time
we
serve
a
breakfast
and
excuse
me,
lunch
and
a
snack,
and
it's
really
a
very
big
part
of
what
we
do.
So
those
are
kind
of
the
three
areas.
C
You
know
that
we've
been
able
to
proudly
provide
for
the
last
47
years
within
our
history
and
it's
kind
of
a
unique
time.
Right
now,
with
the
covid
pandemic,
we've
had
to
change
a
little
bit
of
our
operational
services
and
we're
still
providing
services
to
about
that
400
youth
members
a
day
even
through
this,
you
know
challenging
time,
and
things
are
going
to
change.
C
C
We've
kind
of
broken
those
down
you
know,
covid
recovery,
I
would
say,
would
be
a
real,
timely
challenge
right
now.
You
know
we're
we're
having
to
limit
our
services
to
youth
just
to
meet
cdc
guidelines,
and
you
know
trying
to
keep
kids
similar
what
the
school
format
will
be
within
cohort
groups
or
pods
per
se,
and
just
it's
more
expense.
C
We're
finding
boys
and
girls.
Clubs
across
the
country
are
still,
you
know
doing
what
they're
doing
in
some
limited
capacities,
but
the
expense
is
higher.
The
staff
to
youth
ratios
are
much
lower.
There's
extra
cleaning
and
sanitizing
procedures,
there's
virtual
programming
expense
we're
trying
to
keep
these
kids
busy
and
positive
with
maybe
out
without
seeing
them
every
day
in
our
facility.
So
we're
challenged
with
having
to
kind
of
keep
things
interesting
with
them
and
engage
with
them
online
and
not
see
them
face
to
face
as
often
as
as
we
would
so.
C
C
So
when
we
do
our
budgeting,
you
know
we
have
to
kind
of
forecast
out
what
we
think
we
will
be
able
to.
You
know,
write
grants
for
receive
funding
for,
and
those
are
always
unknown.
It's
hard
to
budget
when,
when
you
don't
have
anything
concrete
from
year
to
year,
but
we're
always
pursuing
you
know
new,
innovative,
fundraising
opportunities
and
models
to
ensure
that
we
able
we
are
able
to
continue
operations
and
with
growth
and
expansion
that
we've
experienced
the
last
few
years,
which
is
a
wonderful
thing
to
grow
and
expand.
C
Our
last
challenge,
I
feel
is,
is
really
more
on
the
youth
level
per
se,
and
that
is
an
audience
reaching
teens
that
we've
had
a
struggle
with
again.
A
nationwide
trend
is
how
to
attract
you
know
the
maybe
7th,
through
12th
graders
into
the
club
environment,
to
be
keeping
them
off
the
streets,
I'm
helping
them,
make
healthy
decisions
and
providing
opportunities
for
them.
A
C
It's
a
home
away
from
home
for
so
many
youth
open
every
day
after
school
and
every
day
in
the
summer
and
over
school
breaks,
we
serve
kids
at
eight
locations,
our
main
club
site
plus
seven
other
locations
across
the
community
and
just
really
are
proud
to
serve
about
2
500
kids
each
year,
and
it's
really
proud
organization
to
be
able
to
be
part
of
this
community
and-
and
we
are
successful
because
of
the
partnerships
and
the
you
know-
support
that
we
receive
from
the
entire
watertown
community
and
we're
very
grateful
for
that
right.
So.