Pinellas County Juvenile Justice Council
Minutes approved as submitted 01/14/08
Executive Committee Meeting 10/15/2007
Seminole Community Library
9200 -113 Street North, Seminole, FL

Call to order by chair Plyer, a quorum was present at 7:00 p.m.

Attendees:

• Dave Plyer, chair
• Brian Pitts, secretary

Other attendees: affiliation

• Calvester Benjamin-Anderson justice-2-jesus

Approval of minutes July 16, 2007:

The chair recommended approval of executive meeting minutes of 7/16/2007, there being no objection nor comments from the members the minutes were approved by majority vote. There were no executive meetings held in the months of August and September.

New business:

No noticed motions, special items or old business of interest were slated for the new business, so matters of the agendas and annual 2008 schedule calendar were discussed.

The committee reviewed and approved by majority vote the annual 2008 schedule of council meetings from 10 to 8, deleting the months of May and August to be adopted by the council at the 10/25/2007 general meeting.

The committee approved agendas for the general meetings of Pinellas County Juvenile Justice Council dated for 10/25/2007 and 12/27/2007 as follows:

For 10/25/2007 meeting

• Adoption of the 2008 annual schedule of general meetings of the council,
• Letter of the council to the blueprint commission of recommendations as to changes in DJJ,
• Discussion among the council concerning recommendations to the blueprint commission,
• Chair’s Notice to the council of the forthcoming modified or new strategic plan,
• Chair’s update on the status of Chimurenga Waller as the 6th circuit board appointed member,
• Chair’s update on the opinion request from the Office of Attorney General of the construction of 985.664 F.S., as it pertains to the appointment of members to the 6th Circuit Board.

For 11/2007 meeting

There is no November general council meeting scheduled.

For 12/27/2007 meeting

• Presentation of the new or modified strategic plan by the chair,
• Discussion among the council members on the presented plan and a course of action,
• Approval of the strategic plan by vote of the council members.

Open discussion:

The committee discussed the matters of membership drives for the council, increasing the times for general meetings, steps to procure administrative funding for the council, improvements to the strategic plan, and public records request in the name of the council concerning the incident of Calvin Harris as to the past DJJ prevention grant review procedure of 2007-2008.

The next meeting of the executive committee is 1/14/2008

Chair Plyer declared adjournment of the meeting at 9:00 p.m

Draft minutes amended 11/28/2007
by Brian Pitts, secretary

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