Patrick Endres makes a resolution to authorize Marylee Bates (ED) the permission to sign on behalf of Fairbanks Youth Advocates Corporation for contract agreements with the Fairbanks North Star Borough. This signer authorization is to remain in place until revoked by the Board.
Board Recruitment
Thank you for your service on the board Heidi!
Patrick and Marylee’ will share about a discussion with Rodney about ideas for enlarging the board.
FYA Long Term / Campus Planning
Vertical Structure/5 Year outlook: Vertical versus Horizontal expansion. Patrick would like to have a brainstorming session with the board around these ideas.
Strengthen our vertical structure
Admin Center: A more stable administrative center for the ED and supporting staff.
Marylee has made tremendous progress with staff development and building the structure of her team, however, she has had a transient office, currently using one of the rooms remodeled for a counselor expansion concept at Clearwater.
5 years from now both Dave and Marylee most likely will have transitioned from their current positions at FYA, and some of us may have other developments/changes as well. Consider what FYA might look like with either or both of them.
An administrative brain center is vital to organization and structure. I’m not sure what/where this would take place? Perhaps remodel the lower level of the green house and convert it to admin? How much space would be required for this? What will eventually happen with the brown house? How can we bring a degree of permanence in this area?
Public Information: Short and long term Public Information Campaign Plan
A long term public information operations plan is critical. This would include web, social media, tv, radio, newsletter, other literature, and all of our public presence strategies. We have shot-from-the-hip with this thus far, although with some success. I think it is time to really take a hard look at this in the scope of a 5 year plan, or at least a 2-3 year plan. What would the organization of this look like. Who is our constituency? How do we reach the diversity of our constituency? Churches, TV, Radio stations, other organizations? The (VISTA) job description is currently focused on developing/researching a campus plan. If possible, this could be amended/modified to include Public Information and the person in this position could research the specific demographics to our community and explore options/ideas to guide us.
Endowments: Take the next step towards a endowment friendly option for donors. If we have a portal in place to recieve estate or endowment donations, that would broaden our net to capture those seeking to utilize an organization like the Alaska Community Foundation, or similar.
Campus Plan Brainstorming
Youth Development program
Coffee Cart idea morphing and Library Location, SaltChuck Company Investment
