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MOORPARK CITY COUNCIL
AGENDA REPORT
TO: Honorable City Council
FROM: Hugh R. Riley, Assistant City Manager
DATE: October 8, 2010 (CC Meeting of October 20, 2010
SUBJECT: Consider Conejo Valley YMCA Request to Use the Apricot Room or
Youth and Government Event
DISCUSSION
The City has received a written request from the Conejo Valley YMCA for the use of the
Apricot Room and the City's sound system for its Annual Bill Night Event on November 18,
2010, from 5:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. In addition to using the room, the YMCA is also asking
that the Council waive the City's facility rental fees.
The Youth and Government delegation participating in the event will be comprised of
approximately 280 people, mostly students from Moorpark High School.
Historically, the City has only waived facility fees for Moorpark non - profit groups. Since the
Conejo YMCA does not meet this criteria, but is providing an educational experience
involving Moorpark students, staff proposes that the City co- sponsor the event, but not to
allow use of the sound system, which would require technical support from City staff. With
the City's co- sponsorship, no facility rental fees would be charged. The Council did
approve this same request from the Conejo Valley YMCA in 2009.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION
Approve the co- sponsorship of the Conejo Valley YMCA Youth and Government Event on
November 18, 2010.
Attachment: Letter from YMCA dated 10/20/10
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Conejo Valley YMCA
4031 N. Moorpark Rd. Thousand Oaks, CA 91360
(805)523 -7613/ FAX (805)523 -8831
%vww.sevymca.org
October 20, 2010
Mayor Janice S Parvin
City of Moorpark
799 Moorpark Ave
Moorpark, CA 93021
Dear Mayor Parvm and Council Members:
The Conejo Valley YMCA Youth and Government delegation for the 2010 -2011 school
year is requesting your permission to use the Apricot room on Thursday, November 18,
2010, for its annual Bill Night event.
The YMCA Youth and Government Program provides high school students the
opportunity to participate in a statewide model legislature and court program. Our local
delegation is represented by approximately 100 high school student delegates primarily
from the Moorpark area. The annual Bill Night event is an occasion for the participating
students to formally present and debate legislative bills, on which they are currently
drafting, for the program's Sacramento conference. A panel of local community leader
judges will vote to select two -three bills during the event to be sponsored by our
delegation and sent to Sacramento for debate and consideration.
The Moorpark City Council, Apricot room, will provide the students a venue to practice
debate and promotion of their legislative bills, as they will ultimately be required to
advocate for them on the actual State Capital floor. If successful, the legislative bills will
be signed by the Youth Governor and copies of those bills are sent to the actual state
legislature. For your consideration, we would like to use the Apricot room facility on
Thursday, November 18, 2010, from 5:00 PM until 8:30 PM. We anticipate that
approximately 280 people (including the students) will be attending the event. We would
also appreciate the use of any sound systems that might be available in the Apricot room
for an event of this size.
We greatly appreciate your continued support of the program. Please let us know if there
is any other information we can provide you Thank you for your consideration.
Sincerlly; l
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PP tack Yarrow %
Associate Execultive,Director
P.S. If you would like more information on the statewide YMCA Youth & Government
program that the local high school students are a part of please visit the website at.
http:llwww.calymca.org/
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