November Meeting Minutes

Another great meeting! I am running out of happy gifs, and that's a great problem to have! 

Here are the meeting minutes:

Attendees: Brandon Davidson, April Cox, Richard Stanley, Julyann Sanders, Erin LaCoste, Claire Nichols, Irelyn Williams

Brandon called the meeting to order at 12:10pm and asked members to introduce themselves. We had two youth representatives from Kilgore Middle School present (Claire & Irelynn). April Cox says that she would like to have student representation at all coalition meetings going forward.

Brandon updated the group on progress made regarding our compliance check strategy. Kilgore PD and TABC met and conducted a training and are looking forward to beginning compliance checks soon. They are optimistic that they can check all retail locations serving alcohol for off-premise use before our fiscal year 2015 concludes in September.

Brandon updated the group on Rebecca’s search for a program that would meet the needs of Kilgore Middle School’s advisory period. She is still searching and wants to find a program that helps increase protective factors for students while helping to minimize the risk factors that lead students to negative activities including self harm and substance abuse.

April shared with us Kilgore ISD’s need for a speaker that could talk with the high school and middle school about the dangers of K2 (synthetic marijuana). Brandon will get with Rebecca and locate a speaker for the district to use.

Officer Stanley shared that there have been a number of drug related issues at the high school and that we could expand our efforts to include them.

As a group we revisited the idea of a “suggestion box.” April asked if it could be web/app based. Brandon will investigate and report back.

Brandon distributed copies of the coalition’s implementation plan. Members will review plans and discuss later. As a group we talked about the need for additional members to help more adequately represent the Kilgore community. Members offered the names of potential new members and they will follow-up and invite them to a future meeting.

December meeting was scheduled for Thursday, December 18th at 12pm at Kilgore Middle School in the Conference Room.

Brandon Davidson adjourned the meeting at 1:25 p.m.