1993-05-10City of Southlake, Texas
CITY OF SOUTHLAKE
667 N. Carroll Avenue
TEEN COURT ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEETING
MAY 10, 1993 6:00 P.M.
MINUTES
MEMBERS PRESENT:Sue McNutt, Cathy Turner, Janine Bernasek,
Christen Gustafson, Ayn Henderson, Jason Miller
Agenda Item #1 Approval of the minutes/3/8/93. Janine moved
that they be approved. Jason Miller seconded.
Agenda Item #2 Administrative comments
We discussed sophomore lawyer training, apprenticeship, and
beginning duties. A lawyer meeting was scheduled at Sue's
house on Monday, May 23. All lawyers were to be required to
be there. We will hand out new cases and discuss improving
our skills as lawyers. Mandy Baker, Tim Watkins, Ashley
McNutt, Laura Garcia, Jason Boyd, Ayn Henderson, Chelsea
Gamble, Michelle DiMaggio, Kim King, and Lynn Coakley were
to be invited to train to be lawyers. The board agreed to
start using sophomores as lawyers this month. Christen made
this motion. Ayn seconded it. Ayn volunteered to contact
all of those who needed to attend this meeting.
Sue wants to meet with lawyers once a month to give them
their cases and keep lines of communication open.
Agenda Item #3 TCU conference. Sue explained that this would
be held Tuesday, April 27. A panel of Teen Court people
would speak at a Principal's conference on alternative
discipline management. Cathy, Sue, Brad, Buddy, Jason Boyd,
Mandy, Jason W., and Kay Held will be on the panel.
Agenda Item #4-Money from Womens Club. So far we have
received no word on how much we will get.
Agenda Item #5- Summer Court. We have tentattvbely set up
June Aland August 9 for summer court. It was suggested that
we check with churches to help us supply jurors.
Agenda Item #6- Penalty for not completing hours. Brad
agreed to double the fines for those not completing their
hours in the allowed time. We also discussed not bringing a
parent to court. This is our local rule. If a defendant
does not bring their parent, they cannot be tried and must
reschedule their hearing.
Agenda Item #7- Adjournment
. The meeting was adjourned by Sue .
Respectively submitted,
Sue McNutt
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