Vacation Involvement with CAS- Service _ Grace Herman

January 2nd, 2019 To serve the community over vacation we, the Terraza Team, worked to get the Youth Center open at various times. This proved to be a tad difficult because our manager, Ashley, was/is out of town for three weeks over Christmas and New Years. But we as a team decided that it was important to open a least a couple of times because the point of the space is to give people a place to go when they are bored, which is often during long these long breaks for many teens. To do this we had a meeting on December 14th to talk about our plans for the break. At this meeting, we committed to having a game night on the 20th of December, the 3 of January and a beach clean up on the 11th of January. Before the Game Night on the 20th Cata and I cleaned the space, which was not an easy task. Being open-air as it is and being dry season there was like an inch of dust on the floor. We swept the space around five times and it still wasn't spotless. But we managed to get it clean enough to open for a fun night. There was a soccer team from San Jose who stopped by leading to a pretty successful game night. However during the cleaning process, Cata and I became pretty frustrated with space, this led us to think about the ethicality of staying in this space. We believe that it is unethical to pay as much as we do for a space that gets used from 2-3 times a week, especially now that the skatepark is a safe and fun place for teens to hang out. We believe that over the next couple of months we should transition out of the space to either a cheaper space or to no space at all. We believe that we could run out of the skatepark. We can have an event every week or every other week like we do know but using the skatepark as a base instead of paying $2,000 a month for the youth center. We could organize basketball tournaments, skate competitions, scavenger hunts, game nights from there. Everything we do could just be shifted down to the skatepark and then we would save thousands of dollars. These have been thoughts growing over the last trimester but through the frustration of cleaning, as ridiculous as it seems, we started to seriously consider them and want to take action towards change. Thank you for reading, Grace * Plan and initiate an activity, Work collaboratively with others, Consider the ethical implications of your actions.