2025-2026 Mayor's Youth Council Student Leadership

The 2025-26 Seymour Youth Council met for its first meeting Aug. 19. After some fun introductions, Mayor Matt Nicholson talked about some of the people from Seymour who have gone on to do incredible things in their fields to serve as inspiration to the students.

Kendra Zumhingst, chair of the Seymour Oktoberfest, Inc., spoke about the upcoming festival and all of the hard work it takes year-round to put on the event. This year each youth council member will have volunteer opportunities at the Oktoberfest from setting up to tearing down and everything in between.

Also, this year, youth council will be exploring topics and issues youth are concerned with and coming up with videos and social media posts to share this information and ideas with the community. The first two topics will be the lack of activities available for teenagers and crime.

This year's council is made up of Olivia Compton, AnnMarie Shuler, Kayce Underwood, Reann Hons, Kelsie Napier, Briley Compton, Brooklyn Howell, Brianna Gomez, Bridget Deaton, Kenna Bohle, Yuletzi Ramirez and Velinda Baltazar. Absent were Peyton Croquart and Bailey Nowland.