JOHNSTOWN - The city-based Hamilton, Fulton and Montgomery Prevention Council has agreed to be the lead agency sponsoring a Youth Day for Fulton County in 2010, the agency's head said this week.

"We're going to plan a Youth Day next summer," council Executive Director Ann Rhodes said Wednesday.

Fulton County Youth Bureau secretary Teresa Perry recently told her bureau's advisory board that the HFM Prevention Council will be the head agency for a proposed Fulton County Youth Day the bureau is trying to get off the ground.

Rhodes confirmed this week that is the case, adding the council also is working to help officials of Hamilton County Community Services in Indian Lake sponsor a similar Youth Day next year.

Early this fall, Fulton County Youth Bureau officials first discussed conducting a possible Youth Day based on a similar event held the last two years in Montgomery County.

The Montgomery County Youth Bureau on July 29 conducted its Youth Day at the fields behind the County Annex building in Fonda. The event had more than four hours of attractions that included laser tag, an obstacle course, a bungee run, a human wrecking ball competition, boxing, a police K-9 demonstration, a state police rollover simulator, a seat belt "convincer" and a bounce house.

Rhodes said Fulton County Youth Bureau Director Charis Gray is trying to organize a meeting of "interested parties" for the Fulton County Youth Day. She said her council has been participating with Montgomery County in its Youth Day activities for some time.

"We're excited to bring it to Fulton County," Rhodes said.

She said it is her "understanding" that the council will be asking for donations to help out with the Fulton County Youth Day. She noted that Dottie MacVean, a staffer for state Assemblyman Marc W. Butler, R-Newport, told the Fulton County Youth Bureau board Oct. 19 that he may be able to seek state funding for such an event.

Rhodes said the council may also request funding through state Sen. Hugh T. Farley, R-Niskayuna, to help fund Fulton County's day.

Hamilton County Community Services is also working with the council to establish that county's youth day, possibly for next August, Rhodes said.

Rob Kleppang, the agency's director, said Thursday plans are "very preliminary" at this point. But, he said the hope is to hold the "family event" next summer, possibly in early August in the area of either Speculator or Indian Lake.

He said his sprawling county conducts a "youth summit" annually in September or October for grades six through eight, but youth day would be for all ages.