Fourteen-year-old Michelle Lieberman was getting ready to address members of the West Hollywood City Council for the first time.

She was among dozens of other local youths who were invited to come before the council at Plummer Park’s Fiesta Hall on Sunday for Teen Shout Out!, an event organized by the city to get input what local teens would like to see in their community.

Lieberman’s request: a place in town where she could play baseball because West Hollywood Park, where she used to play, is currently off limits because of the capital improvement projects that are under construction there.

“I think that we should start a league and get new facilities,” she told The Independent. “We used to have a league until they closed West Hollywood Park, then it kind of stopped.”

Mayor Abbe Land, who helped spearhead the event, said she wanted input from young people like Lieberman because they are not frequently given a voice.

“We really want to hear from you,” she told those attendance before the day’s activities began.

She was joined by Councilman Jeffrey Prang and Councilwoman Lindsey Horvath.

Many teens that spoke were frequent visitors of the West Hollywood Teen Center, located within Plummer Park, and said they would like to see more of what they are already getting.

In addition to after school activities, the teen center also organizes field trips.

Fifteen-year-old Edward Dorfman, a student at Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies, said he and his friends have taken trips to Six Flags, Los Angeles County Jail and a camping trip.

But he says there’s only so much room.

“There’s only a specific amount of people that can go,” he said. “We’re trying to get more people to come,but we need more funding so we can have bigger trips. …. We’re not funded enough.”

Local youth Alex Mishefski suggested one solution.

“The city can purchase a new van so we can take bigger trips,” he told council members.

Land said she understands how much the teen center means to those who use it, as well as the significance of the field trips.

In a thorough explanation, Land talked about how finances play a big role in when some things can actually happen.

Land added that she would make sure that local teens would be included in the public discussion portion of that process.

“The economy is in bad shape, so we’re going to have to take a long and hard look before we make any expenditures like that,” she said. “With that said, part of today is to hear what’s important to you. … When we do the budget and start talking about the budget in April, we’ll make sure you hear about when we do that.”

Daniel Casoy echoed Lieberman’s request by adding that the city needs to invest more in sports for local kids.

“We lost our baseball field,” he said. “We don’t have a standard basketball court and we don’t have a soccer field.”

For Prang, it was the first hearing many of these comments, and although he couldn’t guarantee all requests would be granted, that everyone took the first step of making them heard.

“Sometimes you hear the saying, ‘you can’t fight city hall,’” he said, “but what you’re telling us today, I haven’t heard these concerns before. What’s important to you is important to me. … Because you raised that issue, there’s a good chance we’ll some decision that you’re going to like.”

When words weren’t being exchanged between council members and local youths, teens partook in a series of activities showing what it takes to be a leader in the community.

One of the activities literally did that from the ground up.

In “Build a Leader,” kids were asked to take an outline of a person, and draw and color in all the traits and attributes they think is required to be a good leader.

Everything from having a smart brain to a mouth for being a good communicator were drawn.

One group draw a Poke ball from the popular “Pokemon” animated series for a clever reason.

“He has a Poke ball in his hand because the community has to be better and closer at higher levels,” Casoy said.