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Meeting Minutes <br />Community Center Task Force <br />Meeting <br />September 4, 2012 <br />Meeting Time / <br />Ellen Stone Room, Cary <br />Date: <br />Location <br />Hall, 7:30 pm <br />Members in <br />Laura Hussong, Chair <br />Liaisons in <br />Nancy Adler, COA <br />Attendance: <br />Jim Goell, Chair <br />Attendance: <br />Gail Fields, HSvcs <br />Betty Borghesani, <br />Sandy Schwartz, LexFUN <br />Tim Dugan, Sophia <br />Jane Trudeau, FCOA <br />Ho, Florence <br />Koplow, Lisah <br />Absent: <br />Rhodes <br />Guest: <br />The minutes of the August 27, 2012 meeting were unanimously accepted and approved. <br />Drafting of the Final Report To The Board of Selectmen: <br />1. Town Staff who were interviewed (Library, Recreation, Human Services) will be contacted again <br />to review our thoughts before the report is finalized. <br />2. Florence and Sophia will review the comments portion of our survey to include several <br />representative quotes to be included in the report. <br />3. The report will summarize best practices in other Towns including a specific example of the <br />Harwich Senor Center and simply include the detailed reports of all the site visits in the <br />information packet. <br />4. Laura and Jim prepared a preliminary written Executive Summary and a Slide presentation for <br />the Selectmen. The Committee liked the emphasis on need for space to accommodate not only <br />existing programs but also the possibilities of using space to serve the unmet needs of tots, <br />teens and seniors. <br />5. Tim summarized the proposed content of the report as follows: <br />I . CONCEPT- CHARGE, VISION AND PUBLIC PLACES Quote (copy attached). <br />II. PAST STUDIES- Senior Center Timeline, 20 -20 Vision, Review of Adolescent Survey. <br />III. SOURCES- Department Heads, Recreation, Library, Human Services <br />Lack of Space <br />Central Scheduling, Information <br />IV. NEW INFORMATION- LWV, Demographic Data, Survey Data (Arts, recreation, <br />education, social), Comparative Towns. <br />V, CONCLUSIONS /RECOMMENDATIONS- <br />Space Needs <br />Community Coordination Council (Hayden, Munroe, etc) <br />Collaboration, Recreation, Human Services, LexFun, Co- locate <br />Recreation <br />