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2020 Vision Implementation Committee May 5, 2005 – Meeting Minutes 7:45 a.m. Selectmen’s Meeting Room Members Present : Peter Enrich, Ann Redmon, Fernando Quezada, Marian Cohen, Stacey Hamilton, Scott Burson Others: Candy McLaughlin, Elaine Sterzin, Kerry Evans Minutes: The minutes from the April 7, 2005, Implementation Committee meeting were approved. Fernando inquired about whether the questions regarding 2020 and long range planning were asked of the two Town Manager candidates. Candy replied that, from the feedback she had read/heard, both would be supportive of long range planning. Presentations to Elected Officials and TMMA: Stacey informed the Committee of her report to the Planning Board. She stated that she had a 30-40 minute conversation with the members of the Planning Board. Some of their concerns included that they don’t feel the two reports (Budget and Community Discourse) are relevant to them and were disappointed that the Economic Development taskforce did not go forward. Richard Canale, a member of the Planning Board, was also a member of the Economic Development Task Force and he felt that there wasn’t enough support from elected officials for this group and that it was lacking the proper historical context and background. Another problem he highlighted was the fact that 2020 doesn’t have the ability to “do”/implement anything. While they shared their frustration that their issues are not being covered, they support the 2020 process. In terms of a joint meeting, there was some discrepancy as to whether a joint board meeting was necessary. The Planning Board was also asked to suggest new members for the Committee; they did not give any specific names but did suggest getting local landlords/business owners involved. Candy noted that we still need a date from the School Committee for a presentation to the full Committee. Scott said that he would ask the new chair, Helen Cohen, for her suggestion on a good date. Fernando stated that he will be contacting the new chair of the TMMA Executive Board, Gloria Bloom, for a date to present that that group. Meeting on Budget report and recommendations: There was some discussion about when to best schedule the Budget meeting and whether it should wait until after the new Town Manager is here. There was a suggestion that we hold the meeting and invite whoever is selected as the new Town Manager. It was decided that a smaller meeting of the Budget Collaboration group be called in the next few weeks (early June) and bring in two people from the Budget taskforce to do a brief overview and work on a plan to hold a larger meeting with the major players in the Budget process. Meeting on Community Discourse report and recommendations: The plan is to hold this meeting in September since it would require more advanced planning. It was decided to have a sub-group of the committee or task force get together to have a planning meeting. There was a discussion about whether the September meeting would be expanded to include a discussion of community discourse as well as next steps for 2020. It was suggested that over the summer, one-on-one outreach be conducted, including members of the Chamber of Commerce. It was thought that a number of the task force members could be counted on to become actively involved in the next steps. In terms of the Economic Development group, it was decided that the Committee would ask Mary Jo Bohart (of the Chamber of Commerce) for the names and contact information of the most active members of the Chamber Board so someone can contact them and hopefully gather some support to allow Mary Jo the time to become more actively involved in 2020. Elaine Sterzin asked if the Committee was planning on having a table at Discovery Day, which is th scheduled for May 28. The Committee agreed that this would be a good idea. Ann will check to see if it 1