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Executive Summary Charge to the Task Force The Community Center Task Force was charged with developing a report about the concept of a community center, including recommendations, to serve the intellectual, physical, and social needs of Seniors, other adults, teens and youth in our community. Specifically the Task Force will: • Explore other towns' approaches to providing these services in an effort to determine best practices • Confirm the stakeholders • Identify the services they need • Determine how the services get delivered 1 The charge emphasized that we were to investigate needs without considering available or potentially available facilities. Therefore, we focused on community needs and how they could be met. We then created a concept that could meet the needs that we found. Process To carry out our work we were to: • Explore other towns' approaches to providing these services in an effort to determine best practices • Visited eleven sites Arlington, Burlington, Cambridge, Chatham, Harwich, Hingham, Hudson, Newton, North Andover, Wellesley, Weston • Conducted online and phone research on nearby towns Acton, Bedford, Belmont, Brookline, Concord, Natick, Needham, Sudbury, Watertown, Westford, Westwood, Winchester • Confirm the stakeholders and • Identify the services they need • Conducted a town -wide survey 1,236 responses: approximately 4% of population and 11% of households 1 Complete charge can be found in the Appendix. November 26, 2012 Final Report 3