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Town of Lexington
Lexington 2020 Vision Committee
Minutes of Meeting of September 28, 2012
2020 Vision Committee
A meeting of the was held on Friday, September 28 at 7:45 a.m. in the
Selectmen’s Meeting Room in the Town Office Building at 1625 Massachusetts Avenue. A quorum of 6
was present.
Members Present: Fernando Quezada, Jane Warren, Dan Krupka, Marian Cohen, Peter Enrich, Bhumip
Khasnabish, George Burnell, Margaret Coppe
Staff: Candy McLaughlin, Michelle Stevens
Members Absent: Alan Wrigley, Andrew Dixon, Chuck Benson, Peter Lee, Greg Zurlo
Others present: Carroll Ann Bottino
Action Items:
The liaisons from the three elected boards will ask their respective Boards to formally support
language stating they are hoping to use the community survey to inform their understanding of
community perspective.
Candy will find deadlines for advertising the community survey through the various media outlets
in Town, and she will also work out the logistics of the Town paying the students working on the
community survey.
The meeting acted on the following items:
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The Committee approved the minutes from August 24, 2012, subject to revisions.
Heard and discussed report from subcommittee to broaden Asian-American participation in local
government:
Dan said the subcommittee is drafting a questionnaire for Asian-Americans serving on
Town Boards or Committees, which they hope to use in interviews after the first of the year. Margaret
said the School Committee is receiving information regarding the demographics of the school staff at the
next public meeting. She said they are still working on finding similar information for volunteers. Dan
said the subcommittee is meeting with the Town’s Library Director at their next meeting.
Continued discussing revised community survey:
Marian said she hasn’t received feedback yet from
the elected board regarding the sentence endorsing the community survey. Margaret and George said they
said they did not receive feedback from their respective boards. They said they will get a more formal
response. Fernando said he will reach out to Greg Zurlo for a response from the Planning Board.
Marian said she found two students to work on the survey. She said this semester they will create the
survey in Survey Monkey, and the next semester they will analyze the data. Candy said the Town will pay
the students, and she said she will follow up with the Finance Department regarding the logistics. Marian
said she wanted to finalize the survey so the students could get started as soon as possible. George said he
has concerns with the survey regarding separating town government responsibilities and community
responsibilities. Peter said that would be nice to capture, but he doesn’t know how to capture that concept
in a survey. Marian suggested we capture this idea in follow up discussions and deliberations. George
agreed and said he was comfortable with the survey. Marian then reviewed comments and suggestions
submitted from the Committee members and revised several questions. Fernando asked what the time
frame is for launching survey. Peter said late January. Fernando said the advertising needed to start prior
to the survey being launched. Candy said she will find the deadlines for various media outlets in the
community to share with the Committee.
Other discussion (LexEngage, review of goals, recruitment of new members):
Fernando said these
agenda items will be discussed at the next meeting. Also, he said the Committee is scheduled to take their
picture for the Annual Report at their October meeting.
Meeting Adjourned:
9:00 a.m.
Respectfully Submitted,
Michelle Stevens, Scribe
Future meeting schedule:
October 26, and November 30, 2012