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Subcommittee on Demographic Change
Minutes of the meeting held on Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Ellen Stone Room, Cary Hall
Present: Pat Costello, Margaret Heitz, Nirmala Garimella, Martin Hwang, Bhumip Khasnabish, Peter Lee, Susie Lee -
Snell, Dan Krupka
The meeting was called to order at 7:35 p.m.
The minutes of the meeting held on August 13, 2013 were approved.
Action items
• Send the section on the English Language Learner Program to Robyn Dowling -Grant for her review and with a
request to provide additional data and clarification — Dan
• Complete Brookline entry for Table 5 by investigating its web site — Martin
• Complete Cambridge entry for Table 5 by investigating its web site — Susie
• Complete Winchester entry for Table 5 by investigating its web site — Dan
• Prepare a list of events and actions to increase the community's inclusion of Asian Americans to be included in
the recommendations section for "Barriers" — Nirmala and Peter
• Prepare a list of Korean churches in Lexington — Susie
• Send comments on Rev 2.1 to Dan —Albert, Bhumip, Martin, Nancy, Nirmala, Peter, Susie
Decisions
• The report will recommend a twice - yearly meeting on the topic of working with a diverse Asian population.
Suggested participants: Police, Fire, Human Services, Library, CAAL and IAL.
• Pat will join Albert, Dan, Nirmala and Susie in the meeting with Bob Harris on September 24.
• To improve the readability of the report, we will add headers with short section titles, a list of tables and a list of
figures.
• The next version of the report, to be completed after the meeting with Bob Harris, will be circulated to the
following: Fernando Quezada, Marian Cohen, Leslie Zales and, possibly Jeanne Krieger (Action Items) at the
same as it's being circulated to the Subcommittee.
• We will issue a press release after formally presenting the report to the 2020 Vision Committee at its December
13 meeting. Margaret will draft the press release.
• We endorsed the concept of stimulating the publication, in local media, of a series of profiles of Asian residents
who illustrate the progress being made in Lexington and would help to stimulate greater participation. Ideally,
the articles would begin running after a presentation to the Board of Selectmen. Nancy has the lead on this.
Next Meeting
Our next meeting: Tuesday, October 8 in the Ellen Stone Room in Cary Hall.
The meeting adjourned at 8:45 p.m.
Minutes submitted by Dan Krupka