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next general Select Board meeting is two Mondays from now. Margaret asked how increasing membership would affect quorum. If we increase the number of members to 15 then the quorum then becomes 8(50%+1). Margaret added that one of the reasons we decreased the size of the committee in the past was because we struggled to get quorum.Joe commented that he is asking the board to change the charges as we go in order to make the quorum 50%+ 1 of the appointed members as allowed by the Attorney General. Alan made the motion to ask the Select Board to increase the number of members to 15. The committee unanimously approved the request to the Select Board to increase the committee's membership to 15. Margaret spoke about how important it is new members to learn the history of the committee and the expectations. Dan suggested that getting members together to collectively to get them up to speed on what we have done and what we are working on. Dan and Margaret volunteered to work on a new member orientation or plan. Andrew suggested that maybe we consider putting together a presentation so we don't have to repeat it every time, but then meet after to discuss any questions. Townwide Survey Planning Update Mark commented that he and Marian met with the folks from CEL.The working group has working on revising the questions to encompass the feedback received. Mark added that Ruth Remington,from the Center for Social Research,will now be joining us for future meetings. Margaret asked about hard copies of the survey. Marian responded that she inputs all that data, and last time around most of the people asking for hard copies were from the Asian community because it was translated.There was question about advertising the survey. Marian commented that we are looking to increase advertising by including it in a census insert, as well as using Sean to post to various listservs and social media platforms. Marian added we have a lot more channels this time to increase the response rate. Bhumip asked about what an ideal sample size is. Marian responded that in this case,we want to make sure the sample is representative of the population. Mark added that the last two surveys had about a 4-5% response rate, but this time we are looking for about 10%. Bhumip requested that members think about three ways in which we can improve participation in the survey for our next meeting. Observations from Andrew Dixon on future housing trends in Lexington Andrew will provide a housing market update at the next meeting on May 28th. Andrew asked what sort of questions or statistics this group wants. Andrew provided a brief summary of how the housing market has shifted. Bob provided a high-level overview of how the Comprehensive Plan speaks to some of the issues around housing and transportation. Committee "re-branding" and topics for future consideration Dan commented that we changed our name so this is good opportunity to rebrand and get the word out about the survey. Peter Lee put together the original 20/20 logo.There was discussion about whether the new logo should be around future themes/topics. Candy commented that the logo should evoke that this 2