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organization must be a community or affinity group, cannot be a political group and must be consistently active. Dan Joyner asked what level of contact information is going to be available to the public-just leadership or all members. Dan Joyner also asked what information will be available to the public. Weidong said the contact info will be available forjust a way to get in touch with people for more information. Mark commented that one of things we need to figure out is who is going to maintain it. Weidong responded that initially he can be the one to maintain it but if any other members want to help, he is open. Margaret asked where we intend to put the link to this database. Weidong responded that most likely this will be on the Town Website, but we will work with Sean Dugan to get the word out more broadly. Dan Joyner asked if there is going to be any marketing campaign? Margaret suggested Lexington Happenings as a place to advertise this. Margaret also suggested putting a list together of suggested advertising options for the future. Rina offered to compile this information. Town-wide Survey Preparations Mark updated the group on where we are with the survey.The survey has been advertised using the Town social media channels,the Mavens, Colonial Times, CEL postcard,TMMA and the Lexington List beginning on January 18th. Mark said we have leftover postcards if anyone wants to distribute any. Mark asked if there were people who didn't get the postcard yet. A few people responded that they haven't. Rina suggested reposting on social media tomorrow since there is going to be a storm and people will be inside. Mark listed what outreach has been done and what is left to do. Mark commented that we are still waiting to hear back about the census. Mark reminded the committee that we still have to plan and conduct the focus groups. Mark asked if any committee member is interested in helping with the focus groups to send Mark an email. Margaret commented that the League of Women Voters would want to hear from Marian in the Fall. Mark will touch base with Marian when it is time to prepare the presentations. Margaret said the Lexington Observer published an article about the survey. Kathleen commented that she received some feedback from someone who was not happy about the ranking questions and the inclusion of DEI there. Kathleen continued that they said that they didn't think the DEI question is appropriate to include in a ranking. Mark said we will bring this up at our next survey meeting. Formation of Subcommittee on Voter participation in Lexington Margaret commented that at the last meeting we voted to approve the committee charge. We need to still determine who the members will be.The subcommittee will meet weekday mornings at 10am.The next meeting will be 2/17. Margaret further mentioned that this process will involve interviewing Town Clerks in other communities to see how we compare to other Towns. We would talk to groups similar to TMMA and other stakeholders. Margaret announced that so far these are the members of the committee: Fernand Quezada, Marian Cohen, Eileen Zalisk, Rina Kodendera,Jeri Zeder, and Daniel Joyner. Margaret asked if anyone else wanted to participate. Weidong said he was trying to recruit someone from CAAL. Margaret asked if we need to vote to approve the members of the subcommittee. Shannon also offered to volunteer for this subcommittee and running focus groups. Katharine mentioned that we do need to send these names to the Clerk's Office and post the agendas. Dan Joyner asked about the timeline. Margaret offered to talk to Dan Joyner offline to see how he can get involved. New Committee Logo 2