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Lee Sinai Distributed Information: Mike Hanauer distributed two handouts on sustainability. The first was called "Our Opportunity in Sustainability", and the second was an article from the March/April 1999 issue of "Population Press" entitled "Building Sustainable Communities" . Date, Time, and Location of next scheduled Meeting: Tuesday, January 11, 2000 7 :00pm - 9:00pm Board of Selectmen's Meeting Room, Town Hall Building, third floor We also proposed that the following meeting would be Thursday, January 20 starting at 7:00pm. Issues addressed and agreements made: According to page 4 of the "Guidance for Lexington 2020 Work Groups" document that was given to us at the 01/06/00 Work Group Orientation, our first task as a group is to develop a Workplan for our group's operation. Appendix A on page 4 of the guidance document lists specific questions that the Workplan should address. Logistics On the issue of logistics in general, Tom Harden expressed the desire to have logistical structure dictated to us so that we could spend more time on the real (non-logistical issues) . Someone else concurred, stating his or her desire to get quickly to the end result and not to get bogged down by organizational minutia. 1. How often will the group meet? One person suggested every two weeks, while others noted that we must complete our first deliverable, the Workplan, by Friday, February 4 [4 weeks after the January 6 kickoff meeting] . Therefore, we will meet every week until we complete the Workplan. Please note that we must complete the Environmental Scan [5 pages] by Friday, March 3 - 4 weeks after our Workplan deadline. 2 . How long will the meeting last? We did not discuss this topic, although there appeared to be some consensus to start our meetings at 7:00pm and to finish them before 9:OOpm. 3. Can the group adhere to the overall project timeline as presented in the guidance? We did not discuss this topic, although no one stated that he or she thought the timeline was unreasonable. 4a. What are the expectations for attendance at meetings? We did not discuss this topic, although it was evident from the negotiations regarding our next meeting that no one present wanted to miss the next meeting.