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addressing agenda items, and will bring issues to a vote when group --- decisions must be made and announce vote results. The Chair will maintain a repository of all official work group documents, but additionaly Karl Kastorf will maintain the group's web site where they will be posted. The Chair will maintain a schedule of deadlines for deliverables. It will be the Chair's task to coordinate subcomittees. The Chair will see to it that at the start of each meeting one member of the group, on a rotating basis, is appointed to take minutes. That person will write up the minutes, in the format distributed in the Guidance packet, and distribute them to the members by Email, including a copy to Michael Baker in the Town Manager's office, (instead of by hardcopy as directed in the Guidance packet) . The minute-taker should record dissenting opinions, if any, to group discussions. 3 . Organizational structure and responsibilites were discussed as outlined in Appendix A of the "Guidance" handout: Subcomittees will be identified as needed. Each will organize itself roughly following the larger work group's Workplan, with special attention to communication links with the work group. A person to act as liason with the Core Participants Group will be selected from the work group membership on a shared basis, when needed. Suzanne Caton or Heather Heartshorn-Sweeney will find out more about the liason's responsiblities and role. The membership voted Suzanne Caton to be Chairperson and Marianne Lazarus Vice Chairperson. 4. The agenda item of assignment of one or two people to review existing 20/20 project material which is in Joe Marino's keeping was bypassed. 5. An informal discussion of the work group mission statement (from "Guidance" Appendix B) and its key questions was held, with the following points: Is our mission to define the physical character of the town in 20 years or the means of controlling growth? Answer: the physical character will be defined by what growth takes place. What are the factors that make the town nice to live in? Answer: among others, open space, clean environment, little noise. Are we deciding what land use and open space there will be? or how do we/can we control those? What are the limits? For example, do we want high density all over town, or the current density all over town, or some dense and some preserved? The town's "Values" discussions gave us the town's guidelines--open space, diversity, etc.--that can provide a framework for our group's definition of values, which could be our starting point. On the other hand, resources such as maps can be used to analyze the existing character. We need to assess the relationship between values and