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TAC update: Sally -looked at Lexpress statement from AHTC.people remarked about ‘funding’.If the selectman approve then TAC spoke about the urgency to get right away into pass sales and logistics etc details. Susan -talked about a lot of things,any route deviations possible,so its more viable to put them on a taxi,giving them reports that the transport dept send every month to the state transportation dept.Etc etc. Joe -that unanimous consent to look at the proposal early.TAC recommendation will be looked at in June.As May meetings already have enough content to be deliberated. How do you raise the profile for our transportation services in Lexington, Deepika -AAPI 5k race -have lexpress be a sweep bus for that riace Howard -discovery day is on memorial day and thus get the word out Susan -On weekends town would have to pay for a minimum of 4 hours to the vendors.Earlier there was a lot of interest with Learn Lexpress events and would get an uptick in ridership. Working with Youth and family services to work on how to do those sessions again.Getting a grant to get the info out.And get the word out through the social network.Susan requested committee members to try and get the info out and teh department is also investing in an Instagram account etc to do the same. Cost to have a bus and driver on weekends is -Starting in July $360 minimum for 4 hours to have the bus and driver present. Joe Pato -gave some history on how the town meeting had allocated and voted for the schools to have a bus budget.This was a traffic mitigation measure. Bridger and Varda -unpack the model on the school bus costs and fees at a future date with Ms.Kosnoff. Joe -there were a lot of single vehicle which was creating traffic jams that which pushed the ATM to get kids out of cars.That allowed the fees to come down Sally -,however we still have car congestion. Sally -some company shuttles that do pick up lexington residents going the other direction so the liability thing may not be so Rider population based in lexington and business population in burlington and they should compensate lexington for that value. Deepika -The meeting will happen again next Wednesday to keep momentum going.Also floated the idea of having on eof teh meetings on the bus so that the AHTC could experience Lexpress.