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2020 Vision Implementation Committee
June 18, 2004 – Meeting Minutes
7:45 a.m. Selectmen’s Meeting Room
Members Present
: Fernando Quezada, Tom Harden, Scott Burson, Ann Redmon, Stacey Hamilton,
Peter Enrich, Todd Burger, Peter Lee, Richard Pagett
Others:
Candy McLaughlin, Wendy Rundle, Kerry Evans
Minutes:
The minutes from the April 29, 2004, Implementation Committee meeting were approved.
Next Steps:
Scoping Groups:
Candy has received full reports and one page summaries from all the scoping groups
except for Forging Community Discourse. Ann Redmon and Stacey Hamilton indicated that they will get
that report to Candy next week. In regards to reporting back to the boards, the Process Subcommittee
decided to send the one-page summaries, with a cover letter and background information to the three
boards. Board liaisons would be available for questions and indicate that the committee would be
available to come to a meeting at a later date, if necessary. Richard Pagett suggested that if the
Committee was not going to appear before the Boards, then it would be necessary to detail exactly what
the Committee would like from the Boards. He also suggested that the cover letter should mention the
convention and also provide the membership of the scoping groups. Richard asked for clarification about
the two fiscal groups. Peter Enrich discussed that the summary from the fiscal scoping group
differentiates between the two groups. Richard suggested that a change of name for one of the groups
would make the difference clearer. Candy suggested that the layout of the letter be changed slightly to
also make it clearer that the process started with four scoping groups which have now suggested five task
forces to move forward in the 2020 process. Fernando suggested that the content of the scoping group
reports should not give any recommendations to “fix” the problems, and they should have uniformity.
Candy will send out all the reports to the group once she has received them all and made the appropriate
edits. The liaisons indicated that they would try to get 2020 on the agenda for their next meetings which
are as follows: BOS (6/28/04), SC (6/29/04), Planning (7/7/04). They will get back to the Committee
with confirmed dates.
Publicity:
Peter Lee proposed taking a look back at the publicity processes used for other 2020 events
and determine what worked and what didn’t work. Fernando mentioned that at the most recent 2020
process (the precinct meetings), attendance was inconsistent, some meetings were highly attended and
others were not. He also proposed looking at involvement in a broader sense, not just limiting it to
physical attendance.
Subcommittees:
It was decided that there will be a subcommittee to plan the upcoming Fall convention.
It was suggested that there be a subcommittee for publicity as well as one for task force recruitment. The
subcommittee for task force recruitment would include one member from each scoping group to monitor
and coordinate as well as provide accountability. Suggested members include: Jerome Smith or Mary Jo
Bohart (Economic Development), Stacey Hamilton (Forging Community Discourse), Peter Enrich
(Fiscal), Richard Canale (Regional Planning). Peter Enrich stressed the need to have an aggressive tactic
to get the broadest scope of membership for the task forces. It was suggested that community groups be
contacted (with the possibility of sending committee members to meet with these groups personally).
Other groups include all past participants of the 2020 process, TMMA, PTA (the PTA presidents meet
every Wednesday of each month), and Business Roundtable. Fernando stressed the need for this
recruitment process to be transparent to allow citizens every opportunity to become involved.
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Convention:
Peter Enrich reported that he has talked to Jesse Steigerwald and she is eager to be a part of
the process. Candy will set up a meeting with Jesse and Wendy. Peter is also in the process of contacting
Robert Putnam who has been suggested as the keynote speaker. The convention will consist of 5 different
parts: a keynote speaker (hopefully Robert Putnam), dialogue between Paul Marshall and Bill Dailey
(Candy has asked Rick to contact them), one small group session with cross-cutting themes, and two
larger group sessions that are subject orientated. It was suggested that the task forces meet once, for a
briefing meeting, before the convention but the convention will be used as the kick-off for the task forces
and will be the last phase of the task force recruitment. Wendy will bring to the group the task force
charge and orientation.
Meeting dates:
Due to committee member schedules, it will be necessary to pick another day of the
week to hold meetings. It was agreed that mornings tend to work better for most. Wednesdays have been
set tentatively for the fall meetings.
Future meeting schedule:
2020 Vision Committee meeting: Wednesday, July 14th
Meeting adjourned
at 8:49 am.
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