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Page 1 January 6, 1975 The Student Advisory Board met with the Lexington School Committee at 7:40 p. m. at the school administration building before the start of the regular meeting. Alan Wachman and Chris Anderson, representing the students for a second term, introduced Steve Engelberg and Mary Rockwood. Due to a previous commitment, Melinda Ballou did not appear until later in the evening. STUDENT. ADVISOR=' BOARD Alan Wachman made the following comments: (1) He thanked•the school committee for efforts made which resulted in the installation of the new sidewalks at the high school. (2) He said the students would like to see the smoking problem resolved this year. (3) His board will continue efforts to educate 5th, 6h, and 7th graders with an anti-smoking campaign. Questioned by Mrs. Davison about the. project, he said an effort was made during the summer to obtain material from organizations which she had recommended. He was unable to reach anyone who could advise him but he will try again. (4) He asked the School Committee to provide a meeting schedule for his Board. Mrs: Berchtold suggested the first meeting of each month could be set aside as a definite time to meet with the students. She said a schedule will be provided. She added that an exchange of ideas on agenda items would be useful prior to each meeting. Mrs. Swanson said she would like to get student reaction to arena sched=uling. Steve Engelberg offered to do a student survey to get the information. The regular meeting of the Lexington School Committee commenced at 7: 30 p. m. resent were Messrs. Currier, Rotberg, Wadsworth, Berchtold, 'Davison and:. )wanson. Also present were Messrs. Barnes, Maclnnes, Spiris, Dr. Monderer, Dr. Fobert and Mrs. Cummings. William Welch, President of the LEA, invited the school committee .PUBLIC to attend a series of workships for CH 766 which will be held on PARTICIPATION January 14 and 21, 1975. Schedule is as follows: 2:30 p. m. Science Lecture Hall for high school teachers; 3:30 p. m. for elementary and jr, high teachers- auditorium. This announcement was followed by questions concerning an appro- priate time for the public to participate in the budget process. At this point, Mrs. Berchtold made the following clarifying statement concerning budget meetings. "We haven't set up separate budget meetings:. All meetings in January and February will concern the budget. The public cannot really stand up and make comments at the time of discussion but they can communicate during public participation,. or by telephone or letter. I encourage you to make inquiries in this manner concerning budget issues". The committee discussed the budget process briefly. Mr. Rotberg suggested holding two public meetings this year togive the public ample opportunity to ask questions. Donald White spoke about the preliminary budget estimate of $15, 000, 000 Filch had been submitted to the Town Manager. Mr. White said the figure .'as totally unrealistic and then went on to discuss various ways to reduce this figure.