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• Educating people about the specifics of the bylaw revisions Other ideas for the campaign were: • Promote the green landscapers list to residents. • Invite people to public meetings that they can attend to learn more information. • Invite Jamie to present the environmental effects of gas-powered equipment,etc.at a public meeting • Encourage people to talk to their Town Meeting members to complain about noise. • Encourage people to have conversations with their landscapers about converting to electric,not using gas-powered snowblowers,etc. The Noise Committee should create a list of things that people can ask their landscapers. Nick suggested we time the campaign appropriately. We're heading into winter and now is not the best time to start talking to people about lawn care equipment noise. Other Dan intended on meeting with Public Health Director Kari Sasportas to coordinate with her on reporting noise complaints,and how to get a clear point of contact for citizens to report noise complaints. Mark S said the clear point of contact issue has been resolved. He noted that people can make complaints during business hours to the Building Commissioner or Board of Health,and complaints can be made to the Police after business hours. An open item of discussion is that it appears there is no online form for submitting noise complaints and no central database for storing complaints for any type of reporting or analysis. Noise Committee Timeline November 2019: • Start developing public awareness campaign to educate people about the health effects of gas-powered lawn equipment and to recruit people to support the Noise Committee o A few social media groups to focus this effort would be:The Lexington List (https://groups.io/g/lexington), Lexington Mavens(Facebook group), Next Door app o Nick is working with Jamie Banks to write an article for the Lexington Minuteman to publicize the DPW work in converting from gas to electric • Meet with Board of Health November 27,2019: • Draft of Construction Noise Warrant, Motion and Powerpoint presentation due December 6,2019: • Meet with Norm Cohen by this date to review/finalize Warrant, Motion