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• Cheryl Forsythe —I don't have the answer to that question at this time, but it is something we can look into. It is part of their task and they get money from HUD to do these workshops. • SH—I think Ms. Langowski was very excited to be able to come into Lexington to have these conversations. I think she's more than happy to come talk to us about what the cost of testing will be, what we should be looking at, and how we should structure the study. Any questions for testing and helping us come up with costs, as well as doing any kind of educational pieces that we can that they can provide. We can absolutely follow up with her and we will put the free workshop on our priority list. • Cheryl Forsythe —Voiced her concerns about housing discrimination and affordable housing in Lexington. • MDR- I appreciate your perspective and I wanted to sort of support that absolutely we should absolutely get an estimate. I think the tricky part is what are we getting an estimate for so those parameters would have to be worked out. I do want to caution, I want to again remind as I said at the last in the December meeting for sure. That is, no matter what our personal views about affordable housing, affordable housing the scope of our committee is not really about affordable housing. That's not to say that we can't consider that might be impactful, but I just really want to be very sure that our focus when we talk about housing testing that it is really about discrimination. Affordable housing is something that's outside of the scope of this committee, and I know that's an unpleasant thing to hear because in real life a lot of us want to make sure that we're supporting upward mobility. And I think that we just have to recognize, and Jill please, please contradict me if I'm wrong on this but it's my understanding that this committee does not work on affordable housing. Other committees certainly do but this that's not within the scope of this committee and it's certainly something worth considering if maybe there's a reach out to a committee who's working on affordable housing and seeing if they want to do kind of a joint work group, because maybe it's silly to have something on discrimination and something on affordable housing if we can't think together, that's something to consider. But this committee is it's just, it's just not about. So I think we can certainly move towards getting some sort of an estimate on housing testing for discrimination. • MDR—Next steps are to reach out to Suffolk University for more information on testing and the free workshop; JB will go back to Chief Corr to ask about further MCAD tester training. I want to thank, Stephanie and the housing work group for their really incredible intense work I mean the glossary Vicki thank you so much I know it's still a work in progress.