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coo 26M The Town Manager recommend $50,000 based on last year's agreement. Steve Baran,, Human Services Coordinator ■ spoke on the issue of coordinated services to youth and outlined current efforts to obtain state and federal funding. Bill Blout Replace Director■ was optnustic about the possibility of obtaining EOC'D funding. Mr. McSweeney said he was impressed with the large turnout of behalf of Replace. He echoed the positive cam ents made by other member with r eg and to the services offered. He repeated his interest • eased coordination and 'cations with Town agencies and felt in increased encouraged with progress being made in that area. Mr. Marshall expressed his support of the $73,500 request of but felt that Replace should make every effort to operate as in Replace , the past with a lower ratio of Town support and more funding from other sources and so maned. is Mr. White asked that Replace provide a definition of its services and for identification of other programs with which it could interact. Mr. Dail said he was convinced of the existence of need of the • � those who would be helped Rep lace services and felt an obligation to th by those services. He seconded Mr Marshall's motion. Motion having been duly made and seconded, it was voted to support the request of Replace for an appropriation of $73 ■ 500 for FY' 89 . DRESS FUNDING • ..o The Tom Manager reviewed the request under Article 31 for fu of the ation of the IE�RESS Min System in the amount of open $237,000. Total operational costs are $370,0 00 ■ offset by $53 ■ 000 in revenue from fares and $80,000 from MBM funding He described the services provided on 8 routes and noted that ridership has been down for the past 3 years. He wed the goals of close supervision of the performance of the contractor; impraved maintenance; the development of a marketing program to increase participation and encourage purchase of passes. _The Transportation Ad v i sory Cmnittee will again a existing routes to see if they best serve the needs of the Town. Effort will be made to provide better statistics on ridership per route and age characteristics of riders. He reported that garaging of the buses at the Fire Station seem to be eke g going well Mr. Marshall noted that more use of DRESS to the Center could help with the parking problem there and asked that that concept be included in any study done of Center parking. Mr. White will respond to Mr. Mc 's question as to use for charters of LEXPRESS buses in of f-hours . - I S ARTICLE ASSI Mr. Eddison had proposed assignments of Warrant Articles to each Selectmen and asked members if any of the designations had seegm�ed inappropriate. All agreed that the list of assigr�nents should stand. If there are an y future changes. the Moderator i s to be inf ormed . V=W