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Meeting Minutes Community Center Task Force After school programs for middle school students are at the CC not in schools. This CC /teen area is Not a drop in center. Tried a drop in center but it didn't work. They told the kids to come repaint the room, make it their own, but the kids didn't want to. Perhaps the place looks too much like a school to them, and it keeps them away. Schools don't have dances any more, schools rely on CC to do them. There is no counseling center for teens in Sudbury. Recommendation of Sudbury staff is that you need to keep counseling and kid activities separate, so that a kid using counseling is not conspicuously going there. Jim Goell, Foster City, CA. New town since WWII. No HS, but have elem and MS. Has a town center but no stores there. Stores are - Formatted: Normal out on strip malls. Houses start at about $800,000. The CC has a senior wing and a youth center next door, 7 th to 12 grade. Library is also like a CC with rooms to rent out, a room with a stage for couple of hundred people. Run by parks and recreation but he found no evidence of human services. They also Deleted: Mix of general areas have a Jewish CC that is really a great sports center. ® General discussion: and segregated areas. ¶ These places are all very interesting, and all very different. What is IT that the community wants? IT is different in each community, it is shaped by the community itself. We have to create our own IT. Is there something that this community could get so excited about that it invigorates a movement? We decided not to do any more site visits and to now focus our energies on collecting data from Lexington stakeholders. Will have to define how that will happen and when. The Community Conversation (LWV event, Sep. 27) will be critical for us. How do we want to get information from it? What information do we want to take to it? This is a great opportunity for CCTF! Laura will attend next meeting on September 8 if possible. Adjourned at 9:15 with a motion by Lisah Rhodes, second by Jim Goell. Next meeting is TBD by Doodle survey from Lisah.