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Meeting Minutes Community Center Task Force Ages can be separate, they don't have to be together. Teens have a youth person who does outreach, or they have special events. Teens come! On the wall they listed 10 -12 trips all over, very interesting. Also on front sign, having a neighborhood garage sale. This is a hub, everyone knows this is where they come together. There are three custodians. Very active. Summer programs, winter programs. $1 million budget. Line item in budget. Cost to build in 2000 $5.5 million. Exec Director open thinker, would he happy to come talk to us. No budget problems. Chatham is very different. Started in 2007 or 2008, started with a brick building that had served many functions and stood vacant for a while. Decided to make it community center and add on. Renovation was very expensive, that made the cost very high. The addition was nice, a smaller facility because they serve a smaller population. The CC runs under budget of parks and recreation. All sports activities for all ages, summer programs, mothers' groups . Chatham has its own senior center, not part of this CC and don't want to be. This is a place kids go after school, hang out., play things like basketball. Kids come from about 4 t " grade until about junior year in high school. This is really just Parks and Recreation . Weston Jim on Weston: Funding similar to ours. Outdoor swimming pool, three floors. Ground floor COA entrance, really seem to share the facilities. Great room about 2500 sq ft. No gym, but have equipment they can roll out, but no standing equipment. No teen programs at all. Doesn't seem to be much intermingling . Leadership is KEY to be flexible, work things out. People have to be dedicated, but pressure to generate revenue brings another level of possible conflict in allocating the rooms. Marilyn: one of the things seniors loved to do was to sit on the patio and watch the kids playing in the fields. There were knitting classes! Weston is very small, perhaps it is just small and that is causing the conflicts now that it is so popular. Discussion What are the success points of the centers that work? What makes it successful? Might need another visit if we refine our questions. There are so many different perspectives, so how many are successful and why? How many are not successful and why? What was your target need and why? In Cambridge the target need was very specific to meet a need on Saturday, it was closed all day Saturday for that group, and the rest of the time it all worked more fluidly. Each town has needs its centers satisfy, may not be our needs. Harwich seems to have it all, under one roof. For example when her daughter was at LHS she didn't know what was available and Florence made a booklet. A CC can be seen the same way, has everything under one (roof, web site etc) a place to find out what you need, to find out what's going on in your