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Meeting November 1, 2011 Meeting Time / 7:3 0 pm Date: Location Room 111, Town Hall Members in Laura Hussong, chair Liaisons in Jane Trudeau, FCOA Attendance: Jim Goell, vice chair Attendance: Nancy Adler, LWV Tim Dugan Chris Ammer, FCaryLib Betty Borghesani Florence Koplow Lisah Rhodes Sophia Ho Guest: Barry Orenstein Absent: None Our Work Groups: • Food Court Group (Tim Nancy) • Space &Equipment Group (Sophia, Florence and Betty) o Equipment — TV, Computer, Exercise • Program Group (Jane, Laura, Lisah, Jim) Each group will • Meet before the week of 11/14 • Conduct a "FAB" analysis: Feature - Advantage - Benefit For each FEATURE in the work group's list • Advantage: what is the advantage to doing this in a CC rather than doing it elsewhere Benefit: What is the benefit to the town of centralized services that justifies the expense GENERAL DISCUSSION Tim Dugan feels we have lots of information on seniors and teens, enough to support our conclusions. He was concerned that we expend a lot of effort on a report that misses the mark or is not needed. Brainstorming should yield a broad task force consensus. We should present our conclusions to the BoS and ask for their guidance and not get bogged down with focus groups at this time. Barry's expertise is marketing. He has been trying to get a sense of our assignment. He feels focus groups are not a good way to determine needs. Rather we should follow the Steve Jobs approach of gathering data and then developing our own definition for the product. To start with we should let our imaginations run wild. Then we can test our ideas. It was decided to brainstorm and then figure out how to proceed. At the end of the meeting it was decided to analyze the advantages and benefits of the features we came up with. Various assignments for work next week were made and are listed below. We