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Meeting Minutes Community Center Task Force Meeting January 17, 2012 Meeting Time / 7:30 pm, Legion Room, Date: Location Cary Hall 1605 Mass. Ave Members in Laura Hussong, chair Liaisons in Nancy Adler, LWV Attendance: Jim Goell, Vice Chair Attendance: Sandy Schwartz, LexFUN Betty Borghesani, Greg Zurlo, Planning Tim Dugan, Sophia Ho, Florence Koplow, Lisah Rhodes Guests: Barry Orenstein, Narain Absent: Bhatia Action Items: • Florence and Sophia to work on Op Ed pieces • Laura will call Laurie Atwater, draft questions for BoS, contact stakeholders • Lisah will send out new Doodle poll for meeting date The meeting began with the unanimous approval of the minutes of December 14, 2011. This was our first opportunity to discuss the interim report to the Board of Selectmen on January 9, 2012. We were pleased to see the large number of attendees who were there for our report. We discussed the data that we need to incorporate into our final report. We should choose a few of the most relevant sites we visited and include their experiences. Focus groups: these reach only a few people and are time and labor intensive. They are also qualitative, where surveys are quantitative. If we rely primarily on surveys we will have much more data. We should talk to Needham; they have the most robust survey mechanism and interesting and supportive website. Consider our original stakeholders a focus group. Go back to them and get their response to our concept. Get buy -in and reassess needs. We have a lot of data; how do we know what data we need to include. Board members requested `data' in final report, but that doesn't tell us what. Ask them. What types of recommendations do they see coming out of our study? OpEds in Minuteman to get interest, visibility and leads for surveys. Colonial Times piece?