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Meeting Minutes Community Center Task Force Meeting February 29, 2012 Date: Meeting Time / 7 : 3 0pm, Legion Room Location Cary Memorial Hall Members in Laura Hussong, chair Attendance: Jim Goell, vice chair Tim Dugan, Florence Koplow, Lisah Rhodes Absent: Betty Borghesani, Sophia Ho Liaisons in Jane Trudeau, FCOA Attendance: Sandy Schwartz, LexFUN Stephanie Lawrence, HSvc Guest: The committee voted unanimously to approve the minutes of the January 26, 2012 meeting. Laura reviewed the current status. There were conversations with Koren Stembridge at Cary Library 1/27/12, Karen Simmons at the Rec Dept 2/2/12, Selectman Mauger, to get responses to the interim report 2/8/12, and with Laurie Atwater of the Colonial Times 1/31/12 to talk about a piece on the survey. We will continue talking to groups, including other Selectmen. We will continue to refine questions for the survey, the current questions are mostly prototypes. They need to be tested out, and we do that before going live in April. We discussed focus groups and possibly doing a single- evening event that would be modeled on the League of Women Voters Community Conversation. We discussed not doing focus groups at all, since we can use data from 2020 Vision and League of Women Voters Community Conversation focus groups. We only have the time and collective energy to concentrate on the survey and publicity for it. The committee voted unanimously to defer doing focus groups or a follow -on community conversation. Lisah reported on the work she and Michelle C. have been doing on comparative communities. She will email the committee the data items (comparison factors) they are examining. We have a long list of sites we visited, and we need to choose five that are of primary interest. For our report focus. We decided that Harwich, Weston and Wellesley are definitely important to focus on. Remaining sites of interest are Chatham, Hingham, Sudbury and Newton, with Sudbury and Newton making the cut for now. How to publicize the survey, especially since the work of the CCTF has been under the town radar. We can go to organizations like PTAs and give a short talk about our work. Get on listserves for PTA, LexFUN, etc. Talk to Lexington Patch and Minuteman. Put a link on the Lexington home page? We will, thanks to a suggestion from Koren Stembridge, create