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1 Sidewalk Committee Minutes October 6, 2008 Attended by: Jerry Van Hook, Jeanne Krieger, Wayne Brooks, Francine Stieglitz, Judy Crocker, John Davies, Lucy Fletcher-Jones, Suzie Barry, Officer George Anderson (PD rep), Elaine Celi (transportation school dept), Dana Ham (resident School St. Hastings) 11:05 the meeting was called to order. 1. Minutes: Sue Ellen Briggs is no longer taking minutes. Lucy F-J agreed to take minutes of this meeting only. Need to find new person or committee will take in turns. The minutes of the Sept ‘08 meeting were discussed and approved. 2. Elaine Celi distributed a list of school buses with % ridership (signed-up) in all the Lexington school districts. No official figures of actual ridership are kept. However, some SR2S schools do keep such figures on walk to school days and days before and after. Lucy F-J reported that the Bowman figures were generally a little less but very close to the sign-up figures. % signed-up ridership LHS 14% Clarke 56% Diamond 40% Bowman 41% Bridge 29% Estabrook 26% Fiske 31% Harrington 33% Hastings 27% Grand Total 29% 3. SWC web site maintenance: Lucy F-J reported that the town has a new website with new standards and procedures and a content management system. They will no longer allow committees to maintain their own web sites. Lucy F-J met with Cindy McLaughlin, asst Town manager, and agreed to hand over a streamlined version of the SWC web site by Thanksgiving, if possible. Lucy F-J needs to do an extensive update of the site as committee priorities and members have changed. Lucy F-J will still be the point person for sending updates to the town. Updates should be in the form of WORD files and photos. The committee voted and approved the change in procedure. 4. Pleasant Street: The Bowman discussion group and police dept received many complaints about the safety of Pleasant Street during September as Bowman had many more pedestrians, bike riders and scooter riders than usual and the motor traffic was higher. Residents and users of Pleasant St were invited to the meeting but none turned up. Lucy F-J, regular user of Pleasant St, gave a presentation on the need for extending the sidewalks on Pleasant St. Upper Pleasant has a sidewalk only on the east side from Concord Ave to the crosswalk opposite the Worthen Rd E intersection (and a little further). No sidewalk exists on either side between this point and Wilson’s Farm. There are short sidewalks on both sides of the