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Morning Meeting on July 26th to set up for the evening Public Forum: <br />Participants:All AHTC <br />Meeting started at 9.05. <br />Deepika led discussion on how minutes of the evening public forum would be taken.Varda <br />volunteered to help take minutes as well.Deepika requested the group to reach out to personal <br />networks today in order to boost participation in the evening forum. <br />Varda:Varda worked with Susan to come up with ideas for raising extra funds.Instead of a <br />marketing model try and do a sponsorship model.Just to try and get a little bit of feedback she <br />reached out to a real estate agent (owner of her own real estate business)in town.However, <br />who wasn't interested in donating to the Lexpress.In fact Varda met strong resistance,even <br />though Varda was not asking for money but feedback on the idea of local business <br />sponsorships for Lexpress.It was a short conversation and the real estate agent explained how <br />they give to everybody,but L'express is the town’s responsibility.Varda will be sending letter to <br />Lahey and Market Basket with the same ask.Send them a physical letter as apparently that is <br />the best way to approach it. <br />Howard -make any sense to contact organizations as alzheimers and AARP for similar asks? <br />Varda -what am I envisioning getting a sponsorship program going that is broad based.Its a <br />sales job and will take some work.Having teh AHTC team ask and set up an Advertising <br />program seems daunting -ads on the side of the bus,also seem like a heavy lift to keep <br />ongoing year after year. <br />Susan:talked about possibly a list of sponsors go out on all publications once such a program is <br />set up <br />Varda:Bread obsession -we get requests from every way -Bowman sent it out something for <br />sponsorships.Every elementary school is doing a similar program. <br />Deepika -offered to help connect Varda to other real estate agents though they maynot be <br />actually owners of their organizations. <br />Sally:Spoke about her research work after being thanked by Deepika for creating such a <br />detailed spreadsheet and explanation documents.Lexington -the only transit organization that <br />did not receive federal or state funds.Everyone else had all kinds of grants.She is thinking <br />about meeting with Michelle Ciccolo,and even showing her the California grant list.Early on, <br />Lexington received approval for a home rule petition;she is wondering if there is some way one <br />might be a helpful tool now.