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• There was a request for Speak Up or Active Bystander Training. The HRC has sponsored three TABS in the fall of 2020 and are looking to sponsor more in the spring. Other town services are also looking to sponsor TAB. • More information on suggested actions available in Lexington can be seen in the full report. • Highlight quote - "Nothing about us, without us" • Committee Comments • MDR acknowledged and thanked Christina Lin, who is also the co-chair of the PPC, for her leadership in the equity space and her work on this program and presentation. • SB gave a shout out to those who coordinated the Zoom efforts for the whole program. • SH stated that this was a great program and was honored to be a facilitator but missed being a participant as well. She is very supportive of students and their wish to have more conversations on race. • MDR commented that this presentation shows the blueprint of what we need to do next. Our committee needs to make sure we are including the communities most affected by racial disparity in the planning and executing of these programs. "Nothing about us, without us." It is incredibly important that we stop, listen support, and allow the people most affected the time, the place, and the opportunity to share their stories. We don't plan programs without talking to the groups most affected. • Community Comments • Catherine Reilly— (MDR—Catherine did an incredible job of collecting the resources for this program) The presentation was amazing and very impressed by the effort it took to summarize everything. Having the resources at the end is great. Could there be more resources (financial)for more programing to the LHRC? How do we advocate for more resources to do this work? • MDR commented that we wish the town valued this work like we do education. We sometimes get support from Human Services and the Town Manager, but we don't have a budget. Human Services and the Town Manager will be sponsoring more TABS this spring. • SB encourages citizens to go to Town Meeting about budgeting and advocate for funding. • Jill Hai noted that budget process starts in the summer, is a collaborative process with many opportunities for input and public review and finally budget is set in February and voted on inMarch at Town Meeting. The budget is where funding comes from when we put in a request to the town. The Town budget does not include blanket sums for committees. Where a committee has a specific proposal or plan, they can submit a budget request as part of the budgetcycle, which begins in the summer. Our fiscal year runs July 1-June 30. 0 Upcoming budget includes funding to hire a Director