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We then turned to the three candidates for appointment to TAC. Sally spoke to each of them. It turns out that, after discussion, one did not seek appointment (but wanted to help with marketing when we work on that), one understood he did not fit our criteria, and one does have current mass transit experience but it is not Lexington based. This candidate was invited to attend the April TAC meeting. We determined that we would ask the Select Board to do one more round of advertising for the vacancy, stating specifically that we would like the applicant and/or someone in his/her household who regularly uses public transportation beginning or ending in Lexington. If a more suitable candidate does not apply, we will likely go forward with the candidate at hand. Sally debriefed us concerning the March 2nd, transportation meeting. (The minutes of that meeting were sent to TAC.) Elaine urged the committee to engage in more correlation with land use, housing, parking and transportation. We are going to discuss this with Melanie. There are public meetings on the comprehensive plan coming up in April through June. Susan suggested, again, that we look at the 2003 comprehensive plan. The new plan is intended to be complete by fall. Sally noted that we need to look at sharing vehicles and contracts. We circled back to Dawn's suggestion that the Liberty Ride trolley be used on Sundays to do an incoming ride from Alewife to Lexington before starting the Liberty Ride and then do an outgoing ride to at the end of the day back to Alewife. Lack of public transportation to and from Alewife on Sundays has been an issue for residents and tourists. Then we discussed E vehicles. Is our infrastructure ready? We don't go out to bid for Lexpress until 2023. How much more expensive will electric Lexpress vehicles be? Sally suggested that we zero in on our priorities. For the next meeting we should look at the 2003 Comprehensive Plan and think about what we would like to see. Sara urged us to keep track of other boards and committees. We need to check agendas. Mark discussed municipal fleet management—how to maintain vehicles and how do we use them. This issue goes to the Sustainability Committee. We are trying to look at the entire fleet of Town vehicles together. Sally suggested that maybe TAC let go of that issue, if others are dealing with it. Mark quoted Peter Drucker: "What is the business you want to be in?" Mark directed us to contact the Select Board concerning the candidates for appointment and our request that one more round of advertising might flush out another candidate.