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of ARPA funds. Doug discussed participatory budgeting whereby residents generate requests for set aside funds. This is done in Cambridge and Antony (our sister city.) Jesse Steigerwald and Leslie Masson from LexSeeHer gave a presentation on the artist and bas relief sculpture that will be placed on a granite slab with a spinning wheel motif on the Visitors Center Green to honor Lexington Women. We were invited to the "unveiling" of a mockup on Sunday at 10:30-11. Various committee members indicated their support for the location and appearance of the sculpture. Dawn suggested that the sculpture be located in East Lexington near the Stone Building noting that Tourism has concerns that the sculpture is not integrated into the site. Tourism has not yet taken a formal position. Claudia Lack felt this was high quality public art and a good focus point. Jerry felt the sculpture was "neat envisioning" and that "everything else in Lexington is a rock."Jesse said there would be a stone dust path leading to the sculpture with site specific programming. The archway in the sculpture echoes the archway on the Visitors Center. Pam S. noted that the Center parking lots are a critical issue and urged us to move forward with the CVS lot to support economic vitality and creating some open space. Dick Brown strongly supported Pam's suggestion and urged us to go forward with Pam's excellent design. Dick noted that the Michelson's lot looks good overall and the signs are good in contrast to the CVS lot which looks terrible and faces the bike path. Jerry urged us to think of the CVA and Depot lots are one giant integrated space and that we should think big. Innessa agreed saying that we need better signs, better info and better communication. Pam S. suggested that an urban planner/designer be hired to envision a design because the CVS lot is in failure right now. Just failure. Pam said that design should be separated from implementation so as not to slow things down. Erin noted that the Chamber's position is that we do what we can do and be in constant communication with the public as to what is realistic and possible. Fred Johnson said that he strongly supports Pam's plan for redoing the CVS lot stating "how do we make the back door on the north side of Mass Ave inviting to the public."The Committee than discussed the zoning limits on signage (example: signs on the back must be smaller than signs in the front. This needs to be changed.) And frankly it's dangerous in the CVS lot. Pam's plan has safer walking spaces Jerry suggested making it permissible for parallel signs to be the same size but not adjacent or around the corner signs. Acting Chief McLean gave an update on the one year pay by phone pilot. There have been 5843 transactions since September 15t". More and more people are using it. Lots of senior parking passes are in use, mainly in the Depot Lot. Regular stickers are still free but will be turning over in February. (The note taker thinks the actual date is March 1.)The Streetscape Project has made enforcement tricky, enforcement will be increasing, gently, as we return to normal. Doug has used paybyphone 3x saying that it's quicker than finding a quarter. There were more complaints before the program started. People will get more comfortable with it. There will be little to no enforcement for big events. Once space is at a premium we will tighten up enforcement. Jerry told us there is customer angst when people can't read the meter. Chief