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Lexington Housing Partnership Meeting Minutes for January 26, 2006 Attendees: Bob Bicknell Tom Harden Florence Baturin Arthur Katz Inky MacDougall Betsey Weiss Norman Cohen Paul Linton Ken Kreutziger Jeri Foutter Julie Duncan Bill Carlson Winifred McGowen Chris Eaton George Brunell (visitor) Chairman Bob Bicknell called the meeting to order at 7:06pm. OLD BUSINESS th The chair moved to have the minutes from the Nov. 5 meeting accepted; the motion was seconded by Inky MacDougall and passed via a unanimous voice vote. The next order of business was to vote on the officers for the year. Bob Bicknell and Harriet Cohen had agreed to place themselves on the slate to run again as chair and secretary, respectively. Bob nominated Ken Kreutziger to serve as vice chairman; this was seconded and approved. The chair called for other nominations; there were none. The slate of officers was approved by unanimous voice vote. Bob introduced Chris Eaton, who has been nominated to become a member of the partnership (pending approval by the Board of Selectmen). She is currently working on the Fort Devens project, which will convert the former military base into a community. She is a land use specialist, and has a wide range of experience, including smart growth development. The chair informed the partnership that an open hearing on the Inclusionary Bylaw is to be held on February 15 (it is not known at this time if a place has been scheduled). He encouraged all members to attend and support the endeavor. The Partnership has been asked by the Town Manager to select a representative to the Community Preservation Committee – the committee will create FY07 proposals for Town Meeting should the Community Preservation Act (CPA) be approved on March 6. Bob had spoken to Betsey Weiss about the position prior to the meeting, given her knowledge and efforts on supporting passage of it; he nominated her as the Housing Partnership representative; the motion to approve her appointment was seconded by Ken Kreutziger and passed by unanimous voice vote. The next portion of the meeting consisted of reports from the various subcommittees: Web Site Development (Jeri Foutter) – There is not much progress to report. Alex Fuchs, a very busy student at Minuteman Tech, is working on it when he has the time. Jeri will send members the web URL when the site has been developed sufficiently for comments and suggestions. The Partnership web site will be linked to the town site. Anyone having suggestions can send them to Jeri. CPA (Betsey Weiss) – A small (to 700) fund raising mailing is almost ready. The CPA for Lexington group is organizing local coffees (see Ken Kreutziger) and will be at the candidate nights. They are planning to mail a brochure to all voters who voted in the previous election (over 4,000 in number) just before the March 6 election. Bob Bicknell noted that the telecast of an Open House with Jay Kaufman on