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Lexington Housing Partnership Meeting Minutes for September 13, 2006 Attendees: Mary Haskell, Harriet Cohen, Tom Harden, Jeri Foutter, Chris Eaton, Winifred McGowan, Art Katz, Norm Cohen, Bob Bicknell, Martha Woods, Florence Baturin, Mary Ann McCall-Taylor, Greg Zurlo, Paul Linton Bob Bicknell chaired the meeting; Harriet Cohen took the minutes. The meeting was called to order at 7:11 pm. 1. Approval of June minutes The minutes were approved as written by unanimous voice vote. 2. Committee Reports See Appendix A for the pre-meeting written reports from the committees. Communications Committee – Florence Baturin Changed charge from doing a brochure to being a communications committee. Next meeting is Sept. 25 at 4:00 in the Cary Library Learning Center. An announcement will be sent to the entire Partnership. Please come if you are interested. Zoning – Mary Haskell Good turnouts for the two educational sessions on the inclusionary zoning bylaw. There was sufficient interest that the meetings went longer than scheduled. It is likely that the bylaw will be brought forward at the Spring Town Meeting. Greg Zurlo met with the Temple Isaiah Social Action Committee. There will be a follow- up meeting in late October. There is some interest in affordable housing issues, but no commitment at this time to work for passage of the zoning bylaw. Mr. Bicknell volunteered to chair a committee to organize and plan the effort to have the zoning bylaw passed by Town Meeting. The Partnership will send an e-mail message soliciting volunteers for the committee. LHP Web Site – Harriet Cohen Paul Linton is now doing the maintenance work on the web site. He is making the changes requested by the Partnership members. Ms. Cohen requested assistance with re- writing the web site home page content. She pointed out that the web site can also be reached at www.lexingtonhousingpartnership.org . When the web site hosting contract is up for renewal in November, the main name of the site will be switched to www.lexingtonhousingpartnership.org and it will also be reachable through www.lexhp.org . Report of the Chair Mr. Bicknell and Maryann McCall-Taylor are working on finalizing the criteria for affordable housing units at Met State. Some of the criteria are set by DHCD or by the contract with Avalon Bay, but there is some flexibility.