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referral to reading interventions. Mona Roy shared how devastating it is for children who struggle with reading. Commission members spoke to a willingness to support focus on “consistent implementation of early screening and identification, progress monitoring, continuity in unbiased assessments, and referral to reading interventions” and declined to endorse the Science of Reading as an exclusive approach to teaching reading. Update from Effects of Covid Workgroup – Stephanie Hsu The group is feeling a little underwhelmed by the response, so the group is identifying new ways to increase accessibility to the community, including offering more times at the Community Center, and setting up a Panel Discussion inviting people to come and listen and make time for a Q & A. We are also in the process of writing a letter that details why mental health and gun violence should not be automatically linked together. New Business Rancatore’s Ice Cream: They have pulled their outside tables and chairs as their efforts to manage their customers blocking the sidewalk have been unsuccessful. As passers-by were getting injured, we are grateful for their response to our safety concern. Omars: We also want to find a way to offer Recognition to Omars. More to come on this discussion. Select Board Representative Joe Pato has been our Select Board liaison for 8 years (hard to imagine it has been that long) and is being re-assigned to another committee. We are very sorry to see him go – he has been a tenacious advocate for our work and the overall mission of equity and inclusivity in Lexington. Joe will be replaced by Mark Sandeen. Mark will join us at our next meeting in July. Open Meeting Law/July Meeting: As of July 15th the town can go back to in-person meetings but the Commission on Disabilities has special dispensation under the open meeting law. For our next meeting, July 19th, we will continue to meet virtually, but soon we will need to shift to using a public meeting room, a room where the public will be able to attend (in-person), and the person chairing the meeting has to be in that room. 7:20 meeting adjourned.