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Semiquincentennial Commission (Lex250) July 20, 2022 Meeting Minutes Pursuant to notice duly filed with the Town Clerk, the Semiquincentennial Commission (Lex250) convened in a meeting via Zoom video conference on Wednesday, July 20, 2022 at 3:37 pm as allowed by legislation (S.2475) extending the suspension of certain provisions of the Massachusetts Open Meeting Law. Present:Steve Conners (Reenactment Community), Cerise Jalelian (Town Celebrations Committee Representative), Mona Roy (Community Representative), Jillian Tung (Music & Arts Representative), Steve Cole (Community Representative), Bebe Fallick (Tourism Committee Representative), Barry Cunha (Business Representative), Suzie Barry (Select Board Member), Julie O’Leary (Civic Representative), Paul O’Shaughnessy (Historical Organization Representative) 1.The meeting was called to order at 3:37 pm by Ms. Barry. 2.A motion was made by Mr. Cole to approve the minutes of the meeting from June 22, 2022 with amendments. The motion was seconded by Mr. Cunha and approved by roll call vote. 3.Updates a.The Shields consulting firm would like to set up a virtual meeting with a subgroup of the Commission to discuss publicity and website efforts. Ms. Barry will coordinate the call. b.Ms. Barry discussed funding requests with the town manager, who approved $40K for funding, including $20 - 25K for website development, penny machine for the Visitors Center, Rev 250 membership, and possibly other expenses. The Commission would need to consider how subsequent years of Rev 250 membership would be funded. c.The Commission is on the Select Board agenda for Monday night to provide an update regarding planning efforts to date. Ms. Roy shared a draft of the presentation slides. Commission members provided feedback regarding content and formatting of the presentation. Mr. Conners, Mr. Cole, Ms. Roy, and Ms. O’Leary will finalize the slides this week. d.Outreach meeting i.Wednesday, October 12, 2022 i.The Commission will reach out to community stakeholders to encourage participation at the event. Volunteers to help compile the list include Ms. O’Leary, Ms. Tung, Ms. Jalelian, Mr. Cunha. e.Working Groups update i.Ms. Barry noted that Concord is engaging subject matter experts in the community to chair working groups. The experts aren’t necessarily members of the Commission, but have experience or knowledge in specific subject areas. The group discussed whether this structure would work for Lex 250. Groups would include fundraising, community engagement, government relations, publicity, logistics. Mr. Cunha