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1 Town of Lexington Vision for Lexington Committee Meeting February 25, 2022 Remote Meeting 7:45 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. Members Present: Margaret Coppe, Joe Pato, Bhumip Khasnabish, Samita Mandelia, Kathleen Lenihan, Rina Kodendera, Robert Peters, Daniel Joyner, Dan Krupka, Shannon Murtagh, and Weidong Wang Members Absent: Mark Manasas, Andrew Dixon, Meg Van Nostrand, and Vishwanathan Krishnamoorthy Guests: Jyotsna Kakullavarapu Staff Present: Katharine Labrecque, Management Analyst and Sean Dugan, Public Information Officer The meeting was called to order: 7:49am The Remote Meeting Script was read by the Chair, Margaret Coppe. Minutes:  The minutes from the January 28, 2022 meetings were approved with minor edits. Handouts/Documents Shared on Zoom Screen: Action Items Summary:  Weidong will send the presentation on Lexington’s Asian population participation in local government. Meeting Highlights: Contact Information List for Local Community Groups Weidong sent out a link to the draft site to the group. Weidong said that Shannon sent him a technical question asking if it was possible to make particular fields bigger. Margaret asked how we are going to manage organizations who use a general email and don’t have someone regularly checking it or the contact person has changed. Weidong responded that this is a general problem, and we need to educate organizations on making sure they update the contact info. Samita asked if we added a contact field. Weidong responded that we do ask for as an optional field for a personal email which is kept for our purposes only. Joe added that one thing we discussed was an annual ping to the organization to validate the address was actually working. Margaret asked if the committee had any preference on having this working group continue as such for time being. There was consensus to keep it as a working group for now. Weidong said the next steps would be looking for a hosting site and getting an actual budget before we go live. Town-wide Survey Preparations Mark was unable to join the meeting so Margaret provided an update. We have officially passed the 2017 response rate for the survey. Margaret asked if anyone has received the Town’s census mailing with the