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RECEIVED 023 23 ,Jairi, 1 am Monuments & Memorials Committee Meeting Minutes T OWN CL,ERK Thursday, December 1, 2022 Conducted in Person and by Remote Participation LEXINGTON MA Parker Room, Town Office Building, 7:00 PM Members Present in Person Linda Dixon, Chair; Avram Baskin, Chuck French, George Gamota, Charles Price, Danjun Pu Members Present by Remote Participation: Glen Bassett, Bebe Fallick Members Not Present: Leslie Masson Guests Holly Ding, Lexington Heroes liaison with Town of Lexington Mira Mirchandani and Leo Qian, Lexington High School Students Business Chair Dixon convened the meeting at 7:15 p.m. due to technical difficulties. She read the Town notice regarding the conduct of public virtual meetings and declared that a quorum was present. Essays by Lexington High School Students Mira Mirchandani and Leo Qian were part of a group of Lexington High School students who wrote essays to honor veterans on Veterans Day. They chose a Lexington monument as the inspiration and theme for their essays, and read their essays to the Committee. Mira wrote about the World War H monument while Leo's essay featured the Minuteman Statue. All student essays have been published in a booklet, and will be preserved on the Lexington Veterans Association website. The Committee congratulated Mira and Leo on their work. Approval of Minutes After a minor correction, on a roll call vote, the corrected minutes of November 3, 2022 were approved. Database Progress Avram Baskin, who has professional expertise in user experience, analyzed the current data processing and mapping system developed by Judy Baldasaro and the Town of Lexington and made several suggestions to improve the visual presentation of the data to make it more user- friendly. He emphasized that this was separate and distinct from any programs being worked on by the Lexington Heroes student group.