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Suzie is visiting with various stakeholder groups to determine if there is any strong opposition to <br />the Belfry Park location. While several committee members thought that in this case, the Battle <br />Green would be a good fit, the sense of the committee was that they had no strong objections to <br />the Belfry Park location. <br /> <br />When asked which Town organizations should probably weigh in on the monument’s journey <br />through the approval process, Suzie mentioned the Historic Districts Commission, the <br />Commission on Disability, The Human Rights Commission, and the Tourism Committee. <br /> <br />Tour Lexington App and Pathfinder App <br />Currently, the Economic Development Department hosts an app on their website called “Tour <br />Lexington.” It’s designed to acquaint visitors to Lexington with restaurants, shops, tourist <br />attractions, and historical sites. One section of Tour Lexington focuses on our major historic <br />monuments in and around the Battle Green. The new “Pathfinder” app, developed by our <br />Lexington Heroes team, performs some similar functions. Economic Development and <br />Monuments & Memorials need to explore how these two products can work together. As the <br />Town is completely redoing their website, Economic Development is redoing theirs as well and <br />may possibly discontinue the Tour Lexington app. We need to meet with their Director, <br />Sandhya Iyer, as soon as possible. <br /> <br />Database Progress <br />Chuck French and Holly Ding demonstrated progress made in posting new memorials to the <br />public-facing map. Thanks to some recent improvements made by Judy Baldasaro, clicking on <br />the map icon for a monument brings up a photograph and a blank text box, ready for a narrative <br />description of the monument to be pasted in. Chuck demonstrated several completed boxes with <br />photo and story. We have a large backlog of monuments that have had their map locations <br />verified, been added to the database, and photographed. Chuck urged members to volunteer to <br />help with research and writing short narrative paragraphs for these monuments. <br /> <br />Bebe Fallick suggested contacting Marilyn Fenollosa, Chair of the Historical Commission. It’s <br />possible the Commission has already researched and written text on many of the same <br />monuments we are studying. Avram Baskin offered to contact the Photography Club at <br />Lexington High School for possible volunteers. <br /> <br />The meeting was adjourned by roll call vote at 8:30 p.m. <br />Next meeting: Thursday, February 2, 2023. <br /> <br />Respectfully submitted, <br />Linda Dixon, Chair <br /> <br /> <br />