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• Co-Sponsorship CALex My American Story - MR motioned to support CaLex's 3rd annual My American Story which will take place in person for the first time in 2023. Committee approved by unanimous vote. • Review Questions from Systemic Barriers Meeting - Not addressed. • Race Amity Day – Given the tight timeline and helpful feedback, this event will be scaled back from its original goal for this year. Student artwork that contributed significantly to past Race Amity events will likely not be complete in time this year to incorporate into the programming by June. Instead, they will plan to showcase the student artwork and launch Race Amity in the Fall. Additionally, plans for next June in 2024 can also start to ensure artists have ample time to create work for Race Amity Day. o TG asked for coordination of Race Amity Day, Alzheimer’s awareness, and Pride Day Celebrations. SH had already reached out to discuss ways to share space and celebrate Race Amity and Lex Pride together/alongside one another. o Banner discussion around the text for Rac e Amity Day. The group settled on "Unity through friendship" SH is going to look into banner idea for this year. o AI shared an idea of creating life-size murals with face cutouts to encourage people to take pictures and create a wall of friendship. Everyone liked the idea and SH noted more volunteers are needed to help bring these creative ideas to life. • Future meeting formats: Zoom vs In-person - The committee mostly felt retaining hybrid format would work best to meet all needs. However, there was acknowledgement that in-person meetings allow for interpersonal connections in ways that technology has yet to overcome and often are more efficient than by zoom. Therefore, the committee decided to aim to run an in person 'retreat' much like school committee does. The retreat could focus on planning for the committee's aims and goals. Additionally, the committee expressed interest in running the first and last meeting of an LHRC season in person. • Draft Recommendation to the Select Board and Draft Recommendations to School Committee- This is an annual exercise. The chair suggested forming two groups. One would develop recommendations to the Select Board while the other would create recommendations to School Committee. Clarification was made that every committee member can weigh in on both sets of recommendations, but the groups could get the list started. The committee agreed; o CL, TG and SJ would address Select Board recommendations and o MR, AI and SH would address School Committee recommendations. o LF, CD and MI were not put in either group because of their affiliation with the Town and/or School Committee • TMMA Articles – At Town Meeting, CL read the committee's letter to the Select Board on its position on Article 33 and 34. Town Meeting voted in support of Article 33 and 34. However, a motion for reconsideration of the original amendment to Article 34 was voiced to the moderator so it is possible that another amendment to Article 34 could be brought back to the table at Town Meeting. A committee member who is also a Town Meeting member questioned the thoroughness of the amendment given that it was written with less transparency, in a shorter time frame and by unelected Town Meeting members unlike the process the Planning Board took. Additionally, they voiced strong concern that the amendment's proposal relegated multi-family housing to the edges of town rather than distributing those zones more evenly across town and this felt exclusionary of multi-family housing in the town center. CL motions to vote to oppose the amendment to Article 34 as it stands. SH seconds the motion. Vote count is 7 -0-0 • Next Meeting is Wednesday, May 10, 2023 , at 8:45AM • Meeting adjourned at 10:15AM