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.16664*09 <br />Lexington <br />RECREATION & COMMUNITY <br />P R UG 1A115. <br />Town of Lexington <br />Recreation and Community Programs <br />Melissa Battite, CPRP Tel: 781-698-4800 <br />Director of Recreation and Community Programs Fax: 781-861-2747 <br />Recreation & Community Programs <br />April 2023 Report <br />Save the Dates: <br />o April 291h — Lexington Little League Opening Day Parade <br />o May 12th — Special Olympics Field Day at the Center Track & Field <br />Old Business: <br />o Please be advised Governor Healey signed a bill that continues remote and hybrid <br />meeting provisions that were enacted during the pandemic. The new law extends <br />pandemic -related authorizations that were set to expire on March 31 as follows: <br />■ Allowing remote and hybrid meeting options for public bodies through March <br />31, 2025 <br />• Allowing remote and hybrid participation options for representative town <br />meetings through March 31, 2025 <br />• Permitting reduced quorums for open town meetings through March 31, 2025 <br />o Worthen Road practice field — Lexington Public Schools are interested in developing the <br />Worthen Road practice field into a throwing practice area for the Track and Field teams. <br />LPS has indicated that there is capital funding to support this project. LPS will likely be <br />coming to the Recreation Committee during a future meeting to discuss. <br />Staff Updates: <br />o The Recreation Supervisor position has been vacant since September 2022. A verbal offer was <br />made and accepted and we anticipate onboarding a new Recreation Supervisor on/about May, <br />1, 2023. <br />o Interviews for seasonal summer staff are in progress and the summer staff will be finalized in <br />the next month. <br />Therapeutic Recreation: <br />o Assisting the Library with the Sensory Friendly Hour of the Fairy Tale Ball <br />o Tia Zanardi, the Therapeutic Recreation intern will be completing her 560 hour formal <br />internship on April 21St. Tia has done a fabulous job supporting Therapeutic Recreation <br />programming and services and will be graduating from Regis College this May! <br />www.Iexingtonma.gov/recreation <br />recdept@Iexingtonma.Rov <br />39 MARRETT ROAD, LEXINGTON, MA 02421 (office) <br />1625 MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE, LEXINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02420 (mail) <br />