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Monuments & Memorials Committee, Lexington, MA Minutes of Meeting October 5, 2023 Parker Room, Town Office Building and By Zoom Teleconference Members Present Linda Dixon, Bebe Fallick, Avram Baskin, Leslie Masson (in meeting room) Glen Bassett, George Gamota, Chuck French (via Zoom) Guest: Karen Tyler (Director, Veterans Services), James (Yue) Pan (Parent mentor), Judy Baldasaro (Town GIS administrator), Jerry Xu (LHS Student designer from Heroes team). Business The meeting was recorded to the Cloud by Avram Baskin. The meeting was called to order at 4:05pm. The Chair declared that a quorum was present and that the meeting was being held in person and by Zoom. The minutes of the 9/7/23 meeting were approved by roll call vote. Building the Database Linda reported that Judy Baldasaro, Town GIS administrator, gave a demonstration of the existing database at a training meeting on September 7. A second meeting for Friday, October 20, to brainstorm database ideas with Town IT is scheduled. We have 2 champions in our webmaster (Bethany Ramirez, Lexington Town IT) and Judy to help us any way they can. Four monuments were written up in an article for the Lexington Times to interest people and encourage them to send in information to the M&M Committee on any monuments they know about. They include Benjamin Wellington, the first armed POW of the Revolutionary War; Kay Tiffany, who persuaded the Town to procure the Pine Meadows Golf Course; Civil War Medal of Honor recipient, Thomas Cosgrove; and Minute Man statue illuminator Albert Bell Tenney. In discussion on ideas to generate community interest in our database project, Leslie thought that it would be a big boost to our efforts to display information about Monuments and Memorials in the windows of the CVS store. The building owner has a longstanding relationship with the Lexington Historical Society, who uses the windows for revolving displays. We need to investigate this possibility. Other suggestions were to post information on the neighborhood Google Groups and on Neighborhood e-mail lists; on the Lexington e-link newsletter; and the Lexington Observer electronic newsletter. Judy Baldasaro joined the meeting at 4:25pm via Zoom. Jerry Xu joined the meeting at 4:25 via Zoom.