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Noise Advisory Committee 3 Joe: • Suggested ways to advertise meetings o Minuteman o Lexington list o Social media o Neighborhood lists o PTA o Green team/Lynn Jensen • Don't need to present a finished proposal at meetings;just core issues and preliminary ideas about responses Lee: • There are three main issues for discussion at public meetings o dBA limits o Limits on hours of operation o Limitations on or ban of gas-powered equipment Joe: • An additional issue is enforcement vs. permitting vs. approved equipment • Should have at least two meetings • Might get useful feedback from Sustainable Lexington and LexGWAC • People involved in Meeting will be increasingly busy now. Might be sensible to have pubic meetings after Town Meeting and after I attempt to collect more data on impact. • The second meeting could be with a draft article to discuss. • We could aim to have the entire packaged finalized by December. Plans and timing At this time, no one agreed to be the primary coordinator for a public awareness effort to raise knowledge about the committee's goal of restricting noise from powered lawn care equipment. General discussion led to agreement on the following points: • Dan volunteered to take the lead to gather data on the effectiveness of noise level enforcement. He will seek to identify a few communities that have stated quantified limits to noise produced by powered lawn-care equipment. • No public meetings will be scheduled in the meantime. • The next meeting will be scheduled after we have additional information regarding the effectiveness of noise limit bylaws on the mitigation of noise. • The committee will decide how to proceed with the noise abatement effort at that meeting. Respectfully Submitted, Dan Koretz