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Town Celebrations Committee Minutes of Meeting March 13, 2019 Lexington Community Center Members Present Lorain Marquis, Chair; June Baer, Suzanne Caton, Kim Coburn, Linda Dixon, Karen Gaughan, Cerise Jalelian, Paul Jenkins, Gresh Lattimore, Sondra Lucente, Julie Miller, Wayne Miller, Bill Mix, Geetha Padaki, Sandy Podgorski, Sue Stering, Guest: Gina Rada Members Not Present Glen Bassett, Wei Ding, Carol Flynn, Mary Hutton, Rita Pandey, Dave Taylor, Bob Tracey, Sam Zales Business: • The chair reported that a quorum was present and the meeting was called to order at 7:05 pm. • Minutes from the meeting of February 27, 2019 were approved. • Lorain reported that she met with the Arlington and Concord Town Celebrations Committees. She proposed that the Lexington TCC would distribute Patriots' Day event schedules from Arlington and Concord if those towns would also distribute the Lexington schedule. The committee approved her proposal and agreed that the Arlington and Concord TCCs each be given 100 Lexington printed schedules to distribute. Lorain also noted that as a result of the meeting, a reduced fee for one of the parade units was negotiated for the 3 towns since the unit was going to appear in the Arlington and Concord parades in addition to the Lexington parade. • Linda Dixon reported that Lex Media has offered to train anyone proposed by the TCC and the Veterans Association in videography and to lend video equipment as needed to record TCC and Vets events. Linda and Lorain encouraged the committee to recruit people to take advantage of this offer since it will make it easier for the committee to ensure that events are covered. • The next TCC meeting will be on March 20, 2019. Patriots' Day, April 15, 2019: • Lorain suggested that the committee invite the Hot Tamales Brass Band proposed by Golden Bough Productions to submit an application to march in the parade. The committee approved that suggestion and Lorain will follow up. • Bill Mix will talk to Larry Conley about getting some antique cars to participate in the parade. • Sondra offered to ask the Wells Fargo Stagecoach to apply to participate in the parade. • Suzanne reported that the amount of credits to sponsors from last year totaled about$7500. She also noted that sponsor applications have been slow in arriving this year. • Linda Dixon noted that Norm Cohen will be the Grand Marshal of the parade this year. She will meet with Norm and update the story submitted last year by Martha Wood to the Lexington Minuteman. • Wayne Miller confirmed that new parade unit numbers and covers used to organize the parade will be needed this year. • Lorain confirmed with the DPW that TCC members can park in the Library parking lot on Patriots' Day.