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Town Celebrations Committee Meeting Minutes February 24, 2021 Virtual Meeting Members Present June Baer, Chair; Glen Bassett, Suzanne Caton, Wei Ding, Linda Dixon, Mary Hutton, Cerise Jalelian, Gresh Lattimore, Sondra Lucente, Samita Mandelia, Lorain Marquis, Julie Miller, Bill Mix, Geetha Padaki, Rita Pandey, Sandy Podgorski, Ashley Rooney, Sue Stering, Members Not Present Steve Cole, Karen Gaughan, Wayne Miller, Sam Zales Guests Jerry Michelson, Business:  June convened the meeting at 7:05 pm and read the Town notice regarding the conduct of public virtual meetings.  The committee tabled approval of the February 10 minutes until the next meeting. Patriots Day Working Groups  June noted that there will be no virtual concert planned for this year and that TCC working group has disbanded.  June also noted that the online scrapbook will not be available for this year. Front Door Decorating: Door to Patriotic Spirit * Sondra Lucente, Steve Cole, Sue Stering, Geetha Padaki, Julie Miller  There was a discussion about judging the winners of the door decorating program. Sondra noted that the working group has decided that residents will be grouped by precinct for determining residential winners and the Girl Scouts will vote on business decorations. Ashley Rooney suggested that the Garden Club and the Lexington Arts Council be asked to judge residential winners. The committee agreed that that was a good idea and will be discussed further.  Sondra reported that the working group has dropped the idea of creating a map of decorated doors and will instead just provide a list of decorated doors with addresses.  Registration for participating will be via a Google form accessed by a link provided on the Patriots Day web site. Registration will be held from March 15 to 27.  Decorations must be completed by April 5, 8 pm, and photos of the decorations must be posted by April 5.  June proposed the following gift structure for the winners: o There will be 9 prizes, one for each precinct, plus one grand prize. o Precinct winners will receive $75 worth of local gift cards. Grand prize winner will receive $200 worth of local gift cards. Grand prize winner will be chosen by the TCC. o Jerry Michelson offered to work with the TCC to get names and locations of businesses to be considered for gift cards.  The committee voted to approve the proposed gift structure and noted that gift cards should be acquired from businesses from all parts of Town, not just the Center.