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(ADJOURNED SESSION, A.T.M., CONT. - MAY 1, 1995) 2. Community outreach programs to develop relationships with alienated youths in Lexington who find it difficult to utilize services at a human services agency without first developing relationships of trust and confidence with staff. Such programs must be in addition to maintaining a "drop in center" in an accessible place that does not adversely impact a residential or commercial neighborhood and shall at least include the following: (a) Substance Abuse Awareness with Lexington High School Students. (b) Substance Abuse Workshops with Lexington High School sports teams. (c) Direct Street work with smoking groups, including beginning the development of smoking cessation groups. (d) Weekend activities groups designed to bring ethnically, racially, and economically diverse groups together with the use of group building adventure activities, such as "outward bound" initiatives. (e) Diversity Dialogue Groups to encourage teenage youths from different backgrounds to share lifestyles, similarities, and differences. B. ) It is the sense of the Town Meeting that the contract to carry out part A of this motion be awarded to an agency specializing in and having at least three years experience in providing programs to troubled youths and children and their families in Lexington or substantially similar communities and that RePlace would be the agency of choice of this Town Meeting. 9:41 p.m. Presented by Judith Zabin, P1 , who was followed by Joan Abrahams, Director of Replace. 9:58 p.m. The Moderator read Line Item 6310 Services for Youth, $67,800, and recognized Donna Hooper, Human Services Committee Chairman, who presented the history for recommending Eliot Community Human Services over Replace. The Human Services Committee's opposition to Article 21 was stated. 10:12 p.m. Susan Elberger stated the School Committee's unanimous support of Article 21. 10:13 p.m. Selectman Fenn stated the Board's unanimous opposition. 10:16 p.m. Paul LaPointe stated the unanimous opposition of the Appropriation Committee to Part A. Discussion continued. 10:43 p.m. Robert Cohen, P3, moved the question. Following a voice vote at 10:43 p.m. , the Moderator declared tht:, question to be before the plaet)ng. Following a voice vote at 10:44 p.m. , the Moderator declared the motion to fund Replace to have been adopted. Mrs. Zabin made that following motion: that Article 4, Line item 6310 be amended to Adopted read $32,800.