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Selectmen’s Meeting Minutes May 12, 1997 A regular meeting of the Board of Selectmen was held on Monday, May 12, 1997 in the Selectmen’s Meeting Room, Town Office Building at 7:30 p.m. Chairman McSweeney, Mr. Fenn, Mr. Busa, Mr. Enrich; Mr. White, Town Manager; Mr. Cohen, Town Counsel; and Ms. Pease, Assistant to the Executive Clerk, were present. Lexington Home Page Mr. McSweeney introduced Steve Ellis and Shelly Chamberlain, the Internet Computer Technology experts in our community, to explain Lexington’s home page. Mrs. Eddison has been doing a lot of work getting information on the Home Page and she felt it was important for Mr. Ellis to give the Board a demonstration and answer questions. Mr. Ellis set up a computer and a projector to show how the home page works and what information is available at this time. He and many volunteers from the school have been working for about a year on this project. They are in the process of networking all the schools, town buildings, police, and soon fire to the internet. Mr. Ellis explained that an average of 8,000 to 8,500 people are using the internet on a weekly basis. There was a significant increase during the week of April 12 which he believes relates by people from all over the world looking for information on Patriot’s Day. The reason Mrs. Eddison wanted the home page shown to the Board is that there are some issues that will need to be addressed: 1. Who has the official web site for Lexington? Community Newspapers has a Lexington web site; there is a commercial web site called Lexingtonweb.com. What defines the official web site? Mr. Ellis said that at some point he would return to the Board for some kind of official letter that can be put on the web site that shows this is the official web site. 2. Who is going to fill in all the information and update the information when necessary? So far volunteers are doing it. How much will be done by the town or will it be a volunteer effort? And do we charge for those services? The Chamber of Commerce is also working with Mr. Ellis in putting business information on the web site for Lexington. Mr. McSweeney thanked Mr. Ellis and Ms. Chamberlain for coming to the meeting.