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Community Center Task Force
Meeting September 4, 2012 Meeting Time/ Ellen Stone Room, Cary
Date: Location Hall, 7 30 pm
Members in Laura Hussong, Chair Liaisons in Nancy Adler, COA
Attendance: Jim Goell, Chair Attendance: Gail Fields, HSvcs
Betty Borghesam, Sandy Schwartz, LexFUN
Tim Dugan, Sophia Jane Trudeau, FCOA
Ho, Florence
Koplow, Lisah
Absent: Rhodes Guest:
The minutes of the August 27, 2012 meeting were unanimously accepted and approved
Drafting of the Final Report To The Board of Selectmen
1 Town Staff who were interviewed (Library, Recreation, Human Services) will be contacted again
to review our thoughts before the report is finalized
2 Florence and Sophia will review the comments portion of our survey to include several
representative quotes to be included in the report
3 The report will summarize best practices in other Towns including a specific example of the
Harwich Senor Center and simply include the detailed reports of all the site visits in the
information packet
4 Laura and Jim prepared a preliminary written Executive Summary and a Slide presentation for
the Selectmen The Committee liked the emphasis on need for space to accommodate not only
existing programs but also the possibilities of using space to serve the unmet needs of tots,
teens and seniors
5 Tim summarized the proposed content of the report as follows.
I CONCEPT-CHARGE, VISION AND PUBLIC PLACES Quote (copy attached)
II PAST STUDIES-Senior Center Timeline, 20-20 Vision, Review of Adolescent Survey
III SOURCES- Department Heads, Recreation, Library, Human Services
Lack of Space
Central Scheduling, Information
IV NEW INFORMATION- LWV, Demographic Data, Survey Data (Arts, recreation,
education, social), Comparative Towns
V, CONCLUSIONS/RECOMMENDATIONS-
Space Needs
Community Coordination Council (Hayden, Munroe, etc)
Collaboration, Recreation, Human Services, LexFun, Co-locate
Recreation
Meeting Minutes
Community Center Task Force
Director of Community Center, independent
Pep Talk-SYNERGY SLIDE
Laura had sent out Executive Summary and Slides in a previous e-mail
The meeting adjourned at 9 30 PM The next meeting will be scheduled by Doodle poll