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2020 Vision Implementation Committee
January 20, 2005 – Meeting Minutes
7:45 a.m. Legion Room, Cary Memorial Hall
Members Present
: Peter Enrich, Marian Cohen, Ann Redmon, Stacey Hamilton
Others:
Candy McLaughlin, Wendy Rundle, Kerry Evans
Minutes:
The minutes from the December 2, 2004, Implementation Committee meeting were approved.
Task Force Reports:
Candy distributed the drafts of the two task force reports she had received so far
from the Forging Constructive Community Discourse task force and the Budget task force. Discussion
on both were as follows:
Forging Constructive Community Discourse – The group felt that this report was full of good ideas and a
very useful piece. Committee members not present at the meeting will be encouraged to send their
comments via email. There were some suggestions regarding the format of the report, including the
placement of the tables. It was suggested that a summary of this report be sent in to the Minuteman
before the next local election and the start of Town Meeting.
Strengthening Lexington’s Budget Process – Peter reported that due to the structure of the task force (with
the three subgroups), the draft report needs some more refining and they will go over each section at their
next full meeting this Saturday and try to reach consensus on the changes. There was one suggestion by
the group to add information about the age distribution as part of the demographic questions found in
Appendix A. Members of the Committee highlighted some issues that they thought were missing from
the report, including any school data and any discussion about override policies. Committee members not
present at the meeting will be encouraged to send their comments via email to Bob Lew.
Fostering Economic Development – There was no draft submitted for the Fostering Economic
Development task force and a lengthy discussion occurred among the Committee members around what
should happen next. Peter suggested some options: 1) wait and see if the task force submits a report; 2)
write a brief report, stating that a functioning group wasn’t able to come together and the reasons why.
There was consensus from the group that if the task force didn’t produce anything substantive by
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February 7, then the Committee would just go forward with the other groups.
Dialogue with the Boards:
There was much discussion surrounding how to best report out to the three
elected boards. It was agreed that the Committee would like to not just report, but also to engage the
boards in dialogue surrounding the issues. The Committee will talk about this more in depth at the next
meeting with the question being: “How are we most likely to get a serious audience for an important
discussion?”
Consulting contract:
The consulting contract that provides the Committee with Wendy’s assistance will
effectively be ending after the submission of the task force reports. Next steps will most likely need to
wait until a new town manager has been hired. It was suggested that the Committee have a meeting in
March to tie up the loose ends regarding the task forces and decide on next steps.
Future meeting schedule
2020 Vision Committee meeting: Thursday, February 10th
Meeting adjourned
at 8:47am.
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