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2020 Vision Implementation Committee
February 10, 2005 – Meeting Minutes
7:45 a.m. Selectmen’s Meeting Room
Members Present
: Peter Enrich, Marian Cohen, Ann Redmon, Elaine Sterzin, Tom Harden, Richard
Pagett
Others:
Candy McLaughlin, Wendy Rundle, Kerry Evans
Minutes:
The minutes from the January 20, 2004, Implementation Committee meeting were approved.
Task Force Reports:
Candy distributed the final copies of the three task force reports to the group.
There was a general comment that most of the reports were pretty impressive. There was, however, a
long discussion about the report by the Fostering Economic Development task force. The report is
dramatically different in content than the other two reports and some committee members were concerned
with the lack of ownership of the report. It was decided that the committee should give the boards the
other two reports with a cover letter, and in the cover letter, should mention the three major task force
recommendations from the Economic Development task force.
Process for rolling out reports:
It was previously decided to wait until after the Town election to get the
greatest focus from the boards and other interested stakeholders. It was mentioned that the committee
members feel an obligation to the task forces that these reports be given not only to the boards but to
external constituents as well. The two board liaisons present, Richard and Tom, both indicated that
March would be a very busy month for their boards due to Town Meeting and possible changes on the
boards. Richard mentioned that since the Board of Selectmen set reviewing financial policies as one of
the Board’s goals this year, it would be good to mention that this is one of the directions that the
Budgeting taskforce is moving in. After much discussion, it was decided that sometime in March, a
committee member will present a brief report of the outcomes of the taskforces and the process at a
meeting for each of the elected boards, along with presenting the written copies of the taskforce reports.
At these meetings, the idea of two more in-depth meetings, to be held in May, will be introduced. It was
suggested that for the two meetings in May, the Budget taskforce would present to the budget
collaboration group and the Forging Constructive Community Discourse taskforce would present to
whatever type of group the Boards are most comfortable with having a serious discussion in front of,
possibly including some staff and key community leaders. It was also decided that a more lengthy report
be given to Town Meeting and brief articles will be put in the Minuteman in the weeks leading up to
Town Meeting. Peter is going to get somebody from the Budget taskforce to write a 500 word article on
that taskforce for the Minuteman, somebody from the Forging Constructive Community Discourse
taskforce will write an article, and Candy is going to check with Fernando to write an article for the
Minuteman regarding the overall process. She is also going to touch base with Susan Bushey regarding
the running of these articles. The committee decided that it would be best, for the presentations to the
boards and Town Meeting, if someone from the committee gave the overview of the process and
somebody from the taskforce gave the presentation of the reports. Before the next 2020 Meeting (March
th
10), the taskforces need to determine who will be present at the board meetings and possibly Town
Meeting as well as who will write the article for the paper.
Committee Membership:
It was decided to wait until after the election before we can go to the boards
for any ideas. Peter and Marian agreed to go back to their taskforces and ask if any taskforce members
would be interested in becoming involved in the Committee.
Future meeting schedule
2020 Vision Committee meeting: Thursday, March 10
Thursday, April 14
Thursday, May 19
Meeting adjourned
at 9:02am
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