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Lexington 2020 Vision Committee
March 2, 2006 Meeting Minutes
7:45 a.m. Selectmen’s Meeting Room
Members present:
Fernando Quezada, Richard Pagett, Stacey Hamilton, Ann Redmon,
Peter Enrich
Others:
Carl Valente, Candy McLaughlin, George Burnell
Call to Order:
Fernando called the meeting to order at 7:50 am. The minutes from the
February 2 meeting were approved with one correction.
Meeting of Economic Development stakeholders:
Fernando reported on who had been
invited and who was planning to attend the meeting next Tuesday morning March 7.
Richard asked if Mary Jo was reaching out more broadly beyond the people who have
previously been involved, particularly to the businesses on Hayden and Hartwell
Avenues. Fernando will follow up on a contact he has at Patriot Partners. George
suggested that the composition of the group will be important in tying the interests of the
business community with the interests of local government. Peter commented that it will
be important to reach out to residents and neighborhood associations. The importance of
the Planning connection was mentioned, and Candy will check with Planning Board chair
Wendy Manz since Tom Harden will be leaving the Board next Monday. A draft agenda
for the meeting was discussed and revised. One outcome might be creation of a scoping
group to move the topic forward. Fernando will facilitate the meeting.
2020 Vision Website:
Candy distributed a conceptual redesign for the 2020 Vision
website as part of an overall Town website redesign. The importance of the website to be
open and connected to the community was discussed. Specific suggestions were to add a
calendar, highlight the list of themes and goals, and remove the word “Implementation”
from the description of the committee. Discussion was generally favorable to the idea of
soliciting input via the website to specific questions that would change each month.
Fernando wondered if this would raise expectations for a level of response that we could
not sustain, but Peter said it would be sufficient to give thanks for input received with no
necessity for direct follow-up. Stacey agreed that it would provide useful information for
a brief discussion at each monthly committee meeting.
Progress Report:
The group discussed a list of potential items to be included in the
progress report, and prioritized the following: a summary of results from the two
completed Task Forces, a description of the two new areas of focus, and highlights of
major recent/current actions in support of goals. Candy is collecting input from the three
elected boards and staff and will post the complete inventory on the website. It was
determined that using symbols to visually convey a sense of progress is too subjective
and will not be continued from the first progress report. The concept of defining key
high-level measures to identify trends over time, and also to measure the impact of
implementing actions toward the 2020 Vision goals, was supported as a future work item
for the committee but not something that we are prepared to include in the upcoming
report.
Review recruitment strategy:
Fernandospoke with a member of the Clergy
Association and is waiting to hear back about who might be interested in joining the
committee. Peter plans to draft a newspaper article, circulate it to the committee for
comment, and contact the Minuteman and the Colonial Times. Peter is going to contact
John Rosenberg, and Marian will contact Duke Bitsko, about joining the committee.
Adjourn:
The committee adjourned at 8:55 am.
Future meeting schedule:
Economic Development Stakeholder meeting Tuesday, March 7 at 8 am in Room G-15
Committee meetings (all at 7:45 am in the Selectmen’s Meeting Room):
Thursday, April 6
Thursday, May 4
Thursday, June 8