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Initiating Committee
November 6, 1998
Minutes
Members present: Peter Enrich, Chuck Benson, Helen Cohen, Clark Cowen, Robin
Digiammarino, Alan Lazarus, Fred Merrill, Peggy Perry, Marjorie Platt, Fernando Quezada
Staff Support present: Beth Anne Sobieszczyk, Michael Baker
Call to Order
Citizen Participation Sub-Committee
: Issue –Demographic Representation
discussed need for broad group representation and need for efforts to capture them
inclusion of service groups
get homemakers involved
residents and businesses that aren’t yet here
Process Creating Subcommittee
(devised a monthly description of the process)
visual for town to view the entire process
task 3 comes too late
define process into concrete steps in order to generate more interest and understanding of
the process
Issues – Subcommittee Formation
various issue-oriented groups (i.e. older community, religious groups) based on their
interests. May toy with the idea of deliberate movement of members into other groups on a
rotating basis
needs definitions of “stakeholders groups” (broad based assembly of residents) and
“subcommittees” or “working groups” (issues oriented groups, meet for smaller periods) -
subcommittees with specific agenda that represent broader issues affecting the town
comprised of various town representatives, recruited subcommittee chair who will lead
meeting and write short and concise documents along the way.
work done by working groups, sets of task forces:
identify issues
work on these issues
identify congruent problems
Steering Committee makes the process work
work with working groups to keep them on task and prevent conflicts
guide the entire process
1 member of Steering Committee at each Working Group meeting to represent the
working group at Steering Committee meetings
if people are not chosen for the Steering Committee, they may be placed on a
Working Group