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Ad Hoc Stone Building Feasibility/Reuse Committee 2021 29 119 , 1�90 Ipii7'i
Town of Lexington, MA TOWN CLERK
LEXINGTON MA
May 20, 20218:00 AM
MINUTES
Attending: Doug Lucente (Select Board Liaison), Cristina Burwell, Lester Savage, Anne
Grady, Melinda Nasardinov, Mark Manasas, Paul Smyke, Carolyn Goldstein, Jeff Howry
(Chair), Meg Muckenhoupt (Appropriations Committee Liaison), Claire Feingold Thoryn (Cary
Library Trustees Liaison)
Absent: none
Guests: Sean Osborne,
Recording Secretary: Cristina Burwell
Community Observers: Jaclyn Anderson, Kathleen Dalton, Craig Sandler,Janet Showalter
Jaclyn Anderson, Med, Rosemary Trowbridge, Sabine Clark, Stephanie Hsu, Tony Rotundo
1. Roll Call & Reading of Statement on Use of Virtual Meetings was conducted by Jeff
at 8:09am
2. Approval of Minutes (May 6, 2021) - Motion to accept, Lester, seconded Mark,
unanimous approval.
3. PUBLIC COMMENTS - none
4. NEW DISCUSSION
a. Welcome to our new Select BoardLiaison, Doug Lucente, Select Board Vice
Chair
b. Community interest in a home for a black cultural center, and a black
business incubator - Sean Osborne presented a rich history in these topics as
well as East Lexington history. (slideshow attached)
c. Directed ideation - Cristina is interested in looking at ways to take ideas that
we have and look for relationships that may spawn new ideas, as well as to
filter them in ways to help prioritize them. Mark will send out a Doodle Poll for
the group to meet.
5. UPDATES - These items were taken from Committee Tasks List, May 6 (updates were
brief as this agenda item was only taken up at 8:55am)
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a. Devin resigned and notified the Select Board. Doug said the select board would
have the filling of this position on the June 14th agenda.
b. Funding and grant overview (Underutilized Properties Program Grant) - Given
the bandwidth of the committee, it was recommended that this was not pursued
at this time.
c. Outreach planning - we will continue to compile a list of who we should reach
out to with updates on our progress for getting input (after 6/1 meeting) and
who the committee would like to invite to future meetings to provide more detail
on what they have brought up for uses for the Stone Building.
d. Community Needs Assessment review - Melinda noted that this was mostly
Recreation Dept. activities that do not pertain to us, but that we can pull out
relevant parts, as well as some DEI language and ways to evaluate spaces. She
will email this a summary of this to committee members.
e. Occupancy Analysis - Jeff provided the group with information about theStone
Lyceum Building Zoning ! !L! L, and Stone Lyceum Building Permitted Uses for
Government-Civic Zone II IEER E.
f. Cary Library Display (placement of building speaker plaque) - Claire did some
research about the library at the time of its closing and will compile that to
committee to discuss at the next meeting. Trustees full board meeting this
month agenda item, nothing expressed. Claire will follow up with the library to
have someone attend the committee's next meeting.
g. 2009 Historic Structures Report (impact on current efforts) - no updates at this
time
h. Marketing activities - no updates at this time
6. Adjournment - Motioned by Anne, seconded by Melinda, with unanimous approval(
Carolyn left 9:00, Paul left 9:15). Meeting adjourned at 9:22am
ATTACHMENTS
Presentation on____ by Sean Osbourne
RESOURCES
VI�n, , !:3oI „I ,ii„Irn, ,V Iok.,.„ , „- Concord's African American History
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