HomeMy WebLinkAbout2005-04-25-CFG-min Minutes of Community Focus Group
Subcommittee of the Sidewalk Committee
April 25, 2005
Present: Sue Ellen Briggs, Steve Kropper, Lucy Fletcher-Jones, Victoria Buckley, Olga
Guttag, Tracey Herbert, Craig Weeks, and Judy Crocker
The committee started off the meeting talking about the survey data. Tracey had
compiled the results from Fiske and Bridge. Fiske received a total of 19 responses.
There needs to be push to get more responses from Fiske. Laura Cecere or Marianne
Lemar were two names brought up who could put out a request to the Fiske community
letting them know of the importance of this information.
Lucy was still working on the data from Bowman as of the meeting. Judy had just picked
up the surveys from Harrington.
Clarke, Diamond and the High School will publish the survey in their May newsletter.
Victoria will check on the surveys at Hastings and Sue Ellen will ask Stephanie to look
into the surveys at Estabrook.
There was discussion on how the data should be tabulated. It was decided that an excel
spreadsheet for each school could then be combined to form Lexington totals. Lucy has
set up an Excel spreadsheet for Bowman that could be used by all.
The second half of the meeting was spent discussing ways to promote walking. A list
was created of organizations we could contact to promote walking and solicit input.
Publications: Lexington Minuteman newspaper
Colonial Times newspaper
Groups:
Council on Aging
Brookhaven
Hayden Rec Center
Lexington Center Collaborative
Neighborhood Associations
Chamber of Commerce
Town Meeting Members Association
Disability Commission
Schools/School Committee/PTAs
Lexington Recreation Dept
Lexington Community Education
Minuteman Tech H.S.
Sustainable Lexington
Vision 2020
There were also email groups that could be contacted and asked to promote car pooling
or walking to their events. These included LUSC, adult softball league, and Tom Diaz's
email list.
There is a back to school pack, which goes out from all the schools. This could contain
information about walking to school. This will need to be done by the end of June.
Discovery Day is May 28 in Lexington Center. We would like to have a table to promote
walking. There was great interest in having another survey for people to fill out to gain
information from a broader group of citizens. Judy cautioned that the anti-idling
committee would be handing out a survey in May. Olga suggested we contact Bruce
Schweitzer for help in designing the survey. Sue Ellen will contact Walk Boston to see if
they have a survey as part of their resources. Sue Ellen will also contact Karen Simmons
of the Recreation Department to see if we could share their table at Discovery Day this
year.
Olga will contact Bill Hurley about scheduling a walk to school day in the spring of 2006.
We will meet Monday May 9 at 9:30AM and Tuesday May 17 at 9:30 AM to work on the
design of the survey and our message for groups and organizations.