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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2006-03-02-2020ECON-min.pdf 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: Fernando spoke 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