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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2016-12-08-YC-minTown of Lexington Lexington Youth Commission Minutes of the meeting held on Thursday, December 8th, 2016 Members Present: William Thomas, Peter Lawrence, Jack Mitchell, Courtney Walsh, Avery Gehring, Annie Reilly, Thomas Barry, Hadar Boker, Meghan Buschini, Venuri DeSilva, Ganga Nair, Emma Donigan, Ishaan Khurana, Nachiyappan Solaiyappan, Lucas DiCerbo, Bess Lawrence, Millie Landis, Katherine Gehring, Michael Swift, Deb Hankins, Sean Maloney, Doug Lucente, Shannon DeGuglielmo, Karen Duprey and Joe Hankins. Members Absent: Joseph Lahiff, Rachel Michelson, Mitchell Heyda, Jimmy Lane, Nicholas Newton -Cheh, Alia Rizvi, Anthony Marbardy, and Charles Marbardy. 1. The November minutes were read and approved. 2. We recapped the Thanksgiving turkey drive. It went fairly well and the only problems were brought up and the rotary club has been informed so they can be avoided in the future. 3. We have just finished our holiday fundraising season and we have raised $2024 for Lexington families! The Toys R Us gift cards have been purchased and delivered to Family Services at Town of Lexington. 4. We discussed a new January event; we had planned Cradles to Crayons visit for January 21st at 12:OOpm. Those who've said they can attend are Emma, Hadar, Katherine, Avery, Ganga, Venuri, Annie, Meghan, Courtney, Lucas, Ishaan, Will, Jack, Deb, Shannon, Karen, and maybe Peter. We will discuss this event further at the January meeting but if you know you can or cannot go, please let Will or Jack know. THIS EVENT WILL NOT HAPPEN ON January 21st due to scheduling issues at Cradles to Crayons. We will discuss at January meeting. 5. We started brainstorming ideas for our Patriots day parade float. So far we have come up with themes of space, race cars, and under the sea. We would like all members do bring ideas to the next meeting along with a catchphrase and sketch of what the float might look like. 6. Finally, we have started to hand out Tee shirts; Debbie still has a lot of them. All tee shirts will be handed out by January 12th; you will need to wear tee shits and sweatshirts to February, March and April events. If you will not be at meeting you need to pickup your tee shirt by then. Also we have collected all Food Pantry Candy money, but we still have outstanding sweatshirt money then needs to be paid ASAP, Tommy Barry and Alia please see Will or Jack so we can close this account. If you have not paid for your tee shirt please bring $17.00 to the next meeting on January 12th See you at our next meeting, Thursday, January 12th at the Community Center 7:00 pm. Respectfully Submitted, Jack Mitchell - Lexington Youth Commission Secretary